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The role of automation in security systems design and delivery

Every year we are offered a slew of new “tech” and “trends” set to “revolutionize” the security industry.

But I’ve found the security industry to be incredibly slow to adopt and take advantage of new technologies, many never making it past a “cool idea”, a proof of concept or simply words and articles filling column inches to make a point that the industry has its finger on the pulse, but why is this?

Virtually Qualified - why technology should be used to enhance and not replace

With the more extensive use of this kind of technology, there is a danger that too much will be weighted on the performance of an individual in a virtual environment. That combined with the cost savings simulated training can bring vs physical / manual alternatives could result in a misuse of the technology, with some cases where virtual training would be so inadequate as to be dangerous and misleading for those involved.