Corporate News
SALTO Systems Names Jordan Blatchley As Business Development Associate For New York
SALTO Systems has recently appointed Jordan Blatchley as Business Development Associate for New York. Based in New York City, Jordan promotes SALTO brand awareness by generating new end-user business opportunities, qualifying leads and channeling these to the best resources. He reports to SALTO Regional Sales Manager Gerry Rupper. Blatchley joins SALTO from Pinnacle Creative, where he served as director of business development. He has also served as new business strategy manager for TLC Marketing Worldwide and in sales for Hugo Boss and SONY. Jordan has a bachelor?s degree with honors from Middlesex University in London.
LRG Inc Moves Into New Support Center
LRG is pleased to announce the relocation of its corporate offices and Support Center in Jasper, Texas. The new 7,500 square foot facility accommodates and supports LRG’s growing client base and staff. It features a large dedicated demonstration and training room equipped with fiber connectivity for voice, data and remote streaming demos. The Support Center also includes a large warehouse, ideal for staging regional events needs and product rollouts.
Camden Door Controls Welcomes New U.S. Regional Sales Manager
Camden Door Controls, a premier provider of door activation and locking devices, is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Lyons to U.S. Regional Manager. Chris is responsible for servicing Camden’s customers from the East coast over to the Central states. Chris brings to Camden extensive sales experience in general, and locking device sales experience, in particular.
JPMorgan Crisis Management Head Scott Morrison To Keynote ASIS New York Conference
ASIS International is pleased to announce that Scott Morrison, head of global crisis management and command centers, JPMorgan Chase & Co., will deliver the keynote address at the ASIS 28th New York City Security Conference & Expo (ASIS NYC 2018), May 16-17 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. In his keynote, Morrison will discuss current and emerging risks and threats abroad?from terrorism attacks and kidnappings to cyber security and intellectual theft. Morrison will provide a high-level overview of emergent threats from a strategic to tactical level.
Finance And Technology Sectors Account For 70% Of All Attack Targets In The Americas
NTT Security has released 2018 NTT Global Threat Intelligence Report (GTIR), which reveals attacks on the finance sector have increased 43% in 2017 up from 15% in 2016 in the U.S., while ransomware detection increased globally by a staggering 350% in 2017. The 2018 NTT Security GTIR summarizes data from over 6.1 trillion logs and 150 million attacks, and analyzes global threat trends based on data from NTT Group operating companies: NTT Security, NTT Communications, NTT DATA and Dimension Data.
Former BlackBerry CFO Joins eSentire As CAO
eSentire announced the appointment of James Yersh as chief administrative officer (CAO), effective immediately. Yersh will be responsible for the finance functions of the business, as well as human resources, and risk/compliance. Yersh is the latest seasoned executive to join eSentire?s veteran leadership team, with focus on scaling the high-growth company. Over his 20+ year career, Yersh has transformed financial strategies, revenue growth models, and led more than 30 merger and acquisition deals for leading technology and telecommunications companies.
Sielox Names Milsk Company Inc. Rep Firm Of The Year
Sielox LLC has named Milsk Company Inc. of Southfield, MI as its 2017 manufacturer?s representative firm of the year. Milsk represents the Sielox?s full line of solutions including its industry-leading Pinnacle® Access Control Software suite and innovative CLASS™ (Crisis Lockdown Alert Status System™) in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. Sielox awarded Milsk Company the Rep Firm of the Year at the annual Sielox Rep Firm Meeting at ISC West 2018.
Robotic Assistance Devices SCOT Solution Honored With Awards At ISC West
Robotic Assistance Devices announced that its latest guarding solution, the Security Control and Observation Tower (SCOT™) was awarded a New Product Showcase Award from the Security Industry Association (SIA), a 2018 Secure Campus Award from Campus Security & Life Safety and a 2018 Government Security (Govie) Award from Security Today during this year’s ISC West in Las Vegas.
NY Security Firm Signs $300M Contract For Emergency Comms System
Titan HST announced it entered a strategic multi-year contract valued at approximately $300 million with Titan Global, LLC, a full-service security provider specializing in emergency management and private security. Titan Global, which is owned and operated by law enforcement and military professionals, will roll out the Titan HST communications system to its security workforce and, subsequently, its clients covering countless high-profile sites and tens of millions of customers, effective immediately.
OnSSI?s Continued Growth Spurs Two New Hires
OnSSI announces the addition of two new employees to their sales team. Chris Baty joins OnSSI as the Regional Manager for Southern Texas and Southern Louisiana, and Gabriel Furtado as Business Development Manager for the Caribbean and Latin America Region. Chris Baty has more than 10 years of experience in territory management. Gabriel Furtado has more than a decade of experience in the security industry.
Aeroturn Wins 2018 Platinum GOVIES Government Award At ISC West
Aeroturn announced that the company was selected as the winner of the 2018 Platinum GOVIES Government Award for its superior Optical Glass Portal Turnstile by Security Today magazine, the only integrated product and technology magazine reaching the entire security market. Aeroturn?s Optical Glass Portal Turnstile was selected as the platinum winner in the perimeter protection category; proving that the company?s dedication to product quality and engineering over the years has placed them at the top of the game.
BCDVideo: Dividends of Decency
In Donald Lee Sheppard?s recent book, Dividends of Decency: How Values-Based Leadership will Help Business Flourish, the author muses about how a company’s ethics, decency, and trust by its leaders effect the success of the company and the impact it has in our overall society. Within our own physical security industry, there is a company —and its founder— that also abides by what too many may consider “old fashion” business tactics. Ethics, trust, and confidence are not just words painted on a poster and hung in the corporate lobby for visitors to read at BCDVideo.
Kapustein Joins Aiphone As Meeting Event & Trade Show Planner
Kimberly Kapustein has joined Aiphone, the leading international manufacturer of intercom and entry security products, as the company?s meeting event and trade show planner. She will be responsible for strategic event planning including the management and coordination of all trade shows and meetings. She will also handle promotional products for Aiphone events. Kapustein?s strong background in strategic event planning and trade show management fits well with Aiphone?s current direction.
Orchestra: The First Ever Digital Identity Management Platform Certified In Privacy By Design
Orchestra™ is now Privacy by Design certified by the Privacy by Design™ Centre for Excellence at Ryerson University (CA), the world?s leading authority in Data Privacy. This certification is a premiere in the Identity Management world as well as Travel & Border Control segments, with immediate effect since 4th April 2018, as a proof that Vision-Box highly prioritizes security and privacy of citizen information.
abode Systems Receives Majority Stake Investment From Nice S.p.A.
abode systems announces a strategic investment from Nice S.p.A. Through the transaction, which was public as of Friday, April 13 and reported to the Italian stock exchange, Nice will acquire 75% of abode systems with the remaining stock held by abode founders. Abode was originally founded in 2014 by former ADT executive Christopher Carney and launched on Kickstarter in 2015. The home security startup combined professional-grade security with desirable and popular smart home features and a powerful home automation engine to create what is now a well-developed smart home security space.
ISC West 2018 Concludes As The Biggest Show To-Date
ISC West sponsored by the Security Industry Association (SIA), the largest converged security event of the year, experienced it?s biggest and most successful year to-date. This year ISC West offered over 85 sessions throughout the SIA Education@ISC program, spanning a range of topics that impact security professionals across physical, IT and IoT security – from biometrics to drones to leadership skills. Some of the most highly-attended sessions were Access Control and Video in the Cloud, The Evolution of Credentials and their Use in the IT, OT, and Physical Security Environment, Connected Home – The Future is Now, and The Future of Physical Security: The Decade Ahead.
iotega Wins SIA New Product Showcase Award
Johnson Controls is pleased to announce that the iotega security and lifestyle management hub has been honored with the Best New Product Award in the Intrusion Detection and Prevention Solutions Wireless category. The award was presented at the 2018 SIA New Product Showcase, at ISC West in Las Vegas. Sponsored by the Security Industry Association, the annual awards program is one of the most prestigious recognitions in the security industry.
Dahua Technology Presents ?AI Creates Value? At ISC WEST
Dahua Technology presented ?AI Creates Value? during the International Security Conference and Expo (ISC West) to top security professionals on Wednesday afternoon. Dahua President Ke Li opened the keynote speech by expressing gratitude to all guests as well as to Dahua?s global network of partners and customers. James Wang, deputy general manager of Dahua overseas business, and Adam Burns, general manager of IoT vision solutions at Intel, were the keynote speakers.
Stratfor Launches Threat Lens 2.0 To Expand Corporate Insight Into Global Security Trends
Stratfor announced the launch of Threat Lens 2.0 to dramatically expand the global situational awareness of corporate security teams charged with ensuring the security of people, assets and other interests around the world. As the company?s premier protective intelligence solution for globally engaged organizations, this latest release of Stratfor Threat LensTM continues to help leaders better identify, anticipate, measure and mitigate risks that emerging threats pose to their operations.
ASSA ABLOY Announces Integration With Viscount Systems? Freedom Access Control
ASSA ABLOY announced the integration of its IP-enabled PoE and WiFi access control locks with Viscount Systems? open platform, web-based security management solution: Freedom Access Control. The IP integration offers end-users more options for expanding their physical security system easily and affordably using IP-enabled locks from ASSA ABLOY Group brands CORBIN RUSSWIN and SARGENT. The IP-enabled range include locks that connect to a host system through an existing 802.11b/g/n WiFi network.