November 30, 2007:
Join me on a webinar about video analytics
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Audit ,
Global Security ,
Intelligent Video
Wanna keep paying for eyeballs on monitors 24x7? The cost is hefty and critical events are missed as guards - being mere mortals - look away, blink or lose their edge. Video analytics offers an alternative to human-based guarding at...
October 19, 2007:
The business value of IP-based security technologies. Or how to turn your IP camera into a business application
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Audit ,
Event Management ,
Intelligent Video ,
Manufacturers ,
Peak Performance
In a further attempt to explain how PSIM (physical security information management) and IP-based security technologies in general, are more than simply software doing yesterday's security job better. They actually create value. Take surveillance... Surveillance cameras are technologies for capturing...
October 17, 2007:
Primer on the four basic categories of security
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Audit ,
Authentication ,
Peak Performance
Here is a refresher on the four fundamental categories of security – authentication, authorization, administration and audit. Each poses a basic question. And each must be addressed before the next becomes fully effective. AuthenticationAre you who you say you are?...
October 2, 2007:
You say tomayto, I say tomahto. PSIM has a definintion. Really!
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Audit ,
Event Management ,
Intelligent Video ,
Security Management / Operations
USBX has adopted the PSIM concept I wrote about last year and is tracking it. In fact, USBX had a “get-to-know-PSIM” breakfast on Tuesday morning at ASIS. John Mack and Gavin Long were kind enough to invite me to kick...
September 29, 2007:
time for Panasonic to come out of the Dog House? Not quite, but soon.
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Audit ,
Dog House ,
Event Management ,
Intelligent Video ,
Manufacturers
Spoke to Julianna Benedict of Panasonic at ASIS last week. The infamous "We Get IT" slogan was her brainchild. Folks who pay attention to my SecurityDreamer Dog House will note that Panasonic was the first company I ever put into...
September 26, 2007:
Citrix flavored Kool-aid is addictive
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Audit ,
Identity & Access Management ,
InfoSec ,
Manufacturers ,
Security Management / Operations
Last week I joined my fellow industry analysts at the Ritz Carlton in Key Biscayne for an analyst and customer event hosted by Citrix. In the first two minutes of Citrix CEO Mark Templeton’s opening presentation he spoke of mobility....
September 14, 2007:
AlgoSec makes the network admin's life a lot easier
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Audit ,
InfoSec ,
TechReviews
When I was in Israel last week I enjoyed spending time with Avishai Wool, CTO of Algorithmic Security Inc. AlgoSec is one of those special companies that focuses on creating a straightforward useful technology and easing a pain felt by...
August 23, 2007:
Brought to you by the letter 'V' - three vendors in Boston show me how to do security smarter
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Event Management ,
Global Security ,
InfoSec ,
Software
I had a lovely trip to Boston this week and spent time with three vendor, each starting its name with the very fashionable letter V. Take and minute and check out these sharp companies. VidSys - Probably the coolest technology...
August 23, 2007:
Don't think of Verdasys as just another data leakage protection vendor
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Audit ,
Compliance ,
InfoSec ,
Software
I've been briefed by Verdasys a few times over the years, but frankly the fog never quite cleared for me. While I was Research Director at Forrester I would talk to these guys, usually in the context of data leakage...
August 9, 2007:
If you can't trust your locksmith - or your network admin - who CAN you trust?
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Audit ,
Compliance ,
InfoSec ,
Trends
Why is the possession of lock picks by non-locksmiths illegal in some states? That was the unlikely question posed to me by IT security expert and CEO of ProofSpace, Paul Doyle, when he called me this morning. The obvious answer...
