Businesses with employees to monitor were the largest purchaser of security cameras prior to the 9/11 attacks in New York City. Up until that time all kinds of businesses were interested in protecting themselves from employee theft of valuable items or even more valuable, sensitive information. Employees in businesses where theft of any kind was a problem were used to security measures in place all the time of which business security cameras where only a small facet of the total system. Obviously, banks and other businesses with public exposure were used to having security cameras in place since their inception.

But businesses without exposure to the public were getting into the game and hiring security companies to install, maintain and monitor state of the art surveillance systems to keep even the latest toy prototypes from being stolen out of research and development departments.

Especially active in purchasing business security cameras were Las Vegas casinos. Casinos had even more state-of-the-art business security camera systems in place behind the scenes, inside the counting rooms where the constant flow of cash was brought in by armed guards and then separated and counted by squads of personnel. Even a high roller table in a private casino doesn