Walk through the show floor at ISC West in Las Vegas next month and you’ll see hundreds of security products peddled by vendors wanting to sell you the “latest and greatest” in security technology. But sometimes, you don’t need technology as much as you need someone to sit down with you and have a frank and honest conversation about what you should or should not install in your enterprise. Then you can talk technology, right? Of course, it all depends upon your situation, your environment and the risks that you are trying to mitigate, but who wants to be sold something that they don’t need or can’t use?
And sometimes you don’t know what you need for security. That’s where Greg Boettger, Director of Technology for Bellevue Public Schools, relies on his relationship with security integrator Prime Communications. Bellevue Public Schools operates 15 elementary schools, three middle schools, and two high schools in Bellevue, Nebraska. The district has 750 teachers serving 10,000 students. It also has an administration building, a main office, a support center, a transportation building and a health and fitness center that is open to the community.