6 January 2023 - Security Buyer Magazine

Into the Cloud – Lyn Poole

Security Buyer finds out more about Lyn Poole, Development Officer for Secured by Design What does ‘security’ mean to you? Security to me can be on all different levels, from subtle changes like education to working with stake holders on large scale building projects to design out crime. What made you want to work in the industry? Having been a frontline uniformed Police Officer for 16 years, I saw too many victims, potential victims and repeat victims and I wanted to help them, and try to prevent others from being victims of crime (a romantic notion I’m afraid, just as I had once wanted to do as a young adult when I joined the Police, I wanted to make a difference to at least one person). If you could talk to your younger self, what would you say? Don’t be concerned with what other people think about you (apart from the people that count), do what you feel is right, and if you make a mistake don’t panic, own it – you are only human. Describe a funny thing that happened to you recently? I put apple juice in my tea (by mistake, of course), instead of milk this morning. Monday morning it’s hard to wake up! If you didn’t work in the security industry, what would you be doing? Well, I’m a trained hairdresser so by now I would probably own my own string of Salons/ Barbers. I have to be busy so lazing on a beach or retiring is just not an option for me. What’s the most interesting thing about you that we wouldn’t learn from your CV? I’m a black belt in martial arts! What is one thing you would make compulsory in the office and one thing you would ban? Honesty, definitely. Hmm, ban? That’s difficult but I would have to say laziness (it can cover a few sins), because if you are in a team, I think it’s selfish! To read the full exclusive and other news stories and exclusives, see our latest issue here. Never miss a story… Follow us on: Security Buyer @SecurityBuyer @Secbuyer Media Contact Rebecca Morpeth Spayne, Editor, Security Portfolio Tel: +44 (0) 1622 823 922 Email: editor@securitybuyer.com

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Intersec: Protection, disruption, sustainability

Security Buyer takes a look at the upcoming Intersec 2023 event and explores what we can expect from the show this year The 24th edition of Intersec will return once again in January 2023. The show will bring together members of the security, fire the industry and accelerate conversations to explore strategies and source technologies for the challenges faced by global security leaders and professionals. Bringing you representation from over 50 countries with 10+ official international country pavilions including Canada, France, United Kingdom, Germany, South Africa, Czech Republic, Turkey, China, Singapore, Italy, and more; this is your unique opportunity to connect, network, source, and succeed in business face-to-face with global suppliers from across the world. Gain insights, knowledge, and solutions as we once again gather and reconnect with existing clients and build new partnerships. Intersec are excited to host and look forward to reinforcing those ever-important business relationships that are the pinnacle of every exhibition. Security industry professionals from around the world are expected in Dubai in January to explore strategies and advanced technologies that will future-proof global safety. More than 1,000 exhibitors from 120+ countries will unite at the 24th edition of Intersec, trade fair for safety, security, and fire protection. The show will take place at the Dubai World Trade Centre from January 17-19, 2023, with exhibitors providing access to more than 10,000 products across the complete security value chain. Advanced technological innovation will dominate the exhibition’s five key segments, followed by Commercial & Perimeter Security, the second largest sector represented. Homeland security is supported by Dubai Police and Security Industry Regulatory Agency (SIRA) and is dedicated to products and solutions for Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Airport, and Aviation Security. Fire & Rescue will showcase the latest firefighting technologies, the best international standards, and practices, and is supported by the Dubai Civil Defence. Safety and Health will be divided into environmental, industrial, and public health and safety, and lastly, Cyber Security will host cyber solutions, experts, from national leaders to public & private sector professionals, from cyber connoisseurs to advisors, hackers to responders, and cyber economists to corporate buyers. “We anticipate up to 30,000 security, emergency response, safety and cybersecurity professionals attending Intersec 2023, where technological breakthroughs will take centre stage and attract an influential participant profile,” said Alex Nicholl, Show Director, Messe Frankfurt Middle East. “Industry experts, influencers, decision and policymakers, and distributors are uniting to explore the strategies and technologies that will govern the safety and wellbeing of future generations.” The event takes place against a backdrop of anticipated sector growth. Research firm 6W Research forecast the Middle East’s commercial security market will grow 16% a year until 2025 to reach US$8.4 billion, while the region’s fire and safety sector will advance 7.5% annually to reach $16.76bn by 2026. “This huge potential has attracted a line-up of industry heavyweights, including Honeywell, Bosh, Hochiki, Drager and AXIS Communications,” added Nicholl. Why visit Intersec annually unites the world of security, emergency response, safety and cybersecurity in Dubai attracting global companies, experts and influencers. Access 10,000+ products across the complete security value chain under one roof. Source products: Meet with exhibitors and distributors who can fortify your security strategy needs while being optimised for maximum cost savings to ensure you get a return on investment. Network: Reconnect with existing clients, draw new connections and network to drive new business growth and opportunities. Learn about latest industry trends: Gain insight into new developments in the fire and emergency services, security and safety industry. Keep up-to-date with the latest trends and regulatory legislation, enabling you to maintain and hone your competitive edge. Conferences: Intersec hosts four different conference tracks as it brings together regional and international government leaders, agencies and organisational heads with outstanding speakers. Attend sessions and learn from the best in the industry. The conference think tank: The Intersec 2023 Conference will be a think tank for future industry strategies, with four focused segments. The conference streams will feature the Intersec Security Leaders’ Summit, and dedicated seminar streams focusing on safety and health, fire and rescue, and tackling ever-growing sophisticated cyber security threats. Intersec 2023 brings to you exclusive educational content focusing on the needs, challenges and latest technologies disrupting the industry. Hosted under the theme of “Integrated tech for global security: Protection, Disruption, Sustainability”, this three-day event will feature content for the complete ecosystem of emergency services, security and safety all under one roof. The extensive development of the show will see the best minds in the industry participate in the content program to discuss the market challenges and opportunities providing a place to benchmark, innovate, collaborate, ideate, and be inspired. Addressing the sector’s most vital issues and opportunities, the three-day content will feature… To read the full feature or other news stories and exclusives, see our latest issue here. 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Accessing smart cities

Exclusives / Rebecca Morpeth-Spayne

Security Buyer Technical Editor, Thomas Schulz, EMEIA Product Marketing Director, ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions, explores intelligent, energy-efficient access management is the key to making cities and its buildings smarter If we used the standard definition of smart, it would be to use technology to monitor, control and manage access, but not just any technology will do; it must be adapted to both the physical and management characteristics of smart cities. For example, it would not make sense to install an iris biometric sensor at an isolated water storage tank, which is out in the open and may not even have electrical power. Nor would a permissions management system, that does not let you update permissions simply and easily and cannot be customised, work. With high volumes of people entering and exiting different areas of the city, it is important to be able to trace who has been where, when and for how long. Advanced software suites can provide access to all operations performed by users, including a complete audit trail. This information is often used by business owners or managers for audits, improvements or compliance. When initiating a new access control system it is important that the supplier and customer work together to understand: Who can enter a secure area Where in the building each individual has access to When an individual can enter a secure area How an individual will gain access to a secure area This information can be crucial in the event of a security breach, enabling investigators to find out who was the last known key holder in the building and what their movements were whilst there Apart for a brief pause during the COVID pandemic, the story of the last decade — and the next — is one of increasing movement. Cities are at the hub. The reason? The world is rapidly urbanising. By 2050, more than two-thirds of the global population will live in a city. Making these cities work better will be a key goal to securing public safety. Security Buyer catches up with Thomas Schulz from ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions EMEA to discover more about how wireless access control integration can contribute to the growing smart city demand. What is a smart city? The first requirement for creating smart cities is a more intelligent and integrated approach to moving people. Who gets to go where? When? And how should the city, area or building respond when this movement happens? Second is the question of energy. The planet’s resources are finite. Humanity’s thirst for exploring, experiencing, improving and flourishing is not. More efficient management of energy can help cities cater for this restless striving. In fact, these two challenges are linked — and access management is central to both. From hybrid working and touchless transit to smart buildings and how to manage their resources, managing access is critical to the development of truly smart cities. How is smart access intelligent, flexible and energy-efficient? The adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for commercial buildings is growing fast. One market forecast expects 12% CAGR through 2027. In a smart building or city — just like the human brain — intelligence needs interconnectivity. The security and access control technology to manage movement for the next generation of smart buildings and cities is here. Connecting and integrating systems is the next step3. Many building control interfaces are used daily in parallel, which can duplicate administrator workload across platforms. Interoperable systems which communicate with each other streamline the process and eliminate this redundancy. It saves time and reduces errors. When businesses link their access control devices to other security and building management solutions — CCTV or energy management, for example — data is shared between silos which have worked in isolation for too long. The data can be analysed and prompt relevant actions. One basic example: If an access system knows someone is present, functions like HVAC and lighting could adjust automatically. As energy use comes into focus everywhere, automating this type of building response is increasingly necessary. How can this help manage movement, reducing energy use? Commercial buildings use lots and lots of energy. Unfortunately, according to analysis by Barclays, they waste around 30% of it4. Smarter access management can help to minimise this waste. When an integrated access and building management system modifies heating or cooling automatically, the building optimises comfort for occupants while reducing overall energy consumption — and therefore costs. For this reason, it is estimated that smart building technology could reduce energy use by at least 15%. One often overlooked draw on power is an access control system. Traditional wired electronic access control uses mains electricity 24/7. Wireless access solutions work differently. A battery powered door lock does not need a mains connection and uses little energy when idle — only to maintain the system heartbeat, no more. More efficient still are door locking systems based on energy harvesting technology. These “self-powered” locks do not require batteries or any external electricity source at all. According to Hiroyuki Akinaga of the Japan Science and Technology Agency: “Energy harvesting technology is expected to play a leading role as a technical enabler in the advancement of smart cities and societies.” To read the full exclusive and other news stories and exclusives, see our latest issue here. 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Big Interview – Johan Jubbega

Exclusives / Rebecca Morpeth-Spayne

Rebecca Spayne catches up with Security Buyer Live partner, Johan Jubbega, President of the OSSA and Senior Vice President and General Manager at Bosch Security Systems to explore the foundations of OSSA. What is your role within the Open Security & Safety Alliance (OSSA)? I’m president of the Open Security & Safety Alliance and have been heavily involved in OSSA since we founded the organisation in 2018. I’m a firm believer that collaborating in an open ecosystem is the way forward for our category. It’s the way to attain a true IoT experience for customers as they need data to interoperate, so cross-collaboration between for example camera systems and intelligence applications is essential. OSSA facilitates innovation on many levels, and as President it’s important to me that our group remains approachable and accessible to anyone interested in further building on this open, data-driven platform principle. What circumstances brought about OSSA’s inception? The security and safety industry had been fragmented for far too long. Innovators at various companies crossed paths at industry events and swapped thoughts for years about the need for platform thinking and corresponding standards. We agreed that if certain barriers were to be removed in the market, we could more easily address the problems at hand and close the gaps in our value chains. The talk was around an open platform philosophy, and founding members Bosch Building Technologies, Hanwha Techwin, Milestone Systems, Pelco and VIVOTEK Inc. set out together to pursue this quest. We formed OSSA, and since then dozens of other forward-thinking companies have joined the effort. Today, this open ecosystem is a reality. How does OSSA seek to orchestrate the “opening up” of the security industry for all? Well, we are close to four years into the journey at this point, and the road is paved. A lot of heavy lifting was taken on by dedicated members the first couple of years. To date we’ve developed and released to the market the OSSA Technology Stack, prescribed a corresponding, hardware-agnostic operating system (OS) for smart cameras, plus created the first three OSSA technology Specifications. These inaugural components create harmonic circumstances for third-party analytics applications to run on different brands of security cameras, while enabling existing hardware to also function within this ecosystem. For example, VIVOTEK’s IE9111-O “AI-BOX” is a “Driven by OSSA” edge computing device that allows users to upgrade their current surveillance components into an AIoT intelligent system. This “opening up” of the industry has another vital moving part – a digital storefront to host these smart camera apps. OSSA member company Azena created the industry’s biggest online Analytics App Store where 100+ third-party apps can be offered, purchased and downloaded to cameras. Analogous to the smart phone industry: we pick and choose what to install onto our cameras, just as we are able to do the same for our phones, but in a B2B environment. Many apps feature sophisticated AI algorithms to support project-specific analytics requirements. Use cases range from object and license plate recognition to active shooter and intrusion detection, with new options being added by the industry regularly. With the current specifications and standards available to the market, how do your member companies’ “driven by OSSA” products serve these current standards? To complete this first major push to open up the industry, we needed camera manufacturers to embrace our philosophy and design products to run the coherent OS which is able to host these new apps. Standards from OSSA helped the manufacturers to build these products without losing product authenticity. As a result there are now more than 15 computer vision products that carry the “Driven by OSSA” seal. Camera hardware is available from Ability, Bosch, Hanwha Techwin, Topview and VIVOTEK. As the surveillance market is constantly evolving, how has OSSA’s focus shifted to help shape the future of safety and security? Our thinking as an industry evolves as the market evolves. Every year it’s more apparent that an open platform to facilitate interoperability is what’s necessary to flourish and succeed in the security and safety space. And really, even beyond that space because our technologies often find application in neighboring domains. To read the full interview or other news stories and exclusives, see our latest issue here. Never miss a story… Follow us on: Security Buyer @SecurityBuyer @Secbuyer Media Contact Rebecca Morpeth Spayne, Editor, Security Portfolio Tel: +44 (0) 1622 823 922 Email: editor@securitybuyer.com

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BSIA’s British Security Awards moves to new venue and date for 2023

Event News, News Desk / Rebecca Morpeth-Spayne

The British Security Industry Association’s (BSIA) flagship event, the British Security Awards, is to move to a new venue and date for 2023. The awards, now in its 26th year, will take place on Wednesday 21 June, a week earlier than previous years, at the iconic Grand Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden London. After last year’s sell out event at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square, it was decided to move to a bigger venue as the awards continues its growth into one of the major events on the security calendar. Entries for this year’s awards will open initially with the regional security personnel categories on 9 January, following a week later with national security business on 16 January. There will also be a new category in 2023 which will cover equality, diversity and inclusivity. Mike Reddington, Chief Executive, BSIA, said: “The British Security Awards is fast becoming one of the key industry events, and after our most successful year in 2022 we have decided to move to a bigger venue. We have been receiving increasing numbers of entries and ticket enquiries since 2018 and lockdown aside, the numbers of attendees has grown each year, meaning we were at capacity at our previous venue in 2022. “The Grand Connaught Rooms is the venue we feel meets the requirements of our prestigious awards event and will provide a welcoming and high-quality environment for our members and stakeholders in which to come together to celebrate security excellence.” Nominations and bookings can now be made from next week (9 January) on the British Security website. To read more news and exclusive features see our latest issue here. Never miss a story… Follow us on: Security Buyer UK @SecurityBuyerUK @SecbuyerUK Media Contact Rebecca Morpeth Spayne, Editor, Security Portfolio Tel: +44 (0) 1622 823 922 Email: editor@securitybuyer.com

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Dragos at the World Economic Forum

Event News, News Desk / Ghyslaine Cordrey

Dragos, provider of cybersecurity for industrial controls systems (ICS)/operational technology (OT) environments, announced CEO and Co-founder Robert M. Lee is returning as a speaker at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for the session “Securing Critical Infrastructure.” Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure target IT and Operational Technology (OT), impacting the range of functions those technologies support. As attacks become more sophisticated, it is imperative for the global community to treat cybersecurity risk as a systemic challenge that requires collective decision-making and coordinated action across the private sector, governments, and civil society. How can business and political leaders mobilize a collective response to safeguard critical assets and mitigate systemic damage? Lee will share his perspective during this session, directly linked to the ongoing work of the Centre for Cybersecurity of the World Economic Forum. Also at Davos, Lee will participate in the multilateral meeting on Operational Collaboration Against Cybercrime, and help guide the dialogue around cybersecurity, cyber resilience, and digital trust during the Meeting for the Centre of Cybersecurity. Lee is an active contributor to the World Economic Forum and returning Davos speaker. He previously spoke on Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructure at the Davos Annual Meeting 2022 during the Global Cybersecurity Outlook. Lee is a member of the WEF Cybersecurity Leadership Community and the WEF Subcommittee on Cyber Resilience for the Oil and Gas and Electricity Communities. He contributed to the WEF white paper for Cyber Resilience in the Oil and Gas Industry, “Advancing Supply Chain Security in Oil and Gas: An Industry Analysis” and published the WEF article, “Cybersecurity has much to learn from industrial safety planning.” The World Economic Forum had previously selected Dragos as a “2020 Technology Pioneer,” an annual distinction that recognizes the 100 most innovative early to growth-stage companies from across the globe that are poised to have a significant impact on business and society. Dragos was the first industrial cybersecurity company to receive this recognition. WEF subsequently named Dragos as a Global Innovator. To read more news and exclusive features see our latest issue here. Never miss a story… Follow us on: Security Buyer @SecurityBuyer @SecbuyerME Media Contact Rebecca Morpeth Spayne, Editor, Security Portfolio Tel: +44 (0) 1622 823 922 Email: editor@securitybuyer.com

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