As long as you have a relatively current version of it, you’re going to be able to get into your system and make those changes so it won’t matter if you took a Windows update on your local computer, because, again, as long as the Internet still works for it, you’re good to go. So as long as you have a Web browser, whether it’s an explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, whatever. And they’ll still work together because you use a Web browser or mobile app to access that system for your programing changes. And even though it’s stored on someone else’s machine and again on Amazon, they are working with windows with whoever the manufacturer and that computer company are working together so that when they update the server program, they also can update the access control program. You know, the manufacturer is making that change before they are rolling that Windows update onto their server.
And so whatever patch they put in there, whatever flaw they found, you don’t have covered with that cloud based system. And so now your security system isn’t getting the security updates and your server and client station arguing security updates.
And the problem with that, of course, is that a lot of your updates are a security update.
And so people end up doing to prevent an unplanned outage or an unplanned ability to access their system as they turn off updates. But then whatever that update was, you, of course, don’t have. If it’s a program update, at least you can typically roll it back to the previous version. And it’s a difficult thing to deal with because if it’s a Windows update and then, of course, you have to get the manufacturer to redo their programing and make it work with that new update. And that actually happens kind of frequently.
In fact, if you take a software update, you may run the risk of it not working anymore because the version of Windows and the version of the software don’t work together. The problem with air, with the server based system, of course, is that any time you take a Windows update, whether it’s a server update or a client station update, they run the risk of the software not working anymore. And so, again, it’s an encrypted connection to effectively someone else’s computer.īut in this case, it’s Amazon and there are some advantages and disadvantages here. And systems typically use either Google cloud server or our system uses the Amazon Web services. But instead of talking back to a server inside the building, they use a VPN connection and reach out to a cloud server. The other version, the other alternative there is that cloud based system, and so the cloud based system, you still have your local hardware, so your panels are still local on your site that control over your hardware. They use your computer that you use, if you will, to make programing changes, talks to that server and it all runs over your network. And so everything’s there on your local network.Īll of your access control panels talk back to a server, your machine. And then whatever assets control platform you have has a server program effectively that accesses those databases, and that’s how it controls your system. The first one is going to be a server based or a key system, and the second one is going to be a cloud access control system.Īnd so the difference between the two is, of course, a server based system has a server stored locally at your site, and that’s going to be typically a Windows machine, usually running either windows into your Windows Server and actually using a database that’s built into either a sequel or Microsoft Access. There’s really two types I want to discuss today. All right, welcome to Episode six of our podcast today, I want to talk to you real quick about system architecture in regards to access control.