Johnson Controls Partners With Civic Technologies To Provide Secure Identity Verification For Visitor Management

Johnson Controls has announced that it has partnered with Civic Technologies, the global digital identity leader. Johnson Controls will integrate the Civic Secure ID Platform (SIP) with C-CURE 9000 Security and Event Management Systems from Software House to provide visitor management with greater data privacy and protection, enabling building visitors to securely present their verifiable identity using the Civic App.

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ReconaSense Expands Sales And Marketing With Key Executive Hires

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ReconaSense announced two new members of the executive team. Pat Aiello joins as the vice president of global sales and Melanie Meyer Sommer serves as the vice president of marketing. Pat?s customer-centric and engaging leadership style will help accelerate the company?s go-to-market strategy to better serve its customers and partners. Melanie is a creative, performance-driven marketing leader bringing over 20 years of marketing and communications experience to ReconaSense.

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Altronix Receives Lenel Factory Certification Under The Lenel Open Access Alliance Program

Altronix Corp. announced that it has received Lenel factory certification and joined the Lenel OpenAccess Alliance Program (OAAP). Altronix?s LINQ? technology interfaces with the OnGuard? access control system and facilitates the remote monitoring and reporting of power diagnostics. These alerts minimize system downtime and eliminate unnecessary and costly service calls.

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A10 Networks Introduces Multi-Cloud Secure Service Mesh Solution For Applications Deployed In Kubernetes

A10 Networks announced availability of the A10 Secure Service Mesh solution for applications deployed in open-source Kubernetes container environments. The solution provides teams deploying microservices applications with an easy, automated way to integrate enterprise-grade security and load-balancing. A10?s Secure Service Mesh is the first solution of its kind to protect east-west traffic and transparently encrypt traffic between microservices without requiring changes to those applications.

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Milestone Systems Starts Shipping A New Series Of High-performing Husky NVRs

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The Milestone Husky X series is designed to unlock the full potential of Milestone?s XProtect video management software (VMS), offering remarkable performance and low total cost of ownership. All NVRs in the Milestone Husky X series utilize hardware accelerated video decoding for server-side motion detection to further increase performance and camera capacity – all that in hardware that is customizable and can be matched to specific functional, operational and budgetary requirements.

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Surveon Improves The Surveillance Performance With Intrusion And Track Video Analytics

Intrusion is the act of intruding, forcible inclusion or entry in an area that is not welcome. Track is the act of following the movements or trail of someone or something, typically in order to find them or note their course. Without staring monitors for 24/7, Intrusion Video Analytics can help partners to detect the act of intrusion and give alerts, and Track Video Analytics can help users to find the direction of moving object, give alert if the object goes to wrong direction.

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Mac Malware Appears On The WatchGuard Top Ten Malware List For First Time

WatchGuard® Technologies issued its quarterly Internet Security Report for Q3 2018. For the first time ever, Mac-based malware appeared on WatchGuard?s list of the top ten most common types of malware. The report also found that 6.8 percent of the world?s top 100,000 websites still accept old, insecure versions of the SSL encryption protocol. Also, WatchGuard saw more malware hits in the Asia Pacific region than in any other geographical region, indicating a significant increase in malware targeting that region throughout 2018.

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Genetec Receives UL 2900-2-3 Level 3 (L3) Cybersecurity Readiness Certification

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Genetec announced that Security Center Omnicast?, its video management system (VMS), received the UL 2900-2-3 Level 3 cybersecurity certification. A long-standing advocate for cybersecurity and the ?Security of Security?, Genetec participated in the UL evaluation process, which today validates its resilience against cyber-attack with the highest Level 3 (L3) assessment certification.

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TDSi Launches New GARDiS Software

TDSi announced the launch of its new GARDiS Access Management software. The powerful solution is available for free download to registered users, directly from the TDSi website. The GARDiS Access Management Software is a new user-friendly solution which improves secured accessibility. It offers ease of installation and features a user-friendly interface that has been developed specifically to accommodate many varied users, from security installers to IT managers.

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Arecont Vision Costar Increases Southern Coverage With TMG Sales Agents

Arecont Vision Costar announces the signing of TMG Sales Agents, Inc. (TMGSA) as a new Authorized Manufacturer?s Representative. TMGSA will be focused exclusively on increasing sales support to customers and prospects in the state of Florida. Proven Manufacturer?s Representative Firm Will Focus on Growing Sales in Florida Market. The company?s portfolio is focused on leading products in the security, access control, surveillance, fire safety systems, structured cabling, and other low voltage industry products.

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Bosch Grows With Connected Energy And Building Solutions

Bosch is growing with connected energy and building solutions. Last year, the Energy and Building Technology business sector sold some 13 million web-enabled devices ? everything from connected heating, cooling, and ventilation systems in office buildings, to smart home applications. Bosch is also focusing on platforms and partnerships in its energy and building technology activities.

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Rick Caruthers Appointed President At Galaxy Control Systems

The Board of Directors of Digital Systems Corporation, the parent company of Galaxy Control Systems, a leading provider of integrated access control and security solutions, announced the appointment of Rick Caruthers to the position of President at Galaxy Control Systems. Effective immediately, this appointment reflects the company?s long-term planning and succession strategies.

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Shine A Light, Our 2018 Award-Winning Esprit Enhanced Camera Just Got Even Better!

Pelco announced four new combination IR / white light illuminator models to the award-winning Esprit Enhanced PTZ camera product line. These new models provide IR-only and white light / deterrent modes of operation to give you the ability to overtly capture clear full color images when using white light direct illumination or covertly with clear black and white images when in IR-only mode. The four new models are offered with wiper, without wiper and pressurized unit, in both 48VDC and 100-240VAC power versions.

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Risks And Opportunities In The Internet of Things

The new vulnerabilities and complexities of the IoT will introduce a number of novel challenges to understanding, assessing, and managing risk. The scale and scope of change is so significant that the IoT is being described as the ?Fourth Industrial Revolution? (Industrie 4.0 Working Group, 2013). In this early phase of IoT implementation, it has already become clear that these innovations will prove disruptive on a number of levels.

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New Realities Risks In The Virtual World

?The new realities?, a term coined by futurist and author of this report, Amelia Kallman, covers augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) technologies. While gaming has been a focus of these technologies thus far, businesses are increasingly looking to use them. This increasing uptake by businesses, and the new risks the technologies pose to them and society in general, represent a potentially substantial new market for insurers, as well as a means by which they can improve their own products and services.

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Fourth-Edition Guidelines Expanded To Address Growing Security Challenges Facing Today?s Schools

The Partner Alliance for Safer Schools (PASS) has released the fourth edition of its Safety and Security Guidelines for K-12 Schools, which provides school administrators, school boards and public safety and security professionals with guidelines for implementing a layered and tiered approach to securing and enhancing the safety of school environments. The fourth edition of the guidelines is completely revised under a simplified structure and greatly expanded to now cover best practices on a district-wide level.

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WatchGuard Now Enables Zero Touch SD-WAN Deployments Through Firewall Appliances

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WatchGuard Technologies announced version 12.3 of its Fireware® operating system for its Firebox Unified Security Platform appliances. Key to this update are added dynamic path selection capabilities that allow organizations to optimize WAN resources across complex, distributed networks while securing branch locations with a UTM platform focused on defense in depth. Businesses and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can utilize this new SD-WAN functionality to seamlessly upgrade site-based security.

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The Middle East Surveillance Market Set To Benefit From The Launch Of COLDSTORE Colossus

At Intersec this year, on stand SA-J31, Veracity will be demonstrating and launching COLDSTORE Colossus, the 4U, 45-bay, 630TB video storage solution. COLDSTORE Colossus is engineered to meet the long-term retention needs of the Middle East. The COLDSTORE family offers unique benefits including a 10x increase in hard disk life and power savings of 90%+. In fact Colossus, with 630TB and 45 disks, consumes less than 80W of power!

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Boon Edam Opens Technology And Training Center In Silicon Valley

Boon Edam announces the opening of a full-service Technology and Training Center in San Jose, CA. This is the second US-based location for the company outside of its headquarters in Lillington, NC; the first location, opened in 2015, is in mid-town Manhattan at 1140 Broadway Avenue in New York City. The address of the new Silicon Valley center is 2161 O?Toole Ave San Jose, CA.

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