Mergers & Acquisitions - News

ISS (Intelligent Security Systems), a renowned global provider of video intelligence and data awareness solutions, is pleased to announce that Addison Bridges has joined the company as a Regional Business Manager for North America. In her new role, Addison Bridges will be responsible for spearheading the company’s business development efforts across the western United States of America (USA). New Regional Business Manager appointed Prior to joining ISS, Addison Bridges served as a Strat...

Thanks to robust, intrinsically safe smart devices, employees benefit from data harvesting, smart maintenance, and remote assistance even in hazardous areas. At SPS - Smart Production Solutions from 8 to 10 November in Nuremberg, the Pepperl+Fuchs brand ECOM Instruments will be demonstrating a multi-faceted ecosystem as the link between mobile workers and the hazardous areas of a smart factory in hall 7A at booth 411. Smartphones, tablets, and smart glasses provide mobile workers with almost un...

HelpSystems announced that it had become Fortra™ a name synchronous with security and defense. This evolution reflects the company’s enhanced commitment to helping customers simplify cybersecurity's complexity in an increasingly under-siege business environment. With a stronger line of defense from a single provider, organizations of all kinds can look to Fortra to increase security maturity while reducing the burdens to everyday productivity.   Tackling security ch...

Ambient.ai, the computer vision intelligence company transforming physical security announced a partnership with Axis Communications, a provider of solutions improving security and business performance, to seamlessly integrate the Ambient.ai Platform and Axis Network Cameras. The partnership, extending from Axis’ Technology Integration Partner Program, provides advanced threat detection and response solutions to enhance physical security for numerous joint Axis and Ambient.ai customers, i...

The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Patrick Russell as its new Associate Director of Government Relations and Colby Williams as its new Senior Manager of Government Relations. In these roles, Russell and Williams will join SIA Senior Director of Government Relations Jake Parker in helping the association address a growing number of public policy issues affecting the industry. Russell's experience  Russell comes to SIA with 15 years of experience working in politics and poli...

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced that it has added scalable, on-demand, high performance simulation capabilities to Siemens Xcelerator as a Service (XaaS) with the launch of Simcenter™ Cloud HPC software. As part of the ongoing collaboration between Siemens and Amazon Web Services (AWS), the new service is hosted on AWS, optimized for Simcenter solver technologies, and managed by Siemens. Siemens and AWS partnership This service can help reduce the costs traditionally a...

deIDIS is strengthening project support for its integration partners and customers across the UK with the appointment of IT and video tech specialist Mohamed Hashi as a technical support engineer. Mohamed joins IDIS, the largest manufacturer of trusted South Korean-made video tech, at a time of continued growth in the UK despite market headwinds, with major projects recently confirmed in healthcare, hospitality, and mixed-use developments. Mohamed's experience  Following his IT apprentic...

Biometric technology has contributed significantly to propelling civilization forward, making possible a degree of accuracy rate in identification and authentication needed for society to rest its confidence in the inner workings of law enforcement, banking, healthcare, digital transactions, and elections, among other endeavors. The most common modalities of biometric identification and authentication had so far centered around fingerprint, iris, and face. Yet the impetus to take things just a...

Oosto announced the latest release of its Vision AI software platform, which includes significant video analytics enhancements for video surveillance hardware and access control systems. The version release is accompanied by the company’s introduction of its proprietary edge device, the new OnPoint touchless reader tablet. This output allows security teams to further reduce organizational risks associated with outdated physical security systems, better manage controlled access, and identi...

ADI Global Distribution, a wholesale distributor of security, AV, and low-voltage products, announced it was recently awarded the 2022 Distributor of the Year for the U.S. by Axis Communications. ADI was recognized for its strong customer support, operational excellence, and commitment to the network security market.  Commitment to excellence and distribution  "We’re proud to present ADI with our 2022 U.S. Distributor of the Year award recognizing their achievements and contri...

CertAlarm published the updated versions of their Scheme Rules after having received the confirmation of the successful audit from the European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) and its members, the European National Accreditation Bodies. The Scheme Rules form the basis for CertAlarm's approach, which is unique in Europe, to offer a pan-European quality mark in the fire protection and security systems industry. While all other quality marks present in this industry in Europe primarily focus o...

ADI Global Distribution, a wholesale distributor of security, AV, and low-voltage products, announced the opening of a new branch location in Austin, Texas for its recently acquired Electronic Custom Distributors (ECD) business. The expanded footprint provides customers with more services, support, and immediate availability to a fully stocked assortment of AV and Smart home products. New branch location and features The new ECD branch, located at 3006 Longhorn Blvd., Ste. 107, Austin, TX 787...

Allied Universal®, the security and facility services company, is continuing its strategic expansion with the acquisition of Century Event Security & Staffing based in Orlando, Florida. Century Event Security & Staffing provides comprehensive security and event services in Las Vegas and Orlando, two of the nation’s top exhibition industry cities. This acquisition increases Allied Universal’s ability to staff major events in these popular event destination locations wit...

Cognitec, face recognition innovator and SALTO Group Company, has named Andy Speropoulos as Sales Manager for the Gaming and Hospitality markets. These two important sectors increasingly incorporate face recognition technology to improve both security and operations. Innovative technology  “Cognitec continues to build its sales team to serve our customers in varied market segments better and to respond to market demand for face recognition technology,” said Cognitec Vice Pres...

Callsign, the digital trust pioneer, has announced new technology to detect social engineering scams in real-time and intervene when fraud is detected. It delivers contextually relevant and personalized warning messages to protect the user from becoming a victim of fraud. This Dynamic interventions capability is controlled by Callsign’s Orchestration Engine. The phenomenon of social engineering has emerged as a way for fraudsters to psychologically manipulate consumers into transferr...

Revelstoke has partnered with BreachRx to unify automated incident response and compliance capabilities with the Revelstoke next-generation enterprise Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform. BreachRx has created the security industry’s first incident reporting and response automation solution. It is designed to help people find answers to security and regulatory compliance questions in real-time and at the height of a crisis. Response automation solution Simila...

Aqua Security, the pure-play cloud native security provider, announces it has more than doubled revenue in the last 18 months. Aqua attributes its recent growth to rapidly increasing demand for an integrated solution that secures cloud native applications from code through runtime. The company also reports its $1 Million Cloud Native Protection Warranty is driving customer acquisition. Software supply chain The skyrocketing demand for the company’s security solution is driven by a globa...

RISCO’s new apprenticeship program is playing its part in helping the security industry to address a 30,000 shortage of engineers. Taking place in conjunction with a restructuring of the firm’s sales operation, the initiative will also enhance the UK installer offer provided by the manufacturer and distributor of security solutions. The new apprentices will help to ensure that RISCO continues to give installers rapid access to knowledgeable, UK-based engineers who provide them with...

DigiCert, Inc., a global provider of digital trust, has named Amit Sinha as the Company's Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the DigiCert Board of Directors. Sinha joins DigiCert from Zscaler, Inc. (“Zscaler”) where he served as President and member of the Board of Directors. During his 12-year tenure, Zscaler grew from a startup to a NASDAQ-100 company and established itself as a leader in enterprise security. DigiCert is backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together...

The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Peter Boriskin, chief technology officer at ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions, as the new chair of SIA’s Standards Committee. In this role, Boriskin will lead and work with committee members to develop, promote and advocate industry standards in a coordinated effort with other standards and specification writing bodies. “I am grateful to be appointed as chair of the SIA Standards Committee by SIA members. It is an exciting time to be in t...

With the announcement of the acquisition of Authlogics, Intercede expands its product portfolio to cover the entire range of authentication options from ‘Passwords to PKI’. Intercede use the ‘authentication pyramid’ to describe the various levels of security that differing authentication mechanisms provide, with PKI and FIDO at the top of the pyramid as the most secure due to their combination of private/public key cryptography, secure hardware, and multiple factors to i...

There has been talking about ‘future-proofed’ access control systems over the years. But what do those words mean? Simply, it means the system will remain secure, and provide enough capacity for future data transfer needs and additional devices. More to the point, it protects users' freedom to develop and expand their systems how they want.  Users' reader choice has the greatest influence on the future functionality and expandability of their system. So, below, Idesco identifie...

SAVORTEX® has announced its new partnership with the commercial real estate company, CBRE GWS (Global Workplace Solutions). SAVORTEX® and its products will be part of CBRE’s ESG catalog - designed to provide CBRE customers with options that are cost conscious, but which can help them all achieve net zero. Syed Ahmed, CEO of SAVORTEX®, said: “Today’s announcement is another milestone in our progress as a company. During the pandemic, we had to greatly downscale. Sti...

Knightscope, Inc., a developer of autonomous security robots announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire CASE Emergency Systems (“CASE”) and to close on the transaction in October 2022. The acquisition is planned to boost the company’s revenues while increasing its positive impact on the safety of communities nationwide. Acquisition of CASE CASE is a pioneer in blue light emergency phones and an innovator in next-generation wireless emergency communications te...

New research reveals that the average security leader in the UK and US works 16.5 hours every week over what they are contracted to work. This is an increase of 5 and a half hours compared to the same figures last year (11 hours extra per week in 2021), as observed by email security firm, Tessian, as part of their annual ‘Lost Hours’ report series. Research findings The data also revealed that one in three...

ConnectWise, the software company dedicated to the success of IT solution providers (TSPs), announces the appointment of Raghu Ram Bongula as its new Chief Technology Officer. Bongula brings two decades of leadership with a focus on digital/cloud transformation, building new platforms, and modernizing legacy platforms. Prior to joining ConnectWise, Bongula served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Global Payments, where he led a team responsible for building new products and platforms t...

DigiCert, Inc., the provider of digital trust, announces that its Root Certificate Authority (CA) is approved by the Connectivity Standards Alliance (Alliance) for Matter device attestation. As the first Matter-approved root CA, also known as a Product Attestation Authority (PAA), DigiCert can now provide rapid time to market for smart home manufacturers looking to earn the Matter seal on their products. A multi-year participant in Matter, DigiCert contributed its expertise to the security and...

Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd., a provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, has released the results from a new survey of the SMB cybersecurity market, conducted by research firm - Analysys Mason.  It sought to uncover how SMBs are emerging from the pandemic, and how their business and technology needs are changing. The survey revealed that, while SMBs understand the need to invest in technology to support growth in the world of hybrid working, unfortunately, many fail to...

Videonetics announces that its patented and state-of-the-art Unified Video Computing Platform (UVCP™) is now ONVIF S, G, T, M Compliant. AI and DL framework Powered by AI and DL framework, Videonetics Unified Video Computing Platform encompasses Intelligent VMS, Video Analytics, Intelligent Traffic Management System, Facial Recognition, and Video Computing Platform as a Service (VCPaaS™). Currently, Videonetics has secured more than 145 cities, 80+ airports, 18000+ traffic lanes,...

ExtraHop, the pioneer in cloud-native network intelligence, announces that security and solutions provider Axians is using ExtraHop for its core security offering, the Circle of Visibility. This cybersecurity offering marries three solutions—NDR, EDR, and SIEM—to help organizations detect, investigate, and ultimately stop advanced attacks before they can do significant damage. Many organizations have a strong preventative posture, yet have fallen victim to a cyberattack. Significan...