Vatican’s Security Dilemma: Dahua Cameras and the Potential Risks
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Vatican’s Security Dilemma: Dahua Cameras and the Potential Risks

The Vatican City, the spiritual and administrative headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, is an iconic destination visited by millions of tourists and worshipers each year. Wit…

Lockset Functions
Access Control, Locks, Door Hardware

Lockset Functions

This article was taken from another website and modified to add some additional details. I was looking online for some simple definitions of lockset types and found this page by Th…

UPDATED – WRAL and Other News Agencies Effectively Building a “How To” List for Utility Terrorism
CPTED. Utility Security, External Threats, NERC CIP

UPDATED – WRAL and Other News Agencies Effectively Building a “How To” List for Utility Terrorism

It’s not news that two Duke Energy power substations were attacked in Moore county last week.  There is a ton of speculation about why the attacks were carried out and by whom, …

NEC and Conduit Fills for Communications and Security Cabling
Access Control

NEC and Conduit Fills for Communications and Security Cabling

A question that comes up frequently for us when working on security projects with high density device counts is conduit fill.   That National Electrical Code typically wants to l…

Access Control

Playing Around with the PinPoint Survey Application using Amazon Data

We put together a quick demo of the PinPoint Survey Application using some public data scraped from the web for all the US Amazon sites.  The equipment names and photos are all ge…

NSA Releases Guidance on How to Protect Against Software Memory Safety Issues
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NSA Releases Guidance on How to Protect Against Software Memory Safety Issues

When the NSA makes a post about software best practices to reduce hacking attempts, you know there’s a problem.  For the non-programmers, a memory safe programming language is o…