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Cybersecurity and Fire Alarms: New requirements in the 2025 edition of NFPA 72
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It’s a crazy world we live in with all the data hacking, scam messages and service disruptions. You would think that having a fire alarm and emergency communications system in a building would not be a threat, but anything that connects to the outside world can become of point of entry to access
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Let’s Talk Legacy: Evaluating a move to mobile access control
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Access control and video surveillance are the predominant technologies in physical security. Today, access control has the right mechanisms in place for growth, bolstered by mobile credentials and cloud computing.
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