The 7 Best Google Sheet Add-Ons for Security Professionals
Take your spreadsheet capabilities and productivity to the next level with these Google Sheet add-ons. With top security automation tools, you can optimize your workflow at record speed. Read on as we reveal some of our favorite Google Sheet add-ons to lighten your security workload.
5 Cybersecurity Threats to Your Company and How to Protect Against Them (2021)
If you’re in business, odds are your data is a target for hackers. Stay informed about the most recent threats and vulnerabilities that could be affecting your business and learn how to protect your data, customers, employees, and assets against them. Continue reading as we dig into recent Microsoft vulnerabilities, IOT threats, and more.
5 VMS Management Add-Ons You Need for Milestone XProtect
Managing a video security system is complicated but these 5 plug-ins can make your job easier and help you to achieve 100% camera uptime.
Smart Notifications: The Best VMS Live Health Monitoring Notifications for Milestone XProtect
Learning that your cameras are down is stressful enough. You need live monitoring notifications that bring you clarity, not chaos. Smart Notifications, the newest feature in The Boring Toolbox, give you a snapshot overview of your camera and server health in one simple, easy-to-understand email. With Smart Notifications, you’ll never need to sort through hundreds of emails again trying to make sense of events on your VMS. In this blog, you will learn how to read your Smart Notifications like a pro and how you can activate them on your Milestone XProtect VMS today.
Milestone XProtect R1 2021: New Features, Insight, and Real-Life Applications
Milestone XProtect R1 2021 is solving more problems for VMS admins than any release before. We’re detailing all of the need-to-know updates, insights, and real-life applications of R1’s new features to ensure you can make the most out of your surveillance system.
3 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do in Milestone XProtect (2021)
We’re covering three things you didn’t know you could do in Milestone XProtect. Continue reading to learn how to configure anti-virus software to work for and not against your VMS, how to enable the AXIS S3008 Recorder in Management client, and how you can logically combine events using AND/OR functionality in XProtect.
The Boring Lab Releases Three New Features to Help Milestone VMS Admins Fight Email Fatigue
Email Fatigue Is Real. The pandemic has hit a lot of us hard, physically, mentally, and emotionally. The movement to remote work, while necessary to keep us safe, has stirred up more feelings of burnout, exhaustion, and dissatisfaction in our work lives. Due to shifting communication channels to solely virtual, email fatigue is one of the primary drivers in discontent and work-related stress. According to a recent survey from Superhuman, 30% of remote workers claim that an overflowing inbox and endless new emails are causing the most distractions in work productivity. This data begs the question: why would any company want to continue contributing to burnout, exhaustion, and frustration with an outpouring of email notifications? With more and more of our clients and employees working in this new remote reality, our mission is to make your life and communications with us more simple and stress-free. Note to Self: Don’t Bore Customers With Too Many Emails In thinking about how else we can help our customers to eliminate boring tasks from their workload, solving for email overwhelm was at the top of the list. We realized that we might be contributing to the problem. We put on our thinking caps and came up a plan that will set a new standard for how VMS admins receive system-related updates forever. We’re gearing up to release a new email notification strategy in the coming weeks that not only limits the amount of emails our clients receive from us, but consolidates all of the most crucial information regarding your VMS and camera health in a digestible and concise format. Our goal with these updates is to keep you informed and aware of everything going on with your VMS, without overwhelming your inbox. “Smart Notifications!” — Coming Soon to Boring Toolbox Near You The days of one email per camera error are over. Stay alert for the release of our new “Smart Notifications,” an update to our system health notifications that consolidate email alerts about camera errors into ONE, clean, simple summary email. New Health Notification Management Features Now Available For The Boring Toolbox You have already come to love our notification thresholds, which when set correctly, greatly reduces the number of notifications in your inbox. As a Boring Lab customer, you now have access to two more features in the Boring Toolbox that will give you more control over how, why, and when you receive notifications about your Milestone VMS. Maintenance Mode The Boring Toolbox’s newest feature release, maintenance mode, gives you the power to mute all notifications for a selection of cameras or recording servers and remove those devices from the live monitoring dashboard, thereby eliminating any unwanted alerts. You can schedule recurring maintenance modes for entire servers up to twice a week, for up to one full calendar day at a time or if you need more time, then Maintenance mode can be enabled manually on individual devices or entire recording servers. Critical Mode Critical mode is a global setting that is designed to only send live monitoring notifications for devices marked as critical. When enabled via the managed site configuration, critical mode mutes all live monitoring notifications system-wide. The Milestone administrator can manually select one or many hardware devices or recording servers and mark them as critical devices. Standard live monitoring notifications are then enabled on those devices marked as critical. In conjunction with Boring scheduled reports, Critical mode for notifications allows Milestone XProtect administrators to set a different level of importance to the devices in their VMS. By doing so, they can receive instant alerts when a critical device has a health issue and then review the health events of less critical devices once a week using our scheduled reporting functions. Download the latest version of Boring Toolbox and get started with these new features today! Update Your Toolbox Get Started With a 30-Day Free Trial
Troubleshooting Intermittent Camera Connectivity Issues on a Security Network with Boring Toolbox, Slack, and Axis Network Switch
Solving for intermittent camera connectivity issues can feel a little like a never ending game of I Spy. Follow along as I troubleshoot a flapping camera issue on network with the Boring Toolbox, slack, and an Axis Network Switch.
The Boring Toolbox Releases Maintenance Mode for Milestone XProtect
Take back control of your inbox with our newest updates to The Boring Toolbox. Introducing Maintenance Mode, a solution to inbox overwhelm that allows VMS Admins to manually or automatically mute all system health notifications for the selected cameras or recording servers while making updates within Milestone XProtect.
Using Milestone Centralized Search for License Plate Recognition – XProtect 2020 R2 Release
Video surveillance teams often need to find specific video clips at a moment’s notice and Milestone’s new and improved XProtect Centralized Search framework makes that easier than ever. We will walk you through the basics to get you set up for success in using Milestone Centralized Search and then show you how to use it with our favorite use-case: license plate recognition.
