Latin America. Today it is very difficult to conceive of an entirely functional society that dispenses with an economic and financial system in its structure. Banks, those entities in charge of managing the money of a large percentage of the world's population, have become for many years preponderant bodies for the control of economic capital in our days.
Unfortunately, as they are entities that have under their care huge amounts of money, banking institutions are extremely susceptible to criminal attacks, including robberies with the use of violence.
That is why it is of vital importance to implement security systems that guarantee the protection of this type of infrastructure. It is necessary for banking institutions to have solutions that allow risk prevention and optimal reaction to criminal incidents through the integration of cutting-edge technology and processes designed according to the specific characteristics and needs of each institution.
Currently, banking facilities require above all the implementation of a monitoring center that integrates a set of relevant technologies to ensure the physical and electronic security of their operations, in order to provide their customers with the best service and confidence while protecting their economic capital.
A monitoring center is a space that uses various equipment, programs, applications and systems focused on the transmission, processing, protection and storage of data to monitor and control the processes carried out in a facility, including, of course, security activities.
And as far as banking institutions are concerned, it is through these spaces that we can integrate, in one place, all the necessary technology to maintain the security of the facilities, the staff, the clients and the processes carried out there.
For example, a monitoring center may integrate a set of systems for the protection of the physical perimeters, sensitive areas and electronic devices of a bank, including fence-mounted sensors, buried cable, microwave, dual, infrared or concertinas, which are linked to an alarm system that can be both audible and visual.
Vehicular and pedestrian access control systems can also be controlled from a monitoring center, so the operation of revolving doors, sliding doors, turnstiles, single-person locks, pedestals and frames, sensors, electromagnets, contacts, magnetic plates, pulse and release buttons, keys and electronic locks, racks, cabinets, pylons, bollards and punchers, can be managed from a single space in the banking facilities.
One of the main challenges faced by these entities is the increase in accuracy and reliability in their identity identification processes, which is why the integration of a biometric identity management system in a monitoring center is vital for the development of different management functions such as access control, time and attendance control, presence control, document verification and visitor control.
Similarly, monitoring centers offer flexible communication possibilities in banking institutions through the design, engineering and implementation of LAN and WAN networks, network infrastructure management, multiplatform network infrastructure monitoring, telepresence development, wireless, virtualization and collaboration, in addition to allowing the monitoring of the health status of routers and switches.
Likewise, a monitoring center must ensure the optimal functioning of the systems it manages in a banking institution. That is why the integration of a Data Center to these spaces is important to store, process and serve data that can be consulted, backed up, managed and recovered at any time in case of suffering an unexpected incident.
One of the main functions of a monitoring center in a banking institution is to maintain and protect the constant flow of its processes, which is achieved by linking with this space the emergency power generation plant and the uninterruptible power supply systems (UPS) of said entity, thus guaranteeing the efficient and uninterrupted operation of its processes by providing a permanent power supply.
Banking security is one of the great challenges faced by integrators of technological solutions today due to the responsibility implied by the promise of implementing technologies that guarantee the protection of financial institutions. However, SISSA Monitoring Integral has the necessary tools to face the current challenges in terms of electronic security by specializing in the design, engineering and implementation of monitoring centers that incorporate each of the aforementioned solutions.
* Article by Alan Josué Vázquez Zárraga, Content Editor of SISSA Monitoring Integral.
