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Security Features - March 2008
SIA
Launches New Company Licence Checker - Improved online facility
for companies
The Security Industry Authority (SIA) has launched a new online
licence checker for companies.
The Company Licence Checker (CLC) is linked to the SIA’s
public
Register of Licence Holders. The CLC allows employers to create
lists of licence
holders who work for their company and to check the status of
those licences quickly and easily in real time. Previously, employers
were only able to search and check one licence at a time.
The new facility instantly highlights any employees' licences
that have been suspended or revoked.
The SIA is encouraging security companies to register and obtain
a User ID and password and to start using this facility.
Companies that have already registered with the SIA (as company
users) can use their existing user ID and password to start taking
advantage of this service.
JVC
TFT LCDs selected by Quadrant Security Group for CCTV Monitoring
at Huntingdonshire District Council
Quadrant Security Group has installed a large number of the JVC
LCD monitors in a new CCTV control room for Huntingdonshire District
Council. Some 37 JVC LCD TFT screens have been used in total,
in a newly built and designed facility that monitors 120 cameras
across the busy Cambridgeshire town and beyond.
Huntingdonshire Council wanted to move its entire CCTV monitoring
operation into a new purpose built building – a process
that had to be completed while the existing security system remained
operational at the existing site. Quadrant installed a fully digitised
recording system along with operator and supervisor consoles,
and arranged 32 of JVC’s GD-19L1G 19-inch TFT screens into
a monitor wall. These are configured to show quad displays or
any single camera. In the same facility, Quadrant installed 5
of JVC’s GM-H40L2G 40-inch TFT monitors, integrated with
X-View DPX multi image display processors from e-mediavision.com
for the flexible multi image display of CCTV video signals.
Ian Moore, Sales Manager of the Public Space team at Quadrant,
says: “This new facility monitors public-space CCTV in and
around Huntingdon, and in the nearby towns of St Neots, Ramsey
and St Ives. The main security threats are crime, disorder and
anti-social behaviour. At any one time, two operators and one
supervisor are in the control room, and they are delighted with
the equipment.”
Bell Security to rebrand as Niscayah
 Bell
Security, the specialist provider of high security systems for
many kinds of business - and market leader in protecting UK and
Ireland retail bank properties - has today announced a change
of name. Later this year the company will become Niscayah Ltd,
as it adopts the new branding strategy about to be implemented
internationally by its parent, Swedish-listed Securitas Systems
AB.
Established for over 20 years, as Bell Group plc the company was
fully listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1999 until its
acquisition in 2004. Bell says the change is being made primarily
to strengthen the group’s position from an international
perspective. It reflects a growth in requests from its increasingly
multinational customer base to be able to demonstrate consistent
and unified support internationally.
UK Country President Bjorn Lohne said:
”Adopting this new name, alongside our overseas sister businesses,
will allow us to promote, with greater clarity, the strengths
we offer as a business group, particularly to customers requiring
our skills and competences internationally. As we change we don’t
leave Bell’s history and achievements behind. They are the
essence of many of the drivers at the heart of our new brand strategy.”
Visit: www.bellsecurity.co.uk
or www.securitasystems.com
Dallmeier launches DMS 240 IPS Network Video Recorder
 Dallmeier’s
outstanding DMS ‘Leonardo’ range of digital video
recorders is now enhanced with the launch of the DMS 240 IPS,
the company’s first network video recorder solely designed
for IP applications. The DMS 240 IPS is a standalone recorder
offering up to 24 IP-based audio and video channels.
Central to the design of the DMS 240 IPS is high quality recording
combined with exceptional compression rates. The unit offers a
Bit rate up to 4 Mbps, a frame rate up to 25 fps per channel with
CIF (600 fps altogether) and image resolution up to 4CIF.
Easy operability is also a key feature of the DMS 240 IPS. Simultaneous
real-time recording and playback for all channels is standard
of course. As is Dallmeier’s Easy-Change HDD functionality
in the unlikely event of hard disk failure. The minimum standard
HDD capacity is 500 GB.
Also, the DMS 240 IPS offers an active recording environment,
including management options via either Dallmeier’s SeMSy
or PView management software system and Dallmeier’s SmartFinder
motion detector software. The unit’s Linux operating system
is provided on flash drive.
Managing Director of Dallmeier UK, James Walker, believes that
the performance of the DMS 240 IPS makes the unit unique in its
class:
“This is the recorder that IP customers have been waiting
for. For the first time users of exclusively IP-based CCTV systems
can enjoy the multiple benefits of deploying Dallmeier solutions.
Everyone in the industry knows that when you want to combine performance,
with image quality, breadth of standard functionality with return
on investment, one manufacturer consistently excels over all others.
And that manufacturer is Dallmeier.”
Available options include, larger hard disk drives, including
the storage expansion system DAS-4 Eco / DAS-303, Internal RAID
1 (2 HDD required) and DVI video output.
The DMS ‘Leonardo’ series also include four hybrid
analogue/IP digital video recorders: DMS80, DMS160, DMS240 and
DMS240 HSR (optimised for recording high frame rates and high
resolution).
Security Guarding & Support Services at IFSEC 2008 to Cater
for Facilities Managers
 Worth
£2.2bn, the security guarding sector makes up over a third
of the entire UK security market, and in light of the recent BBC
Panorama documentary's portrayal of the security industry, professionalism
within the sector is now at the forefront of the news agenda.
With this in mind, IFSEC 2008 will again feature “Security
Guarding & Support Services”, to cater for this important
and diverse market.
Planned with the full support of the BSIA, The Security Institute,
ASIS International UK Chapter 208, Skills for Security and a number
of the UK’s leading security guarding companies, the feature
will be relocating to a new prime position in hall 7 at the NEC,
next to co-located exhibition The Facilities Show 2008. This relocation
takes into account the important role facilities managers have
in procurement of guarding services.
The exhibition will feature the UK’s leading guarding companies,
including Advance Security, G4S Security Services, IPSA, Innovise,
Legion Group, Mitie Security, Nationwide Security Services, NTIPDU,
Romtrac, Wilson James.
Darren Gamage, head of marketing at Mitie Security comments, “We
are delighted to be taking a major presence within Security Guarding
& Support Services at this year's IFSEC. We've worked closely
with the show organisers to shape the event, together with the
feedback from our clients last year - we're looking forward to
a successful show.”
Douglas Greenwell, sales and marketing director at G4S Security
Services (UK), comments, “Our position in Security Guarding
& Support Services at IFSEC gives us the opportunity to demonstrate
our full range of integrated security solutions. We look forward
to welcoming visitors to stand 570 to discuss their security needs
and to demonstrate the products, technologies and services that
make us a market leader in the industry.”
BSIA representative appointed to National CCTV Strategy Programme
Board
 British
Security Industry Association (BSIA) CCTV Section Chairman, Pauline
Norstrom, has been appointed as the BSIA's representative on the
Programme Board for the National CCTV Strategy which will be tasked
with overseeing the implementation of this landmark document over
the next 12 months.
The BSIA CCTV Section already plays a very active role in the
development of European CCTV standards as well as developing its
own guides and code of practice.
Pauline is also head of the BSIA CCTV Section's technical committee,
TC/10, and this experience will prove invaluable in her new position
on the Programme Board for the National CCTV Strategy.
“I am delighted to have been asked to be a member of the
National CCTV Strategy Programme Board, on behalf of the BSIA,
and to provide authoritative input from a CCTV industry perspective
alongside other key stakeholders,” said Pauline Norstrom.
“The recently published strategy is an important step forward
in developing an holistic approach to the specification, deployment
and governance of CCTV technology. This is particularly critical
given the increasing application of CCTV across the UK to identify
and apprehend suspects in the ongoing battle against criminality
and the threat of terrorism."
The National CCTV Strategy presents the results of a wide-ranging
review of CCTV and its applications in the reduction of crime
and in public safety. The report reviews the use of CCTV to date,
examining both its strengths and its weaknesses and makes recommendations
for future action.
The National CCTV Strategy document can be viewed online at www.crimereduction.homeoffice.gov.uk/cctv/cctv048.htm
For more information on the work of the BSIA CCTV section, visit
www.bsia.co.uk/cctv.
EPS
set to make major impact in electronic security sector
EPS Security, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of safes,
vaults and security services and part of EPS plc, is set to make
a further significant advance and break into the buoyant electronic
security sector.
The move follows the acquisition by EPS of Worcester based Advanced
Peripheral Systems Ltd (APS), one of the most modern and innovative
electronic security companies in the UK and winners of the 2007
CBI growing business award for the use of technology in business.
APS has built up an enviable reputation for designing, installing
and maintaining, state of the art systems such as CCTV, access
control and fire alarms and also has specialist experience in
providing high level protection for communication rooms and data
centres. APS works for leading blue chip customers in a broad
range of industries.
EPS Security is already a major supplier of security services
to the financial, private and public sectors but with the purchase
of Advanced Peripheral Systems will increase the range of services
offered and move EPS closer to their goal of providing all encompassing
solutions to end users.
Paul Hutchinson, managing director for EPS Security, commented:
“APS is an excellent strategic fit for EPS, not just by
expanding our range of services but because of the remarkable
similarities with our core values of being a modern, highly professional
and totally service orientated business”
“As a result of its customer focus and modern approach APS,
has grown primarily by recommendation and has lead the way in
introducing innovation to the electronic security sector. I firmly
believe that integration into EPS plc will continue this trend
and generate increased opportunities for both businesses”
World’s
first web security service for roaming employees launches
 As
research reveals two-third of employers admit workers disable
security settings on company laptops while out of the office
Over two-thirds of companies have admitted that employees disable
or tamper with the security settings on their company laptops
when working out of the office. This is according to new customer
research from leading British web security firm, ScanSafe, who
today launched Anywhere+, the world’s first web security
service for roaming workers.
Increasing numbers of staff travel for work and/or work remotely
outside of traditional office hours. According to data from the
Office for National Statistics, more than six million Britons
now telework from various locations outside the office. In ScanSafe’s
December 2007 survey, 95 per cent of respondents reported that
at least 10 per cent of their staff worked remotely on a regular
basis.
However, roaming employees are becoming a real challenge to corporate
security. Forty per cent of companies reported they had been hit
by a security threat as a result of a roaming worker’s use
of their laptop in the last 12 months.
Anywhere+ protects laptop users from malware (computer viruses,
spyware, etc) and enforces acceptable Internet usage policies
for staff surfing the Web regardless of where they are. The service
means businesses can easily and quickly extend their security
policy to hotels, airports, remote offices, homes or anywhere
else employees might use their laptops.
“Businesses identify remote and roaming workers as one of
the biggest weaknesses in their security,” said Dan Nadir,
VP, product strategy, ScanSafe. “Users who surf unprotected
while ‘on the road’ often return with infected laptops
that can expose the company to data theft.”
Anywhere+, which is completely tamper-resistant and cannot be
removed by the user, is available today with prices starting at
£1.00 per user per month.
How Anywhere+ works
Unlike traditional remote security approaches, Anywhere+ is delivered
as a service. All inbound and outbound Web traffic is transparently
redirected to the nearest scanning datacenter in ScanSafe’s
global network which stretches from Sydney to San Francisco, where
it is scanned and filtered in real-time. Because all Web traffic
is scanned ‘in the cloud,’ Anywhere+ eliminates the
latency, bandwidth congestion and costs associated with traditional
backhauling of Web traffic over the corporate VPN to an Internet
gateway. As a service, Anywhere+ can be deployed rapidly. It is
activated through a lightweight driver. For more information on
Anywhere+, including a 30-day risk-free trial, please visit: www.scansafe.com/anywhereplus.
For further information email Garry Scott - garry.scott@scansafe.com
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