The surveillance system looked perfect: cameras on, a live image on the monitor. When the company needed the footage of an incident, it discovered the hard drive had failed three weeks earlier. Three weeks with no recording and no alert.
CCTV that "works" and CCTV that records are two different things. The live image guarantees nothing about storage: full disks, failed drives, settings changed by mistake — all leave the system seemingly functional but blind exactly when it matters.
Maintenance of security systems exists precisely for this: we periodically check the recording, the state of the disks and the camera coverage. One partner for both IT and physical security — verified, not assumed.
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