Daniel Smallwood

Daniel Smallwood
Vice President - Technology, Cook Security GroupDaniel Smallwood is the Vice President of Technology at Cook Security Group. He has over 20 years of experience in the field of technology. Daniel enjoys working in the financial industry too.
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Razberi Technologies has extended its Razberi Monitor™ solution with new video health monitoring features. Razberi leverages its patent-pending deep packet inspection technology to assure security professionals that their cameras are providing secure and reliable audio and video streams. Razberi’s latest software automatically reboots cameras and sends alerts when problems are detected. Razberi Monitor provides complete system health and cyber monitoring solutions for video surveillance systems. Camera health and cybersecurity solution Razberi Monitor integrates video health with award-winning Razberi CameraDefense for a complete camera health and cybersecurity solution. Razberi Monitor also detects video server, storage and malware issues in real-time. The camera reboot feature automates a major remediation step, saving Razberi customers time and money" Video health monitoring with the camera reboot feature is immediately available with Razberi’s EndpointDefender™ and ServerSwitchIQ™ intelligent edge video appliances. According to Stephen Schwartz, VP of Product Development at Razberi Technologies. “The camera reboot feature automates a major remediation step, saving Razberi customers time and money.” Video health monitoring Razberi’s EndpointDefender and ServerSwitchIQ with video health monitoring enables Cook Security Group to save on the cost of sending maintenance crews to check on potential downed cameras. The camera reboot feature eliminates the need to physically check a camera for data loss and automates the process. “This feature will greatly benefit our customers, along with our NOC, many times a camera needs a simple reboot to restore functionality,” said Daniel Smallwood, VP of Product at Cook Security Group. “Solutions like this are exactly why we partnered with Razberi!”
Cook Security Group (CSG) successfully unveiled its privately branded video surveillance solution, Piko VMS, during their 2019 Technology & Innovation Summit in Portland Oregon. Health monitoring Cook named Razberi Technologies as their hardware partner to provide the intelligent appliance and health monitoring component to the new VMS brand. “While we still have strong relationships with our traditional video partners, we wanted to provide an open cloud-enabled platform to deliver seamless integrations of multiple technologies. This is beyond just video, as we have already integrated with dozens of apps such as analytics, alarm, access control, retail, HR, IoT...the list goes on. All designed to bring our customers efficiencies and give them the technology they’ve been waiting for” states Brian Cook, CEO of Cook Security Group. Three together creates an industry changing solution for our Financial & Commercial Customers" Secure, simple, and open “We are excited because Piko is secure, simple, and open. Secure because all traffic is encrypted including video and outbound only. Simple because Piko is extremely user-friendly, needs no enterprise requirements or complexity, and offers adaptive scaling. Open because Piko offers endless APIs and ways to integrate. Those three together creates an industry changing solution for our Financial & Commercial Customers.“ adds CTO Levi Daily. Integration with Mobile Interface Piko also includes a wide variety of video analytics and integrations, providing customized notifications, proactive machine learning, and 24/7 health monitoring. “Customers come to us with ideas or pain points and we develop then implement. They drive our solutions and Piko makes it easy” Brian adds. Piko fully integrates with Cook’s secure mobile & online interface, Cook Command Center, and includes 10GB’s of Cook’s Case Management module offering seamless secure sharing with law enforcement or other institutions. Razberi chosen as hardware partner Piko and the ServerSwitchIQ provide everything our customers are asking for" Cook chose Razberi Technologies as their hardware partner, loading Piko on Razberi’s robust ServerSwitchIQ, complete with an integrated server & managed PoE switch. “We chose Razberi based on their solid reputation in the marketplace” states Daniel Smallwood, Cook’s VP of Technology. “They provide CameraDefense built in to combat cyber threats, anti-virus, proactive machine learning, and UL, CE, FCC, & RoHS Certifications.” “They are IP camera agnostic and completely scalable in terms of storage, PoE ports, etc. Piko and the ServerSwitchIQ provide everything our customers are asking for and at roughly half the price of a traditional DVR.” Smallwood adds. Expertise in video surveillance “Razberi’s partnership with Cook is exciting,” said Joe Vitalone, CMO of Razberi Technologies. “Razberi believes it should be easy for anyone to deploy, manage, and cybersecure their enterprise video surveillance system. Cook’s reputation in the financial industry will make it possible for Razberi’s expertise in video surveillance and cybersecurity to continue to provide solutions to financial institutions on a larger scale.”
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