Convergence - e-newsletter - Issue 1
- Team Optic
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From the Managing Director...
I am delighted to be welcoming you to the inaugural edition of Optic Security Group's customer newsletter. I intend for this to be a vehicle for us to share ideas and information updates with you, and to elicit your ideas and feedback. The name we've run with for the newsletter, Convergence, seems a natural choice!
At a breakfast event in Sydney during the annual security industry exposition in late August, I shared my vision for how we will deliver the new levels of security resilience that our customers will need to achieve into the future. It's a vision based on our Three Pillars:
Traditional physical security technology: Access control, intruder detection, CCTV, and integrated security systems design, installation, service, and maintenance.
Bespoke emerging security technologies: We are continuing to invest in our OpticIQ division and partnerships at the bleeding edge of advanced analytics and smart tech to deliver better returns on your security investment.
Cybersecurity: The 'Optic Security Group converged with Cyber Resilience Group' partnership enables us to provide our customers with 360-degree protection through cyber-physical ‘converged security’.
These three pillars build on our past and our present to deliver a more secure and resilient future for our customers. I look forward to sharing more news and views with you in coming months.
Mike Cunningham
In this issue of Convergence:
Breachenomics: Understanding the costs of cyber breach
Airport project and admin excellence deliver awards double
Talking 'converged security' in Melbourne at CyberCon 2025
Victoria University Wellington upgrade project a winner!
AI masters student becomes inaugural OpticIQ Lab intern
Airport perimeter surveillance a critical aviation security gap
Is your Facial Recognition Technology CCTV 'acceptable'?
Breachenomics: Understanding the costs of cyber breach WEBINAR ALERT: Join Optic's CSO and distinguished cyber security leader Grant McKechnie as he dips into two years of share price and reputational research to reveal the true costs to organisations of cyber breach. It's happening Tuesday 25 November! |  |
Airport project and admin excellence deliver awards double Optic Security Group lands a double win at 2025 Australian Security Industry Awards, with team members from Queensland and South Australia named as winners across two award categories. |  |
Talking 'converged security' in Melbourne at CyberCon 2025 The 'Optic Security Group converged with Cyber Resilience Group' partnership joined with nbn Australia CSO Darren Kane to talk the practicalities of converged security at Australia's largest cyber event in Melbourne. |  |
Victoria University Wellington upgrade project a winner! Team Effort: Optic's Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) upgrade team has taken out the coveted Security Integrator of the Year category at the annual New Zealand Security Industry Awards. |  |
AI masters student becomes inaugural OpticIQ Lab intern A new internship at Optic Security Group's OpticIQ Lab aims to combine academic smarts with real-world application to develop capability and promote excellence in emerging security technologies. |  |
Airport perimeter surveillance a critical aviation security gap Optic Security Group's emerging security technology division, OpticIQ, has released a Solution Brief providing an overview of airport perimeter surveillance solution options. |  |
Is your Facial Recognition Technology CCTV 'acceptable'? New peer-reviewed research sheds light on how facial recognition technology is perceived in certain contexts, why ‘public acceptability’ for it is uneven, and what this means for operators of this emerging tech. |  |
