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• Happy Holidays from the ARK Systems Family to Yours

  • December 21st, 2012
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, happy holidays, security systems Maryland

  Every week, we take the time to help educate our readers on the latest and greatest innovations in the security industry. This week, however, we would like to take a step back and thank you, our customers, families, and friends,… Read More

• Universities Team with IT to Increase Safety on Campus

  • October 14th, 2011
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  • Tags: access control systems, ark, ARK Systems, arksysinc.com, assessment, Campus Safety, campus security, campuses, cnation, collaborate, Communication, contractor, coordinating strategic initiatives, crucial security, design, emergency management officials, emergency notification systems, emergency responders, emergencymgmt.com, experience, expert across board, Facebook, improve campus security, improvement systems, incident management, installation testing, it employees, it organizations, it personnel, it security physical security, it staff, partnership, physical security, police, rare, regional, regional resilence, response, service, team virginia tech, Technology, Twitter, united states, universities, Universities Team with IT to Increase Safety on Campus, vice president, Video surveillance

  After the shootings on the Virginia Tech campus in 2007, the school’s Office of the Vice President for Information Technology had one question: can IT organizations help campus police increase security? The simple answer is a resounding YES. However, there… Read More

• How the HITECH Act May Affect Your Healthcare Facility

  • October 7th, 2011
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  • Tags: access cards, achieve solutions, american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009, approach, ARK Systems, ARRA, assessment, better solutions, building access, business associates, campus safety magazine, care givers, clear, clinical health act, clutter security, complexity, contractor, controlled, convenience, costly, crucial security, cumbersome, data security, data security standards, description, design, economic, electronic records, elevated security risk, evaluating, fragmented, fragmented security system, fully disclose breaches, health information, health information technology, health insurance portability and accountability act, healthcare facilities, healthcare industry, healthcare organizations, high volume, hipaa, HITECH Act, how the hitech act may affect your health care facility, How the HITECH Act May Affect Your Healthcare Facility, implemented, incident, installation, investigate, key cards, large corporations, levied against, memorize, merging, multi-faceted, multi-million dollar fines, network access, non-hipaa covered entities, noncompliance, numerous passwords, one card, optimize the organization's existing infrastructure, options, patient privacy, physical security, prevent future incidents, Privacy, privacy standards, purchased, regulatory requirements, resulting, robust, secure, security, security challenges, security system, security technologies, sensitive electronic information, service providers, set of changes, smart cards, smart choice, sources, staff, staffing, strong authentication token, Technologies, the hitech act, traffic attribute, Twitter, types of information, vendors, workplace id

   Healthcare facilities all across the nation are faced with numerous security challenges. Their enormous staffing and naturally high volume of traffic attribute to their elevated security risk. Because of these reasons, a multi-faceted approach to security in the healthcare industry… Read More

• Tips for Selecting the Right Security Consultant :: ARK Systems

  • September 30th, 2011
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  • Tags: 10 tips for selecting right security consultant, Advantages, affiliated, ark, ARK Systems, assessment, assistance, broad, campussafetymagazine.com, capacity, charges, clients, company, comprehensive specifications, construction period, consultant benefit, contractor, Cost-effective, craft, critical subject area, design, determing, disciplines, diverse, expert, Facebook, factor, familiarize, field, fresh pair of eyes, hundreds, impossible, Increased security, individual tasks, installation, intricacies, job, knowledgeable, labor time, lower bids, market, negotiating, one individual, post construction services, potential, potential consultant, product, project, projects, provide, qualified, recommendations, recruit, reputation, require, resolving, right security consultant, Save money, security consultant, security needs, selecting right security consultant, service, single consultant, Solutions, specialized knowledge, specifications, talk directly, team, team member, testing, tips, Tips for Selecting the Right Security Consultant :: ARK Systems, topics, trade, Twitter, unbiased, unique, unreasonable delays, unscrupulous, vendor, vendors

  If you have a need for increased security, but are unsure how to go about the process, you may be in the market for a security consultant. Finding the right consultant, however, is sometimes difficult. That is why it helps… Read More

• The Push for Standards :: ARK Systems

  • September 23rd, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, business strategy, christy haycraft, collaborative, conjunction, consumer, Customer Service, designed, direct competitors, ease-of-use, end-users, Facebook, flurry, guarded, high profile security projects, increase, intellecutal property, intimate details, level of information, national integrator, plaguing, prove, push for security standards, revealing, risk, security, Security Industry, security infrastructure, security standards, solve challenges, strategic information, Systems, the push for standards security systems news, Twitter, utc fire and security, world trade center, wtc project

  With high profile security projects, like the World Trade Center, there has been a call for establishing standards in the security industry. The WTC project brought several manufacturers together to build a security infrastructure with systems that were not originally… Read More

• Wireless Intrusion Systems

  • September 16th, 2011
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  • Tags: advances, Alternative, ARK Systems, Benefits, Budget, commercial applications, commercial facilities, commercial security world, Communication, Cost-effective, day-to-day business activites, disruption, eliminate, emerged, end-users, endpoint, environments, expand, expensive hardwired systems, Facebook, False Alarms, five years, flexibility, floor plans, hardwired, Head-end, installation requirements, installed, labor friendly, main security panel, obstacles, old problems, overall acceptane, popular, pose, primetime, protocols, radio interference, reliable, resolved, rise in use, satisfaction, security, security application, security budgets, security community, sentiment, sophisticated, Technology, transmissions, trimmed, Twitter, upgrades, value, widespread, wireless intrusion systems, wireless intrusion technology, wireless systems

  As recently as five years ago, many believed wireless systems were not suited for commercial application, but that sentiment has changed as of late. Because of its labor-friendly installation requirements, wireless intrusion technology has become increasingly popular in the commercial… Read More

• Top 7 Trends in Video Surveillance

  • September 9th, 2011
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  • Tags: 2011, advantage, ARK Systems, Bandwidth Consumption, businesses, campussafetymagazin.com, conventional analog, Data Storage, devices, edge, Equipment, Facebook, high definition, homes, Megapixel, megapixel cameras, next big thing, protection, Solutions, surveillance industry, TCP/IP, Technologies, technology trends, top 7, trends, Twitter, Video Management Systems, Video surveillance, VMS

  The Security and surveillance industry is one full of trends with the “next big thing” lurking right under the corner. Technologies are constantly changing, evolving the way we protect our homes and businesses. So what are the current trendy technologies… Read More

• Video Surveillance: What Works

  • September 1st, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, Bandwidth Issues, best surveillance, best surveillance methods, cameras, cheap price, cost is reduced, cost-efficient, Coverage Issues, difficult to hack, eliminate glare, fiscally responsible, Great coverage, handling bandwidth issues, hemispheric camera, high-resolution, high-resolution cameras, highly reliable, improve security, improving your system, Increased security, infrared cameras, infrastructure, insufficient bandwidth, IT, IT department, Lighting and Coverage Issues, new security system, PoE, power of the Ethernet, Privacy Concerns, security, security network, security options, segregate cameras, Solving Bandwidth Issues, Surveillance, surveillance methods, surveillance technology, technology investment, upgrading security systems, Video surveillance, Video surveillance compression, Video Surveillance: What Works, virtual backbones, wide angel view

  The use of video surveillance is quickly growing. The number of cameras in service is constantly on the rise and surveillance technology is continuously being improved upon. But with so many security options on the market, how can one determine… Read More

• 20 Things You Should Know About Networked Video

  • August 25th, 2011
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  • Tags: 20 Things You Should Know About Networked Video, Analytics, ARK Systems, Bandwidth, high-speed video, high-speed video communications, HTTP protocol, integrated security systems, integrators, IP systems, IT security, l.o.s., l.o.s. technology, latency, Network, network design, Networked Video, secondary networks, security, security systems, Storage, Surveillance video, technological breakthroughs, Video, Video analytics, video communications, video management, VSI Summit, Wireless, Wireless applications, Wireless line-of-sight

  What can video now do that it was not able to before? What is the future of video? Those were just a few of the questions addressed at the Video, Security and Integration Summit (VSI Summit) in Atlanta. The Summit,… Read More

• Biometrics

  • August 19th, 2011
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, biometric identification, biometric identification system, biometrics, can credentials, card readers, credential, credentials, flash pass, identification system, Laboratory tests, personal identification, Pilot facilities, pilot program, scan, security, technological, technological hurdles, Transportation Security Administration, Transportation Worker Identification Credential, TSA, TWIC, TWIC program

  The Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) is, after a long and drawn out process, entering a promising new phase. This article from HSToday.us explains. After 11 September 2001, the federal government decided to credential every worker with access to sensitive… Read More