Security breaches and intrusions can be devastating especially when they take place in sensitive and high-security areas. Robust perimeter security solutions safeguard physical assets and operations and serve as the primary defence against intrusion or harmful events.
As threats increase, traditional monitoring approaches often fall short of meeting the security needs of today. This can generate significant risk to land and other valuable public or private assets.
High-value assets like airports and train stations, industrial plants, data centres, military installations, mining pits, oil pipelines, defence areas,energy transportation lines, renewable energy generation sites (solar or wind farms), natural reserves, and national perimeters need robust monitoring. This is essential to retain territorial integrity and protect these spaces from unauthorized intrusion, theft, vandalism, or other potential hazards.
Physical barriers, alarms, and manual surveillance systems have been in use for long to protect perimeters and prevent intrusions. With technological advancements, perimeter security has become more robust. Top-of-the-line solutions now provide greater coverage and improve security responsiveness.
However, all security systems are not equal. These systems might not be doing the job right if they show these signs:
More is not necessarily better and less is often not more when it comes to perimeter security intrusion detection systems.
Perimeter intrusion detection systems must deliver timely alerts in the event of any intrusion or break-in. Events like climbing cutting or lifting of the fence fabric, tunnelling under the fence or wall, tampering with data communication lines, etc. need to trigger immediate alarms.
Often perimeter security systems begin to trigger too many alarms, many of which do not merit any intervention. Alternatively, the systems might not be triggering enough alarms to create confidence that the perimeter has not been breached.
Organizations need robust perimeter intrusion detection systems that can classify events, provide further verification with visual sensors, and ensure the security of sites like borders or closed perimeters of critical assets and increase alarm accuracy.
Perimeter intrusion detection systems need to prevent nuisance alarms and be able to discriminate between intrusions, nuisance alarms, or other causes of perimeter disturbances.
Many intrusion detection systems factor in obvious intrusions such as break-ins, fence cutting, lifting, etc. However, the number of false alarms can rapidly go up if the system is not immune to EMI and RFI and the integrity of alarms is not affected by any electrical noise in the environment. These systems also need to be able to detect false alarms and ensure that alarms are not triggered due to extreme weather conditions and can discriminate events to improve detection accuracy.
The security system should also pinpoint the exact location of the alarm. If it is not so, then the sensor network needs to be optimized and the security solution re-evaluated to ensure better situational awareness and improved response times.
As threat actors become more sophisticated so must the surveillance systems. Perimeter surveillance systems have blind spots and areas that are not covered by sensors.Cameras can leave areas vulnerable to nefarious actions. Unguarded sensitive areas can easily be exploited and harmed. It also makes the environment susceptible to local or remote tampering.
Solutions such as video surveillance, electric fencing, etc. help to secure the perimeter better. However, for confident event identification, video surveillance cameras need to be powered with intelligence on the edge to improve decision-making.
Your surveillance system showing blind spots indicates it is time for an immediate upgrade.
Security systems that take a reactive approach to security events are no longer truly relevant. Manual processes, lacking insights, improper coverage, and siloed security systems all contribute to delayed responses. This can pose a significant risk as the long response time gives intruders the time advantage and allows them to wreck maximum damage.
Perimeter security has to take a proactive stand towards security and deliver real-time alerts along with situational awareness that pinpoints the exact location of the intrusion attempt or security breach. The systems must provide granular insights, information accuracy, and relevant intelligence to prevent any imminent threat.
Most security systems adopt a multi-layered approach towards security. The objective of these systems is to not only protect the perimeter but also provide intelligence on the security stand. The system must be able to analyse inputs from all the security tools and sensor networks and be able to analyse inputs from each of the sensors.
Real-time insights and patterns can be used to identify ways to reduce nuisance alarms and improve detection accuracy. If the security system does not deliver robust insights and analytics it might be time for an upgrade.
Today perimeter security needs powerful solutions that help them manage the three D’s of security - Deter, Detect, and Delay.
With the right mix of perimeter protection and intrusion detection technologies, perimeter security systems can deter perimeter intrusions, detect intrusions in real-time and accurately, and delay unauthorized access.
Perimeter security needs a holistic approach and provides intelligent alerts (predictive and real-time) across verticals, scenarios, and extreme environmental conditions. However, it is essential to integrate all these solutions based on different integration needs which vary according to the threat levels, location, environmental conditions, etc.
Integrating all the virtual and physical components and creating a central command centre further enhances the security posture. Monitoring systems equipped with deep learning and discernment algorithms help analyse inputs from the sensors in the security ecosystem to deliver intelligent insights that make security fool-proof and facilitate confident security decisions.
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