Digital Security and Digital Video Surveillance
by IBM

Security Questions....

• How do you currently manage daily incidents, planned events, and unplanned disasters?
  
  
• What information systems tools have you implemented to prepare for these situations?
  
  
• How are the various critical agencies inter linked to address incidents, events, and disasters?
  
  
• What strategies are in place to support an effective response to incidents, events, and disasters?
  
  
• What systems are in place to support those strategies?
  
  
• What systems do you use to coordinate response actions between multiple agencies?
  
  
• How do you change your video surveillance strategy and approach from reactive to proactive?
  
  
• Do you have problems providing video from your surveillance system on an event that occurred 6 months ago, a year ago, or even several years ago?
  
  
• How do you increase the efficiency of various processes such as video retrieval, segment editing, evidence production, ongoing storage and management, and others?
  
  
• Are you concerned with how can you take advantage of current advanced technologies and future innovations in surveillance and data management without having to replace your entire core infrastructure?
  
  
• How do you leverage your investment in all technology to maximize the effectiveness of your surveillance solution?

Communications

• Command centers
• Emergency management
• Forensic analysis hubs
• Data centers
• Inter and intra agencies
• Local, regional, national, international

Security Concerns:

Today’s analog security systems do not meet the needs of today’s security problems. Most video surveillance solutions are labour intensive and too often are not maintained properly causing gaps in recording of security breaches. These systems are antiquated and expensive to maintain. Your security personnel need fast efficient, automated video surveillance operations.

Most personnel responding to an emergency need to be fully informed of the situation they are being thrust into. They need real-time information about the perpetrators or the emergency situation. They want to have this data streamed live as they approach the situation. This requires integration of security applications with centralized databases with wireless capabilities with flexible, scalable IP-based network solution. Easily integrated with related IP-based solutions.

Government agencies need to be able to share security breach information and want interoperability of security systems. Enhanced local and remote communications, as well as inter-agency/departmental collaboration are essential.

Investigations of security breaches are hampered by the ability to get information for forensic purposes. Your security personnel need rapid, accurate search and retrieval of recorded or event-triggered video along.

Businesses and organisations need to secure their facilities and their networks from threats. Implementation of enterprise wide access control and credential management needs to be enhanced with biometrics and digital video to secure critical areas from would be perpetrators.

Network security needs to be tied to physical security applications. Airports and seaports need to implement high standards of security with video analysis and threat management.

Facilities

• Hazardous material storage
• Chemical manufacturing
• Pharmaceutical
• Food processing
• Power plants and grids
• Communication facilities
• Reservoirs, dams, water treatment plants
• Stadiums, arenas
• Military bases
• Ad-hoc deployments

What is The Solution?

As part of the heightened focus on safety and security, customers are requiring integrated digital video surveillance, access control, and human and physical asset management systems. However, many government agencies and large organizations today have fragmented, stovepipe systems for different aspects of security, and separate systems for each physical location. This makes a coordinated approach difficult.

The industry is migrating from analog to digital video surveillance, and also migrating to integrated enterprise applications for safety and security. These applications give a unified view of people and assets. IBM, and Cisco are well positioned to supply the total solution.

IBM and Cisco working with video surveillance application providers, offers an end-to-end digital security solution based on industry standards that integrates physical access with digital video surveillance. The solution includes business consulting and deployment services combined with the IBM Digital Media Factory and Cisco’s wireless Aironet products providing access to live video over IP networks and to wireless devices.

The Value of the solution

• The solution is based on open systems standards technology, for lower cost, and higher performance with automated operations providing higher productivity and lower management and capital costs.
  
  
• Real time access to surveillance data and video enhances security and threat management
  
  
• One user interface and one data source for the entire enterprise security system.
  
  
• Central storage with mature IBM storage management and systems management tools are included for managing large central or distributed storage. Systems of 100 TB and greater are not uncommon.
  
  
• Faster search and retrieval of video associated with an event such as a breach of security
  
  
• Higher quality images provide security personnel with a clearer view of security video. This enhances forensic capabilities that can aid in legal prosecutions.
  
  
• Robust modular applications with rich application program interfaces for scalability and integration to other applications and legacy systems.

How can I find out more?
For further information on the IBM and Cisco strategic alliance and solutions, please visit: www.ibm.com/services/alliances/cisco/