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PORT SECURITY gressively funded security infrastructure primarily via federal port security grants. The weight of these enhancements left security personnel to decipher multiple streams of informa- tion. But, simply collecting and displaying huge quantities of data is no longer enough.

The fences, cameras, radar, sonar, AIS, fences, radiation de- tection monitors and a hundred other pieces of hardware and software that existing terminals needed to achieve perimeter security was put in place. In most cases, all of this was pro- cured inward to the organization and in a stovepiped fashion.

And when this happens, a diversion in one area of the facility can often be used to mask the real threat elsewhere. For the facility that added security layers over time, Vidsys brings it all together.

With Vidsys, organizations can plan technology investments over time and bring them on line periodically while continu- ing to realize the bene