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Mayflex, the globally renowned distributor of Converged IP Solutions, has announced the appointment of Rhys Jones in the role of Account Manager for Converged Technology, with an emphasis on IP Security.  Rhys Jones joins Mayflex from QED distribution, where he was based for the last 5 years, in both Sales Management and Business Development roles.  Expert in access control, CCTV systems and infrastructure Simon Steer, the Director of Sales for Security at Mayflex commented, “...

Avolon is delighted that An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, and Irish Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation, and Science, Simon Harris, TD, have announced government support for Innovate for Ireland, a transformative, globally unique doctoral scholarship program originally conceived by their CEO, Dómhnal Slattery. Through a partnership between the Irish Government and the private sector, Innovate for Ireland will position Ireland as a global innovation leader...

Abloy Oy and ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions have announced their jointly developed, new ABLOY Keyless Access Controller. With the controller, businesses can upgrade their doors to be keyless - making most electric locks and other electronic door locking devices work with a digital key on a mobile app, instead of a physical credential. The new controller not only works with ABLOY products, but also with hardware of any brand using compatible wiring. ABLOY Keyless Access Controller The ABLOY Keyle...

Johnson Controls, the globally renowned company for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings, was named Global Sustainability Changemaker and U.S. IoT Partner of the Year at the Microsoft’s annual awards. The Sustainability award was made for the significant societal impact that Johnson Controls OpenBlue Enterprise Manager is having on boosting sustainability in buildings, improving ESG scores and enabling data-driven decision-making by customers. IoT Partner award for Johnson Controls...

Securitas, the security solutions partner with world-renowned technology and expertise, has signed the commitment letter for the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and will begin the process of developing and validating targets, in order to reduce the Group’s climate impact. The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) is a collaboration between CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project), the World Resources Institute, Worldwide Fund for Nature, and the UN Global Compact. Science Based...

Xydus, the company fixing identity for an expansive world, has announced two key technical leadership hires, following a record-breaking 600% revenue increase in 2021. Ensuring its identity solution is ready to flex to any challenges that the future throws at it, Xydus brings in technical professionals - Jos Aussems as the Chief Information Security Officer and Chris Covell as the Senior Vice President (VP) of Engineering. Modernizing the IT department Xydus spent the past six months re-organ...

Pluralsight, the technology workforce development company, has announced the launch of two new features for Pluralsight Flow, the software development intelligence platform helping engineering organizations accelerate growth through optimized software delivery. These features include Team Health Insights, which enables engineering leaders to proactively diagnose the holistic health of their teams, and the Sprint Movement report, designed to help with sprint planning and predictability efforts....

Organized by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection and the German-American Chamber of Commerce, a delegation of purchasers from the United Nations (UN) is traveling to the Ruhr metropolis, as part of a high-ranking visit at the Security Essen 2022 event. At the leading fair for civil security, Security Essen 2022, which will take place at Messe Essen from September 20 to September 23, 2022, the UN representatives will present the United Nation’s procurement syst...

With the passing of time, the necessity of security to inculcate flexibility in its design and working became more important than having rigid standalone networks. Matrix COSEC VEGA FAX door controllers bring huge flexibility to the time attendance and access control needs of an organization. Built with precision engineering methods to combine aesthetics, connectivity, and reliability, Matrix COSEC VEGA FAX is the perfect product for the access control and time attendance needs of any modern or...

Camden Door Controls is proud to bring to the market its new CM-336 Series of battery-operated 915MHz wireless switches. The new CM-336 Series joins Camden’s SureWave line of industry-renowned touchless switches and features a Lazerpoint RF transmitter that’s been proven in over thousands of installations. The new switch replaces Camden’s CM-330 models and delivers improved performance and up to four years of battery life, based on 100 activations per day. New CM-336 Series o...

Sentry Enterprises is pleased to announce that the SentryCard, a decentralized biometric platform providing absolute trust, has successfully completed FIDO2 certification. The FIDO Alliance’s FIDO2 specifications enable users to leverage common devices to easily authenticate to online services in both mobile and desktop environments. FIDO Alliance’s FIDO2 specifications The FIDO Alliance is an open industry association with a focused mission: authentication standards to help reduc...

Johnson Controls, the globally renowned company for smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, acquired zero trust cyber security provider – Tempered Networks, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. Tempered Networks has created ‘Airwall’ technology, an advanced self-defense system for buildings that enables secure network access across diverse groups of endpoint devices, edge gateways, cloud platforms and service technicians. Airwall technology It represents a step-change in op...

A new practical guide has been published by Morphean, a globally renowned company in Security-as-a-Service (SaaS) and cloud analytics, in order to help security businesses understand and adopt the digitalized world of physical security. The new guide argues that cloud physical security is now playing a critical role in the digital transformation agenda, as AI-driven analytics help unlock superior security and intelligence benefits, while helping to mitigate the rising cost base that is being fe...

Egnyte, a globally renowned company in cloud content security and governance, has announced that it has been named a leader and No. 1 ranked vendor by peer-to-peer software review platform - G2, in multiple summer 2022 reports, including a new Sensitive Data Discovery report. The company has also retained leadership positions in the Data Governance, Data Security, Data-Centric Security, Encryption Key Management, and Cloud Content Collaboration categories. Egnyte recognized by G2 “In to...

Verkada began as an innovative approach to video security, helping organizations around the world protect their people and assets from harm. As Verkada has expanded, organizations across Europe have been able to leverage the additional power of Verkada's access control, environmental sensors, and visitor management solutions, in order to improve security and building management. Complete Verkada platform available for UK and Europe Now, with the addition of Verkada’s Alarm solution - Ve...

Orion Entrance Control (Orion) is pleased to announce that Paul Ragusa has joined the company as Marketing Manager. Prior to joining Orion, Paul honed his marketing and writing skills, working for more than 25 years in management roles at several publishing, media and marketing companies, including most recently as Editor of Security Systems News (SSN). During his six-plus years at SSN, Paul Ragusa oversaw all content for the publication and website, in addition to creating the education progra...

Enterprise devices are, on average, connecting to four separate locations each month, during the era of hybrid working, according to a new report from Absolute Software, a globally renowned company in self-healing endpoint and secure access solutions. Absolute Software’s new report, titled ‘The Value of Zero Trust in a Work-from-Anywhere World’, observed information from almost five million devices containing Absolute Software’s zero-trust solutions across 12,000 custome...

Genetec Inc., a globally renowned technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, has announced the immediate availability of a new generation of its Synergis Cloud Link PoE-enabled IoT gateway for access control. Synergis Cloud Link Manufactured in North America to mitigate supply chain delays, Synergis Cloud Link addresses increasing demand for non-proprietary access control solutions and provides a safe and secure gateway to a Cloud o...

Menlo Security, a globally renowned company in cloud security, has announced that it has released the HEAT Security Assessment Toolkit, designed to provide organizations with the ability to assess their levels of protection and current exposure to Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT). Since July 2021, Menlo Security has seen a 224% increase in HEAT attacks. These attacks allow threat actors to deliver malicious content, including ransomware, to the endpoint by adapting to the targeted environ...

Allied Universal, the globally renowned security and facility services company, is continuing its global expansion with the acquisition of three companies, located in New York, USA, the Netherlands and Denmark. The largest of the three companies, International Protective Service Agency (IPSA), is headquartered in New York City, New York, and provides comprehensive security and event services for clients located throughout the New York and New Jersey regions, in the United States of America. IP...

To enjoy the benefits of connected security, businesses need security technologies that work seamlessly with each other. In a recent survey of industry professionals, over 90% noted the critical importance of integration across building management functions. But why is integration judged to be so important? What exactly are its benefits? And how can an organization reap them? There are several ways a connected access solution can help a business to do more both enhancing security and contributi...

The Security Executive Council (SEC) has launched the redesigned online hub, making it easier now than ever before for security leaders to connect with the SEC’s vast library of research, resources, and tools. As the only research and advisory firm dedicated to corporate security and staffed by former corporate security executives, the Security Executive Council has always shared its uniquely relevant research and insights freely, in order to advance excellence in the entire security...

HITEC 2022 (HITEC Orlando 2022) will be held from June 27 to June 30, 2022, at the Orange County Convention Center, in Orlando, Florida, USA. Hosted by Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP), HITEC provides top-notch hospitality technology education and a trade show highlighting the latest products and services. “We’ll show how SALTO access control enhances the hospitality industry ecosystem, by allowing HITEC visitors to don virtual reality gear and step into a s...

The Security Industry Association (SIA) has announced the schedule, speaker lineup and program for the 2022 AcceleRISE conference, hosted by SIA’s RISE community for young professionals and those new to the security industry. The AcceleRISE 2022 event will be an in-person event, held from August 1 to August 3, 2022, in Austin, Texas, USA. AcceleRISE 2022 AcceleRISE is an exciting, innovative conference, created specifically for tomorrow’s security leaders. The event was desig...

Integrated security manufacturer, TDSi has unveiled its enhanced, free-of-charge training offering, which includes an updated training facility, enhanced online booking system and a refreshed training syllabus, which focuses on its GARDiS ecosystem range. Jon Hooley, the Technical Support Manager at TDSi, commented “Over the last couple of years, much of our training has had to be conducted remotely online, but with the relaxation of social distancing rules earlier this year, we have had...

Vision-Box, a globally renowned company in seamless travel, automated border management, and electronic identity management solutions, will be participating at the Passenger Terminal Expo 2022 (PTE), which is being held at the Paris Expo Porte De Versailles, in Paris, France, between the 15th and 17th of June, 2022. Passenger Terminal Expo is the aviation industry’s largest event and conference, hosting 10,000+ people from at least 130 countries attending each year. Passenger Terminal Ex...

LastPass, the pioneer in zero-knowledge password management, announced its new save and fill experience giving all customers the ability to fill in, create and save their credentials directly within a site’s form field when using the iOS Safari extension on iPhones and iPads. Additionally, customers are now able to directly complete an online form and save it to their LastPass vault without needing to retrieve, or copy and paste, their information from a separate application. The new...

Schneider Electric, the pioneer in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, has announced its collaboration with Claroty, the security company for cyber-physical systems across industrial, healthcare, and commercial environments. Addressing cybersecurity concerns Announced at ARC Forum Orlando (June 6-9, 2022), the agreement builds on the existing relationship between the two companies and leaders in their respective industries. Schneider Electric will integrate Th...

Modern Apprenticeships give young people a head start in the workplace, according to Eva Anderson, 18, who is more than half way through her one-year Modern Apprenticeship training in Business Administration, at innovative security sector specialist, Safer Security Group. Greenock born and bred, Eva Anderson, who attended Notre Dame High School in the town, is undertaking her Modern Apprenticeship as a Junior Administrator / Sales Administrator and is enjoying every minute of it. Modern Appren...

viisights, Inc., a global provider of behavioral recognition analytics for real-time video intelligence, has partnered with IoTech Protect, a renowned provider of custom digital and physical security, to provide AI-powered behavior recognition video analytics, in order to greatly enhance real-time event recognition and automated reporting. Acting upon system-automated messaging, security personnel can quickly target and respond to potentially dangerous problem situations. IoTech Protect will o...