Regardless of the size or geography of your campus, your school depends on you to manage day-to-day operations, big events, and unplanned emergencies. You are tasked with keeping everyone safe and, by extension, helping your school stay out of the news for the wrong reasons.

Security apparatus and personnel are vital for keeping students, faculty, and staff safe, mitigating risks, and preventing unwanted and unlawful activity. But, while there is comfort in knowing that campus security is there to protect the school’s community, a constant focus on it can make people anxious.

At the same time, when campus security exists in isolation, colleges and universities can miss an opportunity to support their brand. After all, when it comes to funding your institution — be it through alumni donations, student tuition, or research grants — maintaining a positive image is crucial. And campus security can play a pivotal role in ensuring that your school gets the right kind of attention.

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Campus security doesn’t need to take center stage to be effective. In fact, keeping security apparatus and personnel out of the spotlight goes a long way in fostering a vibrant learning community. The key is to select a solution that allows you to discreetly and efficiently monitor everything from a single spot or multiple locations.

With a holistic view of security where routine activities and unanticipated incidents are managed within a single unified platform, security personnel can decrease response time and improve decision-making. And, by working with discreet yet powerful situational intelligence that spots complex incidents and guides security teams in their response following established processes, you can ensure that campus life flourishes while remaining protected at all times.

Genetec™ security software provides:


• Proactive monitoring with easy-to-use automated software
• Community resource sharing through mobile or remote access for local authorities
• Cost-efficient open architecture that offers phased technology upgrades
• Unified multi-system management with video, access control, and intrusion under one platform
• Unconstrained geographical growth to manage all sites or schools from a central location

By taking a proactive approach, you can implement a security strategy that allows people to do their best while you remain out of the spotlight.

Brigham Young University Case Study

Ready to find out how a unified security platform is the smart choice for today and tomorrow? Read how BYU, ranked as the safest college campus in the USA, is using their investment to heighten campus security.

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Higher Education Brochure

A security system that unifies video surveillance, access control, and license plate recognition within an intuitive solution helps your streamline security operations across your entire campus.

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Best Practices for Selecting Campus Security Systems White Paper

Want to know more about how to design and deploy proactive security? Get our guidelines on how to develop what’s right for your school.

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