Verified Security Blog

Your building may be closed for Thanksgiving while its doors follow a normal Thursday schedule. Check the dates, the doors they affect, and who still needs access, then test one entrance before the break. A locked lobby and a working employee badge are two separate decisions.

The federal Nonprofit Security Grant can pay for cameras, access control, and lighting at a house of worship or nonprofit school, and Georgia’s last window to apply ran under three weeks. Here is what to have ready before the next one, and the rules that trip people up.

The boss wants one moment from yesterday, and yesterday is 12 hours of video. Here is how to search security camera footage in the order I would try it, starting with two methods that need only the recorder’s playback screen, and what to ask your security company about the rest.

Some commercial video recorders are Windows computers, and the 2016 long-term release of Windows 10 gets its final monthly security update on October 13, 2026. Here is what stops on that date, where Microsoft sends owners for extended updates, and the four questions to send your security company.

Some commercial property policies make keeping your alarm or sprinkler system working, and turned on, a condition of coverage. How to find the protective safeguards endorsement, what its symbols and conditions say, and where a working system quietly stops matching it.

Every employee is set up in four places in your security system: the door, the alarm and its call list, the video and app logins, and the key. Here is where former staff still show up, a one-page offboarding checklist, and a twice-a-year audit against payroll.

In February 2013 I wrote that video was the one application not ready for the cloud, and predicted that smaller systems would move to hosted platforms anyway. Thirteen years later, that is what I install. An Atlanta installer on what cloud video surveillance changes for a property manager who runs buildings from somewhere else, what it does not, and the one clip to time this week.

Nobody touches the system, and in November the picture is worse. What moved was the sun: Atlanta gives up two hours and nineteen minutes of evening daylight between September 1 and November 2. An Atlanta installer on why cameras fail after dark, why the live view will not tell you, and the twenty-minute walk that finds it while a fix is still cheap.

Somebody turns an ankle in the parking lot on a Saturday and the letter arrives weeks later. An Atlanta installer explains what your cameras can actually produce when that happens: how many days you really have, why the recorder’s clock matters in Georgia, and the export test you can run this afternoon.