Where IT Security and Physical Security Converge

NCS August 2011 Issue

August 2011

  • Wireless to the Rescue
    Campus environment well-served by wireless video surveillance
  • Optimal Security, End to End
    It's possible to implement data encryption in hardware and software
  • Effective Deployment
    IP-based solutions use every angle to their advantage
  • Building a Safe Community
    Multiple buildings, one IP solution in the Bay Area


Features

Effective Deployment

Effective Deployment

By Debjit Das

Reflecting upon our formative years elicits nostalgic memories of school. These memories represent a time of youthfulness, learning, exploration and fun. However, in the aftermath of tragedies at educational institutions in recent years, school also can conjure images of fear and violence.


Wireless to the Rescue

Wireless to the Rescue

By Ksenia Coffman

When you imagine a traditional university or school campus, sprawling buildings and expansive lawns come to mind. Schools often showcase their well-manicured grounds on promotional brochures and websites as they woo prospective students.


Optimal Security End to End

Optimal Security End to End

By Luther Martin

Too often, the need for greater security is recognized only after a data breach. The consequences can be costly—steep fines and remediation mandated under a vast array of data protection regulations, including PCI DSS, US HITECH and data-breach notification laws. It also can result in deep and possibly irreparable damage to the brand.


Building a Safe Community

Building a Safe Community

By Fredrik Nilsson

As a non-profit corporation in Bayview-Hunters Point in San Francisco, Northridge Cooperative Homes serves as a provider of affordable community housing to low-income families. The community campus is located next to a decommissioned naval shipyard, Hunters Point, and near San Francisco’s downtown area situated in one of the city’s prime hilltop locations. However, the area surrounding the community contains some of San Francisco’s rougher neighborhoods.


Departments

Go West, Young Man

Go West Young Man

By Ralph C. Jensen

Horace Greeley is often credited with a famous quotation actually said by John B. L. Soule. The line first appeared as the title to an 1851 Terre Haute Express editorial Soule wrote. Along with being wrongly credited to Mr. Greeley, it has also often been misquoted. It was originally written as: “Go west, young man, and grow up with the country.”


Enhanced Business Intelligence

Enhanced Business Intelligence

By J.D. Story

Almost every industry—including retail, education, hospitality, manufacturing, government, oil and gas, transportation and financial services—is working to increase operational efficiency, manage risk and improve profitability.


Embracing Knowledge

By Raymond T O’Hara

You can have all the best technology the world has to offer, but if you do not have the right people with a proper balance of knowledge, skills, abilities and experience in recognizing changes in cyber attack methods, your organization’s, and your customers’, data are not safe.