By Sharon J. Watson
A successful chief security officer must oversee strategies to protect a company’s physical, human and virtual assets. The CSO also must find ways to provide tangible contributions to the company’s bottom line. Achieving those ends requires the CSO to be a leader, a communicator, an enforcer, an investigator and, above all, a visionary businessperson.
By Steven Titch
As a key vertical market in security and surveillance, the casino industry presents a dual personality.
By Charles Davis, Tom Mechler
With increasing use of VoIP as an alternative to conventional circuitswitched phone services, security and life safety professionals are looking to the Internet for communicating information from fire alarm control panels to a central monitoring station. IP delivers such benefits as faster data transmissions, reduced costs and the immediate notification of line interruptions at both the central station and the protected premises.
By Umberto Malesci
Wireless mesh, a network architecture that uses intelligent wireless transmitters, provides more reliability and flexibility compared to traditional point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions.
By John Honovich
With budgets shrinking and financial pressures increasing, most CSOs will need to be more careful and creative in spending on security systems. Indeed, the recession will motivate the use of novel tactics and techniques. Nonetheless, the goal of reducing costs by 10 percent or more is certainly attainable. Here are six ways you can save money without sacrificing value.
By Steven Titch
By Lee Caswell’s reckoning, the petabyte, or 1 quadrillion bytes, of storage purchased by the Silverton Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas is more than what most Fortune 500 companies will buy in five years.
By Steven Titch
The worldwide market for video surveillance cameras and software will reach $14.3 billion in 2012, according to a new research report.
By Fredrik Nilsson
Technology advances surround us: cell phones, iPods, flat-screen TVs, video games and so on. Consumers spend $700 billion every year on electronics. In response, manufacturers keep channeling enormous amounts of money into research and development to further satisfy a seemingly insatiable appetite for innovation.