Erwin van Slooten commercial manager at Unica Special Security Projects

‘Our Defence Monitoring and Security System is designed like a made-to-measure suit’

Unica and Thales signed a contract with the Ministry of Defence in 2016 for the implementation, management and multiyear maintenance of a new central Defence Monitoring and Security System (DBBS) at around 170 defence locations across the Netherlands. The new system is a high-end security solution that includes electronic access control, intruder detection, control room systems and a central monitoring facility.

‘Since the project started six years ago, the world has changed enormously. That has had consequences for the requirements imposed on the system.’

“Since signing the contract six years ago, the world has changed enormously. That has also had consequences for the requirements the system needs to satisfy,” says Erwin van Slooten, commercial manager at Unica Special Security Projects, the specialist company established by Unica to carry out the DBBS order. “Whereas we started off with the idea that an off-the-shelf solution would be good enough, now, partly as a result of developments in the field of information security and cybersecurity, we are hard at work designing a made-to-measure suit.”

Read the full interview at jaarverslag.unica.nl.