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Safety Enhancements Help Protect Pedestrians Across UGA’s Campus

Multi-year infrastructure upgrades, engineering controls and university-county collaborations enhance pedestrian safety across high-traffic University of Georgia corridors.

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Bridging the Communication Gap in Phone-Free Schools

Replacing banned student smartphones with dedicated, school-controlled notification tools preserves real-time campus safety and parent trust.

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Resolving Longstanding Security Issues on Campus

Replacing traditional physical credentials with facial authentication streamlines entry points, eliminates credential sharing, and protects sensitive campus facilities.



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How Security Solutions Should Co-Exist and Communicate On Today’s College Campuses

Connecting intelligent key cabinets and smart lockers directly to central campus access control platforms eliminates physical credential blind spots and protects sensitive assets.

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How Intelligent Automation Is Changing Campus Security Operations

K-12 security teams face overwhelming volumes of data; pairing edge AI detection with automated workflows turns raw alerts into actionable response protocols.

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How AI Is Improving Response Times

Integrating computer vision with cloud-based sensors enables school safety leaders to intercept active incidents instantly while slashing forensic review times.

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Hero Security Guard Buys Time For Campus Staff To Implement Security Procedures

Rapid lockdown execution, active threat training, and immediate security guard intervention protected 140 students during a violent active shooter attack.

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Emerging Campus Security Technology is Not About What is New

Modernizing campus security isn't about buying every new product category—it requires optimizing existing hardware workflows, demystifying AI claims, and layering technologies.

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Campus Safety: Improving Clarity and Efficiency

Standalone security and fire alarms create confusion during emergencies; unifying Fire Alarm Control Units (FACUs) with voice-capable mass notification ensures clear, actionable response messaging.

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Rethinking Campus Networks as Complexity and Cyber Risk Accelerate

Overwhelmed IT teams face recurring outages, unmonitored IoT endpoints, and lagging Zero Trust adoption, requiring automated architectures to secure modern campus environments.

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Campus Security Projects Rarely Fail Because of Technology. They Fail Because of Coordination.

Tech installations on university campuses fall behind not because of hardware limitations, but due to fragmented ownership, poor procurement timing, and siloed stakeholder coordination.

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The Future of Venue Security Isn't More of Everything

Adding more surveillance hardware and software only increases cognitive overload for security teams; the path forward lies in utilizing AI to aggregate existing, siloed inputs into a single actionable environment.

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Why Campuses Should Evaluate Access Control This Summer

Higher education institutions are leveraging quiet summer months to phase out easily duplicated legacy magstripe ID cards in favor of unified, multi-endpoint NFC mobile credentials.

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Debunking "Set It and Forget It": Why Camera Lifecycle Management Is Essential

Treating video surveillance installations as static deployments invites critical data vulnerabilities, demanding automated patch management, hardware hardening, and proactive device decommissioning.

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The Missing Piece in Weapons Detection Procurement

School districts face intense pressure to install screening systems, but security leaders warn that prioritizing traffic throughput over third-party performance validation introduces dangerous vulnerabilities.

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A First Responder’s Insights on School Safety: Achieving Clarity in Emergencies

Former dispatch supervisor Jason Klink outlines how wearable panic buttons and dynamic campus mapping eliminate critical information gaps for first responders.

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Next Generation 9-1-1 Integration Closes Critical Enterprise Location Gaps

Modern IP-based emergency frameworks demand that corporate and educational campuses bridge dispatchable location data with immediate internal security notifications.

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UGA Emergency Preparedness Office Trains Campus Community for Crises

University staff and students learn lifesaving skills including CPR, bleeding control and disaster response to ensure campus safety.

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From Reactive Response to Continuous Readiness

Campus safety cannot wait as higher education shifts from reactive emergency response to continuous, intelligence-driven preparedness.

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Campus Safety Starts with a Better Hiring Process

Delayed hiring processes cause universities to lose elite security talent, overloading current staff and introducing hazardous liabilities to campus life.

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