Episode 20 of the Security Matters Podcast features Brian chatting once again with Steven Kenny, industry liaison for architecture and engineering at Axis Communications, who first appeared as a guest on Episode 7. This time around, Steven looks at security protection for Smart Cities, the need for ensuring the cyber security of physical security devices and the benefits of a layered approach to security provision for today’s organisations. In addition, Brian interviews Georges Tannous (director of global partnerships and EMEA region marketing at Genetec, the IP video surveillance and access control solutions specialist). Georges shines a spotlight on Genetec’s recent State of Physical Security Survey, the overriding need for surveillance systems to be cyber secure, hybrid cloud-based systems for physical security regimes and the benefits of building security operations on a unified platform.