A question that comes up frequently for us when working on security projects with high density device counts is conduit fill. That National Electrical Code typically wants to limit conduit fill to less than 40% of the capacity for cables in the raceway. This is based upon the dimensions of the conductors and the potential …
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We put together a quick demo of the PinPoint Survey Application using some public data scraped from the web for all the US Amazon sites. The equipment names and photos are all generated, so don’t get too excited about thinking there are real Amazon security equipment details being posted on the web. Some of the …
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When the NSA makes a post about software best practices to reduce hacking attempts, you know there’s a problem. For the non-programmers, a memory safe programming language is one that has built-in features to reduce or eliminate the possibility of a poorly crafted program to be exploited (usually by malicious input) by causing a memory …
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