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Corporate Campus Security
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For large corporate campuses, managing access to multiple sites while ensuring tenants, employees, and visitors can easily move around is key to overall security and operational efficiency. Historically, balancing these goals was a complex task.
To improve situational awareness, most large corporate campuses have traditionally focused on system integration. This involves combining and connecting multiple standalone systems so
that events from each can be viewed and managed centrally. This, in theory, simplifies the operator’s workflow by providing them with a primary interface into which all events are consolidated and from which responses can be coordinated and reports completed. Unfortunately, integrating multiple systems does not necessarily mean they can operate seamlessly. Since each solution is designed for a single set of activities, it can be difficult to consolidate data, expand
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