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The largest Internet of Things (IoT) exhibition “2021 Smart City Summit & Expo” in Asia will be on stage from Mar.23 - Mar.26. LILIN, a global pioneer of IP video cameras, recording devices, and software will showcase the latest AI multi-application in the “IoT Surveillance” area (booth number #Q402). There are three major scenario themes on the side, namely “A series of AI cameras”, “Diverse intelligent applications” and “AI customised...

Safeture has entered into an agreement with the U.S./EU corporation Insured Nomads, the first insurtech company focused on remote workers, digital nomads, expats, and travellers. As of now, Insured Nomads, with the help of Safeture's technology, can offer and extend policyholders with an upgrade of benefits and services suited to the needs of the new normal. Initially, the agreement runs for three years and gives Safeture 500 000+ USD plus additional revenue with membership growth. Remote work...

Heald Ltd, the UK’s designer and manufacturer of hostile vehicle mitigation security products, has developed an Expansion Joint Unit to enhance its award-winning Bridge Bollard System, which protects bridges and other locations which require an ultra-shallow mount from the threat of vehicle attacks.  Following the Bridge Bollard System’s launch in February 2020, the Expansion Joint consists of a 5400mm barrier that allows for installation over ground level fittings such as manh...

NW Security launches its 36 page Management Report entitled ‘Preparing for the Next Generation of CCTV Systems’. The report brings together all results and analysis based on England-wide market research it conducted of medium and large sized firms running CCTV systems. The Report reveals that England is poised to become an early and rapid adopter of Cloud CCTV. It explores why 58 per cent of all firms captured in its survey of CCTV system users, are planning to migrate their existin...

Acronis, a pioneer in cyber protection, announces the acquisition of Synapsys, its long-time partner located in Cape Town, South Africa that specialises in distributing Acronis Cyber Protection Solutions through the service provider channel. Marking the latest move in the company’s accelerated growth plan, it is Acronis’ fourth acquisition in the past 18 months. Synapsys is a channel-centric group of companies that delivers Acronis Cyber Protection Solutions to thousands of customer...

FLIR recently celebrated the grand opening of FLIR Systems Middle East (FSME), a newly combined service and support centre based in Dubai.  Located next to Al Maktoum International Airport, the new 33,000+ square foot (3,110 square metres) facility will house state-of-the-art service and repair capabilities. The building features two service labs designed to meet the unique needs of the company’s Industrial and Defense Technologies businesses and products.  FLIR customer exper...

Optilan, the security, and communications company for the energy, infrastructure, pipeline, and rail sectors have appointed Adrian Bannister as Chief Financial Officer to its Executive Management Team. Adrian brings over 25 years of experience in Chief Financial Officer roles and was most notably involved in the buyout of the Sparrows Offshore team in 2000. Adrian has worked exclusively for high-growth and entrepreneurial, private-equity-backed companies ever since then. Adrian was most recent...

VPS Holdings Limited (VPS) has just released their lat­est ver­sion of its ground-break­ing ini­tia­tive, to help sites pre­pare and be secured, before trespassers set up ille­gal encampments. Accord­ing to the lat­est gov­ern­ment statistics, the num­ber of trav­ellers’ car­a­vans in the United Kingdom (UK) has almost tripled from 8,000 to 23,000, between 1979 and 2020. When sev­er­al car­a­vans set­tle in un...

Vectra AI, a pioneer in Network Detection and Response (NDR) announced it has successfully completed its Service Organisation Control (SOC 2) Type 2 certification for its Cognito Detect and Cognito Recall cloud and enterprise software, a milestone for the company and the NDR industry. With SOC 2 compliance, business leaders should be confident that their information will be secure and confidential in Cognito Detect and Cognito Recall. Data security systems  NDR is a foundational element...

Argon, a new security startup securing the modern software delivery process, emerges from stealth mode as the first unified security solution that protects all stages of the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline and ensures the integrity of the software development lifecycle (SDLC). “The massive effect of the SolarWinds’ IT management software breach that began when hackers compromised one of its software updates, signalled the birth of a new cyberattack surfac...

The recent growth of funding into the SaaS application monitoring and security space makes MSPs wonder how they can expand their services and grow their business. A recent article by Joe Panettieri of ChannelE2E and MSSP Alert provided a round-up of the SaaS application security tools and software platforms that have achieved recent funding and demonstrates there is clear recognition that monitoring the user behaviour associated with SaaS applications is important and should be a part of every...

Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global pioneer in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announces the availability of the most complete server lineup supporting the AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processors in the industry. Supermicro’s SuperBlade on the SPECjbb 2015-Distributed achieved back-to-back world record benchmarks on the critical-jOPS and max-jOPS tests. The SuperBlade delivered up to a 36% improvement from the 2nd Gen to the 3rd Gen of...

An innovative system that aims to protect road workers, one of the riskiest occupations in the United Kingdom, has been shortlisted by the British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) for its Safety Solutions Award. Over 6,500 recorded incidents of traffic incursions (vehicles entering road works) occurred on UK roads, during the last three years, at a rate of 175 per month, creating a high risk of injury and endangering the lives of thousands of road workers, who are employed on highway construct...

Paxton Access Inc. has launched the latest addition to their line of wireless access control solutions, the PaxLock Pro - Mortise, a smart lockset designed for quick and easy installation to conveniently secure external facing doors. Available in black or white fascia with an Eclipse or Galaxy handle, the PaxLock Pro - Mortise fits discreetly into a variety of environments. It is ideal for education and healthcare facilities, as well as commercial premises like corporate offices, warehouses, an...

Johnson Controls, the provider of smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, and architect of the OpenBlue digital connected platforms announce the availability of the new C-One2 mobile terminals from Coppernic for the innovative Tyco Software House C•CURE Go Reader. C•CURE Go is an application that extends the capabilities of the C•CURE 9000 security and event management system with portable, secure access control functionality, even in remote or disconnected areas. Ideal mobil...

ADT Commercial continues its M&A strategy to expand its nationwide geographic footprint by purchasing SAFE Electronics, Inc., Las Vegas, NV. The acquisition comes after ADT Commercial purchased the assets and customer agreements of Atlanta-based Ackerman Security Systems’ commercial sales and service division. Authority comments “We’re so excited to welcome SAFE Electronics to ADT Commercial and to deepen our presence in the Las Vegas area and across the state of Nevada....

Abnormal Security has announced its placement on Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021 for its breakthrough cloud-native email security platform that stops modern email attacks through behavioural data science. The list honours the businesses that have not only found a way to be resilient in the past year, but also turned those challenges into impact-making processes. Innovative, data science approach Abnormal Security’s inn...

Isorg, a pioneer in organic photodetectors (OPDs) and large-area image sensors, announces its Fingerprint Acquisition Profile (FAP) 10 module has received FBI certification, the first in this category of organic photodiode (OPD) based optical sensors. The FAP 10 biometrics module is now approved for use in security applications, in particular in mobile device identification for access control at airports and other facilities where the highest security levels are needed. Intense indoor lighting...

Allied Universal®, a security and facility services company in North America, announces the acquisition of Security Integration, Inc. – a security systems company based in San Rafael, California. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “The acquisition of Security Integration is an important step in our long-term strategic plan to leverage technology across our entire business footprint especially in Northern California,” said Steve Jones, Chairman & CEO of Allied Univer...

Impinj, Inc., a globally renowned provider and pioneer of RAIN RFID solutions has announced that on February 26, 2021, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware (the ‘Court’) issued an order (the ‘Preliminary Order’), providing for preliminary approval of the proposed settlement of the claims, asserted nominally on behalf of the company, against the individual defendants, named in the previously disclosed stockholder derivative action, entitled ‘...

Pluralsight, Inc., the globally renowned technology workforce development company, has announced the promotion of Lindsay Bayuk to the position of Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), effective immediately. Reporting to Pluralsight, Inc.’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Aaron Skonnard, Lindsay Bayuk was promoted, after serving as interim CMO and prior to that, serving as Vice President (VP) of Portfolio Marketing at the company. Spearheaded Pluralsight's enterprise expansion Pl...

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., a provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, launches Check Point Harmony, the first unified solution to enable secure connectivity to any resource anywhere and give total endpoint protection for users on any device. Harmony secures both corporate and BYOD devices, and internet connections from known and zero-day attacks, while giving Zero-Trust access to business applications in a single, easy to manage solution. Securing the new work from anywhere en...

Aratek gears up to show its latest biometric security and digital identity solutions at the ISC West 2022, the premier trade show for comprehensive & converged security in the U.S. Topping the bill is the Aratek BA8300, an IP65-rated terminal that integrates fever detection, fingerprint recognition, barcode scanning (for reading any digital COVID certificates) & RFID reading. It runs Aratek’s patented Truface Manager which enables Live Face Detection on the built-in dual HDR camer...

Yeastar, the provider of SME PBX system, and TELIgraph, the Singapore-based distributor of business telecommunication and phone systems jointly announce a distribution partnership. TELIgraph will distribute the full line of Yeastar’s innovative Unified Communications solutions to channels across Singapore. VoIP and Unified Communications solutions “We feel excited to partner with TELIgraph which has been in the business of telecommunication and phone systems for 33 years in Singapo...

Mayflex, the distributor of Converged IP Solutions, has agreed to a partnership with Tripp Lite to distribute their product portfolio in the UK, particularly in the UPS systems category. Tripp Lite, a manufacturer of power and connectivity solutions, has a longstanding reputation for both quality and excellence. Headquartered in Chicago, USA, the company has a global presence in over 90 countries with more than 50 regional sales offices. Impressive product quality Tripp Lite’s extensive...

Dahua Technology USA, a globally renowned, video-centric, provider of smart IoT solutions, announces a new edition to their North American product line - an indoor/outdoor, second-generation 4x5 MP multi-sensor camera that is ideal for flexible, wide-area surveillance. Featuring four 1/2.7-in 5 MP progressive-scan CMOS sensors, each with a 2.8 to 12 mm motorised lens, the DH-IPC-PDBW82041N-B360 allows each unstitched sensor to be configured independently of the others. This enables flexible, mu...

“Organisations should never have to choose between protecting the privacy of individuals and their physical security,” said Pierre Racz, President of Genetec Inc., a foremost technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions. Putting these principles into practice, Genetec provides the necessary tools for security professionals to responsibly gather and manage data, particularly video while supporting compliance with privacy laws...

Following the outbreak of COVID-19 and the pandemic everyone is living through, the uptake in touchless access control which was previously gaining in popularity has been accelerated driving digital transformation across many industries and technologies. Among these is the rapid growth of mobile and cloud-based systems that make access control a simple and secure solution for businesses to manage keys, users, and doors across multiple locations, simply and conveniently. SALTO Systems, which has...

Yeastar, the provider of SME PBX system, and Bangkok Telecommunication, the Thailand-based distributor in the office automation and voice communication industry jointly announce a distribution partnership. Bangkok Telecommunication will distribute the full line of Yeastar’s innovative Unified Communications solutions to channels across Thailand. Telecommunication solutions “We feel thrilled to welcome Bangkok Telecommunication as Yeastar’s certified distributor in Thailand. T...

British manufacturer Baldwin Boxall has announced the availability of BIM objects for its new VIGIL3 voice alarm system. Built on a fault-tolerant Ethernet backbone, VIGIL3 is entirely modular for complete scalability; inputs and outputs are delivered via modules that can easily be distributed across a project. Systems can grow according to a user’s needs and, with up to 400 inputs and 800 outputs on a single system, VIGIL3 is an investment for the future. Features and functions VIGIL3...