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Atos, a pioneer in AI-powered digital transformation, announces the award of a six-year contract worth up to £350 million with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Under the agreement, Atos will deliver service management, application management and application security services, with the option for the MPS to extend the scope to include managed cloud and digital workplace services. The contract reinforces Atos’ long-standing relationship with the Metropolitan Police Service and i...

March Networks®, a pioneer in video surveillance and business intelligence, and VIVOTEK, a global security solutions provider, will showcase their combined vision for intelligent transit security at the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) TRANSform Conference & EXPO 2026, Oct. 5-7 at McCormick Place in Chicago. At APTA, the companies will bring “Connected Intelligence: On the Move” to life by demonstrating how transit agencies can connect video, AI and operatio...

HES, an ASSA ABLOY Group company and pioneer in electric strike innovation, launched the new HES Strike Selector Guide, an online tool that makes finding the right electric strike faster and easier. Guiding users through a series of simple questions, the selector delivers customised HES product recommendations based on opening conditions, lockset type, and application requirements. Choosing the right electric strike often requires evaluating hardware compatibility, fire-rated requirements, prel...

Sector-led film brings university leaders, security specialists and frontline officers together to explain what institutions should be doing now. The Association of University Chief Security Officers (AUCSO) is launching a new video urging universities and higher education institutions to use the implementation period for Martyn’s Law to ensure their security and emergency arrangements are ready. Supporting higher education institutions The film brings together university leaders, strat...

DigiCert, a pioneer in intelligent trust, today introduced the new DigiCert® Partner Network, a global program that gives partners more ways to sell, deliver, manage, integrate, and transact DigiCert solutions. Built on DigiCert ONE, the network helps partners address immediate certificate lifecycle needs and expand customer engagements into PKI modernisation, cryptographic transformation, post-quantum readiness, and trust for software, devices, content, and AI. The DigiCert Partner Network...

Group-IB, a creator of predictive cybersecurity technologies to investigate, prevent, and fight digital crime, announces its contribution to Operation KillSwitch, an international investigation led by the Hamburg State Criminal Police Office (Landeskriminalamt Hamburg) and the Hamburg Public Prosecutor's Office, with the support of Europol and Eurojust, into KillSec, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group linked to around 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide. On 30 September 2026, law enforcement...

Sophos, a global cybersecurity pioneer, launches Sophos CISO Advantage, an agentic AI-enabled solution that connects security operations to security strategy. The solution gives organizations a clear picture of their cyber risk, a prioritised plan to reduce it, and measurable proof of progress, in plain language that business leaders can understand, fund, and act on. Delivered through Sophos Fusion, the Sophos AI-Native Cybersecurity Defense System, Sophos CISO Advantage begins rolling out toda...

Kaseya, the global provider of AI-powered cybersecurity and IT management software, announces findings from a new study by Omdia, a global technology research and advisory firm, highlighting the measurable business value achieved by MSPs and internal IT teams that standardise on Kaseya's unified IT service delivery solution. The study found that organisations using Datto RMM, Autotask PSA and IT Glue improved operational efficiency, reduced costs and increased service capacity by bringing toget...

Allied Universal®, the security and facility services company, announces that Josh Ball has joined the company as vice president of field operations, quality control and special events for its Allied Universal Event Services business unit. Ball brings more than 20 years of experience leading security for professional sports, marquee events and critical infrastructure. In his new role, he will oversee operational quality assurance, including event quality control inspections, internal audits...

Critical national infrastructure encompasses sectors such as energy, utilities, healthcare, and data centers – environments that underpin economic stability and public safety. With so much at stake, the importance of effective security systems is that much higher. We asked our Expert Panel Roundtable: What are the unique aspects of the critical infrastructure market, and how should the security industry adapt?

Euralarm and the Confederation of European Security Services (CoESS) have published an updated edition of their Cybersecurity Guidelines for the Security and Fire Safety Industry. The revised publication provides practical guidance for organisations across the sector as cybersecurity becomes an increasingly important operational, technical and regulatory requirement. The growing connectivity of fire safety and security systems brings significant benefits, including remote monitoring and mainten...

Commvault, a pioneer in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced that it’s enabling IT and Security teams to discover, protect, and recover agent configurations and other AI data in Claude Cowork by Anthropic, Claude Code by Anthropic, and OpenClaw (agentic AI tools) that employees are running on their managed Windows and macOS devices. For workers and IT leaders, this can be a game-changing development. When a laptop is lost, damaged, replaced, or otherwise disrupted, orga...

ABUS UK has appointed Gary Major as Sales and Marketing Director for Home and Commercial Security. Gary joins ABUS with more than 30 years' experience across sales, marketing and business development, working with a range of manufacturing and retail businesses. He will lead the continued development of ABUS UK's Home and Commercial Security division. “The values of ABUS were a big part of what attracted me to the role,” says Gary. “The emphasis on family, honesty and fairness,...

i-PRO Co., Ltd., a pioneer in professional security and public safety solutions, today marks seven years of innovation and transformation since becoming an independent company in 2019. Seven years ago, i-PRO began its journey as an independent company with an opportunity to build a new kind of organisation: one that could make its own technology and business decisions, operate with greater agility and respond more directly to the changing needs of the security market. Strategic direction and f...

Netwatch, a pioneer in proactive video monitoring and AI-enabled security services, announces the appointment of Kris Slimmer as Senior Vice President of Sales. Slimmer will lead Netwatch’s North American sales organisation as the company accelerates the adoption of its proactive security model across retail, banking, critical infrastructure, commercial real estate, and other priority markets. Slimmer brings nearly 30 years of sales, business development, and operations leadership in the...

Teledyne FLIR's A40 and A70 (Axx-Series) thermal imaging cameras are the first models to achieve UL 2684 listing. They are listed as thermal image fire detectors under ANSI/CAN/UL 2684, the Standard for Video and Thermal Image Detectors for Fire Alarm Systems. Although UL 2684 is a North American standard, the Teledyne FLIR milestone has important implications for Europe. European fire detection is supported by a mature standards and certification environment covering established technologies s...

Opengear, a Digi International company and pioneer in out-of-band management solutions, has signed its first pan-European distribution agreement with Ingram Micro, one of the world’s largest technology distributors. The agreement will give resellers in participating Ingram Micro countries access to Opengear’s portfolio, supported by Ingram Micro's regional infrastructure, logistics capabilities and partner network. This expands Opengear’s existing reach in the UK, Ireland, Spa...

Comelit-PAC has appointed Chris Carroll as Sales Director, following an 18-year career with the company, seeing him progress from internal sales support to a senior leadership role. Chris joined Comelit in January 2008 and has worked in several roles across the business, gaining first-hand experience of products, customers and sales operations. “I’m proud to be taking on the Sales Director role,” says Chris. “I’ve learnt a lot from the people I’ve worked with...

A new partnership co-funded by Atos and Tech First Youth makes Futures Readiness available free of charge to up to 650,000 learners across the West Midlands. Atos, a pioneer in AI-powered digital transformation, announces a new partnership with Futures Readiness, co-funded with Tech First Youth. Futures Readiness is a holistic AI preparedness programme designed to help students and staff make sense of rapid technological change. The partnership, delivered in collaboration with BMet’s Digi...

Advanced has launched a new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) seminar exploring how connected technology, cloud-based monitoring and intelligent data are transforming the management of fire detection systems. The new CPD, ‘The Evolution of Smart Fire System Management’, has been developed to help building owners, facilities managers, responsible persons and fire safety professionals understand how digital technologies can improve the way fire systems are monitored, maintaine...

Thales, a pioneer in advanced technologies for cybersecurity markets, today announced CipherTrust Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). It is the first purpose-built DSPM offering designed to help organisations go beyond discovering exposed sensitive data and applying access-based remediation, enabling them to prioritise risks and protect their most sensitive data directly through encryption, masking, or tokenisation natively within the platform. Sensitive data is increasingly distributed ac...

Genetec Inc, the pioneer in enterprise physical security software, announces Cairo Bank has successfully deployed the Genetec Security Center platform transforming how the financial institution monitors, manages, and optimises operations across one of Egypt’s largest branch networks. Cairo Bank is one of the largest and oldest financial institutions in Egypt, serving over three million customers through more than 230 branches. The security advancement was driven by new regulatory requirem...

NETSCOUT, a provider of network observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, announces nGenius® Copilot, an AI-powered conversational extension to nGeniusONE® that provides intuitive access to NETSCOUT® Smart Data. It gives more people access to Smart Data for easier and faster ways to investigate service disruptions and assess business impact. nGenius Copilot is grounded in NETSCOUT Smart Data, the high-fidelity, contextual data derived from observed n...

Cribl, the AI Platform for Telemetry, announces StreamAI, the latest addition to its AI capabilities: an enterprise AI gateway with a model router built into Cribl’s open data platform. Cribl brings its proven ability in managing and routing data at a massive scale to help organisations control runaway AI traffic, token usage, costs, and risk. After evaluating how various AI models performed on telemetry data, Cribl built a model router to enable more efficient AI inference. StreamAI rout...

Cribl, the AI Platform for Telemetry, announces Cribl Detect, built on the company’s open data platform to provide a complete SIEM at up to 50% less cost than other companies. Cribl Detect gives security teams a better way to detect, investigate, and respond to threats without locking their telemetry into another monolithic, single-vendor stack. Cribl’s new platform-first approach lets customers adapt and customise their SIEM to their unique security operations. This announcement br...

IQSIGHT, formerly Bosch Video Systems, announced that it has received LenelS2 factory certification under the LenelS2 OpenAccess Alliance Program (OAAP). IQSIGHT’s Video Recording Manager (VRM) versions 4.50 and 4.70 interface with the OnGuard® 8.3 access control system, enabling users to view live and playback video and display Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) and IVA Pro alerts directly within the OnGuard platform. Support for VRM provides access to video stored across multiple iSC...

ZeroEyes, creators of the multi-analytics weapons detection and threat intelligence platform, announces a partnership with Samson Security Fire & Facilities to expand the availability of ZeroEyes’ visual threat detection capabilities across the United Kingdom. The companies will demonstrate the technology in Booth F61 at the International Security Expo, taking place 29-30 September 2026 at Olympia London. Through the partnership, Samson will offer UK organisations access to ZeroEyes&r...

Allient Inc., a global designer and manufacturer of specialty Motion, Controls, Power and Composite Solutions achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2, effective August 27, 2026. CMMC Level 2 is a U.S. Department of Defense cybersecurity standard that verifies an organisation's ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) through the implementation of 110 rigorous security controls and processes. The CMMC Level 2 assessment was conducted by Cybersecurit...

Allied Universal®, the pioneer security and facility services company, announces that its HELIAUS® Guest visitor management system has been named a Security Today New Product of the Year in the Visitor Management category. HELIAUS Guest is Allied Universal’s automated enterprise visitor management system, designed to replace antiquated clipboard sign-in methods. Part of the company’s AI-driven HELIAUS workforce management solution, it manages every stage of the visitor exper...

Mercury Security, a pioneer in open architecture access control hardware and an HID brand, releases its 2026 Trends in Access Controllers Report, revealing how changing cybersecurity requirements, interoperability needs, cloud adoption and emerging technologies are putting greater emphasis on the role controllers play in long-term physical access control strategy. Based on a global survey of 561 physical security and cybersecurity professionals, including administrators responsible for access c...