Pacific Gas & Electric has been fined $50,000 for an incident that occurred at its San Jose substation.
- By Matt Holden
- Sep 01, 2015
No one can argue that IP video surveillance cameras surpass their analog predecessors thanks to the higher resolution and vastly improved quality images.
The continuing threat posed by global terrorism has driven huge amounts of government investment into electronic surveillance, as well as both wide and targeted physical monitoring systems in our cities.
- By Matthew Naylor, Nicholas Dynon
- Sep 01, 2015
Security systems today are getting more sophisticated to some, and less to others.
- By Charlie Howell
- Sep 01, 2015
Cloud computing offers numerous benefits, such as powerful processing capabilities, improved access, higher availability and significant savings with on-demand hosting.
- By Amit Cohen
- Sep 01, 2015
Parking facilities—both outdoor lots and structures—represent a significant security challenge. Most facilities are easily accessible to the public.
- By John Mosebar
- Sep 01, 2015
From data breaches to security system compromises, there’s a ‘cloud’ hanging over hosted environments, labeling them unsafe or subject to easy compromise.
- By Brian Matthews, Ralph Shillington
- Sep 01, 2015
Airports have many security requirements and challenges, and part of the challenge arises because of the mix of people on-site, including airport staff, airline staff, contractor and vendor staff and travelers.
- By Fernando Pires
- Sep 01, 2015
Phil Lake doesn’t have to work. He retired only to find himself back behind the desk running an integration company in Austin, Texas. His retirement, I guess, is working some more.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- Sep 01, 2015
With four or more access points around your property, there is no way that you can keep eyes at all entry points, especially if all can’t be viewed from a single location.
- By Scott Lindley
- Sep 01, 2015
The management needed to make sure the residents in their care were safe and secure in their rooms and within the facility itself. With an on-site pharmacy, securing and monitoring certain areas was also a priority.
- By Rachel Williams
- Sep 01, 2015
The majority of our editorial efforts focus on commercial and industrial security.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- Sep 01, 2015
It was important that all EMT workers wore the proper identification to help keep
them safe and secure on the job, and allow hospitals and other facilities to recognize
them quickly.
- By Monique Merhige
- Sep 01, 2015
In recent years, customer service has become a new frontier for marketing and brand building.
Intense competition is certainly nothing new in the security industry, but the past couple of years have taken things to an entirely new level.
- By Robert Ogle
- Sep 01, 2015
Most people, when they retire from a lifetime of hard work, pursue several adventures they have been dreaming about for years.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- Sep 01, 2015
All too often, the emphasis and focus in the security industry is on new products, new applications or new technologies.
- By Bart Didden
- Sep 01, 2015
There is little arguing that 4K is positioned to become the next imaging standard in the security industry
- By Allen Chan
- Sep 01, 2015
Wrightstyle Limited is a leading UK supplier of integrated steel and aluminium glazing systems and exports worldwide. Jane Embury, the company’s commercial director, looks at some notorious prison fires – and the appalling conditions in some facilities today.
- By Jane Embury
- Aug 31, 2015
The Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is directly questioning whether Hillary Clinton still maintains her security clearance despite the ongoing FBI investigation into the mishandling of classified information, according to a new letter to Secretary of State John Kerry.