and the Consumerization of Security, at SSN's
Cloud+ conference, Nov. 28 and 29 in Austin,
Texas, featuring a panel of three top integra-
tors—Jeremy Brecher, CTO, Securitas, Jeff
Frye, SVP, Interface Security Systems and
Pierre Trapanese, CEO, Northland Control
Systems
In addition to Van Till's session, Cloud+
provides an ideal educational forum for any-
body looking to leverage the cloud to provide
cutting-edge technologies. See you there!
Are you up on cloud? You should be!
A
s I walked around the show fl oor at
ASIS International 2017, one of the
prevailing themes was increased adop-
tion of cloud-based technology and comput-
ing within security.
Many dealers, integra-
tors and suppliers are
emphasizing how valu-
able data is today, and how
important it is to protect
that data and use cloud
computing to mine it for
actionable info.
Security Systems News
2017 "20 under 40" End User winner Michael
Glasser, who is the North America security
consulting manager for Microsoft Global
Security/LMC Consulting, sees "increased
leveraging of video technology and data by
allowing the cloud to process it," he said, not-
ing that the industry can benefi t from deep
learning in the future, as business intelligence
"is by far the biggest technology trend I see
coming."
What Glasser and many of our "20 under
40" winners on the end user side pointed out,
physical and information security are merg-
ing, as IT plays a much more dominant role
in security today.
Brivo CEO Steve Van Till told SSN that the
cloud will be the key for harnessing the most
exciting emerging technologies today.
"The cloud is implicated in easier installa-
tion, greater ease of use for the users, but the
other thing with the cloud is it really is the
platform for everything," said Van Till. "All of
the interesting things that are happening with
mobile are connected to the cloud. All of the
interesting things happening with AI are hap-
pening in the cloud, so if you go through any
of the advancing technology sectors, cloud is
foundational to all of them. If you want to be
part of AI, big data and IoT, you are going to
be on a cloud platform. So saying you are not
going to believe in the cloud or the cloud is
not secure, you are really cutting yourself off
from most of the new advances in technology
generally."
Van Till is also moderating a session, Cloud
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