Maximize Your Investment in CCTV

Nothing is more fundamental to the success of a company’s security mission than the maximum usage of a smoothly functioning camera system. CCTV utilizing an effective video-archiving system can make or break security.

Corporate security leaders must constantly re-learn lessons about managing CCTV --given the complex variables involved: How many cameras to install and monitor in real-time? Which technological features are essential and which are unnecessary? How to adjust camera settings and lighting to get sharp and defendable pictures?

To get a handle on effective oversight of camera system management, finding out what has worked and what has failed for your peers is crucial to making smart decisions about your own CCTV system, policies and practices.

Listen as our panel of experienced corporate security leaders and representatives of well respected CCTV vendors and integrators give you practical operational insights on enhancing and adapting core camera technology to thwart the threats to your company.

Derk J. Boss, CPP, CFE, is currently Vice President of Surveillance for American Casino Entertainment Properties, LLC, which owns and operates the Stratosphere, Arizona Charlie’s Boulder and Decatur in Las Vegas, NV., and The Sands in Atlantic City, NJ. Derk is a gaming veteran with over twenty-five years of experience.

Greg Wellborn is security director for Atlanta-based Portman Management Co. His current assignment is to 3 million square feet of Class A office space in downtown Atlanta, covering physical security, investigations, fire safety and counter-terrorism measures for 5,000-plus tenants and employees.

Dick Hudak is director of corporate security at Loews Corp. in New York and has experience with intelligent capabilities attached to security cameras in the casino, industrial plant and parking lot environments. In his job, Dick works on physical and data security, travel security, executive protection and systems for several business units. Formerly, he was global security and business continuity manager at Liberty Mutual Group and security director at ITT Sheraton.

Bob Pearson is manager of electronic security at Raytheon Co. in Dallas, where he is in charge of investigating and buying surveillance systems for this major defense contractor. During his career, Bob also has overseen security systems installation for Texas Instruments, Mesa Petroleum and Hughes Aircraft.

You’ll leave the teleconference with new insights that will help you craft realistic action plans for using CCTV without increasing legal risks. Among the guidance panelists will offer are:

• Techniques for effectively and efficiently positioning cameras around your property and deciding which of them to monitor live.
• What new CCTV technological features excite the speakers.
• How corporate security departments are hardening their cameras against vandalism and weather damage.
• The current legal standards for any requirement to monitor cameras and for the privacy rights of customers and employees.

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