Organizations can improve their security operations, from detection to response and forensic follow-up, by using next-generation physical security information management (PSIM) systems.
Physical security information management (PSIM) platforms can be helpful to security operations center (SOC) employees. Here are five qualities to look out for in next-generation systems.
There are so many innovative and powerful surveillance, security and communications technologies coming to market these days, it’s hard to keep track of them all.
BART’s Board of Directors has approved a plan to expand the transit agency’s network of digital cameras and install emergency call boxes on station platforms.
No matter how many drills, practices and training exercises an enterprise runs through, nothing can truly prepare security staff for the chaos that results during a security incident such as an active shooter event, which, on average, can last for 12.5 minutes. Given this reality, it only makes sense for the security department to develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) for security staff and operators to follow in an active shooter or other crisis situation.
Not too long ago, security operations centers (SOCs) and the enterprise security executives and the staff who ran them were relegated to airless basement offices with little security equipment that did no more than monitor video and manage guards.
By presenting a single view of the most critical events and automating workflows for others, Immix Command Center from SureView Systems makes it easier for security operators to manage all security incidents.
New PSIM solutions are changing perceptions in the professional security industry as they continue to prove how pragmatic and highly efficient they can be in improving the overall effectiveness and efficiency of security operations.
Risk management too often is perilously fragmented and insufficiently funded. Managing the overall risk equation is assuredly a CEO-level and management team obligation. But the design and execution of effective strategies to identify and moderate risk is, of necessity, complex and typically spread among numerous organizational silos.
It’s a mishmash of letters – PSIM – but what it stands for isn’t mishmash at all. PSIM, or Physical Security Information Management, is a category of software that provides a platform and applications created by middleware developers, designed to integrate multiple unconnected security applications and devices and control them through one comprehensive user interface.
