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Quantum Corporation announced it has entered into an agreement with Western Digital Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Western Digital Corp., to acquire its ActiveScale object storage business. The addition of the ActiveScale product line and talent brings object storage software and erasure coding technology to Quantum’s portfolio, and enables the company to expand in the object storage market. The acquisition demonstrates Quantum’s commitment to innovation and growth, extending t...

Viking Electronics Inc. has announced the release of its brand new 2020 Product Catalog. The catalog features many new innovations, as well as Viking’s core products – such as emergency phones, door entry systems, paging amplifiers, mass notification systems, hot line phones, and more. The catalog is a comprehensive “go-to” resource - offering countless ideas and custom solutions for “Access Control” to “Zone Paging” and everything in between. &ld...

ASSA ABLOY’s range of door closers is one of the few available on the market to satisfy the certification demands of uninsulated metal fire doors, the ASSA ABLOY Door Hardware & Access Control Group has announced. At the end of 2017, a number of UKAS accredited authorities withdrew certification for almost all door closers used on uninsulated metal fire doors. While a number of these certifications have since been reinstated, they typically only cover the use of door closers on the si...

DICE Corporation is proud to announce and welcome Avi Lupo as the company’s Executive Vice President. Lupo will play a leading role in the company, contributing to high-level organizational decisions, product development and new business opportunities. He will also be integral in establishing new sales and marketing expansion strategies for the company’s growing cloud video recording technology, CloudEye. “We are very happy to have Avi on our team,” said President and CE...

Tavcom Training - a world renowned provider of accredited security systems training courses and part of the Linx International Group – has announced a partnership with the Security Systems and Alarms Inspection Board (SSAIB). Tavcom will provide registered firms of the professional certification body with access to technical security training, as part of a long-term initiative to raise standards throughout the UK security industry. The first joint activity is a BTEC Level 3 Certificate in...

In the international context, the IEC 62443 series already exists as a complex work on the information security of industrial products. VdS has adapted and specified the requirements to the applications of fire protection and safety technology. "With the new VdS 3836 guidelines, digitalization is thus finding its own important and permanent place in the security industry," emphasizes VdS Managing Director Thomas Urban. A special focus was placed on the applicability of the security requirements...

Acuity announces that it is the gold sponsor of the ISF UK Chapter Meeting 2020, in London. It will be joined by over 1,000 senior executives at a series of keynote presentations, workshops, and networking sessions where one can share knowledge, best practise, and thought leadership in a confidential peer-group environment. The ISF events are a great opportunity for ISF members to discuss current security challenges with industry experts from around the world.  Join Simon Marvell for the s...

TE Connectivity Ltd. announced that Chief Financial Officer Heath Mitts will present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 12, 2020. The audio webcast will be live on the company's investor website and available for 90 days after the presentation at investors.te.com.

FIME has been accredited to test biometric components in line with FIDO Alliance’s Biometric Component Certification Program. The accreditation enables device manufacturers and solution providers to ensure the quality and performance of biometric authentication solutions including fingerprint, facial, voice, and iris recognition. "In an age dominated by cumbersome passwords, biometric authentication delivers stronger security while improving UX. And in a post-PSD2 world, it’s a comp...

DigiCert, Inc., globally renowned provider of TLS/SSL, IoT and PKI solutions, has announced two new PKI tools, namely - IoT Device Manager and Enterprise PKI Manager. Unlike PKI applications of the past, both PKI managers use a container-based, cloud-agnostic implementation that ensures fast and flexible on-premises, cloud and hybrid PKI deployments. These new offerings are built on the DigiCert ONE platform.  DigiCert ONE is a holistic approach to modernizing PKI management and sets a new...

Nexkey, an end-to-end provider of mobile access control solutions, has appointed technology veteran Amit Rele as VP of Product to lead product management and product marketing. The appointment, announced at Upfront Summit, follows Nexkey’s $6 million Series A funding round led last year by Upfront Ventures.  Nexkey access management  Before joining Nexkey, Rele worked across the spectrum of consumer and enterprise technology companies, from startups to Fortune 500 companies lik...

Pulse Secure, globally renowned provider of software-defined Secure Access solutions, has announced that Alex Thurber is joining the executive team as Chief Revenue Officer, where he will be responsible for global sales strategy, management and team development. “We are committed to providing the easiest, most effective solutions for enterprises to secure access to applications and data across their hybrid IT environments,” said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, CEO of Pulse Secure. Zero Trust...

Securitas UK has been officially recognized as a Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute for its commitment to delivering exceptional people management and HR strategies. Organizations certified as Top Employers dedicate themselves to providing the very best working environment for employees through their progressive ‘people-first’ HR practices. In order to be certified as Top Employer, Securitas had to achieve the minimum standard as set out by the Top Employers Institute acros...

Radiflow, globally renowned provider of cybersecurity solutions for industrial automation networks, and the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (Fraunhofer IOSB), a prominent research institute for applied science in Germany, today announced the launch of a joint research project for applying advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to cyber security for industrial automation networks. Artificial intelligence techniques For this research p...

Counter Terror Expo (CTX), UK’s networking event for security professionals from industry, infrastructure, government and policing, has released its inaugural Counter Terror Industry Survey report, summarizing the conclusions of the counter-terror survey conducted by the CTX team in November 2019. The report compiles findings obtained from public and private sector security professionals on the current state of counter-terrorism in the UK. Issues facing the counter-terror industry Surve...

DHL Express is the global provider of international shipping and courier delivery services, and has a major market share of express logistics in the Middle East with a strong customer base in Saudi Arabia. DHL Express has facilities at all the major airports and in most of cites in Saudi Arabia and the fastest clearance in KSA when compared to its competition. Saudi Arabia is one of DHL’s key markets and the delivery firm strives to be close to its customers here. But with facilities spre...

Fire & Safety, concurrently held with Secutech Taiwan 2020, will have international and local manufacturers showcasing products and solutions for best practices in fire safety for various verticals as well as effective disaster prevention and mitigation technologies. Countries from the APAC region is expected to see an increase in fire safety demands as increase in infrastructure developments requires both in pass and active fire safety equipment. Government regulation also plays a major ro...

iland, a provider of secure application and data protection cloud services built on proven VMware technology, announced a new cloud region in Canada with the opening of its new data center facility in Toronto, Ontario, joining nine other cloud regions in Los Angeles, Dallas, Washington, D.C., London, Manchester, Amsterdam, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney. The iland cloud region provides access to the company’s full suite of secure cloud services built on iland’s Secure Cloud Platfor...

As the business owner and managing director of Ecl-ips, a CCTV installer, Aaron Kernaghan, has experience of the needs of CCTV operators, installers and those employed to maintain the system. This understanding has led to the development of a new product that will help to ensure CCTV systems are managed more effectively. CCTV Logbook will give users a tool to have all the information about their CCTV system at their fingertips. There is an easy-to use-interface allowing users to log the camera...

Saving time and important bottom-line costs on engineering call outs, barox Smart products are enhancing VMS control by ensuring surveillance cameras are kept operational – without the need to send an engineer out to site; reports barox, globally renowned technology solutions provider and manufacturer of switches made for video networks. Enhancing VMS Systems like Milestone and Siemens with on-site action but without sending personnel to site, barox new efficient systems combine Informati...

Traka is launching an electronic High-Capacity (HC) cabinet range at the UK Apartment Association (UKAA) Expo, designed to offer property management companies better security, management and visibility of critical keys. Visitors to the dedicated residential sector event, taking place on 13 February, will be the first to see live demonstrations of Traka’s powerful HC key management solutions. Presenting capability for control over a high volume of keys in a small footprint, the electronic...

Eagle Eye Networks, the provider of cloud video surveillance, announced a camera tampering analytic that automatically detects and notifies users if a camera is tampered with. While camera tamper notifications are not new to the industry, Eagle Eye Networks AI-based approach serves as a differentiator, delivering enhanced accuracy, reliability and a reduction of false alarms to Eagle Eye Cloud customers. Real-time tampering notifications Common examples of camera tampering include a sudden ch...

The Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) has a mission to be the voice of the electronic security industry on issues involving municipal alarm management for the approximately 18,000 public safety agencies in the U.S. and Canada. Specifically, SIAC works to minimize the number of false alarms, which are a costly waste of resources for law enforcement jurisdictions. SIAC works directly with leaders in law enforcement at the national level, such as the International Association of Chiefs of P...

Cloud technologies and the IoT have opened up seemingly endless possibilities for the modern retail organization. Customers have never had as much control over purchasing decisions as they do today, with the ability to make transactions at the touch of a button for goods and services from the comfort of their own homes or on the move. However, the customer data lying at the heart of this frictionless shopping experience presents an ever more attractive commodity to cyber criminals. Attacks are...

Automatic Systems, a manufacturer of pedestrian and vehicle entrance control access systems, announces that two of its automatic gates, the BLG 76 and BLG 77, have earned ETL listing to UL 325 standards. These redesigned, full-height automatic vertical lift gates are recognized for their reliability and low cost of ownership, while providing long-term access control to a facility’s perimeter. These BLG7 gates join other Automatic Systems products that are UL or ETL certified for user safet...

Vaion Ltd. has announced the release of its latest product line, Vaion vcam camera with integrated directional audio analytics and exceptional image quality. Lars Eirik Mobæk, Vaion’s Head of Hardware Engineering said, “With great excitement, I am proud to announce the general availability of Vaion vcam, our camera line with integrated directional audio analytics. vcam embodies our ambition to deliver exceptional image quality with unprecedented audio and video intelligence fo...

Security managers, installers and integrators look into a wide variety of factors when selecting a remote video monitoring receiving center to provide continued real-time surveillance of their sites. But there’s one factor which isn’t often taken into consideration, when it really should be. That’s the welfare of the video surveillance operators who are tasked with responding to alarms and ensuring on-site incidents are dealt with appropriately. The fact is, in most UK monitor...

ADT, a provider of security, automation, and smart home solutions serving consumer and business customers in the United States, released key findings from a consumer privacy survey that reveals consumer sentiment on the topic. With many data privacy and security issues in the news, it’s no surprise that 92 percent of respondents feel smart home security companies need to take measures to protect customers’ personal data and information. However, while concerns around privacy are hig...

ETSI's new Industry Specification Group on Securing Artificial Intelligence (ISG SAI) announced that they met recently for their second meeting and appointed Alex Leadbeater (BT) as the Industry Specification Group’s new Chair. Dr. Kate Reed (NCSC) was appointed as First Vice Chair and Tieyan Li (Huawei) was appointed as Second Vice Chair. The second meeting of the ISG SAI, after the launch of the group in October 2019, was also the place to discuss work priorities and future scope of act...

Genetec Inc., globally renowned technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions has announced Security Center Transaction Finder, a POS (Point of Sale) integration tool with exception-based reporting capabilities, designed to help retailers speed up their investigations. The new POS tool with exception-based analytics embedded in security platform helps retailers reduce shrink by quickly detecting suspicious transactions and correlating ev...