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IAG DEC 2022年12月 亞博匯 120 TECH TALK I t is well known that things develop more dynamically in high tech than in other areas. In this respect, IT and video surveillance differ little fromeach other. But it makes it all the more important for both classic surveillance managers and IT managers to have their finger on the pulse of the times in order to assess developments and make the right decisions. THE IT-TRIPLE: MORE SECURITY,LESSCOMPLEXITY ANDLOWERCOST Of course, the situation is different in each casino. While in one company the strategy is to place the surveillance issue entirely in the IT department, in another casino it may be the right model to grant as much autonomy as possible to surveillance colleagues. But regardless of whether the end result is the complete embedding of surveillance in IT or whether security continues to be operated completely separately, there have been numerous technical and non- technical developments in video surveillance in recent years that should be understood and which provide tangible advantages for the three key properties every IT manager is looking for: more cybersecurity, less complexity and lower overall costs. SECURITY ISTHENUMBER ONEITCONCERN–ALSOIN CASINO ENVIRONMENTS Modern video surveillance solutions are almost exclusively IP-based. This has many advantages, but also one major disadvantage: video technology is by design just as vulnerable