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Hailey Lynne McKeefry has spent more than 23 years writing about technology and business. She began her career as an editor at such periodicals as Macintosh News, EBN, and Windows Magazine. After more than 16 years as a freelance journalist, she has written about a broad variety of technology topics, with a focus on security, storage, healthcare, and SMBs. Living in the heart of the Silicon Valley, Hailey has written for many top business-to-business publications and Websites including Information Week, CRN, eWeek, Channel Insider, Channel Pro, Redmond Channel Partner, Home Office Computing, and TechTarget. She graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz with a BA in literature.
Just a few weeks ago, the leaders of the security industry gathered in Birmingham for IFSEC Global 2013. In case you missed it, we thought we’d offer a countdown of the top stories from the show.
We provided extensive coverage of the show, and our readers voted with their page views. Here’s a countdown of the top five stories of IFSEC International 2013:
Thomas on Tour at IFSEC International: Surveillance cameras are shrinking day by day, and the industry’s newest product offerings are truly diminutive, even when set side by side with a popular toy.
IFSEC: PSIM Awareness Lags : Physical Security Information Management systems have been long misunderstood. IFSEC speaker Jamie Wilson, security marketing manager (EMEA) at NICE Systems, predicts that the PSIM revolution is about to begin.
IFSEC: CCTV Commissioner Lays Out Strategy: Andrew Rennison laid out the details of the new CCTV Code of Practice. According to the surveillance camera commissioner and forensic science regulator for the UK, we need to strive for a balance between efficacy and transparency.
IFSEC: Security’s Roadmap to 2015: Two think-tank analysts came together to hash out where security is headed. Although neither speaker pretended to have a crystal ball that can surely predict the next few years, both pointed to some key current trends that are bound to continue.
IFSEC International 2014 is taking place at the London ExCeL from June 17 to 19, 2014. We look forward to seeing you there!
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JonathanL
July 10, 2013 9:14 am
I think its funny when I look back and see the security cameras from a decade ago and think you know that was cutting edge and then see the “tiny” cameras today and think wow that is small and cutting edge and then we see the new cameras that are rolling out that is just so amazing how technology is making these things smaller and smaller to the point that the cameras we knew a decade ago look like something off of the flintstones. Innovation is amazing, ok I will stop rambling. I also really liked the security roadmap to… Read more »
@Hailey – Thanks for sharing, it’s always good to be updated on best practices and understand where we could go wrong in terms of securing the business.
In a nutshell, this is how technology evolves. What’s hot, new, and cutting-edge now will invariably be old tech five years from now–except in those rare cases where people are just improving upon the latest version.
Pretty incredible, I agree. We like to feature the odd article on some Wired-style technology that either is or seems incredible. Will be interesting to see what the cameras of the future have next for us.
Don’t you think it’s interesting that security cameras seem to change shape and appearance somewhat slower than other tech?
SunitaT
July 22, 2013 2:21 pm
Thanks for the informative post. I am interested about the toy size of CCTV camera in near future. The roadmap of security to 2015 is another fascinating part. According to IFSEC, national and international security will remain the same. At one go, the biggest threats of today, including terrorism, extremism, and organized crime, will only continue to be main security drivers.
@ JohnathonL
I also get a kick out of looking back at old “cutting edge technology”. It is amazing how much things have changed in such a short period of time. Another thing I find amuzing is watching old movies that show what they thought it would be like in the future (the future being NOW). A good example of this was one of the Back to The Future Movies. 😉
I think its funny when I look back and see the security cameras from a decade ago and think you know that was cutting edge and then see the “tiny” cameras today and think wow that is small and cutting edge and then we see the new cameras that are rolling out that is just so amazing how technology is making these things smaller and smaller to the point that the cameras we knew a decade ago look like something off of the flintstones. Innovation is amazing, ok I will stop rambling. I also really liked the security roadmap to… Read more »
@Hailey – Thanks for sharing, it’s always good to be updated on best practices and understand where we could go wrong in terms of securing the business.
In a nutshell, this is how technology evolves. What’s hot, new, and cutting-edge now will invariably be old tech five years from now–except in those rare cases where people are just improving upon the latest version.
Pretty incredible, I agree. We like to feature the odd article on some Wired-style technology that either is or seems incredible. Will be interesting to see what the cameras of the future have next for us.
Don’t you think it’s interesting that security cameras seem to change shape and appearance somewhat slower than other tech?
Thanks for the informative post. I am interested about the toy size of CCTV camera in near future. The roadmap of security to 2015 is another fascinating part. According to IFSEC, national and international security will remain the same. At one go, the biggest threats of today, including terrorism, extremism, and organized crime, will only continue to be main security drivers.
@ JohnathonL
I also get a kick out of looking back at old “cutting edge technology”. It is amazing how much things have changed in such a short period of time. Another thing I find amuzing is watching old movies that show what they thought it would be like in the future (the future being NOW). A good example of this was one of the Back to The Future Movies. 😉