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Teledyne FLIR today announces the launch of the A8481, a new compact HD MWIR science camera designed for researchers and engineers who need significantly more thermal detail without changing the workflows, optics, software, and infrastructure they already use. Built around a 1280 × 1024 HOT MWIR SLS detector, the A8481 delivers four times the pixels of VGA A-Series cameras while maintaining the compact form factor of the A67xx platform. For many research programs, moving from VGA thermal...

Foresite Cybersecurity Inc., a provider of advanced cybersecurity solutions, has announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to empower organisations with a comprehensive and future-proof security posture. This alliance combines Foresite's industry-leading ProVision with Google Cloud's intelligence-drive and AI-powered platform, Google Security Operations. In today's ever-evolving digital landscape, cyberattacks are becoming more sophisticated and frequent. Organisations are struggling to keep...

Foresite, a provider of managed security services, cyber consulting, and Google Cloud security solutions, announces it has achieved two key milestones in the Google Cloud Partner Advantage program: the Security Services Specialisation and the Expertise in Google SecOps Service Delivery. These achievements reinforce Foresite's dedication to delivering best-in-class security solutions and services on Google Cloud, empowering enterprises to strengthen their security posture and protect their criti...

Absolute Security, a pioneer in Autonomous Cyber Resilience, has acquired Phoenix Technologies’ FirmGuard, a UEFI BIOS firmware security, management, and networking service. FirmGuard extends Absolute Persistence®, the patented firmware-embedded technology behind the Autonomous Cyber Resilience Platform. This acquisition adds deeper visibility, integrity verification, posture management, continuous patching, and compliance enforcement for endpoints, AI workstations, and autonomous age...

Matrix Comsec, a provider of integrated, enterprise-grade physical security solutions, has received the CII Award for Best Company for Excellence in R&D – Silver in the Electronics, Space & Defence category. The award was presented at the CII Global Summit on Industrial R&D & Competitiveness 2026, held on October 7, in Bengaluru, under the theme “Powering India's R&D for Global Impact.” The recognition highlights Matrix's commitment to indigenous research a...

Intercede, the digital identity specialists, launches MyID® Authenticate, a FIDO passkey authentication solution that gives Governments and enterprises phishing-resistant sign-in to Windows desktops, cloud services and on-premise applications from a single platform. The solution makes its international debut tomorrow at GovWare 2026 in Singapore, 13-15 October 2026. Passwords and one-time codes are easily phished. FIDO passkeys are phishing-resistant by design: each passkey is bound to the...

A specialist consultancy, ASOKIVA has launched to help manufacturers navigate certification, market access and international growth. Founded by international security and technology specialist Paul Spencer, ASOKIVA draws on 25 years’ experience across the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East and the US. Bringing together certification expertise, market intelligence and commercial strategy, the new business supports manufacturers looking to enter new territories and identify commercial...

Colt Technology Services, the global digital infrastructure company, announces further investment in its global network as hyperscalers, neoscalers and wholesale providers scale their AI infrastructure and drive unprecedented demand for connectivity. The investment expands Colt's reach across North America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, strengthens its presence in key metro markets, and upgrades critical optical fibre infrastructure to support the next generation of AI-driven growth. Trans...

Starburst, the enterprise intelligence platform for governed data and AI, announces the appointment of Kerman Lau as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). In this role, Kerman will lead Starburst’s finance organisation and partner with the leadership team on growth strategy, operating performance, capital allocation and long-term value creation. Lau joins Starburst with more than 25 years of experience spanning high-growth software companies and large global enterprises. Most recently, he served...

Across the Netherlands, housing corporations are under increasing pressure to maintain safe, secure and sustainable living environments while managing large and diverse property portfolios. Rising expectations around resident wellbeing, operational efficiency and asset protection are driving the need for smarter, more scalable technologies. Hef Wonen, a Rotterdam-based housing association managing more than 30,000 rental homes, commercial properties, parking facilities and residential care comp...

HackerOne, a pioneer in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), today released its 10th annual HackerOne Security Research Report, revealing that on the H1 Platform, the backlog of validated, unresolved vulnerabilities grew 131% in two years, even as average resolution time improved 54%. This year's report, Exposure Debt: The Next Challenge in Cybersecurity, introduces the urgent challenge security teams are grappling with in the race to stay ahead of attackers. AI has changed what securi...

Resilience, value retention, and insurability are among the key requirements for modern logistics facilities. At BUILDINX, taking place November 17-19, 2026, in Dortmund, WAGNER Group GmbH will demonstrate how preventive fire protection solutions help meet these requirements and minimise risks at the earliest stage. Visitors can find WAGNER at booth 5. B50. Fire protection requirements for logistics facilities are diverse: Automated storage and material flow systems, high-value goods, and new r...

Genetec Inc., the pioneer in enterprise physical security software, announces that the City of Carmel, Indiana, has deployed Genetec™ Security Center to unify security and operational systems across more than 40 municipal sites, helping city departments coordinate resources, improve emergency response, and manage day-to-day operations more efficiently. Carmel’s public safety teams use Security Center to monitor video, alarms, emergency calls, response vehicles, and IoT sensors throu...

dormakaba is giving organisations and their employees more ways to capture and manage time and labour across its workforce platform used by more than 6 million people every day. SMILE, the new app for dormakaba B-COMM™ HCM, will launch at HR Tech 2026, October 20-22 in Las Vegas. Attendees can experience the technology at dormakaba Booth #7605. SMILE broadens the ways employees can interact with the B-COMM platform while remaining connected to the Human Capital Management (HCM) and enterp...

The Sanoat Qurilish Bank (SQB) in Uzbekistan enhanced its security and operations with Dahua’s integrated solution, combining ANPR, under-vehicle scanning, facial recognition, and DSS Pro for centralised management. This improved inspection accuracy, strengthened access control, and enabled faster, more efficient security responses. Overview - SQB is one of Uzbekistan’s key financial institutions, required a stronger, more intelligent security infrastructure to protect its facilitie...

OpenEye, a provider of open, intelligent, and trusted cloud video solutions, is thrilled to announce its enhanced integration with CHeKT, bringing new capabilities to support more efficient remote video monitoring operations. The new CHeKT Virtual Bridge supports a cloud-to-cloud connection between OpenEye Web Services (OWS) and the CHeKT platform. This integration enables automatic account syncing, OWS virtual arming, and a broader set of site event types to receive alerts on, making it easier...

Interface Systems, a provider of AI-powered security and expert remote video monitoring for restaurants, retailers, and commercial businesses, today published “The Real Cost of Alarm Failure,” a new report from its 2026 Loss Prevention Research Series. The data-driven study models the cumulative operational expense of false alarms across multi-site portfolios, utilising municipal ordinances and fee schedules across 25 U.S. cities, police dispatch policies in 23 cities, federal labor...

OpenEye announces advanced new innovations to OpenEye Web Services (OWS) through the addition of AI-powered visual search and alerting, helping enhance operations for modern enterprise organisations. As a core part of the OWS AI Analytics suite, AI Visual Search and AI Visual Check offer businesses innovative and intuitive tools built to improve operations and fortify security. Users can surface video quickly and automate procedures through natural-language inputs, all within an intelligent clo...

Tenable® Holdings, Inc., the exposure management company, today announced the expansion of the CyberAgents Exchange, powered by Tenable, to further accelerate enterprise security adoption of open-source AI agents, skills and MCP servers. Engineered by Tenable using OpenAI GPT cyber models, the CyberAgents Exchange AI Inspector (Exchange Inspector) evaluates selected AI components listed on the Exchange, including an enterprise-grade safety review, which is designed to help organisations mor...

Allient Inc, a global designer and manufacturer of specialty Motion, Controls, Power and lightweighting composite / advanced materials products and solutions for targeted industries and applications, has today announced it will present its latest defense technologies and solutions at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting & Exposition, taking place October 12–14 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. Storage and deployment systems V...

Scality, a global pioneer in data infrastructure software for AI storage at scale, announces the availability of Scality AI Inference Factory, an open-code software stack for deploying and operating AI inference on enterprise-owned infrastructure. The solution gives enterprises, government agencies and neo-cloud providers a supported alternative to cloud-based AI services, without having to assemble, integrate and maintain the entire software stack themselves. As AI moves from experimentation i...

Skanska CDE, a developer of modern office buildings across Central and Eastern Europe, has implemented a digital wallet access control system at its Studio A office building in Warsaw, as part of a growing shift among commercial buildings toward wallet-based credentials as the default. Aimed at removing the friction of separate access apps for employees, tenants and guests, the deployment is built on the company's proprietary StudioApp web application and HID Origo Web Provisioning, a cloud-bas...

As organisations move quickly to adopt autonomous, AI-driven security operations, a new 2026 market update from Omdia finds that the adoption of agentic AI is outpacing the governance meant to control it. Fifty-two percent of organisations with security operations centers already deploy agentic AI, yet only 25 percent formally assess every agentic AI investment, even as these systems take autonomous action. The update, produced by Omdia's Go-to-Market Insights and Advisory practice, extends its...

Global cybersecurity pioneer DigiCert has been the victim of a recent cyberattack. This is a major concern in the cybersecurity industry, as attackers were able to gain access to the issuance of 60 Extended Validation (EV) Code Signing certificates in a clever social engineering scheme. The attack started on April 2 when a sophisticated threat actor reached out to DigiCert’s support system through a Salesforce-based chat system.  The threat actor appeared to be a customer, requested...

In a significant development across cybersecurity, an autonomous AI tool “Xint Code” has uncovered a critical and a hidden vulnerability within Redis which is a widely used open-source data storage system. The flaw CVE-2026-23479 went completely unnoticed for at least two years by the traditional security defences and human developers. The flaw was reported and officially patched on May 5, 2026. Initially, it was not a highly publicised bug but it’s drawing massive industry at...

Qualysec has officially achieved CREST Accreditation for its Penetration Testing services, marking a significant milestone in the company’s commitment to delivering cybersecurity services that meet globally recognised standards. The accreditation places Qualysec among a global community of cybersecurity companies independently assessed for their technical competence, governance, operational maturity, quality management, and ethical business practices. Ongoing high standards Commenting o...

The dark-web data dump has shaken up the critical infrastructure industry in India, revealing highly sensitive information about the country’s largest nuclear power plant, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu. Recently, the notorious ransomware syndicate, “World Leaks”, published more than 19,000 files that were directly tied to the construction of the facility and financial risk management. Qualysec Technology has confirmed the 14.3-gigabyte cache. The ana...

A vendor of cybersecurity solutions, Check Point Software Technologies, has issued emergency fixes for its SmartConsole management application for a “critical” zero-day vulnerability. The bug, dubbed CVE-2026-16232, is being weaponized by attackers who are trying to gain full access to enterprise security management systems. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the vulnerability to its ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities’ (KEV) list and man...

Colt Technology Services, the global digital infrastructure company, announces that it is the first network service provider to offer a fully managed service for the proven enterprise networking technology solution named SCION (Scalability, Control and Isolation on Next Generation Networks) in Europe, North America and Asia. SCION technology has been developed in Switzerland by technology company Anapaya and is widely used across critical infrastructure, including the Swiss financial community....

F5, the global pioneer in delivering and securing every app and API, announces enhanced cloud-native network functions and new observability capabilities that help service providers modernise critical network services as they move from virtualised infrastructure to Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures. Service providers are under pressure to support growing 5G, edge, IT, and emerging AI workloads, boost efficiency, and maintain the performance, security, and operational control required fo...