Swann Security Appoints Alex Talevski as Global CEO
Swann announces the appointment of Alex Talevski as its new CEO. This transition underscores the company’s commitment to expertise and innovation. After a nine year tenure at Swann where he most recently served as the CTO, Talevski will play an integral role as CEO in leading the team to drive innovation both locally and globally.
Quantexa and Carahsoft Partner to Modernize Investigative Services for Federal Government Agencies
Quantexa and Carahsoft Technology Corp announced a partnership. Under the agreement, Carahsoft will serve as Quantexa’s Master Government Aggregator®, making the company’s Decision Intelligence platform available to U.S. Government agencies and departments through Carahsoft’s reseller partners, NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) V, and Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 (ITES-SW2) contracts.
LenelS2 Releases Updates to Flagship OnGuard Platform
LenelS2 has released the latest version of its flagship access control and alarm monitoring system, OnGuard ® Version 8.2. This new version empowers users to take advantage of a range of new value-added features and enhancements, prioritizing the optimization of their security profiles, boosting operational efficiency, and delivering a more customizable and intuitive user experience. LenelS2 is a part of Carrier Global Corporation (NYSE: CARR), global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions.
Announcing a renaissance in computer vision AI with Microsoft’s Florence foundation model
The public preview of Microsoft’s Florence foundation model, trained with billions of text-image pairs and integrated as cost-effective, production-ready computer vision services in Azure Cognitive Service for Vision. The improved Vision Services enables developers to create cutting-edge, market-ready, responsible computer vision applications across various industries.
New SafeLINC Cloud from Johnson Controls provides real-time fire alarm control unit connectivity
Johnson Controls announces the release of SafeLINC, a cloud-based data-hosting infrastructure that gives users the power to remotely access and gather actionable data from their entire suite of fire alarm control units. SafeLINC provides users with a cloud-connected gateway and a cloud application platform accessible via web browsers and native iOS and Android mobile apps. Together, these components provide facility managers and technicians with real-time life safety infrastructure for faster, more effective emergency response, management capabilities and ongoing maintenance planning.
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.
Centralized Monitoring and Management of Large and Distributed VMS Installations
Qognify has announced the launch of its web-based central VMS management platform – Umbrella – for Ocularis. Ocularis customers with large or distributed video surveillance installations can now use Umbrella to centrally monitor and remotely manage and configure every VMS installation across their deployment. As video surveillance projects become larger and more complex, they also demand more resources and incur increasing operational costs.
City of Chattanooga Deploys Genetec and Stratocast in Public-Private Policing Initiative
Genetec Inc. has deployed its Security Center unified platform to enable the City of Chattanooga?s ?Dragonfly Community Connect,? a public-private policing initiative to enhance public safety in the Tennessee community. Through the initiative, when calls come into the Chattanooga Police Department (CPD) to report a crime, the Real-Time Intelligence Center (RTIC) can check with participating businesses in the area to see if they are able to share video from their security cameras.
PDK Announces Integration with Microsoft Active Directory
ProdataKey now offers integration between its Pdk io software and Microsoft Azure Active Directory. IT departments that rely on Active Directory to simplify user and rights management across their corporate network may now use that same interface to seamlessly manage permissions within Pdk io software. System administrators can fully control the physical access of people and groups, as well as issue mobile and touch credentials.
Keyfactor and PrimeKey Merger to Bring Machine Identity Management to the Mainstream
Keyfactor and PrimeKey announced their intent to merge under the Keyfactor brand while committing to increased investments across all product lines. Keyfactor is the pioneer of PKI as-a-Service, and the recognized leader in certificate lifecycle automation and crypto-agility solutions. PrimeKey?s EJBCA software offers the most powerful and flexible certificate authority (CA) supporting DevOps, IoT, manufacturing and enterprise use cases. The merger forms an industry-first machine identity management platform, combining Keyfactor?s certificate lifecycle automation with PrimeKey?s EJBCA.
Lightspin Security Research Team Reveals AWS Identity and Access Management Vulnerable to Abuse
Lightspin announced the results of its research, which discovered a gap between AWS Identity and Access Management user and group policies that an attacker can abuse to take over accounts, delete group members, steal data and shut down services. The research team was able to compromise dozens of accounts by using this technique. Lightspin researchers discovered that many security administrators were unaware that AWS IAM rules do not work the same way as Azure Active Directory or other authorization mechanisms.
NICE Investigate Provides a Strong Digital Management Solution While Simultaneously Keeping Police Officers Safe
NICE announced that a consortium of four UK police forces (Hampshire Constabulary, Thames Valley Police, Surrey Police and Sussex Police), operating as the South East Regional Integrated Policing Programme (SERIP), has signed a contract with NICE to deploy the NICE Investigate Digital Evidence Management Solution. SERIP will roll out NICE Investigate to more than 12,000 officers to streamline investigations and address the challenges of growing digital evidence.
Orchid Fusion and Orchid Core VMS 2.10.0
IPConfigure announces the release of Orchid Fusion VMS version 2.10.0 and Orchid Core VMS 2.10.0, both available for download. Orchid Fusion Cloud customers will see their cloud sites updated to version 2.10.0 within the next few business days. This is a major release with many features. Orchid Fusion VMS 2.10.0 makes a number of recent Orchid Core VMS features?including 360-degree camera de-warping, motion masking, and the advanced settings editor.
Genetec Prioritizes Digital Initiatives for 2020 to Help Customers and Partners Stay Connected and Informed
Genetec announced that it is significantly expanding its digital initiatives to make it easier for customers and partners to stay connected and informed over the coming months. Following the success of Connect?DX, the Genetec virtual trade show and conference, the company is planning a similar event in the fall. Genetec is also ramping up its education programs with the immediate online availability of its entire technical curriculum.
LenelS2 Expands OnGuard Cloud Availability
LenelS2 continues its move to the cloud with its flagship enterprise security platform OnGuard using the new OnGuard Cloud Edition to run in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. A pre-configured version of the OnGuard platform enables value-added resellers (VARs) to rapidly deploy the software without lengthy installation or the need for onsite servers. LenelS2 is a part of Carrier, a leading global provider of HVAC, refrigeration, fire, security and building automation technologies.
Hushmesh to Reveal Password-Free Solution to Identity Fraud, Data Breaches at CES 2020
Hushmesh has a new approach to identity fraud and data breach prevention that removes friction and frustration so people can have secure and painless experiences. Hushmesh will demonstrate this solution at CES 2020 in the Changhong booth. The Hushmesh secure IoT device ?called the Trustee? automates end-to-end cryptography for its owner. Hushmesh chose Microsoft?s Azure Sphere IoT platform to ensure the security and trustworthiness of each Trustee.
Unisys Announces Stealth(identity) SaaS
Unisys Corporation announced the availability of Unisys Stealth(identity)? SaaS. The new offering brings the biometric identity proofing and authentication capabilities of Stealth(identity) to both large and small enterprises by leveraging the agility, ease of deployment and cost-effectiveness of Microsoft Azure. With the release of the new SaaS version of Stealth(identity), Unisys is leveraging its more than 20 years of experience in delivering large-scale biometric solutions.
SAST to Present Airport Environment at GSX 2019
Security and Safety Things GmbH (SAST) will demonstrate their open IoT platform for video surveillance cameras at the 2019. The world’s first open and standardized operating system with a global IoT marketplace will feature applications from more than 15 partner software developers running on security cameras from more than five camera manufacturers in an innovative, airport-themed booth.
Genetec Announces Support of Bosch, MOBOTIX and EUKLIS Cameras for its Stratocast Cloud-based VMS
Genetec announced that Stratocast, its cloud-based video surveillance-as-a-service (VSaaS), powered by the Microsoft Azure cloud-computing platform, now supports new camera models from Bosch, MOBOTIX and EUKLIS. Stratocast is designed to meet the needs of organizations that require a reliable and cost-effective video surveillance solution without the expenses and complexities typically associated with installing and managing on-premises surveillance systems.
Lower the Total Cost of Ownership of Video Surveillance with Qognify Umbrella
Qognify has launched Umbrella, the new web-based management platform leverages significant cost savings by managing large distributed video surveillance systems centrally in the cloud. In recent years, video surveillance projects have become larger and more complex, demanding more resources and increasing operational costs. Altering the configuration of multiple sites is time-consuming and monitoring the health status of all servers and cameras across every location is a challenge.