Digital Video Forensics: Analog and IP Video Cameras
While time-lapse video recorders (TLR) using videocassettes remain in use in many smaller video surveillance systems, digital video recorders (DVR) and network video recorders (NVR…
Hacking Sony – Corporate culture broken from the top down
One of the questions I keep asking myself as I keep reading the dozens of recent articles about how Sony got hacked by “North Korea” is, why does Sony KEEP getting hacked? The …
Do You Know Where Your Power Supply Is?
We’ve all had it happen: either a bad battery or a blown fuse in a security power supply. It causes cameras to fail, a card access door to stop working, or a whole panel to f…
Layers – Not just for Onions and Ogres
Security has been thought of and taught to others as a “layered approach” for centuries, and as such is not a new concept. The Romans used layered concepts in their infantr…
PINs Matter
When working with a client once, they asked us to help harden their biological research labs by recommending additional security measures they could install. We did an initial and …
Analog to IP Camera Technology Migration
In a recent project, PR was contracted to assist a client in the migration of a multi-campus, traditional analog closed circuit TV system to a modern IP digital network based camer…