Cutting-edge technology in security systems today provide for very interesting capabilities that were hard to imagine a mere decade ago. In the field of law enforcement, security systems, particularly in the cloud, are even made more powerful. Industry expert Michael Coppola shares his ideas on this with us today.
Essentially, cloud hosting should have several elements with it as a bare minimum.
On-demand self-service allows a consumer unilateral provisioning of computing capabilities, such as server time and network storage, without the need for human interaction with each service provider.
Resource pooling ensures that the provider’s computing services are pooled so these may serve multiple consumers with the use of a multi-tenant model, further allowing for more freedom in assigning and re-assigning physical and virtual resources including but not limited to storage, processing, memory, and network bandwidth.
Rapid elasticity is also a must. As there are clear advantages with quick provisioning, cloud services should have the ability to be taken down quickly as well to scale rapidly outward and inward to match appropriately with demand. Michael Coppola adds that this flexible movement from one extreme to another is what is defined as elastic.
In the highly specialized niche of law enforcement, urgency is the norm. The cloud hosting and security measures that are necessary for this industry have to be resonant with the Criminal Justice Information Services Security Policy. This is what truly makes modern security systems a cut above the rest, explains Michael Coppola.
IT and cybersecurity expert Michael Coppola has over 25 years of experience in fire rescue and emergency medical services. For more on his expertise, visit this page.
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