When it comes to ways to beef up one’s physical security protocols, the key is to embrace complementary technologies that work together to keep you, your business, your data, and your valuables safe.
In a recent post for TechTalks, Luke Fitzpatrick outlines that using state-of-the-art video surveillance systems coupled with access control technologies is the best way to ensure you are well secured. He stresses that traditionally, security systems should stand on their own, and not be integrated with other security technologies. While this approach might have worked best in the past, it is not acceptable in a 21st-century security era when cloud-connected devices, and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered systems, among other options, are ways to ensure your business is able to withstand modern crime — of both the cyber and physical varieties.
In the piece, Fitzgerald singles out the fact that modern door readers to detect and assess who is about to enter your business or office should be outfitted with video capabilities. This should be at all entry points at a company’s physical campus.
One challenge that can come with the pressure to have video integrated at all aspects of physical security is that not all businesses can afford to have someone employed to constantly monitor video feeds at all hours of the day.
This is where cloud-based technology solutions factor in. Automated system alerts that are accessible remotely to security teams are key. Additionally, smart detection and infrared sensors can center accurate and efficient security detection for remote staff who need to be notified about real-time breaches.
With cloud-based options, it’s important to have strong security protocols on both ends.
Fitzgerald cites one company, Openpath, that enables authorized personnel to use a credential-encrypted app — passing their hand or their mobile phone over an access portal, for instance — that would allow them to enter a building.
Only those with the personalized app access would be able to enter. The company’s access control system that is based in the cloud gives 24/7 access to business owners or building landlords who need constant updates on who is visiting their space as well as information coming in on unauthorized individuals who are attempting to breach these security protocols.
This is just one example of how tech has become increasingly more sophisticated to best serve a business’s very 2022 security needs.
“The future of security tech is firmly in the hands of cloud-based solutions, and smart designs that can integrate seamlessly with one another to create unified security systems that are more secure than ever thought possible,” Fitzgerald writes, in closing. “Unifying video tech with access security solutions is one of the first important steps in this highly integrated tech-solution trajectory, and it’s starting to feel like the possibilities moving forward are limitless.”