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Everything Changes: Integrating Mobile Credential With Push Notification
In 2018, what is one of the technologies in our industry that is ripe for “game change”? Where will we see the rules of the game change forever in access control and how? In a word: Credentials. Why do we make this claim? Three main reasons: Smartphone-based credentials are inherently more secure. Smartphone-based credentials can…
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New Member Profile: Manything
Manything developed an app that empowers security professionals with remote viewing and offsite cloud storage to camera installations. With Manything Pro, practitioners can set up remote viewing of their security cameras in less than five minutes, according to the company, which has U.S. offices in San Francisco. Manything recently joined the Security Industry Association (SIA),…
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Body-Worn and Mobile Video and Sensor Networks
SIA Education@ISC West will provide conferees with more than 80 sessions of valuable information on important topics in the security industry at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas on April 10-12. Robert Ehlers, Vice President of Business Development, RGB Spectrum, will present Body-Worn and Mobile Video and Sensor Networks on Thursday, April 12, at 9:45…
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Challenges for Security in 2018 Reflected in Security Megatrends
For the second year in a row, the Security Industry Association (SIA) followed up the Securing New Ground (SNG) executive conference with the release of Security Megatrends: A Vision for the Security Industry, a report bursting with executive takeaways on the trends shaping the security industry in the year ahead. In producing the report, SIA…
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Touring the Javits Center Security Command Center
Inside the command center for security operations of the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, a digital screen on a side wall reminds personnel of the sort of threats they could face at the cavernous convention center. A screen represents a timeline of recent terror attacks; observations and suspects related to local New York City crimes…
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Cloud-Based and Hosted Access Control: Opportunities for Dealers and Integrators
The cloud access control market is seeing strong growth, according to market research firm IHS Markit, which forecasts global sales of cloud-based access control to exceed $530 million in 2018 and to reach $1.8 billion by 2025. Sources interviewed for this report estimate that 5 percent to 12 percent of new access control jobs are…
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Big Data and Privacy for Physical Security
Big data and privacy are two interrelated subjects that have not warranted much attention in physical security, until now. Both subjects are about to become of strategic importance to security, due to recent advancements in video analytics and big data technologies, court rulings regarding data privacy rights relating to surveillance video, and the growing value…
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Security Megatrends: The Forces Transforming Our Future
Security market leaders took to the stage at Securing New Ground (SNG) 2017 to discuss Security Megatrends™, overarching developments directing the progress of the security industry, in panel discussions on Thursday. Some of the best minds in the industry convened for the first panel, Security Megatrends™: The Forces Transforming Our Future, assessing four market forces…
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Making Connections
The Internet of Things and the cloud bring new functionalities to the security industry – and new risks Connectivity worldwide is thriving. A report by Gartner forecasts that 8.4 billion connected devices will be in use worldwide in 2017, up 31 percent from 2016, and that number will reach 20.4 billion by 2020. Everything from…
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How SIA Helped to Oppose Problematic IoT Legislation
On Friday, June 1, California Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson ordered CA S.B. 327 to be placed on the inactive file, which means the bill will not receive further consideration for the remainder of 2017, but could be pursued again next year. (Read a news article on the bill’s withdrawal from the Northern California Record.) S.B. 327,…
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