Corporate News
Davista Social Distancing Ensures a Safe Return to Work
Davista announced the availability of its AI-powered social distancing platform. The solution is designed to help businesses, organizations, and government agencies ensure social distancing efforts to keep individuals safe while promoting a healthy return-to-work. Across the globe, governments, corporate entities, and health and law enforcement agencies are working to find solutions to COVID-19 while making strides to get their local economies back up and running.
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Applied to existing video feeds in one of the most populous cities in the country by national integrator MER Group Mexico, whose its SMART M platform will be installed in the police C4 and integrated with Viisights systems, Wise will be leveraged to identify suspicious behavior, violent activity, weapon detection, crowd behaviors, perimeter protection, traffic monitoring, and environmental changes such as smoke or fire. The newly applied technology will help to increase public security and safety.
Merger sees ?Synectics Security? Become Major Independent Force in UK Security Integration
Combining the on-vehicle expertise of SMS and QSG?s experience in providing electronic security solutions for complex, critical and heavily regulated environments,
Synectics Security works with ?best-of-breed? technology partners to offer ?one of the most comprehensive product and service portfolios available?. Based out of its Nottingham HQ, the unified business will continue to serve customers in the UK and Ireland operating in Public Space, Heritage, High Security, Banking and Finance, Critical Infrastructure and Transportation sectors.
Blaine Frederick Joins Alcatraz as VP of Product
Blaine Fredrick has joined Alcatraz as Vice President of Product to lead the technology startup in product development as it delivers its secure, autonomous access control platform. As VP of Product, Frederick serves as a liaison between business, technology and user experience. He manages all components of the Alcatraz Rock product from strategic planning to tactical activities. He connects internal resources with the needs of the addressable market.
Security Industry Association Says Portland, Ore., Facial Recognition Bans Are Shortsighted
The Security Industry Association (SIA) says that the decision by the city council of Portland, Ore., to ban facial recognition technology use by businesses in places of public accommodation starting January 2021 and to prohibit all city government use of facial recognition technologies are shortsighted decisions that do not consider effective and beneficial applications of facial recognition. The ordinance will impact businesses? ability to protect workers, customers, facilities and property since it effectively targets business use of security systems.
Genetec ALPR Calculator Shows How Parking Operators Can Save Thousands of Dollars Per Year
While the accuracy rate of traditional rules-based ALPR systems is very good, every false positive still requires human intervention. These service interruptions not only cause customer dissatisfaction but also cost parking operators time, money, and create overall enforcement inefficiencies. To address these issues, Genetec has developed a next-generation machine learning-based engine for Security Center AutoVu.
Suprema to Introduce New Fusion Multimodal Terminal at Live Sessions of Suprema Connect
Suprema invites industry members to the ?Fusion Face Recognition? live session scheduled on September 17th, where it will introduce the new FaceStation F2 Fusion Multimodal Terminal. The live session is part of Suprema Connect 2020, Suprema?s first virtual event, designed to compensate for traditional security conferences, most of which were cancelled due to COVID-19. At the Fusion Face, Recognition live sessions a Suprema expert will go over the features and technology of FaceStation F2 in detail.
OPTAGE and NanoLock to Enable Nationwide IoT Security in Japan
As a cyber company well-known for its powerful technology that can work with all devices regardless of CPU or operating system, NanoLock brings innovative and patented device-level protection and management to OPTAGE?s new service, providing device monitoring, alerts, and version upgrades, as well as enabling secure over-the-air updates. A new kind of managed cybersecurity service, OPTAGE?s offering will increase the security of IoT and connected devices while also reducing operational costs for device makers and OEMs.
Boon Edam to Participate in First Virtual GSX+ Event
Boon Edam today announced that they will be exhibiting in the first virtual GSX+ conference, September 21-25, 2020. The company will be introducing a new optical turnstile, the Speedlane Compact, and will also be presenting an educational session about ?Scalable Security? at the event. This year, the ASIS International organization is presenting GSX+ as a fully virtual conference to provide the security industry with a forum to learn, network and collaborate in this pandemic year.
ONVIF Goes Live on GitHub for Open Source Development
ONVIF announcedthat it is now live on GitHub, an online open-source development platform. The repository at github.com will help drive the development of ONVIF network interface specifications. ONVIF interoperability specifications are already publicly available as open standards and are implemented by more than 400 manufacturers of IP surveillance cameras, video management software and physical access control systems to enable communication between conformant devices and clients
Alcatraz and Channeltivity Partner to Deliver High Tech Channel Management Solutions for Dealer Success
Alcatraz and Channeltivity have united to help deliver a state-of-the-art channel and training program that fosters partner success. The Channeltivity PRM has provided Alcatraz with an impressive solution that gives partners the power of a DIY channel management solution leading to improved communication, increased training opportunities, and powerful sales channel enablement said D?Agostin. Channeltivity?s PRM platform is designed to make channel management as easy as possible.
The New Age of Safety and Security
With the advent of the pandemic and societal unrest, today?s government agencies are faced with evolving threats like never before. The pandemic, which has created higher unemployment rates and civil unrest across the nation, has created the ?perfect storm? for increased crime. The Wall Street Journal reported that in a survey of municipal budget officers, the average municipality tax revenue has declined 11% year over year. How can today?s agencies ensure the protection of their employees and their property in times of heightened security needs in a financially feasible way?
Security Professionals Overcome the Challenges of COVID-19
In what has become an annual event spearheaded by Mission 500, students at Crosspointe Elementary School in Boynton Beach, Florida will once again have essential school supplies, provided by COPS Monitoring thanks to the generous efforts of the ?Back to School Backpack Event.? Rather than meeting in-person to assemble the backpacks and distributing them directly to the students at Crosspointe Elementary School, the school supplies, bags, and positive mental health items were shipped to the school so that teachers can sort the items and distribute them safely.
Safeture Extends Partnership with Global Risk Management Firm SPS
Safeture AB said it signed a three-year partnership extension with Special Projects and Services Limited. The partnership provides a joining of services where clients can continue benefiting from leading technology powered by Safeture AB, with the option of incorporating physical monitoring and response services from SPS. This provides clients the added value of direct access to the SPS Global Response Centre, management of the Safeture platform, pro-active monitoring, incident management, a virtual crisis room, and global evacuation capabilities.
Building Technology Executive Tina D’Agostin Joins Alcatraz as CRO
Security industry leader Tina D?Agostin has joined Alcatraz as Chief Revenue Officer. D?Agostin brings deep enterprise security and building technology experience that will accelerate Alcatraz?s go-to-market strategy for its revolutionary facial authentication platform for physical access control. D?Agostin will oversee sales, marketing, and customer success for Alcatraz?s enterprise customers. Tina D?Agostin comes from Johnson Controls, where she most recently was the General Manager of Building Technology & Solutions.
ISC EAST 2020 Event Has Been Canceled
ISC East 2020, scheduled for Nov. 18-19, 2020, in New York City, has been canceled due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19 as further discussed below, and continued restrictions on large events. Amidst extensive travel restrictions across the majority of the U.S., health and safety concerns due to the pandemic and the essential workers? responsibility of security and public professionals during this time, it is not viable to meet in person for the event this year.
Allied Universal Acquires Top Security and Technology Integrator, Service Works Inc.
Allied Universal announced the acquisition of New Jersey-based Service Works Inc. (SWI) ? security and IT infrastructure integrator in the tri-state area offering turnkey and custom solutions to clients nationwide. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Headquartered in New Jersey with additional offices in Manhattan and Long Island, SWI provides end-to-end service, from design to maintenance, to clients in the commercial, education, industrial, healthcare, pharmaceutical, and government institutions across the United States.
BriefCam Appoints Gil Briman Chief Executive Officer
BriefCam announced the appointment of Gil Briman as its Chief Executive Officer. Briman joins the organization to build upon BriefCam?s momentum delivering the best-in-class video analytics platform. As CEO, Briman will focus on driving the company strategy to help organizations transform video into actionable intelligence through BriefCam?s innovative and comprehensive video content analytics platform. Briman has 27 years of experience leading global technology companies.
Click Armor Announces Game-based Social Engineering Awareness Training
Click Armor announced the launch of its game-based social engineering training module for its gamified security awareness training platform. Designed to protect organizations from potentially catastrophic data breaches, the module teaches employees how to deal with common threat scenarios through hands-on training in a dynamic, fun and competitive environment. Social engineering is the use of deception to manipulate individuals into divulging confidential or personal information that may be used for fraudulent purposes.
Milestone Systems Announces Thomas Jensen as New CEO
After an extensive search for the right candidate for the CEO position at Milestone Systems, the Board of Directors is delighted to announce that Thomas Jensen has accepted the role. With his background in Hewlett-Packard and most recently in Europe?s largest IT integrator company Bechtle, Thomas Jensen is an executive leader with a strong global footprint that includes P&L responsibility for international businesses in software and hardware.