Security of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

05.10.2009

Not particularly. What I've been trying to drive is consistency of security so that our staff and visitors have the same look and feel of ubiquitous and unobtrusive security no matter where they are in our offices throughout the world. There is also an understanding that each office has local conditions they we need to be respectful of as well.

We have design and technical standards for all of our offices. Each has a security design that is similar to ours here at headquarters in Seattle. It's the same envelope at every building. That includes access control, CCTV, a reception function, a guest management function. The full range of standard physical security features (Also see: )

With the growth in the number of locations to monitor in our Global Security Operations Center, both domestic and international, we looked to various technologies to help us manage the volume of information and quantity video coming in to our operators. We are in the process of implementing new video management and situation management systems. This will allow us to leverage video analytics, correlate what may seem to be disparate events into a single response plan and aid in forensic and audit capacity.

VidSys, the situation management application, will: