Why don’t VMS/IP Camera Systems Use the AV1 Codec?
Walk into almost any security operations center in 2026 and you’ll still see the same compression defaults that have dominated for years: H.264 everywhere, H.265 in many higher-e…
How AI Enabled Analytics Can Learn From Your Own Alerts – A Feedback Loop for Physical Security Video Platforms
When an AI enabled camera sees something odd—a person climbing a fence, a vehicle moving the wrong way, or a suspicious package in a hallway—the system throws an alarm. Today m…
Self-Hosted AI with Security-Focused RAG
Why Self-Hosted AI with Security-Focused RAG Is a Game-Changer for Security & Life Safety Research In physical security, life safety, and critical-infrastructure protection, inform…
Affected Services and Companies by the AWS DNS Outage on October 20, 2025
So, apart from bean counters constantly purporting that corporations are saving money in the cloud, the general premise is that the cloud is more “resilient” than your own corp…
One Token to Rule Them All: Why Cloud Identity Design Matters for Electronic Security
For those (dozen or so) people that follow my posts, here’s another installment of why I don’t think you should put sensitive security information on somebody else’s servers:…
Residential Security Updates in Light of Recent Events
We do quite a few executive residence risk assessments and security designs. I’ve been all over the country in some VERY NICE homes that all have had essentially the same thing…