Vicon Introduces Smartphone Credentialing For Its VAX Access Control System

Vicon Industries brings a new level of convenience and simplicity to its VAX Access Control solution with today?s introduction of mobile credentialing. This new feature allows VAX customers to present their smartphones, instead of cards or fobs, to specialized Bluetooth-enabled VAX door readers. Upon installation of a custom smartphone ?wallet? app and a simple authentication process that links that app to the specific phone, users enter their personal VAX credentials into the wallet. Multiple credentials can be accommodated.

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I-View Now Partners With MASterMind To Offer Updated And Improved Integration

I-View Now announced an updated and improved integration with monitoring station automation software platform partner MASterMind. This updated integration improves signaling by utilizing a dedicated MASrecv I-View Now Receiver. Built in conjunction with MAS, these processes employ dedicated and proprietary signal types and signal formats which provide richer contextual information and video. The MASterMind Auto-Notification and Verification Interface with I-View Now integration provides mobile verification to central station customers.

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Dahua Technology Launches Face-Recognition Apartment Outdoor Station VTO9341D

Dahua Technology, a leading solution provider in the global video surveillance industry, has launched a new apartment outdoor station VTO9341D, providing new access control solutions to fence and lobby entrance with the cutting-edge face recognition technology. The apartment outdoor station elevates the safety and convenience of resident security system to a new level with the fashionable non-touch face-recognition entry, while conventional unlocking ways are preserved in case of emergency.

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3xLOGIC Adds Allegion Wireless Lock Integration To Award-winning Infinias Access Control Solutions

3xLOGIC announced the successful integration of the company?s infinias access control software with Allegion?s Engage platform of wireless locks. Wireless locks are the controller, reader, power, door contact, and lock hardware all bundled together in one easy-to-install device. Allegion Wireless Locksets integrated with infinias are modular and customized for either mortise or cylinder locks. These wireless locks also offer custom lever styles and finishes, making them versatile for almost any residential or commercial door.

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Princeton Identity Deploys Biometric Conex To Campuses And Facilities Ensuring Quick And Accurate Clearance

Princeton Identity announced the deployment of its Biometric Conex, designed to assist customers with quick and accurate personnel authentication for campuses and facilities. The Conex is a 20-foot long standard shipping container outfitted with on-the-move facial, iris and fingerprint biometric capture technology, which can be operational in less than 24 hours. The first two containers will be shipped in October to government facilities.

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Security 101 Appoints Industry Veteran as Global Accounts Team President

Security 101 announced security industry veteran Carl Stark has been appointed president of the Global Accounts team. The team provides integrated security solutions for enterprise organizations with multi-site facilities throughout the U.S. and in 14 other countries. Stark has been with Security 101 as a national accounts sales executive for the past two years. He previously served as business development manager for Tampa-based Convergint Technologies.

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IIS Attacks Increase From 2K To 1.7M Over Last Quarter According To Threat Report

eSentire Threat Report 2018

IIS, Drupal, and Oracle WebLogic web technologies experienced increased attacks in Q2 2018. According to a new threat report from eSentire, Inc., the largest pure-play Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider, IIS attacks showed a 782x increase, from 2,000 to 1.7 million, since last quarter. Analysis of the attacks by eSentire Threat Intelligence revealed that both IIS and WebLogic exploits maintained a consistent number of attacks (about 200) per IP across organizations, with those attacks originating from servers hosting Apache, RDP, SQL, IIS, and HTTP API services.

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Modular DITEK Surge Protector Removes The Guesswork

DITEK announces the launch of the new Deflector Series Surge Protective Devices. With its audible alarm, flashing LED indicator and remote notification capability, the Deflector lets the user know in three ways when it requires attention. Unique rapid-replacement modules make it possible to have the unit up and running again in only a few seconds. The Deflector is conveniently wall-mountable, with no additional enclosure required, allowing it to be placed in close proximity to core systems or devices that warrant the highest levels of protection.

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Dahua Machine Vision Products Certified As Compatible By MVTec

Dahua Technology has participated in MVTec?s Image Acquisition Partner program, and now its machine vision products with GigE and USB 3.0 interface are compatible with MVTec?s HALCON and MERLIC software. MVTec software users are now able to enjoy Dahua Technology?s cutting-edge technologies. With over 20 years of experience in image acquisition and processing, Dahua Technology focuses on ?turning vision into productivity,? offering an extensive portfolio of cutting-edge, high-precision machine vision products.

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Helix Armour Redundant Power Purpose-Built For Critical Infrastructure Protection And High Security Applications

LifeSafety Power brings critical resiliency, redundancy and networking capabilities with the release of Helix Armour. Designed for seamless failover protection with automatic backup switchover of AC or DC circuitry to reduce the risk of system downtime or outage, Helix Armour sets a bold new standard in reliability and network power management for mission critical physical security and life safety applications.

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Genetec Empowers Law Enforcement Officials With New Machine Learning-Based ALPR Engine

Genetec is unveiling AutoVu MLC (AutoVu Machine Learning Core), a new machine learning-based engine for Security Center AutoVu, its automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) system. AutoVu MLC replaces traditional rule-based ALPR technology with machine learning-based algorithms to reduce common ALPR misreads and false positives. A trusted supplier of ALPR monitoring systems, AutoVu serves end-users in law enforcement, parking, and critical infrastructure.

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Morse Watchmans Taps Tim Purpura For New Sales Position

Morse Watchmans, the world leader in key and asset management, is proud to announce the latest addition to their executive management team – Tim Purpura, security industry veteran and Chairman of Mission 500, will be joining as International Sales Manager. Tim Purpura has been an important contributor in the security industry for more than a decade, most recently as VP and Publisher at a leading security publication, Security Systems News (SSN). He also holds the positions of Secretary and Chairman of the Board for the security industry?s non-profit initiative, Mission 500.

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Success Story: Jade Communications, Choose Siklu?s PtMP To Deliver Internet To Alamosa During Wildfire

Siklu Jade Cxommunications Colorado

Alamosa, Colorado is a small town in the southern part of the state, and residents are no stranger to wildfires. As fires rage, often times they sever or destroy wireline communications infrastructure. This disruption impacts both near term rescue and fire efforts and it can be weeks or months before service is restored. Residents and business are also impacted often suffering Internet outages and finding themselves as a low priority for remediation.

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Iluminar CEO Will Be Recognized For Efforts To Advance Women In The Security Industry

The Security Industry Association has named industry veteran Edwina (Eddie) Reynolds ?president and CEO of Iluminar Inc.? as the 2018 recipient of the inaugural SIA Progress Award, an honor presented by SIA?s Women in Security Forum celebrating individuals who pave the way to success for women in the security industry. The award will be presented to Reynolds during SIA Honors Night on Wednesday, Nov. 14, in New York City. Reynolds has been the founder and CEO of multiple established CCTV lighting companies.

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Cymulate Announces Technology Integration With Tenable

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Cymulate?s BAS platform enables organizations to launch simulations of multi-vector cyberattacks against their networks, immediately exposing vulnerabilities and providing remediation steps. This integration enables security teams to seamlessly view Tenable.io data from within Cymulate?s platform. This allows for improved insight into current exposures and risks, vulnerabilities and infiltration patterns within the corporate network to provide a more comprehensive view of the organization?s cybersecurity posture.

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Cruzio and One Wheel Future Motion High Tech in Surf City

Future Motion is a high-tech startup based in Santa Cruz, California, a beach town just a short drive from the heart of Silicon Valley. Future Motion makes the Onewheel, an innovative powered board that is ridden like a skateboard but with one wheel and a suite of technology ?bridging recreation and transportation.? With the university, the boardwalk, world-class surf and a thriving creative culture, Santa Cruz is far from your typical small town. But until recently it did have one thing in common with a lot of communities of its size – it lagged a generation behind it?s larger neighbors in access to high-speed connectivity.

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Swann Celebrates National Crime Prevention Month With New WiFi Cameras, Promotions, And Contest

Swann debuts two new Wi-Fi cameras with Alexa Integrations that are the latest additions to the SAFE by Swann platform, the #SwannSecurityHeroes community contest, and additional promotions in honor of October’s Crime Prevention Month to encourage the public to take preventative safety measures at home and work. The new Indoor and Outdoor Wi-Fi security cameras connect to power and transmit video and audio wirelessly. Through Alexa devices, consumers can also control these cameras with their voices.

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ASSA ABLOY’s New Rockwood Products Achieve GreenCircle Certifications

ASSA ABLOY has announced the company?s latest GreenCircle Certifications and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for Architectural Door Accessories. The Rockwood products achieved GreenCircle?s Certified Environmental Facts (Multi-Attribute) label. This label details the sustainability attributes of the product as well as the facility where the products are manufactured in order to tell the full sustainability story of the product. The Rockwood products also have EPDs that are third-party certified by UL Environment.

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HSI Sensing Introduces Retrofit Models In Newest Expansion Of High-Security Sensors Line

HSI Sentinel Retro

HSI Sensing announced at Global Security Exchange (GSX) that its high-security sensors product line —Sentinel— now includes retrofit models. Sentinel Retro is compliant with existing models on the market to facilitate the ease of replacing outdated sensor technology with the newest innovations from HSI. HSI launched its Sentinel sensors line in 2017 as an enhanced technology for high-security intrusion detection. Sentinel sensors utilize Solid State technology and are designed with a wide range of anti-tamper features.

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Arecont Vision Costar Announces New Beginning, Building Upon Past Industry Leadership For Future Growth

Arecont Vision Costar announced its key product portfolio, business plans, and executive leadership team following the initial launch of the business in July, 2018. The new company is a business unit of Costar Technologies, Inc., a Coppell, Texas-based corporation that designs, develops, manufactures, and distributes a wide range of proven products for the video surveillance and machine vision markets. Arecont Vision Costar continues to base its headquarters, R&D, manufacturing, and support facilities in Glendale, California in Los Angeles County.

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