Technologies

iTAK Now Available on App Store

Public safety agencies can now benefit from the Team Awareness Kit (TAK) to help save more lives. Originally developed by the Department of Defense (DoD), and subsequently funded and piloted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), the iOS iTAK app, now available on the Apple App Store, is a geospatial mapping tool that first responders can use to see each other?s locations, and communicate and coordinate better. The Android version of the TAK application, ATAK, has supported hurricane relief, firefighting, national security events and daily public safety operations.

Dragonfruit Frontier Provides Cost-effective, Highly Accurate LPR Solution

ragonfruit, Frontier delivers a software-only License Plate Recognition (LPR) solution that employs advanced AI technology vs. traditional image processing. Unlike conventional LPR analytics, Dragonfruit Frontier works with virtually any surveillance camera, eliminating the need for custom hardware and complex installations, which greatly reduces costs. Designed for fast and accurate identification, Dragonfruit Frontier?s advanced LPR analytics automatically detects and logs license plate numbers with the ability to categorize license plates by region and type to quickly narrow down vehicles of interest.

MSAB Offers Accessible Digital Evidence Tech with Consent-based Authorization to Collect Data at Crime Scenes

MSAB announces the first major release for 2022. The updated mobile forensics solutions come with a range of new and improved capabilities designed to help forensic specialists and digital investigators to accelerate their investigative efforts and solve cases faster combined with full support for windows 11. The updated mobile forensics solution for digital data extraction, XRY, comes with a secure file format, now supporting over 39,300 device profiles.

Secure Logiq celebrates technology partners at The Security Event

Secure Logiq will be highlighting how its relationship with Toshiba allows the manufacturer to offer a five-year warranty on all of its servers on its expanded booth at The Security Event. The trade show takes place at NEC Birmingham on April 5-7 with Secure Logiq on booth 3 J45 and J50. Secure Logiq relies on Toshiba?s MG Series hard drives for its servers, and it is these that allow the company to offer the full five-year warranty.

HID Global Introduces OMNIKEY Secure Element, the First Offering in Planned New Embedded and Desktop Reader Portfolio

HID Global announced the OMNIKEY Secure Element that sets a new simplicity standard for reader manufacturers and others integrating RFID-based security technology into connected solutions. It supports applications in connected workplaces, healthcare environments, education campuses, office buildings, and more. ID Global?s OMNIKEY Secure Element will succeed the iCLASS SE Processor and is the first step toward consolidating and optimizing the company?s desktop reader and reader module offering to create a smarter, unified embedded and desktop product portfolio.

Johnson Controls Announces IQ Pro for Commercial Markets

Johnson Controls announced the new IQ Pro, a hybrid panel utilizing the IQ Platform and key features from IQ Panel 4, PowerSeries Neo and customer feedback. IQ Pro will address the needs of commercial, SMB, large residential, campus, and K-12 markets. Building on the IQ Platform, the IQ Pro will support PowerG?s advanced sensor technology with industry-leading wireless range and extensive portfolio of life safety and security devices.

3xLOGIC Person Detection Analytic Reduces False Alarms, Improves System Effectiveness

3xLOGIC announced a preview at ISC West of the new Person Detection analytic for the company?s flagship 3xLOGIC VIGIL CLOUD surveillance software. VIGIL CLOUD? extends the award-winning VIGIL Video Management System into the cloud with enhancements designed to harness the power, scalability, and ease of use that are the hallmarks of cloud services. Building on 20+ years of experience in recording and managing video, VIGIL CLOUD brings a new paradigm to physical security through a powerful Case Management system that empowers users to share critical information and insights easily and quickly with team members and other stakeholders.

Vector Flow?s AI-Enabled Technology Helps Fortune 1,000 Companies Transform How SOCs Operate

ector Flow is demonstrating its break-through Security Operations Center (SOC) Automation Suite at ISC West 2022. Vector Flow?s innovative SOC Automation Suite provides a single source-of-truth that helps security management deliver a tangible return on investment. The solution features three AI-driven modules ? SOC Alarm Reduction, SOC Governance Manager, and SOC Predictive Maintenance Manager ? that tie physical security processes together and automate time-consuming, manual tasks. By deploying the Vector Flow SOC Automation Suite, security leaders can increase productivity of SOC operators/agents, maintain compliance through data-generated reports, and decrease downtime of connected devices and associated maintenance costs.

RAJANT Features Security and Safety Real-Time Communications at ISC WEST

Rajant Corporation and its technology partners will be attending ISC West in Las Vegas at the Venetian Expo. Rajant will be featuring its latest products for safety and security – the Hawk FE1-4950 and FE1-5050, Peregrine Hybrid LTE, and ES1-5050CS. Present to showcase the real-time video/voice/data communications for public safety and industrial security will be Rajant, Dejero, Easy Aerial, Safety Dynamics, and Vorbeck. The event runs from March 22nd to March 25th, with Rajant joining partners in Booth 31045.

How AI Software Helps GSOCs Solve Real-World Problems

Global Security Operation Centers (GSOCs) are the hub of security operations, bringing together large amounts of data from surveillance, access control and intrusion systems into a centralized location, in addition to carrying out travel risk management and various intelligence operations. They play an important role by helping corporations to mitigate risk and gain situational awareness. All of this data, however, presents a challenge for GSOCs. Faced with processing thousands of events each day, GSOC operators find it hard to identify real threats from false nuisance alarms, leading to real breaches getting missed frequently. This defeats the entire purpose of GSOCs, which is to protect people and assets.

Quantum Expands Video Surveillance Portfolio with Industry-First Smart Video Servers

Quantum Corporation announced the Unified Surveillance Platform (USP), a resilient, flexible, and secure software platform for recording and storing video surveillance data. In addition to introducing this software platform, Quantum is introducing a new line of Smart Network Video Recording Servers (NVRs). The Smart NVRs combine the Quantum Unified Surveillance Platform software with a purpose-built NVR server to create a next-generation, integrated appliance for capturing and recording surveillance video. These new offerings expand Quantum’s video surveillance portfolio which also includes hyperconverged appliances from the recently acquired Pivot3 video surveillance assets, standard NVRs, and long-term retention solutions.

Genetec Unveils Streamvault Edge to Simplify Migration of Existing Security Equipment to a Hybrid-cloud Architecture

Genetec will unveil Streamvault Edge? at ISC West (Genetec booth #13062). The Edge is an innovative new line of connected appliances that enables the easy transition to a hybrid-cloud infrastructure and marks the beginning of a new edge platform strategy for Genetec. Ideally suited for multi-site operations such as banking, retail, or businesses with remote or unmanned sites, Streamvault Edge enables organizations to modernize their security infrastructure while leveraging existing legacy sensor infrastructure. The Edge enables the gradual migration of security systems to a hybrid architecture without disrupting operations.

Pindrop Study Finds Many Consumers Think Answering Knowledge Based Authentication Questions to Verify Identity is More Annoying than Flight Delays

Pindrop released the findings of a commissioned survey that explores how 2000+ US-based consumers feel about the future of voice-enabled technology and how it will impact their everyday lives. The report uncovered that consumers are so fed up with passwords and KBAs (Knowledge Based Authentication Questions) to access accounts or verify identity that many would be less annoyed by having their flight delayed or having to shovel snow.

Physical Security Industry Embraces New Technology to Adapt to Changing Conditions

Genete shared the results of its state of the industry report. Based on insights from over 2,000 physical security leaders from around the world, the report looks at how the role of physical security continued to evolve in 2021 as organizations adapted to changing conditions. Physical security continues to evolve from being seen as a tool for mitigating risk, to playing a much more significant role in organizations? digital transformation. The survey showed that more than two-thirds (69%) of respondents described physical security and related data as ?mission-critical?.

Leading IoT Vendors Commit to OPC UA Adoption

Major IoT vendors including AWS, Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and SIEMENS leverage secure,
standardized information exchange in edge-to-cloud applications based on OPC UA Leading Internet-of-Things (IoT) vendors are adopting OPC UA technology for edge-to-cloud applications. The growing list includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and SIEMENS. Key drivers behind this progression are, first and foremost, the global adoption of OPC UA as the open standard of choice for secure production-system interoperability across OT and IT networks, leveraging standardized data exchange.

Startups Promise Next Wave of Web 3.0 Transition, Finds GlobalData

CEOs and business leaders across industries are eagerly discussing the impact of emerging technologies and innovations such as the development of web 3.0, the third iteration of the Internet. Web 3.0 promises free and transparent flow of digital content and data with privacy and decentralization. Against this backdrop, startups are leading the charge to offer big tech alternatives for a smooth transition into the new Internet era, says GlobalData, a leading data, and analytics company.

Major Airport to Test AI-powered Weapons Detection Technology

Liberty Defense announced that it has signed an agreement with The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (?GTAA?) to trial HEXWAVE? at Toronto Pearson International Airport (?Toronto Pearson?) during the third quarter of 2022. Toronto Pearson is located in Mississauga, west of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. It is Canada?s largest airport, the sixth-most-connected airport in the world and the second-most-connected airport in North America.

Alan B. Levan|NSU Broward Center bring Active Threat Responce System

Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation (?Levan Center?) announce the adoption of CERA (Critical Event Response Applications) by the Town of Davie. CERA?s first-of-its-kind technology was developed by a team of experts in law enforcement, public safety, technology, and education policy to meet the personal safety and security needs of today’s increasingly unpredictable world. The system?s advanced features help emergency responders from all agencies (police, fire, search and rescue, EMS, etc.) to seamlessly communicate to contain an emergency scene, neutralize threats, and treat and evacuate the injured more rapidly.

Prosegur Security Introduces First Fully Integrated Global Logistics and Supply Chain Security Service

Prosegur Security offering a comprehensive, one-stop solution for 24/7 asset protection anywhere in the world. At a time when supply chains are under increased pressure, Prosegur’s new service, backed by the company’s global reach and 45 years of experience, aims to help companies track, protect and recover assets quicker and easier than ever before. Prosegur’s hardware offering includes GPS devices designed specifically for logistics and supply chain, including specific formats for trucks, trailers, containers and other common uses.