CNL Software, a world leader in Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software, will be exhibiting at ISC West Las Vegas April 10-12, 2013 - explaining how PSIM is enabling both Safe Cities and Education facilities to realize the full potential of their security investment by creating unified command centers and implementing joint response plans.
Ensuring the safety and security of students, staff, and visitors is key to the success and progress of any school or university. At the same time, Government agencies work hard to increase collaboration of public safety efforts; aiming to achieve better efficiency and effectiveness in leveraging public and privately owned security assets. Collaboration between Safe City security agencies and Education facilities provides these organizations with the vital intelligence needed for high levels of emergency preparedness and faster response to incidents, including those on educational campuses.
“Following a string of tragic incidents compromising campus security, PSIM is now not an option for our education facilities. It is the essential technology bridge tying together schools and first responders; cohesively providing critical information allowing informed decisions to be made more rapidly”, says Matthew Kushner, President - CNL Americas. “PSIM delivers the collaborative element required to deliver real-time situational awareness to first responders - a crucial aspect of school security initiatives being driven by City Mayors through the US today.” Kushner concludes, “Critical data, in the hands of the correct personnel at the required time saves lives”.
“We are already supporting leading Cities such as Washington DC, Atlanta and Manchester, UK, to leverage their security investments and reduce policing costs”, added Adlan Hussain, Global Head of Marketing. “We are now working to empower multi-agency operations including public and private collaborations; enabling cities to not only have real time situation awareness but to also use data analysis to effectively pre-empt and prevent crime.”
In another development Software, a world leader in Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software has announced the deployment of its IPSecurityCenter PSIM solution to help protect a multi-billion dollar port organization, which runs terminals and shipping services used by government, leisure & commercial passengers and freight distribution operations.
Port security by its very nature, requires the organization to have complete situational awareness at all times as risks to facilities constantly changes and can have catastrophic effects far beyond the site perimeter. This includes the security of the ports, buildings and equipment, perimeter protection, access control and the safety of staff, passengers, vehicles, vessels and cargo moving through the port and its terminals.
The port authority has established a Command Center using IPSecurityCenter PSIM to provide a common platform with central monitoring and storage capability to share video data from independent CCTV systems at several of their facilities. During an emergency, the Command Center is able to give selective remote access to video surveillance for the city’s Emergency Management Team.
“Managing CCTV footage was an important part of this project but beyond this, IPSecurityCenter has provided the port with a completely integrated security system, which effectively manages all security resources, processes and people,” explains says Matthew Kushner, President - CNL Americas. “This allows operators to have real time situation awareness of potential threats and offers high levels of emergency preparedness. Utilizing existing security systems rather than replacing the entire security estate has ensured a cost effective way to achieve this.”
CNL Software has deployed IPSecurityCenter at several other major port locations across the US, including its recently announced deployment at the Washington State Department of Transportation, Ferries Division; helping IPSecurityCenter to become the PSIM of choice for port security operations.