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Vivotek IP CCTV products available from Norbain

Norbain now offer customers the Vivotek range of IP CCTV products, thereby further extending their product portfolio and ensuring they continue to offer the widest range of technologies on the market.

Vivotek is a total solution provider in the IP surveillance market and places a high emphasis on integrity, care and innovation – all philosophies consistent with the Norbain brand. Norbain will be distributing and providing full support for Vivotek's range of network cameras, video servers, NVRs, and central management software.

Part of the range on offer is the IP7361, a high-end 2-magapixel network bullet camera with built-in IR illuminators. With high resolution and a combination of outdoor-specific features such as concealed wiring to prevent tampering, the IP7361 is the camera of choice for applications such as parking lots, petrol stations and building entrances. Other features include a 3-9mm vari-focal, auto-iris lens, removable IR cut filter for day/night function and vide... [ more ]

Cloud computing will result in an improvement in security defences

According to a recent poll, over half of organisations believe that cloud computing will result in an improvement in security defences according to a poll from 360°IT, a fifth thought there would be no improvement and a quarter of organisations said that it will be detrimental.

Richard Hall, CEO of CloudOrigin, claims that the current trend of businesses migrating their IT systems into the cloud does not mean a reduction in security defences.

Far from it, says Hall, who, after more than 20 years in the IT business, has concluded that cloud technology actually raises the industry's game on the security front. "After decades performing forensic and preventative IT security reviews within banking and government, it was already clear to me that the bulk of security breaches and data losses occur because of a weakness of internal controls," he said in his 360°IT blog post.

According to Hall, the complete automation by public cloud providers means the dynamic provision, use and re... [ more ]