Multiple regions? Local regulations to consider? Multiple vendors installed? We understand your challenges, and work every day with helping our clients come closer to a standardization for their access control systems. We let your IT Building Management & security teams to increase quality and lower down on work load, through automation and standardization.

Standardization is key.

Large organizations would not function without standardization, protocols and minimum viable deliveries for so many verticals. For CCTV, Access Control, intercom and Intruder Alarm Systems, the situation is no different.

If you and your team want to take your Security systems management to the next level, standardization is key. We try to help you understand why in the following article, and also give you some input to think about.

Structured Naming Conventions

Naming conventions play a critical role in access control systems for several reasons, ensuring efficient, secure, and scalable management of resources and user permissions. Here’s a summary of why they are important:

1. Clarity and Consistency: Clear naming conventions help administrators and users understand the roles, permissions, and resources within a system without ambiguity. This clarity is crucial for efficient management and troubleshooting.
2. Security: Proper naming conventions can enhance security by making it easier to identify and assign the correct levels of access to users. They help in preventing accidental access grants to sensitive resources, reducing the risk of security breaches.
3. Scalability: As organizations grow, so do their access control needs. Standardized naming conventions allow for scalability, making it easier to add new users, roles, and resources without disrupting the existing system’s integrity or performance.
4. Automation and Integration: Naming conventions facilitate automation and integration with other systems. Consistent naming enables scripts and tools to programmatically manage access controls, improving efficiency and reducing manual errors.
5. Compliance and Auditing: For organizations subject to regulatory requirements, naming conventions aid in compliance and auditing processes. They enable easier tracking and reporting of access controls and user activities, ensuring that the organization meets legal and regulatory standards.

Overall, naming conventions in access control systems are foundational to maintaining a secure, efficient, and compliant IT environment, especially in complex or rapidly evolving organizational landscapes.

Cyber Security Protocol Checklists (Hardening)

Access Control Systems, Intercom and CCTV is always part of your network. This means that it has great impact on if and how you harden these units. As global cyber threats increase at incredible speed, do not see the same engagement for cyber securing the security systems as for the staffs computers or other critical systems. You might think you have hardened devices through MAC traffic locks, traffic management, IP-tables etc. We believe most can still learn from our highly skilled teams that work with the top organizations of the world, providing excessive know-how and management advice to large scale organizations.

Installing malware on your cameras, intercoms or access control systems is easier than you think, if you have equipment in public areas or outside. We have seen real life scenarios taking place, and the potential losses can be enormous and have a direct threat to your business. It is possible today, through mounting down a camera, to infect the camera with malware and then replace it to the network again. Depending on your network rules, network will at many clients accept it since nothing has changed with MAC or IP, and insert malware to your network. This is only one of many risks we mitigate our clients from, and is taken from a real life scenario in Q4 2023 that occurred to our client in Thailand.

Hand Over Checklists

As a global or multi regional buyer of security systems, you are facing various system integrators of mixed level of quality. What you need to make sure in that case is that all deliveries to you look the same and follow the same structure, otherwise you will make your work very hard.  This also allows for all members of your team to work seamless together, since hand overs have been done according to standard procedures.

Configuration & Deployment cook books

Your local systems integrator want to know how to fulfill your needs. Make it easy for them, and create your own configuration & deployment checklists. This will allow for you and your teams to scale faster, quality assure your work and standardize your systems management. We create these together with your team, and raising attention to important topics. Some examples:

• Reader technology configuration – What reader technology to use?
• GDPR compliance – Do you fulfill all GDPR regulations?
• Device monitoring settings – Can you have automated control of the equipment?
• Pin + Card requirement locations – When & Where to ask for Pin + Card?
• Door opening times – How long can the door be open prior to alarm goes off?
• Web interface user disabling – Have you changed all standard usernames and passwords in web interfaces?