Security professionals are increasingly turning to cloud-based technologies to improve daily operations and make their security data more usable.
Are you curious to learn more about the potential of cloud-based physical security technologies and what they can do for your security strategy?
Read on as we explore how cloud-based technology allows physical security data to become more usable and minimizes the vulnerabilities in physical security systems.
Open API Integrations
When you opt for a cloud-based security system instead of an on-premise alternative, you gain several advantages – including open API integrations. Open API integrations allow you to combine various security tools and software to enhance their function. Here are some of the main benefits of open API integrations in security:
- More accessible data – when you host your security data on disparate platforms in an on-premise system, you create data silos. The data is more difficult to compare and analyze for a complete and clear understanding of the whole picture. In an integrated security system, all data is readily accessible in one place for a single source of truth for security information.
- Blending security systems to enhance their function – when you have standalone security features without integration, you eliminate the possibility of stacking these technologies to improve their operation. The tools can integrate with applied software integrations to revolutionize their operations and functions.
- More efficiency – when you host your security data separately, your team must perform manual processes to correlate data for evaluation. When you integrate your security tools, your team will not need to connect data for assessment. Instead, security incident response procedures will be more efficient and more accurate.
IoT Integrations And Automated Workflows
When integrating security tools, there are many options to enhance security operations using integrated security data. Below, you’ll find a few applications of security tool integration that can improve ROI on your security investments and provide more airtight security.
Integrated Access Control And Video Security
Access control secures your building with door locks operated by keycards, fobs, or mobile credentials, removing the potential for lockpicking. While access control will ensure your building from most threats of intrusion, one critical vulnerability is the potential for a user to enter using stolen or misappropriated access credentials.
To prevent this risk, you can integrate access control and IoT video security for identity verification. Both access logs and video feed data will be readily available on a single platform to confirm identity – without correlating timestamps from different platforms.
To ensure each individual’s identity is verified before they enter the building without increasing manual effort, you can implement identity confirmation software with your integrated access control and commercial surveillance cameras.
With a cloud-based access control system, you can remotely withdraw credentials from users. You can remotely disable the credential if an access card, fob, or mobile device is stolen. You can also establish protocols so that an alert is triggered if a user attempts to enter the building with these credentials, and your security team is immediately aware of the incident.
Cyber And Physical Security
If your cloud-based security data is compromised, your physical security team needs to know immediately to prevent a physical security breach. Often, there can be data silos between cyber and physical security departments. By integrating cybersecurity software and physical security workflow programs, you can ensure that your physical security teams respond to any threat to physical security that originates in a cyberattack.
Security Planning And Protocols
When all of your security data is unified, with both physical and cybersecurity tools unified, your security teams can use this data to create a security strategy enriched with all relevant security data. They can plan response procedures and perform risk assessments for all physical security threats, including those that originate in a cyberattack attempt. With the adoption of cloud-based technologies, businesses can unify cyber and physical security to strengthen their approach to the modern threat landscape.
Remote Management Of Security
Incorporating cloud-based technologies into your physical security strategy creates a more agile security response by allowing remote security management. Using a cloud-based control center of mobile application, your security staff can perform the following functions from anywhere:
- Remotely viewing security data and live video data using cameras with cloud storage.
- Remotely operating security door locks.
- Remotely disabling access credentials.
- Receiving alerts based on security threats – from anywhere.
- Remotely verifying identity for both visitors and staff members.
However, since all this security data is hosted on the cloud and thus vulnerable to interception by a third party, security teams need to implement cybersecurity software to protect these digital resources.
Summary
You should consider the benefits of cloud-based security solutions if you’re looking to modernize your physical security strategy and provide more fortification against modern security threats. With cloud-based security, you can get integration potential that can eliminate data silos and enhance the function of your existing security investments – ensuring that you achieve ROI on your security investments.
