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Security Summit Canada recap: cloud and AI as business enablers
Finding a comfort level with new technology was one of the major themes at this year’s Security Summit Canada, whether that means integrating AI or cloud into your business at your own pace, or raising your level of awareness so you can at least figure out a starting point.
The annual Security Summit Canada virtual conference, held on Feb. 15, was sponsored by Alarm.com, System Surveyor, ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions and SecurTek Monitoring Solutions.
More than a dozen speakers offered their perspectives on hot technologies like AI, cloud and video monitoring, as well as how to successfully manage the relationships between end user, integrator and vendor.
Why cloud matters
The event kicked off with a keynote address, “Why Cloud Matters: Big Features, Big Future,” from Tim Palmquist, vice-president, Americas, Milestone Systems. In his session, Palmquist spoke about
how the cloud is changing security systems, from the initial sale through to implementation and management.
Palmquist noted that there are “catalysts of innovation that unlock opportunity” within the
“I think it’s the best time in the world to be an end user right now for physical security.”
—Tim Palmquist, Milestone Systems
security industry and the cloud is definitely a recent example of that. The pandemic helped to bring that into focus since it forced the industry to quickly adapt to new service delivery models.
“We can see that the pivot to VSaaS away from on-premise VMS is real and it has a big impact on where we’re going in the future,” he said. “[Cloud] is a tool that can help address those dynamic, evolving and changing needs of our end customers.”
However, the move from onprem to cloud isn’t a given, nor is it a smooth ride for everyone. There have been some concerns along the way, including cost and bandwidth.
“We recognize we have confusion in the conversation,” said Palmquist. “It’s difficult to land
on what we agree on, but what we know is change afoot.”
A common approach, noted Palmquist, is a hybrid model where systems and data storage are managed through a combination of on-prem and in the cloud.
“This is a natural transition, and I think this will unfold for many years,” he said, adding, “I think it’s the best time in the world to be an end user right now for physical security and for video management. The flexibility of options that exist are absolutely amazing. There’s elasticity for compute and for storage.”
AI everywhere
Palmquist’s session on cloud was followed by a look at artificial intelligence from a practitioner who has spent more than 40 years working in the field.
Sue Abu-Hakima holds an MA and PhD in AI studies and is the founder of several companies including her latest, Alstari.
AI is as old as computing itself, which began in the 1930s, said Abu-Hakima, yet recent advances have catapulted it into the public consciousness as it dominates conversations around business, science and culture.
“AI is pervasive in everything that we do — in our house, in our office, in our car, in our workplace, and all the communication networks that we use,” she said. “Everything that you touch today will have some form of AI attached to it.”
AI can be used as a tool to attack cyber networks, she said, but it can also be used to fortify them.
“It’s already impacting cybersecurity,” she said. “We’re seeing breaches that we haven’t seen the likes of [before]. But it can also be used to strengthen your enterprise networks, to defend against new cyber-attacks.”
Abu-Hakima advised Summit attendees to investigate AI if they have not already. There are resources available to help decision-makers better understand the role of AI in the enterprise,
including consultants, conferences and other education opportunities.
“My best advice to you is embrace it, don’t fear it,” she said.
What clients want from their integrators
As technology evolves, so must the integrators who install and maintain it for their clients. In a panel discussion, a trio of end users provided their take on this process, as well as the changing nature of the relationship between customers and service providers.
The panelists included David Sulston, a security professional with more than 30 years of industry experience and Canadian Security’s 2022 Security Director of the Year; Helen Perry-Raycraft, corporate security specialist with the City of Saskatoon; and Luciano Cedrone, director of security and fire/life safety, at Toronto-based property management firm Triovest.
The relationship used to be quite one-sided, said Sulston, with the integrator as the undisputed source of information for all things security. But in more recent times, end users have increased their own understanding of systems and they have a deeper pool of knowledge to draw from.
“From the integrator perspective, you have to be aware that your client is getting smarter,” added Perry-Raycraft, who was also an integrator before joining the City of Saskatoon. “They can find resources. They can ask all the questions. You have to approach
“Everything that you touch today will have some form of AI attached to it.”
— Sue Abu-Hakima,Alstari
your client at that intelligence level.”
But while end users may have a better understanding today, they also must rely on the experts. As technology gets more complex and the feature-sets grow richer, they are looking to their integrators not only for their technical knowledge but for a broader understanding of how security technology will impact other key systems in the enterprise, said Cedrone.
The relationship between clients and integrators, as well as experts and other specialists in the field, has changed over time due to the general level of conversation that takes place between all security professionals, noted Sulston.
End users will also consult with each other and lean on their network of contacts for ideas and recommendations. “You’re effectively crowd-sourcing excellence,” he said.
Trends in video monitoring
The afternoon closed with a panel discussion on trends in video monitoring, moderated by Victor Harding, principal of Harding Security Services and author of the Lessons Learned column in SP&T News
The panel comprised monitoring experts and practitioners Colin Bodbyl, vice-president and general manager, Stealth Monitoring; Daniel Cyr, CEO and general manager, Sirix Monitoring; and Bill Dietterle, president, BIL Security Services Canada.
The panelists agreed that video monitoring has made tremendous advances in recent years, but is still in its infancy, with plenty of growth potential ahead.
“We’re seeing new technologies come to market on the monitoring side, especially around the AI and analytics. But I think there’s still an enormous amount of opportunity there, and there’s still an enormous amount of changes we’re going to see in the near future as those technologies mature,” said Bodbyl.
“The technology has evolved so much that it allows us to have tools that [make us] a lot more efficient,” agreed Cyr.
Among the clientele for video monitoring today are car dealerships and construction sites, who use the service to monitor for potential criminal behaviour on the premises after hours.
Video monitoring has also been utilized for life safety purposes. For example, Bodbyl described a scenario in which a child was prevented from leaving his apartment building alone in the middle of winter. A monitoring centre operator noticed the child trying to exit by himself and alerted building staff. They were able to intervene and safely return the child to his family.
The panel also discussed the degree to which AI or advanced analytics can be relied upon to make judgement calls on whether a situation viewed on screen is an innocuous event or a potential crime in progress. The technology may be improving every day, but a skilled operator is still required to make those calls in most situations.
Dietterle said video monitoring is most effective when the technology and the operator are working together in harmony. “It’s like an orchestra,” he said. “It all has to be fine-tuned.”
All of the Security Summit sessions are available to view ondemand on the SP&T News website (www.sptnews.ca).
— Neil Sutton
Genetec appeals to channel partners with major update to Security Center
Montreal-based Genetec has announced a major upgrade to its flagship Security Center product, referring to it as a harmonization of its cloud offerings.
Called Security Center SaaS, the company says it will help end users and integrators alike make the most of cloud and hybrid environments while also introducing new features that both groups should appreciate.
The new suite combines access control, video management, forensic search, intrusion monitoring and automation. According to the company, it has been re-worked to optimize the product lifecycle from procurement to deployment to ongoing maintenance.
The company’s leadership, including Christian Morin, vice-president of product engineering and CSO; Andrew Elvish, vicepresident of marketing; Michel Chalouhi, vicepresident of global sales; and Pierre Racz, founder and president, introduced the new SaaS suite at a media event held at Genetec’s experience centre in Washington, D.C. (the “DCXC”).
Ubiquitous computing
A major selling point for Security Center SaaS is its ability to work effectively in hybrid environments. According to Mike Jude, research director, video surveillance and vision applications, IDC, who spoke to SP&T News after the event, this is a feature that is growing more popular amongst security end users.
“The SaaS solution, especially since it’s compatible with existing on-premise Genetec solutions, provides that migration path,” said Jude. “The user can implement SaaS and still keep what they’re currently using… You can migrate what you want to the cloud.”
Genetec’s latest research also indicates more of its clientele are splitting the security workload between on-premise and cloud.
In Genetec’s 2024 State of Physical Security Report, 44 per cent of end users indicated that over a quarter of their physical security environments are cloud-based or hybrid cloud, versus 24 per cent in the previous survey.
“It’s not about being cloud-first, it’s about being hybrid first,” said Morin.
Racz referred to the approach as “ubiquitous computing” adding that “we don’t care where the workloads are.” They could be on-prem, in a company’s data centre or a third-party data centre. “That’s the future,” he said.
Elvish compared the transition from onprem to cloud-based security systems to the move from analogue to IP systems that started in earnest in the late 2000s. “I would argue we’re going through an even bigger change [now],” he said. “We’re in a period of rapid transition.”
Quoting Genetec’s report, Elvish said 39 per cent of channel partners are leading with cloudbased solutions and more than half (52 per cent) of channel partners offer cloud-based solutions to customers when they request it.
He said that, from a global perspective, U.S. and Canadian systems integrators are at the forefront in terms of cloud adoption.
Genetec has about 2,000 channel partners globally and repeatedly stated the importance of their relationship with these partners during the Washington press summit. According to the company, more than 99 per cent of its transactions are accomplished through the channel.
“The integrator is as much our customer as the end user,” said Chalouhi. “How you procure, install and maintain the product is a part of it as much as operating it.”
A new Genetec Portal is designed to make the quoting, ordering and deploying process easier for the company’s partners. “We want our partners to be able to order a system and within 10 minutes be able to configure it,” said Morin.
IA not AI
As an organization, Genetec has been preaching the value of cloud and the utmost importance of cybersecurity for years.
During Genetec’s last major press event in 2019, held at the company’s Montreal headquarters, Racz compared the public internet to untreated water. “The effluence of our civilization is leaking into our information supply,” he said.
Racz has not relaxed his stance on this. In fact, the first feature mentioned in the Security Center SaaS press release is “built with cybersecurity and privacy at its core.”
Racz is also keen to disabuse the security community of the notion that artificial intelligence represents the pinnacle of technical sophistication. He cautioned end users against wholesale adoption of AI systems and said AI hasn’t reached a point yet where it should be trusted to write code.
Back in 2019, before the world was completely in thrall of AI, Racz spoke of Genetec’s focus on “intelligent automation” over artificial intelligence and he reiterated the distinction between the two approaches at the 2024 press event.
“What is intelligent automation? You let the computer do the heavy lifting but you put the human in the loop to make the judgements and to supply creativity,” he said.
Genetec has imbued this “IA” approach into aspects of Security Center SaaS, including user queries. Racz said the interface uses “prompt engineering” to narrow down ambiguously stated questions from the user and map them to specific criteria.
Security Center SaaS will be available starting in April.
— Neil Sutton
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The Canadian video surveillance security market is constantly evolving, driven by advancements in technology and an increasing emphasis on comprehensive security solutions. Traditional surveillance systems, while effective to a certain extent, often struggle to provide the level of coverage and adaptability required to meet the diverse needs of Canadian businesses and communities.
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AI, Analytics, and Cloud Form Hanwha’s “Smart” Vision for the Future
Businesses today need intelligent surveillance solutions that fit the constantly changing nature of their markets, combining 24/7 protection with the latest advancements in Artificial intelligence (AI), analytics, and cloud management.
The convergence of hardware devices and software solutions is accelerating, with the continued growth of AI, the development of enterprise intelligence software and intelligent analytics giving rise to a range of “smart” surveillance applications. At the same time, wider acceptance of the cloud has accelerated within our industry, with emerging cloud capabilities enabling on-premise and remote surveillance management. The surveillance industry is increasingly recognizing the cloud’s benefits: operational efficiency, system storage, enhanced security, centralized data -- all on a platform that flexibly scales to meet an organization’s requirements and resources.
Hanwha Vision is embracing the concept of an AI-powered, cloud-connected industry.
New applications of AI in IP cameras are delivering precise detection, robust search capabilities, elevated data analysis, and enhanced image quality. When combined with built-in analytics, AI can help streamline forensic investigations and also support a number of missioncritical business functions.
At Hanwha Vision, the future of cloud technology is OnCloud. This direct-to-cloud video management system offers low latency access to live and recorded video, searchable clips, event notifications, and more. It’s a fully cloudbased solution for monitoring an organization’s locations and assets.
Hanwha’s goal with OnCloud is to create an easy to use and seamless experience for end users, distributors, and system integrators. The service is easy to learn, purchase, activate, and support. Within minutes, users can have a fully operational OnCloud system up and running. OnCloud is ideal for any environment where intuitive use, scalability and flexibility are critical in environments such as education, retail, restaurants, small to medium sized business, and more.
And OnCloud is only one key element of Hanwha’s growing ecosystem of cloud-based devices and apps – all available through the Hanwha Vision Cloud Portal.
Security and surveillance products are now seen as critical elements of a total business solution, used to deliver data-driven business insights and drive enhanced operational efficiencies across an entire organization. This places a greater emphasis on the development of highperformance optical and image-processing technologies, and we’re seeing these designs come to reality in the form of cameras built for every security and surveillance application.
Manufacturers and solutions providers need to think differently and flexibly adapt to
the changing needs of their customers and the industry. It will always be imperative to continue building high-performance products that “monitor and protect.” At the same time, for our business and our industry to grow, we must also focus on developing software-based vision solutions that will lay the foundation for a truly smart surveillance industry, while combining data analytics, business intelligence and actionable insights.
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