Critical infrastructure: Rethinking facility hardening

Mission-critical facilities operate under a different standard. Utilities, data centers, transportation hubs, and water treatment facilities cannot afford blind spots or tolerate downtime. As security postures evolve, these sites should no longer rely on reactive security models built around passive recording and human monitoring alone.

Facility hardening today means designing layered protection that detects earlier, responds faster, and automates intelligently, while operating within strict cybersecurity and network constraints.

The conversation has shifted well beyond camera quality and coverage area. It now centers on automation, intelligence at the edge, and data, more than raw video pixels, as the source for alerts and enhanced operational intelligence.

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