New version of Security Center

August 2016 Surveillance, Integrated Solutions

Genetec has announced version 5.5 of Security Center, the company’s open architecture, unified IP security platform that combines access control, video surveillance, ALPR, and communications. Security Center 5.5 offers a new disaster recovery mode, enhanced levels of authentication and encryption, augmented video archiving and export management capabilities, and new choices of supported access control hardware.

Security Center 5.5 allows customers to implement more elaborate disaster recovery plans for their security platform. In the event of a disaster, failover servers at a geographically disparate location can immediately take control and ensure organisations continue to have access to their security platform and protect their people and assets.

With map layering, operators can add or remove details from a map in real-time to narrow or broaden visualisation of a site. To further simplify alarm management, Security Center 5.5 features alarm grouping and filtering so that operators can group alarms visually by type, state, or priority, as well as handle entire collections of alarms, such as acknowledging or forwarding an entire group.

Omnicast video management

Building on the cyber security measures introduced in Security Center 5.4, and the company’s ongoing commitment to ‘Security of Security’, version 5.5 offers a hardened protocol that protects against potential hacking and non-authorised internal access. When users request to access video feeds, new authentication and authorisation steps are in place to protect video data and privacy.

By default, only secured media stream requests are accepted, ensuring the app or person making the request is authenticated to avoid any unauthorised requests.

Token-based authentication is applied for authorising and authenticating RTSP video requests, TLS encryption for securely transmitting these user authentication tokens, and RTSP over TLS for another level of video stream encryption while in transit.

Synergis access control

Security Center 5.5 also features new access control capabilities to improve organisational security, protect sensitive information, and increase customers’ choice of access control hardware.

Through the support of the latest firmware running on the Synergis Cloud Link appliance alongside Mercury Security controllers, organisations are able to extend the reach of their security platform with Allegion Schlage AD-300 Hardwired and AD-400 Wireless electronic locks. Organisations can also unify controller-based and electronic lock-based security systems in the process for a more inclusive approach to access control.

Security Center 5.5 introduces peer-to-peer (P2P) communications between Synergis Cloud Link appliances enabling global I/O linking and global anti-passback. Even when connectivity to the server is unavailable, Synergis Cloud Link appliances have the intelligence to share information across the network, like inputs triggering outputs across appliances and by extending the functionality of anti-passback to areas managed by multiple appliances. This added flexibility enables users to move away from relying on constant connection to the server that improves overall security.

For greater protection of confidential and sensitive data, additional means of encrypting communications have been implemented between the Synergis Cloud Link appliance and the server along with numerous Genetec access control hardware partners, including Mercury Security (EP controllers) and ASSA ABLOY (IP locks).

The primary goal is to ensure secure communications throughout a customer’s entire access control infrastructure.

For more information about Genetec Security Center 5.5, please visit: http://www.genetec.com/solutions/all-products/security-center/security-center-55





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