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Transition Networks to Display Secure Remote Access

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 13, 2021 3:58 am Categories: Corporate News, Integrated Systems, Surveillance. Tags: ISC West, Shadrack Laanoi, Transition Networks.

Transition Networks announced it will exhibit at the International Security Conference & Exposition (ISC West), taking place July 19-21 at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Transition Networks will exhibit in booth 7095. Among its broad portfolio of security and surveillance solutions, it will showcase its newly announced Secure Remote Access (SRA) solution, which allows rapid deployment of encrypted bi-directional VPN tunnels between a network operations center (NOC) and remote sites.

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DITEK Launches Versa-Module Surge Protection Solution

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 13, 2021 2:04 am Categories: Accessories, New Products. Tags: ditek, Mike Molinari, Surge Protection, Versa-Module.

DITEK announces the launch of a new modular surge protection solution that provides tailored multi-voltage protection for all varieties of low-voltage electronic systems. The new DTK-VM2 and DTK-VM2T Series product line offers 4, 8, and 24 channel enclosure options that accept a wide array of rapid-replacement modules designed to protect any combination of signaling, data, and low voltage power circuits from 5V up to 130V.

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Former Atlassian Executive Joins Keyfactor as CRO

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 13, 2021 1:09 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Jordan Rackie, Keyfactor, Martin Musierowicz.

Keyfactor announced the appointment of Martin Musierowicz as chief revenue officer. Musierowicz will be responsible for leading the strategic design and execution of Keyfactor?s global go-to-market operatives, including direct sales, marketing and channel. With over 20 years of experience in enterprise software, Musierowicz brings an extensive track record of growing sales and partner channels that builds upon Keyfactor’s 164% year-over-year revenue growth.

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HID Global Expands Physical Access Control Credential Choice

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:27 am Categories: Access Control, Corporate News. Tags: Harm Radstaak, HIDGLobal, MIFARE DESFire EV3, Philippe Dubois.

Users of secure credential technologies increasingly want more choices so they can meet the specific needs of a growing variety of applications. As users of secure credential technologies seek more choices to meet the specific needs of a growing variety of applications, HID Global announces the most feature-rich implementation of the latest MIFARE DESFire EV3 credential.

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SALTO Announces New Residential, Distribution Leaders

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:26 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Preston Grutzmacher, Rob Wengrzyn, SALTO Systems, Steve Burk.

SALTO Systems North America is excited to announce the appointment of Preston Grutzmacher to Vertical Business Leader – Residential and Rob Wengrzyn as Business Leader for Distribution. Prior to taking this new role, Grutzmacher served as SALTO?s distribution lead and as a regional sales manager. He has previously served as a branch manager for security sales for Anixter and has an extensive background in access control, CCTV system design, and infrastructure design.

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Dedrone Protects Preakness 146 from Drone Threats

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:23 am Categories: Autonomous Security, drones. Tags: Aaditya Devarakonda., Dedrone, Rob D’Amico, Stronach Group.

Dedrone announces the successful implementation of Dedrone?s counter-drone technology at Preakness 146. Dedrone worked with the security team from 1/ST and the Maryland Jockey Club, owners of Pimlico Race Course, home of the Preakness Stakes, in the weeks leading up to the event for a pre-event threat assessment. On multiple occasions before race day, unauthorized drone pilots were detected and located with Dedrone enabling security teams to respond to potential threats in real-time.

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Ontic Expands Investigations and Case Management

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:23 am Categories: Corporate News, Cyber Security. Tags: Manish Mehta, Ontic, physical security.

Ontic announced the expansion of its Protective Intelligence platform to fully integrate a new Investigations and Case Management offering. Purpose-built for corporate security and physical threat investigations teams, the new Ontic solution enables them to research, document, track, report and recommend preventive measures for cases in order to mitigate future incidents.

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Hanwha Techwin Introduces 5 New Cost-effective HD AI Cameras

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:22 am Categories: CCTV / Analog, New Products. Tags: hanwha techwin, HD AI Cameras, Ray Cooke.

Hanwha Techwin has expanded and updated its line-up of P series AI cameras with five new 2MP HD models. A follow-up to the premium 4K P series AI cameras announced in 2020, the new cameras present a cost-effective entry point into the powerful world of AI-based camera technology. Hanwha P series AI cameras include license-free video analytics based on deep learning that can detect various object types such as people, vehicles, faces and license plates as well as identify unique object attributes.

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ProdataKey?s Access Control to Any Mobile Device or Laptop

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:21 am Categories: Access Control, Smart Devices. Tags: Dallam Labrum, ProdataKey Map View.

ProdataKey (PDK) introduces the latest enhancement to its Pdk io software interface: Map View. The Map View feature allows users to upload custom maps and arrange device icons onto floorplans, making it possible to view and control each door?s status while looking at the full system layout on their phone, tablet or laptop. Multiple maps can be created for a single location, representing buildings, rooms, floors, or other areas.

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Genetec’s Latest Version of Security Center at ISC West 2021

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:20 am Categories: Cloud, Corporate News. Tags: genetec, ISC West, KiwiVision, Kyle Hurt, video analytics.

At ISC West 2021, Genetec will showcase the latest version of Security Center (v5.10), the company?s open-architecture platform that unifies video surveillance, access control, automatic license plate recognition (ALPR), communications, and analytics. The company will also showcase new operational solutions for a safe return to the office, and updates to its KiwiVision Video analytics and Stratocast cloud-based solutions.

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Milestone Promotes Internally for New VP of Research Role

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:18 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Bjørn Skou Eilertsen, Dr. Barry Norton, milestone.

Milestone Systems promoted Dr. Barry Norton to vice president of research. Dr. Barry Norton joined Milestone Systems in May 2018 as director of research. In his new role as vice president of research, Barry will also?in addition to continue leading Milestone?s growing research department?be responsible for increased collaboration with universities. This will help move forward machine learning, especially in relation to computer vision.

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Keyfactor and PrimeKey Finalize Merger Under Keyfactor Brand

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:17 am Categories: Distributors / Systems Integrators. Tags: Jordan Rackie, Keyfactor, PrimeKey.

Keyfactor and PrimeKey announced they have completed their previously reported merger under the Keyfactor brand. Keyfactor provides certificate lifecycle automation and crypto-agility solutions. PrimeKey?s EJBCA software offers the most flexible private PKI (public key infrastructure) and certificate authority (CA) supporting DevOps, IoT, manufacturing and enterprise use cases.

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Commissioner to Speak at the Global MSC Security Conference 2021

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:14 am Categories: Corporate News. Tags: Derek Maltby, Fraser Sampson, Global MSC, MSC Security.

Global MSC Security announced that the new Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, Professor Fraser Sampson, will address delegates at the Global MSC Security Conference and Exhibition. He will be joined by speakers including Philip Ingram MBE and Professor Martin Innes, to discuss the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the surveillance industry. The conference takes place on Tuesday 19th October 2021, at The Bristol Hotel, Bristol.

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Brivo Launches Brivo Snapshot to Provide Facial Detection

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:11 am Categories: Video Analytics. Tags: Brivo, Snapshot, Steve Van Till.

Brivo launched Brivo Snapshot?a high-accuracy video analytics and forensic tool that uses machine learning to deliver advanced facial and person detection using a fusion of access control and video data streams. Brivo Snapshot speeds up the process of finding relevant images around access events by as much as 20X over conventional search technology in stand-alone video management systems. Customers no longer have to view entire video clips to research an event.

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ComNet Launch Razberi Monitor Software for Cybersecurity

Posted by Jay Bartlett July 5, 2021 9:09 am Categories: Cyber Security, VMS Software. Tags: ComNet, Iain Deuchars, Mike Issa, Razberi Monitor.

ComNet announced the launch of Razberi Monitor software. Razberi Monitor is the latest addition to the ComNet product portfolio and the first solution to be rolled out from the recently acquired Razberi brand. Razberi Monitor? is a software platform that provides a top-down view of the physical security network and ecosystem without IT resources. It monitors and manages all the system components for both cybersecurity and system health, and can be deployed from the cloud or on-premise.

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Vecow and Hailo to Launch Next-generation Edge AI Solution

Posted by Jay Bartlett June 29, 2021 4:00 pm Categories: Integrated Systems. Tags: Joseph Huang, Orr Danon, Vecow.

Vecow announced its partnership with chipmaker Hailo, to launch their next-generation AI solution, Vecow?s ABP-3000 AI computing system. Vecow?s ultra-slim AI solution features the compact Hailo-8 AI accelerator module, enabling breakthrough performance and AI inference capabilities at the edge. The strategic collaboration enables not only a smart AI solution with best-in-class power productivity, but ecosystem deployment at the edge.

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Qognify joins NVIDIA Metropolis Partner Program

Posted by Jay Bartlett June 28, 2021 10:38 am Categories: VMS Software. Tags: Chen Porat, NVIDIA Metropolis, Qognify.

Qognify announced it has joined NVIDIA Metropolis, a program designed to nurture and bring to market a new generation of applications and solutions that make the world?s most important spaces and operations safer and more efficient with advancements in AI vision. Qognify offers various video management IoT solutions that help customers safeguard people and assets. NVIDIA with their Metropolis helps Qognify reliably detect and classify important objects in the video stream.

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HID PKIaaS Platform supports certificate ACME Protocol

Posted by Jay Bartlett June 28, 2021 10:31 am Categories: Certification, Corporate News. Tags: Access & Identity, ACME Protocol, HID Global, PKIaaS.

HID Global announced its Public Key Infrastructure-as-a-service (PKIaaS) platform now supports the widely adopted Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol. The industry-standard ACME protocol is purpose-built to bring single-command simplicity to the previously manual job of managing digital certificates for creating secure web connections.

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HID Earns Level-1 PAD for Biometric Fingerprint Sensors

Posted by Jay Bartlett June 27, 2021 11:14 am Categories: Biometrics. Tags: biometricsensor, HID Global, TouchChip, Vito Fabbrizio.

HID Global announced the TouchChip TC series of capacitive fingerprint sensors has been awarded Level 1 certification by independent third-party testing house iBeta Quality Assurance. This conformance ?conducted in accordance with ISO/IEC 30107-3? affirms the HID Global biometric device functions to the highest standards, achieving 0% penetration during repeated test spoof attempts.

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Smart Cameras Optimize Building Usage For Dynamic Workplace

Posted by Jay Bartlett June 27, 2021 11:13 am Categories: Network, Video Analytics. Tags: Smart Cameras, video analytics.

As vaccination rates for COVID-19 continue to rise, the global business community is advancing the conversation about returning to work. Employees that were housed in large private and multi-tenant office spaces in major urban and suburban centers are being presented an array of options, many of which include a part-time return to an office environment that prioritizes spaces for collaboration over desks at which individual employees sit and work.

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