access policy
An access policy refers to the permission levels granted to
various integrations, users, groups, and departments on a particular case or file in a
Clearance account.
account
An account defines a customer organization's settings for
Clearance. There is one account per Clearance system.
Account Administrator
The Account Administrator in Clearance is a predefined user group with full access to the site,
whose members typically act as site administrators. Only members of the Account
Administrator group have access to the Configurations menu, from which they can create
and manage users, groups, departments, categories, and access policies.
body-worn camera
A body-worn camera (BWC), also
known as a wearable camera, is a video recording system that is typically used by law
enforcement to record their interactions with the public or gather video evidence at
crime scenes.
Acronym:
BWC
case
A case in Clearance is a record of an
incident. You can share cases with internal and external organizations, and add digital
evidence such as videos, images, and documents to cases.
category
Categories in Clearance are used to
classify cases. Each category defines an incident type and a retention
policy.
department
A department in Clearance is a collection
of users, integrations, and groups. The department's access policies are added to the
policies that its members already have. Users, integrations, and groups can belong to
more than one department.
file
A file in Clearance is a piece of digital
evidence, such as a video, image, document, or other type of file. Files can be grouped
within one or more cases.
Clearance
Clearance is an evidence management system
that you can use to help accelerate investigations by securely collecting, managing, and
sharing evidence from different sources.
Genetec Clearance™ (role)
The Genetec Clearance™
role manages video exports to a Genetec Clearance™
account. This role also handles communications between Security Center and the Genetec Clearance™ web application.
Clearance (plugin)
The Genetec Clearance™ plugin is used to export video
recordings and snapshots from Security Center to Clearance. You can also create a
registry of Security Center cameras in a Clearance™ account that you can use to send
notifications to operators and automate exports when video requests are
received.
Genetec Clearance™ Activities task
The Genetec Clearance™
Activities task is an activity trail report that you can use to track and
audit evidence exports and video requests involving Clearance.
Genetec Clearance™ Uploader
Genetec Clearance™ Uploader is an application
used to automatically upload media from body-worn cameras, sync folders, or other
devices to Clearance, or a Security Center video archive, depending on which
.json config file is used.
Genetec™ Video Player
Genetec™ Video Player is
a standalone media player you can use to view G64 and G64x video files exported from
Security Desk. You can also use it to
view video on a computer that does not have Security Center installed.
group
A group in Clearance is a collection of users
and integrations. The group's access policies are added to the policies that its members
already have. Users and integrations can belong to more than one group.
G64
G64 is a Security Center format used by archiving roles (Archiver and
Auxiliary Archiver) to store video sequences issued from a single camera. This data
format supports audio, bookmarks, metadata overlays, timestamps, motion and event
markers, and variable frame rate and resolution.
G64x
G64x is a Security Center format used to store video sequences from
multiple cameras that are exported or backed up simultaneously. This data format
supports audio, bookmarks, metadata overlays, timestamps, motion and event markers,
variable frame rate and resolution, and watermarking.
integration
An integration in Clearance is an
external device or application that is authorized to transfer data to the Clearance account.
participant
A participant is an
individual or business that wishes to share videos with a Clearance account. You can add participants' cameras to the
Clearance registry to make them available to system users.
permission level
Permission levels in Clearance are
used to define the level of access granted on a case or a file. The different permission
levels include View only, View and download, Edit, and
Manage, and they can be granted to an integration, user, group, or
department.
plugin
A plugin (in lowercase) is a software component that adds a
specific feature to an existing program. Depending on the context, plugin can refer
either to the software component itself or to the software package used to install the
software component.
plugin role
A plugin role adds optional features to Security Center. A plugin role is created by using
the Plugin role template. By default, it is represented by an orange puzzle piece
in the Roles view of the System task.
Before you can create a plugin role, the software
package specific to that role must be installed on your system.
Plugins
The Plugins task is an administration
task that you can use to configure plugin-specific roles and related
entities.
proxy server
A proxy server is a server that verifies and forwards
incoming client requests to other servers for further communication. For example, when a
client is unable to meet the security authentication requirements of the server but
should be permitted access to some services.
registry
The registry is the Genetec Clearance™
module that simplifies the video request process and improves collaboration between
participants and investigators. The registry can include a list of cameras that
authorized users can request video from.
requester
In Clearance, a requester is a user who
can request video from camera sources of interest. This includes requesting video from a
public or privately owned camera defined in the Clearance
registry.
role
A role is a software component that performs a specific job within
Security Center. To execute a role, you must assign one or more servers to host
it.
video request
A video request is a request from an authorized user to a
camera owner, to share recordings for an investigation in Genetec Clearance™.