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Liberty Defense Attracts Prominent Industry Talent to Advance its Threat Detection Technology

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 30, 2021 4:49 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Ajay Subramanian, Bill Frain, Jeffrey Gordon, Liberty Defense.

Liberty Defense

Liberty Defense announced that it has attracted two recognized industry leaders to its team: Ajay Subramanian and Jeffrey S. Gordon. Subramanian and Gordon will be based in the Company?s newly designed headquarters in Wilmington, MA, just north of Boston, and will be working on the Company?s High Definition Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) body scanner and airport shoe screener, both of which are licensed exclusively to Liberty Defense, funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Southwest Microwave and Microwave Interconnect Names Don Bradfield as President

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 30, 2021 2:04 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Richard McCormick, Southwest Microwave.

Southwest Microwave Don Bradfield

Southwest announced the appointment of Don Bradfield as president by the company?s board of directors, effective immediately. Based at the company?s Tempe, Arizona headquarters, Bradfield will oversee domestic and international operations of the Security Systems and Microwave Products Divisions, including Southwest Microwave, Ltd., located in Worcestershire, United Kingdom.

TRENDnet launches high-performance WiFi 6 product line

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 30, 2021 1:10 am Categories: Network, New Products, Product Focus. Tags: TEW-921DAP., trendnet, WiFi 6.

TRENDnet Hive

TRENDnet has just launched its WiFi 6 product line with the introduction of the high-performance AX1800 Dual Band WiFi 6 PoE+ Access Point, model TEW-921DAP. It features two concurrent WiFi bands to maximize device networking speeds, delivering up to 1201Mbps on the 5GHz band, and also up to 567Mbps on the 2.4GHz band. Improved coverage, faster speeds, and better capacity on the access point are made possible with integrated advanced technologies, such as 1024-QAM, OFDMA, and MU-MIMO.

Alcatraz AI to Showcase Autonomous Access Control Solutions at ISC East 2021

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 29, 2021 11:23 am Categories: Access Control, Corporate News. Tags: Alcataz Al, ISC East 2021, Tina D’Agostin.

Alcatraz Three Factor Authentication

Alcatraz AI will showcase its state-of-the-art product, the Rock, at ISC East (Booth 500). The security conference is taking place at the Javits Center in New York City on November 17-18, 2021. ISC East 2021, the largest annual converged security trade show, features training on security and public safety best practices while highlighting the latest technologies related to the safety sector. Alcatraz AI provides organizations with autonomous access control through AI-powered facial authentication.

LenelS2 Announces Strategic Agreement to Resell BriefCam Video Analytics Software

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 29, 2021 11:06 am Categories: Video Analytics. Tags: BriefCam, Gili Rom, LenelS2, Ross McKay.

LenelS2 announced a strategic distribution agreement with BriefCam, the leading provider of video analytics software. The agreement enables LenelS2 value-added resellers to offer the BriefCam Video Content Analytics Platform with LenelS2 VRx and Milestone XProtect video management systems as well as within LenelS2?s Magic Monitor unified client. These integrated solutions enhance situational awareness and provide actionable insights to security operators when viewing live video surveillance feeds and recorded video.

SAFR Provides Facial Recognition ID Authentication for Japanese Government Services Access

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 29, 2021 10:58 am Categories: Access Control, Biometrics. Tags: Mr. Takayoshi Toyoda, Noriaki Takamura, SAFR.

SAFR Liveness Detection

SAFR from RealNetworks has been selected as the facial recognition technology provider to support the Japanese government?s evolution from paper documents to digital ?My Number? ID cards with a face-based authentication infrastructure. Part of a larger digital transformation, My Number cards represent a new digital identification system designed to streamline and expand access to government services for Japanese citizens and residents.

Viakoo Raises $10 Million in Series A Funding to Scale Automated IoT Vulnerability Remediation

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 29, 2021 10:52 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Bud Broomhead, Nitin Chopra, viakoo.

Viakoo Video Assurance Service

Viakoo announced it has secured $10 million in Series A funding led by Shasta Ventures, joining existing investors Stanley Black & Decker, PivotNorth Capital, and BlueFog Capital. This latest round will be used to expand executive leadership, and investment in product development and go-to-market. The company is also launching its Viakoo Action Platform suite of cyber modules, which remediate and repatriate IoT devices, meeting the growing demand for enterprise IoT device management and vulnerability remediation at scale.

TELUS and Genetec Partner to Enable Canadian Businesses to Easily Monitor the Security of Their Businesses

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 29, 2021 5:15 am Categories: Distributors / Systems Integrators, VMS Software. Tags: genetec, Jason Macdonnell, Marc-André Bergeron, TELUS.

genetec stratocast

TELUS and Genetec Inc. are joining forces to simplify video surveillance for small and medium-sized businesses in Canada through the flexibility and cost-effectiveness of the cloud. This collaboration bundles TELUS security cameras with the Genetec cloud subscription-based video monitoring solution called Stratocast?. With Stratocast, businesses no longer need to operate expensive video recording hardware that can only store and stream footage onsite because they can easily monitor their video from multiple locations through cameras that are connected to the cloud.

HID Global Simplifies Digital Certificate Lifecycle Management for Mobile Devices Managed Through Microsoft?s Intune Service

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 26, 2021 10:08 am Categories: Certification, Corporate News. Tags: Azure, HID, Microsoft Intune, PKIaaS.

HID Global

HID Global announced that users of its cloud-based PKIaaS offering can now automate the lifecycle management of digital certificates used with devices managed via the Microsoft Intune mobile device and application management service. The HID solution eliminates the need for human intervention when issuing and renewing certificates that enable employees to use their mobile devices to easily access their organization?s resources through Wi-Fi networks or VPN connections, without passwords.

Qognify Adds Advanced Real-Time and Post Incident Investigation Capabilities to Cayuga Video Management System

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 26, 2021 9:54 am Categories: VMS Software. Tags: Carsten Eckstein, Cayuga R17, Cayuga VMS, Qognify.

qognify cayuga

Qognify announced the launch of the latest version of its renowned Cayuga video management system (VMS). Cayuga R17 provides control rooms with powerful new person tracking, masking and camera forwarding capabilities, to improve real-time incident handling and post incident investigation. The ability to act quickly during a live security/safety incident is vital to a successful outcome. Security operators need tools at their fingertips that are instinctive and intuitive.

EdgePresence Joins Schneider Electric on Edge Computing Panel at 7×24 Exchange Fall 2021 Conference

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 25, 2021 8:29 pm Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Doug Recker, EdgePresence, Joe Reele.

7x24 Change

EdgePresence Founder and President Joins Schneider Electric VP of Solution Architects to Speak On ?Edge Computing: Transforming How Last-Mile Edge Computing Infrastructure is Deployed in America? on Mon., Oct. 25. EdgePresence announces that its Founder and President, Doug Recker, will join Schneider Electric?s VP, Solution Architects, Joe Reele on the 7×24 Exchange 2021 Fall Conference panel, ?Edge Computing: Transforming How Last-Mile Edge Computing Infrastructure is Deployed in America.

Raytheon Selects viisights Wise Behavioral Analytics for TSA Evaluation Initiative

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 22, 2021 1:17 pm Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Pat Aiello, Raytheon, TSA, viisights.

Raytheon

viisights has been selected for airport cargo security evaluation by global defense contractor, Raytheon Security (RTX). The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) contracted Raytheon Technologies to select and evaluate next-generation security solutions for airports. To conduct the test, Raytheon deployed viisights? advanced video and behavioral analytics solution for cargo security at various airports across the U.S. for evaluation over twelve months.

BeBop Sensors Releases Patented Intelligent Sensing Technologies

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 22, 2021 8:46 am Categories: Technologies. Tags: BeBop Sensors, Jerry Kurtze.

Bebop sensors

BeBop Sensors has announced a new smart fabric sensor designed for next gen human interaction. The Note Touch reference design includes a small fabric sensing array (16×16 nodes) and a software toolkit to experiment with touch interfaces on any curved or flat surface and rapidly bring new ideas to market. Using gestures such as taps, swipes, and multi-touch, the Note Touch reference design replaces traditional buttons, knobs, and switches, with sleek improved aesthetics and a programmable interface.

IPConfigure – Orchid Fusion and Orchid Core VMS 21.9.0 Released

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 22, 2021 8:39 am Categories: VMS Software. Tags: IPConfigure, Orchid Core, Orchid Fusion, VMS 21.9.0.

Orchid Core VMS

IPConfigure announces the release of Orchid Fusion VMS version 21.9.0 and Orchid Core VMS 21.9.0, both available for download now. Customers using IPConfigure hosted products should expect to see their cloud sites updated to version 21.9.0 within the next five business days. This release includes improvements to speed up connection times when viewing live video from ONVIF cameras, as well as improvements to Orchid Core VMS’s export handling and reporting capabilities.

Fujifilm Launches Sustainable Data Storage Initiative to Drive Sustainable Practices in Data Storage

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 21, 2021 6:27 am Categories: Storage.

Fuji LTO

FUJIFILM announced the creation of the Sustainable Data Storage Initiative to highlight how tape technology can significantly reduce electricity consumption and CO2 emissions related to data storage. The initiative launches with a white paper, Accelerating Green Datacenter Progress with Sustainable Storage Strategies, published by technology research firm IDC, and sponsored by Fujifilm, providing an in-depth analysis of the significant energy savings and resulting environmental benefits of moving more data to tape storage.

Liberty Receives $500,000 Contract Award from TSA for Improved Threat Detection Using HEXWAVE System

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 20, 2021 10:50 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Bill Frain, Liberty Defense, TSA.

Liberty Walkthrough Screening

Liberty Defense is pleased to announce that it has received a contract award for $500,000 USD as part of the Transportation Security Administration?s (TSA) On-Person Screening Capability Program for demonstration and evaluation of the HEXWAVE? and its expanded capabilities for screening Aviation Workers at a TSA designated location to enhance detection and throughput performance.

Allegion?Announces?Overtur Integration With Software For Hardware Leading Into DHI Connextions 2021

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 20, 2021 8:01 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Allegion, Frank Ruane, Ian Oxman, Michael Rebbec.

Allegion Overtur

Allegion announced the first integration between?Overtur and ongoing management, and?Software for Hardware. This announcement comes in advance of this week?s?DHI conNextions, where both companies will be demonstrating the collaboration. Contract and Integrated Hardware dealers who engage Allegion on specifications written by Allegion?s Architectural Services, or who use Overtur platform themselves for opening specification writing and collaboration, can now export hardware specification information to Software for Hardware?s platform and continue to the project process.

HelpSystems Acquires PhishLabs to Continue Expansion of Cybersecurity Portfolio

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 20, 2021 7:47 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Cybersecurity, HelpSystems, Kate Bolseth, PhishLabs, Tony Prince.

Help Systems IBM

HelpSystems announced today the acquisition of PhishLabs, a leading cyber threat intelligence company that protects organizations from attacks on their brands, employees, and digital assets. PhishLabs sources intelligence across the internet to find and mitigate digital risks. The team and solutions from PhishLabs will join HelpSystems? growing cybersecurity portfolio and pair well with HelpSystems? email security, vulnerability management, and data protection solutions.

Fortem DroneHunter Successfully Takes Down Target Drone at Norway’s Avinor Oslo Airport in Landmark Test Event

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 20, 2021 7:40 am Categories: Autonomous Security, drones. Tags: Fortem DroneHunter, Timothy Bean.

Fortem Drone Hunter

Fortem Technologies proved to an audience of over 140 agencies last week that their DroneHunter, the world’s premier AI-enabled interceptor drone, could safely remove a threatening drone from a complex airport environment. The recent test event at Oslo Airport in Norway was spearheaded by Interpol, Avinor, the police, and UAS Norway to demonstrate counter drone capabilities.

Orion Entrance Control Partners with Tansa Global to Ship Full Height Turnstiles Powered by Infinitytm Software

Posted by Jay Bartlett October 20, 2021 7:32 am Categories: Access Control, Distributors / Systems Integrators. Tags: Orion, Steve Caroselli, Tansa Global, Tansal Akcayli.

Orion TANSA

Orion Entrance Control has partnered with Tansa Global to bring to market world-class Full Height turnstiles powered by Infinity? software to provide real-time occupant counting data at entryways, perimeters, lobbies and elsewhere. Tansa Global full height turnstiles secure many of the world?s important icons and venues including the host stadiums of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.