It seems that campus shootings and emergencies continue to occur. The US govt has mandated that all educational institutions including schools, colleges and universities put in place emergency notification procedures […]
Tue Mar 26 16:47:51 EDT 2013 Many schools subscribe to the open door policy. While this is great in a society where children are not kidnapped or sometimes removed from […]
Another area I have written about in the past is the importance of 2-way communication over SMS, Email, Voice, etc. Sometimes in a critical or emergency situation, an alert recipient […]
The prevalence of social networking environments like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and others allows users to jump on the network and quickly Tweet a text on a situation. The danger of […]
For several years now, I have emphasized the importance of WiFi which is fairly ubiquitous in the enterprise and public facilities such as airports, shopping centers, entertainment venues, etc. As […]
Many organizations rely on callout capabilities to reach employees and safety and security personnel by phone. An area which must also be integrated is the local voice system which is […]
Any enterprise will have a number of physical system security layers. The most basic of these is typically an alarm system to protect the premises. The alarm may combine door […]
An enterprise typically has a myriad of networks including: a LAN for its desktops and servers; a WiFi network for its users to wander the facilities with laptops, ePads and […]
As more and more enterprise users bring their own devices to work – BYOD – as it is commonly referred to has to be part of the set of devices […]
At the most recent ASIS 2011 in Orlando, Florida a discernable shift in the market continued to occur. At ASIS 2009, many of the enquiries for critical alerting came from University […]