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Crossword Cybersecurity Plc, the cybersecurity solutions company focused on cyber strategy and risk, has announced the integration of Arc, its real-time credential checking service, with one of the industry’s most well-established secure password vaults, Sticky Password. Arc is a dark web monitoring solution that provides a continuous method of checking if credential pairs, stored by a user in the Sticky Password vault, are an identical match to credentials being distributed on dark marke...

Absolute Software, a provider of self-healing intelligent security solutions, has announced that Omdia, a provider of global research that helps enterprises navigate the technology ecosystem, named the company a “Vendor to Watch” in the latest Omdia Market Radar for Endpoint Security Platforms, 2022. The report highlights Absolute’s ability to ensure resilience for millions of remote endpoints along with a critical level of control and visibility that strengthens user trust an...

Videonetics proudly debuts its refreshed brand personality including a bold, intriguing & dynamic brandmark that impersonates its deep-rooted ideology of creating unique and transformational technologies. Inspired by their award-winning AI & DL powered video analytics engine, Videonetics, and their associated brands are represented by a new positioning statement, ‘Look Deeper’. New brandmark signifies Movement Videonetics is a deep-tech business that demands constant, new...

Senstar, a provider of sensing and information management solutions for the protection of critical infrastructure, is pleased to announce its European expansion with the appointment of Gabriel Furtado as Regional Sales Manager position covering Spain, Portugal, and Italy. "Gabriel has helped Senstar develop various markets in North and South America,” said Alain Grinbaum, Senior Sales Director. “I am confident he will be successful in this new role. Gabriel's qualifications of being...

DigiCert, Inc., a global provider of digital trust, released its annual forecast of cybersecurity trends emerging for the new year and beyond. These projections authored by DigiCert experts Dr. Avesta Hojjati, Dean Coclin, Mike Nelson, Srinivas Kumar, Stephen Davidson, Steve Job, and Tim Hollebeek are based on shifts in technology, threat actor habits, culture, and decades of combined experience. 2022 State of Digital Trust Survey “These predictions come on the heels of our 2022 St...

SALTO Systems, a manufacturer of electronic access control and operating system solutions that provide a keyless experience has created and filled two important new roles: Director of Channel Programs and Director of Industry Sectors Engagement.  Portfolio enrichment and expansion “The SALTO North America Director of Channel Programs and the Director of Industry Sectors Engagement will be instrumental in leading our efforts to expand and enrich the channel as well as position SALTO...

AlgoSec, a global cybersecurity pioneer in securing application connectivity, announced that it has acquired Prevasio, a SaaS cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) that includes an agentless cloud security posture management (CSPM) platform, anti-malware scan, vulnerability assessment, and dynamic analysis for containers. Reducing cloud security costs As applications rapidly migrate to the cloud, security teams are being flooded with alerts. These teams are struggling to detect...

Alarm.com announces Smart Arming, a new feature that intelligently auto-arms and disarms Alarm.com powered home security systems based on user activity. The first-to-market feature, which was named a CES® 2023 Innovation Awards Honoree, goes beyond scheduled arming and disarming to intelligently adapt to daily routines. Smart Arming is quick and intuitive to set up; users choose the time of day they typically want their system armed at night (e.g., after 11 p.m.) and disarmed in the morning...

Evolution, the integrated fire and security systems business, has continued its growth with three new senior appointments to its leadership team. John Baillie has been promoted to the role of Sales Director EMEA, and will now be responsible for managing and leading all of the business's sales operations across the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands. John joined Evolution in 2008 to head up its business operation in Scotland, and was promoted to UK Sales Manager in 2019. Major sales activities K...

There were 192,060 residential burglaries in the last year, meaning on average around 526 burglaries occur every day. With so many Brits falling victim to home break-ins, and the rise in home renovations over lockdowns, many now feel less safe in their homes and are opting to install increased home security measures. Smart burglar alarms The boom in popularity of home CCTV and smart burglar alarms means there are now more ways than ever to increase and monitor the home security. They wanted...

The Monitoring Association’s (TMA) President - Morgan Hertel honoured two of TMA’s long-serving volunteer members with the Mel Mahler Award, formerly known as the President’s Award on Mon., Oct. 31st during its General Business Meeting at the 2022 Annual Meeting on Marco Island, FL.  The Mel Mahler Award is presented at the discretion of the TMA president in recognition of outstanding contributions within his/her tenure. The 2022 Mel Mahler Award recipients are Anita Ostr...

Sielox, an established industry pioneer in layered access control solutions, has further enhanced the capabilities of its flagship Pinnacle™ 11.0 Access Control Platform with pre-emptive intelligence. Hundreds of user-selectable filters provide Pinnacle users with real-time data on virtually every aspect of access activity and system status, effectively transforming traditional proactive access control deployments into pre-emptive solutions for myriad physical security and business intell...

Lumeo, a designer of computer vision solutions, announces a flexible analytic that conditionally blurs objects such as faces, licence plates, and more to ensure that surveillance systems adhere to privacy and conform to legal requirements. Personal privacy Maintaining personal privacy is a pressing concern for all entities employing a surveillance system. In the past decade, more governments around the world are enacting new privacy laws which hold businesses accountable for how th...

PlainID, The Authorisation Company™, the provider of authorisation and policy-based access control, announces a strategic partnership with Dremio, the easy and open data lakehouse company. This partnership enables Dremio clients to leverage PlainID's central access control platform to manage and control access to data via Dremio, allowing for advanced access controls as part of their overall data security strategy. Simplifying data architectures The Dremio open data lakehouse delivers a...

Pyronix announces new smart home products and adds new features to its HomeControl2.0 app, as the company continues to innovate within the intruder alarm and smart home markets. The highly advanced and simple-to-use smart device app, HomeControl2.0, makes managing and controlling security systems faster and more efficient. “We’ve been working hard to develop a number of new products and features for HomeControl2.0 that offer our installers innovative solutions for boosting growth an...

Genetec Inc. (Genetec), a technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations, and business intelligence solutions, shared the results of its 2022 State Physical Security report. Based on insights from over 3,700 physical security leaders worldwide (including end users and systems integrators/installers/providers), the report looks at the security strategies organisations are putting in place to effectively navigate the realities of a changing landscape. Physical Security report...

Retail technology specialist - Checkpoint Systems is set to showcase its RF and RFID solutions at Euroshop 2023 taking place in Dusseldorf, Germany from Feb 26-March 2, 2023. Euroshop is one of the world’s No.1 trade fairs bringing together businesses and people from across the global retail industry to explore cutting-edge innovation and creativity. Checkpoint Systems will replicate retail store environments, including apparel and grocery among others, to create live technology demonstra...

A few minutes or even seconds decide whether a disaster or damage can be avoided or at least limited. Seeing more, better and earlier enables more effective action. MOBOTIX Thermal Detection can make a valuable contribution to this. It operates in three main areas: early fire detection at best, even before flames arise; quality assurance and process optimisation; and 24/7 security in object and perimeter protection, which is also GDPR-compliant. MOBOTIX p71 Thermal ECO camera The new MOBOTIX...

Facilities and security managers, architects, building managers, and many others can benefit from the time-saving support provided by a BIM and specification partnership. A webcast on December 8th introduces the process for a non-specialist audience — and explains how partnership frees up time and reduces project costs. “No prior expertise is needed,” says Marc Ameryckx, BIM Development Manager at ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions EMEIA. “That is the main message of our next...

Patriot One Technologies Inc. (‘Patriot One’ or the ‘Company’), a globally renowned technology-driven threat detection and patron screening solutions company, is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated November 17, 2022, it has received conditional approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange (the ‘TSX’) to change its name from ‘Patriot One Technologies Inc.’ to ‘Xtract One Technologies Inc.’ (the ‘Name Change&rsqu...

Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, welcomes RealWear, the pioneer in assisted reality wearable solutions, as its latest Thermal by FLIR collaborator with the recent launch of the world’s first fully hands-free, voice-controlled thermal camera module. In addition, Thermal by FLIR cohort - Ulefone recently introduced its first mobile handset featuring the Lepton 3.5 thermal camera module, the Power Armor 18T 5G Android phone. “Thermal by FLIR is a cooperative...

BlueFort Security, the UK’s provider of cybersecurity solutions, announces the results of its 2022 CISO survey, which revealed that while CISOs are still experiencing challenges around visibility, intelligence and control, nearly half (47%) are proactively focused on digital transformation and cloud migration. BlueFort Security surveyed 600 CISOs from a variety of UK organisations and found most have moved beyond the challenges of widespread shift to remote working - which resulted in sev...

ZKTeco UK Limited, the Midlands-based subsidiary of global security solutions manufacturer, ZKTeco, announces an exciting new distribution partnership with Vision Security Distribution for its state-of-the-art Access and Entrance Control solutions. The new distribution agreement signifies a great step forward for the ZKTeco brand as it starts to introduce its wider product portfolio to the UK market and contribute to the continued growth of the business globally. Technical support professional...

Emergency24, a pioneer in the alarm monitoring and security industry since 1967, announces it has hired Tom McNeil as the new Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Tom brings more than 20 years of experience and knowledge of the monitoring sector to Emergency24. With his depth and breadth of experience in various sales leadership roles with multiple central stations, Tom’s proven track record in sales and marketing and personal approach to helping alarm companies is anticipated to elevat...

Made using cutting-edge technology, Matrix COSEC ATOM RD200 satisfies all the access control requirements present across the markets. Maintaining an equilibrium between utility and aesthetics, COSEC ATOM RD200 complements corporate workspaces’ performance, securing them with world-class access control. With an easy-to-use methodology and clean fixing with minimalistic wiring, COSEC ATOM RD200 provides an intuitive user experience. Ultrafast fingerprint identification With top-notch hard...

Dan DeMichele, Vice President (VP), of Product Management for LastPass, said “The latest wave of cyberattacks is a powerful reminder of their increasing sophistication. But there has been a significant target shift – Cybercriminals aren’t just coming for governments, large-scale enterprises, and critical infrastructure, individuals and SMBs are on their radar too." He adds, "The message is clear – everyone at every level needs to be prepared. The good news is that when i...

Remote services are covered by three standards (EN 50710:2021 3, EN 16763:2017 and CLC/TS 50136-10:2022) and the concepts introduced in them are complex. Guidance document  Euralarm felt the need to produce a guidance document, that provides micro and small service companies with a handy checklist when subcontracting the operation and maintenance of the Remote Access Infrastructure (RAI) to a Remote Infrastructure Service Provider (RAISP). The guidance explains the main elements of the R...

Sella Personal Credit (Sella) is launching a trial of a credit card with biometric recognition that, thanks to a small chip sensor, allows people to make payments using their fingerprint. Users can ‘authorise payment transactions by simply placing their finger on their credit card, securely and quickly’. New biometric card to secure payments Each customer of Sella Personal Credit is provided with a kit containing a special device (‘sleeve’) Deploying the new card, wh...

Oosto’s Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Scientist presented a bold new vision for video analytics leveraging contextual scene understanding and semantic segmentation at this week’s ISC East, the International Security Conference & Exposition, in New York. In their presentation, Oosto laid out how the use of these new technologies can deliver real-time contextual analytics and more accurate alerts based on a more holistic understanding of a scene. Providing limited insight...

Matrix COSEC ARGO is an engineering feat designed with high-performance standards that revamps various organisations’ lookout towards security concerns, including securing their assets and employees. With the peak technological intelligence of the age, this biometric door controller, with a 3.5” IPS Touchscreen LCD and a sleek look, gives a visually impacting experience. With a super upgrade from the conventional devices available in the same range in the market, Matrix COSEC ARGO i...