Topics: Integration
Consolidating Varied Locations (Federal Government)
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District
Breathing New Life into Legacy Systems: Solutions for Extended Longevity
So when you look at your legacy systems–from your decades-old fire alarms to those access control systems from the 1990s–you know you have to get the most life out of them as possible. And ripping them up just to replace them with something new, when they still serve you perfectly well, feels fiscally irresponsible. At … Continued
7 Reasons Government Agencies Need Integrated Security
That’s why one of the most effective decisions you can make to strengthen your security is to integrate your systems, bringing together alarm monitoring, video surveillance, access control, and more. This means linking together dozens or even hundreds of different sensors, alarms, security devices, computer systems, and even legacy systems to gain a centralized overview of … Continued
Legacy System Integration: When You Just Can’t Say Goodbye
There is a way to integrate seamlessly, but you need to examine why you need to integrate (benefits and pitfalls), and to understand potential issues that can arise. You will build a strategy from there. Integrating Legacy Security with Newer Systems Why not cast off your legacy system and start anew? In an ideal environment, … Continued
Integrating IT and Physical Security
Friction Between Physical and IT Security Some of the biggest inefficiencies in your physical and IT protection system are overlapping areas and blind spots. An overlapping area occurs when two or more teams and systems are focused on a single threat. Blind spots occur when no part of your comprehensive system is focused on a potential … Continued
Five Benefits of Having an Integrated Security System
Understanding Security Integration An integrated security system integrates all the parts of the security systems together, so they can be controlled from a single control panel that receives and sends signals from one place. Integrating your systems can help to simultaneously and instantaneously interpret, monitor, record, and respond to alarm data generated from multiple systems, … Continued
Strategies to Help with the Integration of Physical Life Safety and Cyber-Systems
A Look Back at Security Not that long ago, corporate and government security functioned vastly different from today. If you’ve made a career out of security, you probably remember when corporate security involved: As the technology evolved, physical security mostly stayed its course while cybersecurity spun up and operated independently. Both physical and cybersecurity acted as autonomous systems, which … Continued
The Importance of Integrating Physical, Life Safety, and Cybersecurity at Government Entities
The Current State of Security Integration Most organizations currently have a decentralized model of managing security. This includes separate buying and control centers for physical, life safety, and cybersecurity. Depending on the organization, functions can be even more decentralized. For example, fire alarms may be handled completely separately from intrusion alarms. Furthermore, a lot of … Continued