It has been two years or so since the last ISC West trade show, the biggest security show in the U.S. market. The coronavirus pandemic has caused a year’s worth of trade show cancellations, and the trend will continue for a while longer.
The absence of trade shows has been transformative for the security marketplace, among others, as companies implemented a variety of alternative approaches, with mixed results. We asked this week’s Expert Panel Roundtable: What impact has the cancellation of trade shows had on the security industry?
In the 1977 book, The Age of Uncertainty, author John Kenneth Galbraith wrote, “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”
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New Research Shows Building Strategies Can Reduce Risk of Airborne Transmission of Pathogens by up to 80%
January 25, 2021 GMT
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Jan. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Following new research from Syracuse University showing the effectiveness of building systems to mitigate airborne transmission of pathogens in buildings, Carrier Global Corporation and Syracuse University have co-developed an assessment tool that can evaluate buildings for airborne pathogen transmission risk and provide custom strategies to help ensure healthier and safer environments for building occupants. Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR) is a leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions.
The return to the workplace is a focal point for many in the built environment but one of the most important elements is easy to overlook. Guest services will be vital in the return to the workplace. Front-of-house teams will be responsible for welcoming building users back and reassuring them as they negotiate shared spaces in the post-Covid era.
The workplace will inevitably look different after Covid. We have become more aware of our spaces, how clean they are, and what spaces building users share. Employees have also become more conscious of the pros and cons of the workplace. For some, a year of working from home has been a welcome break from the stress and time taken by a commute.
CU Boulder researchers are tracking the performance of the high-efficiency filters. Author: Rachel Leuthauser Updated: 10:24 PM MST January 11, 2021
DENVER Students in more than 20 Denver schools will breathe in cleaner air as they return to class for the spring semester after Denver Public Schools (DPS) installed high-efficiency air filters throughout the district.
CU Boulder helped install new air filters and Carrier s Healthy Buildings Program provided the filters for research. Each filter has a new design that will better reduce particles in the classrooms, especially when it comes to COVID-19. In terms of public health protection, this is real, this is now, Environmental Engineering Professor Mark Hernandez said. This is really translating stuff to practice.
Human beings have a long-standing relationship with privacy and security. For centuries, we’ve locked our doors, held close our most precious possessions, and been wary of the threats posed by thieves. As time has gone on, our relationship with security has become more complicated as we’ve now got much more to be protective of. As technological advancements in security have got smarter and stronger, so have those looking to compromise it.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity, however, is still incredibly new to humans when we look at the long relationship that we have with security in general. As much as we understand the basics, such as keeping our passwords secure and storing data in safe places, our understanding of cybersecurity as a whole is complicated and so is our understanding of the threats that it protects against.