Video Surveillance for Government and Defense Facilities
Government and defense facilities are the one setting where the choice of camera can invalidate a contract. Everything else about surveillance here is familiar; that part is not, and it changes the order in which decisio...
Recording, Privacy and the Law
Video surveillance creates a record of where identifiable people were and when. That record is useful, which is the point, and it also carries obligations that vary by what you record, where you operate and who appears i...
Video Surveillance and Federal Procurement Rules
If your organization holds a federal contract, or is bidding for one, the video surveillance equipment in your buildings is a compliance question and not only a purchasing preference. The rule reaches further than most b...
Video Surveillance Security and Risk
A video surveillance system is a set of networked computers with cameras attached, holding a recording of who was in your building and when. That makes it both a security control and a target, and the second half is the ...
Security Governance and Risk Ownership
Most security programs do not fail at the control layer. They fail at the point where nobody can say who owns a decision. The firewall has an owner, the badge system has an owner, and the question of whether the two agre...