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Arecont Vision Costar Adds Customer Support Executive To Leadership Team

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 11, 2019 10:00 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: arecont vision, Shane Compton, Troy Fairchild.

Arecont Vision Costar?s Technical Services organization includes skilled Field Application Engineers (FAEs) who primarily provide pre-sale technical and configuration support. This includes both remote and onsite assistance to authorized security dealers and integrators, working in conjunction with both the Arecont Vision Costar?s Inside Sales team and the regional sales managers and sales directors based in their geographic regions. Technical Support Engineers (TSEs) are also critical members of the Technical Services team, focused on post-sales customer issues, ranging from diagnosing hardware and software issues to troubleshooting complex situations to resolve problems.

New Technology Helps Everyone In Mass Shooting Situations

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 9, 2019 2:50 am Categories: Campus Security. Tags: Hedge Tactical Solutions, Kevin Grundstrom.

HEDGE Tactical Solutions

Hedge Tactical Solutions was founded by Kevin Grundstrom, a safety and security expert who trains organizations in tactical response. He started developing this new technology after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, with a team of law enforcement, military and other tactical experts. Imagine if when a mass shooting occurred, if everyone inside the building and the police officers responding knew exactly where the shooter was at all times?

iluminar CEO Eddie Reynolds To Speak At ISC West 2019 On Women?s Panel

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 9, 2019 2:39 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Eddie Reynolds, Iluminar, ISC West.

Eddie Reynolds illuminar

iluminar CEO Eddie Reynolds has been selected to speak on a panel at ISC West 2019, the largest trade show for the security channel in the United States. ISC West will welcome over 30,000 security professionals and 1,000 exhibiting companies. Reynolds will join a female-driven panel at ISC West on April 9 called, ?Being a Woman Owned Business Owner in the Security Industry is an Advantage, not a Disadvantage?

Security Industry Association Announces Event For Women In The Security Industry

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 8, 2019 11:35 pm Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Don Erickson, ISC West 2019, Juliette Kayyem, SIA, Women in Security Forum.

SIA Juliette Kayyem

The Security Industry Association—as part of its Women in Security Forum initiative—will host a breakfast event during ISC West featuring insights from special guest Juliette Kayyem, a national leader in America?s homeland security efforts. The SIA Women in Security Forum Breakfast @ ISC West will take place Friday, April 12, in Room 1001/1004 of the Sands Convention Center at 8:30 a.m. Learn more and RSVP.

BCDVideo Launches Powerful New Accelerator Storage Solution For Video Surveillance Customers

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 8, 2019 9:51 am Categories: Corporate News, Hot Topic, Integrated Systems, Storage, Technologies. Tags: bcdvideo, BCDVideo Accelerator, BVA, milestone, Milestone Recorders, video accelerator.

Revolutionizing how throughput is maximized in Milestone Systems video recorders, BCDVideo released today the BCDVideo Accelerator (BVA) equipped video recording servers for Milestone, which incorporate the company?s innovative accelerator technology and eliminates the need for extra storage solutions, including the costly and space-consuming 15,000rpm hard disk drives previously required to attain necessary system bandwidth.

The Migration Of The Access Control Market

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 8, 2019 7:22 am Categories: Access Control, Cloud. Tags: ACaaS, Access Control, Cloud, ip, ISONAS, Melissa Stenger.

Melissa Stenger ISONAS

Access control and the overall physical security market continue to grow at a rapid pace with no signs of slowing down. Market research expects the access control industry to grow to over $10B by 2022 which is about 9% CAGR. So, what?s driving this growth? There are several trends and disruptive technologies that are driving acceleration in a category that has traditionally been slower to migrate.

IndigoVision Releases New Version Of The Maxxess Integration

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 7, 2019 11:43 pm Categories: Integrated Systems, VMS Software. Tags: Giles Raine, indigovision, Maxxess Integration 2.0, PTZ cameras.

IndigoVision Maxxes

IndigoVision introduced a new version of the Maxxess Integration 2.0. This new version has been refreshed and expanded since its initial release 10 years ago. The new version allows alarms and events from Maxxess systems to be seamlessly combined with IndigoVision?s security management solution, Control Center, giving complete video and alarm management in a single user interface. According to IndigoVision all of their Integrations are designed with safety in mind.

Black Sage Technologies Selects Echodyne MESA Radar For Counter-UAS Solutions

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 7, 2019 12:02 am Categories: Drones, Technologies. Tags: Black Sage Technologies, CUAS, Dave Romero, Eben Frankenberg, Echodyne, EchoGuard, MESA.

CUAS SAGE Technologies

Echodyne announced that its security radar, EchoGuard, has been selected by Black Sage Technologies, Inc. as the preferred radar sensor for mid-range C-UAS security solutions. The radar is recognized in the industry as the best-performing sensor in its class and is a critical component for UAS detection, tracking, classification, and identification in multi-sensor arrays. Echodyne’s breakthrough MESA? technology creates a small ESA radar with high-fidelity data output with excellent range, detection and tracking accuracy.

News Coverage Puts Safe-Latch In The Spotlight

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 6, 2019 7:00 am Categories: Access Control, Campus Security. Tags: Kettle Moraine Middle School, kid safety, Nick Hoffman, Safe-Latch, WDJT.

Safe-Latch panic device

Safe-Latch, the safety solution that helps lock down classrooms instantly, continues to make news for its innovation and simplicity in helping to secure classrooms and protect students and teachers. Wisconsin CBS affiliate WDJT recently produced a Special Report on school security, featuring Safe-Latch as a company designing products to keep kids safe at school. The CBS story is one of several news features showcasing Safe-Latch this year.

ReconaSense Debuts A.I.-Powered Physical Security Platform With Risk Adaptive Access Control

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 6, 2019 6:06 am Categories: Access Control. Tags: AI, john carter, Mercury, ReconAccess, ReconaSense, risk-adaptive.

Reconasense

ReconaSense announced the latest release of its A.I. powered security platform for life safety and physical security, featuring risk adaptive access control and new IoT and building automation integrations that enable the secure flow of people, processes, and information while keeping risks at bay. Digital transformation has increased the volume, variety, and velocity of physical security event data being collected and stored, increasing the complexity of potential security risk factors as well as the time and talent required to identify and manage them.

SightLogix Introduces Dual-Video SightSensor TC

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 6, 2019 5:56 am Categories: Surveillance, Technologies. Tags: John Romanowich, SightLogix, SightSensor TC.

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SightLogix introduced the SightSensor TC product line, which adds high-definition visible color to SightLogix?s longstanding reputation for outstanding thermal detection. The SightSensor TC uses an ideal outdoor intrusion sensor—thermal video—to detect targets with high accuracy in darkness, rain, and snow. An integrated HD visible imager provides color video assessment. Both thermal and color streams are viewable through a wide-range of third-party VMS systems.

Dortronics Announces BICSI And AIA Sessions At PSA TEC 2019

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 6, 2019 12:21 am Categories: Access Control. Tags: door interlocks, PSA Security Network, PSA TEC 2019, Skip Burnham.

Dotronix Custom Solutions

This year at TEC 2019, Skip Burnham, A/E Sales Manager for Dortronics Systems, Inc. will be presenting two informative sessions. These AIA and BICSI recognized courses will take place on March 12 and 13. TEC 2019 will be held March 12-16, 2019 at the Sheraton Downtown in Denver, CO and is open to everyone in the physical security industry. The course, Door Interlocks: Applications and System Design will review the various types of door interlocks, mantraps, sally ports and their applications.

SIA And ESA Announce Coordination On Workforce Development Strategies

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 6, 2019 12:17 am Categories: Corporate News, Distributors / Systems Integrators. Tags: Don Erickson, ESA, Merlin Guilbeau, SIA.

The Electronic Security Association(ESA) and the Security Industry Association (SIA) are collaborating on a joint strategy to help their members identify, recruit and retain qualified employees for a variety of professional roles within manufacturer and integrator businesses. According to the 2019 SIA Security Megatrends report and ESA Member Surveys, workforce development imperatives are consistently ranked among the highest concerns of both SIA and ESA members.

Wavestore HyperRAID Technology Offers N+5 Hard Drive Redundancy

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 5, 2019 11:57 pm Categories: Storage, Technologies. Tags: EcoStore, Hot-swappable Drives, HyperRAID, Julian Inman, N+5 redundancy, wavestore.

The resilience offered by the proprietary HyperRAID^™ technology suite recently introduced by Wavestore, means that the risk of data loss due to hard drive failure can now be reduced to practically zero. By taking the redundancy offered by conventional RAID solutions to a higher level, HyperRAID is able to provide peace of mind for applications where the safe storage of data and video evidence is crucial, from small projects up to fully integrated large scale and mission-critical solutions.

Morse Watchmans Showcases Industry Leading Key Management Systems At CTX 2019

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 5, 2019 11:53 pm Categories: Access Control. Tags: Counter-Terrorism Expo, Fernando Pires, KeyWatcher Touch, Morse Watchmans.

KeyWatcher Touch

Morse Watchmans is demonstrating their new KeyWatcher Fleet system along with their KeyWatcher^® Touch key management system at this week?s Security and Counter-Terrorism Expo (Stand C36) in London. KeyWatcher Fleet offers fleet managers a wide array of tools to maintain and optimize vehicle usage while reducing many operational costs. Managers can create user role-based ?Pools?, or groups of vehicles, to automatically assign each vehicle accordingly.

Unisys Unveils Stealth Biometric Identity Management Software For Establishing Trusted Humans

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 5, 2019 10:00 am Categories: Biometrics. Tags: Automated enrollment, biometric data, Javelin Strategy & Research, Stealth, Unisys, Vishal Gupta.

UNISYS Stealth Identity

Unisys Corporation announced the availability of Unisys Stealth(identity)^™, the company?s biometric identity management software for large-scale biometric enrollment processing supporting fingerprint, face, voice and iris recognition as well as behavioral biometrics, with the ability to integrate new biometric modalities in the future. Stealth(identity) automates the process of biometric enrollment—capturing and storing biometric data used to authenticate identities—and provides configurable application programming interfaces (APIs) for integrating biometric authentication across physical and digital channels, including mobile devices.

Unisys Announces Availability of Unisys Stealth 4.0 Security Software

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 5, 2019 10:00 am Categories: Cloud. Tags: dynamic isolation, LogRhythm security, Panorama network, Stealth 4.0, Unisys, Vishal Gupta.

UNISYS Stealth

Unisys Corporation announced the forthcoming availability of the latest version of its award-winning Unisys Stealth^® security software suite, the industry?s first product with dynamic isolation^™ capabilities to quickly isolate devices or users at the first sign of compromise. The new version, Stealth 4.0, will be generally available beginning April 15, 2019. The new release of Stealth 4.0 software addresses threats associated with the ever-evolving digital landscape where adoption of cloud, mobile and the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to rise.

nCipher Security Enables Organizations To Keep Pace With Expanding Cloud And IoT Security Requirements

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 5, 2019 2:33 am Categories: Cloud, Cyber Security. Tags: HSMs, John Grimm, nCipher, nShield Connect XC.

nShield nCipher

nCipher Security announces enhanced remote access to the crypto capabilities delivered by its nShield Connect XC hardware security modules (HSMs). As customers increasingly rely on HSMs to provide a root of trust for their cloud applications, IoT, and blockchain, nShield Connect XC allows them to quickly and easily scale their security capabilities and remotely configure and expand their HSM estates. This reduces downtime, increases efficiency, and eliminates physical data center visits.

Dan Dunkel Joins PSA As Managing Director Of PSA’s Managed Security Service Provider Program

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 5, 2019 2:24 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Dan Dunkel, MSSP, PSA.

Dan Dunkel

PSA announced that Dan Dunkel has joined PSA as Managing Director of PSA’s Managed Security Service Provider Program. In this role, Dunkel will recruit solution providers to become part of PSA’s newly created Managed Security Service Provider program and develop go-to-market strategies and ongoing programs to increase program adoption within PSA’s network of systems integrators. PSA’s MSSP program is designed to help systems integrators diversify their service offerings and realize the full potential and benefits of a managed services business model.

Princeton Identity Introduces Outdoor iris Reader

Posted by Jay Bartlett March 5, 2019 2:19 am Categories: Access Control, Biometrics. Tags: Bob McKee, IOM Access200w, Iris recognition, Princeton Identity.

Princton Identity Outdoor

Princeton Identity announced the new IOM Access200w iris recognition reader, an environmentally sealed and impact resistant model designed for use outdoors as part of the company?s IOM Access200 biometric identity product family. The IOM Access200w is the first outdoor solution of its kind, which when integrated with access control platforms, allows customers to unlock exterior building doors without removing gloves or reaching in pockets to find access cards.