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Opengear partners with Ingram Micro for EMEA expansion

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 appoints Chris Carroll as sales director

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...

Atos partners with futures readiness in West Midlands

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 CPD: The evolution of fire safety management

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 unveils CipherTrust DSPM for data security

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...

Accelerate IT operations with NETSCOUT nGenius copilot

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 StreamAI: AI gateway for secure data routing

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 detect: AI SIEM for modern security challenges

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...

Allient secures CMMC level 2 for defence projects

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...

HELIAUS guest enhances visitor security management

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...

Access controller purchase trends: Mercury Security 2026

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...

Northwave & ESET: Platinum partner award success

Northwave and ESET stand for a common goal: protecting the customers’ business and enabling them to have a safe digital journey. The Northwave Germany team has reason to celebrate. Marcus Hoppe, Sales Director DACH: “We have achieved the highest ESET partner status with the PLATINUM PARTNER AWARD and are very proud of this. It is proof that we are on the right track with our security approach.” A big thanks to Uwe Rehwald, Senior Partner Account Manager ESET, for the honour an...

DigiCert & NVIDIA: AI agent security collaboration

DigiCert, a pioneer in intelligent trust, announces support for the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform to help enterprises establish verifiable identity and authority for autonomous AI agents. At the centre of the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform is NVIDIA OpenShell, an open, secure runtime that places infrastructure-level controls around autonomous agents. OpenShell permits nothing by default, enforces policy outside the agent’s process, and records every decision to allow or deny an act...

Hochiki Europe expands fire detection in Gillingham

His Excellency Mr Hiroshi Suzuki toured the fire detection manufacturer's Gillingham headquarters as part of his visit to Medway Hochiki Europe welcomed His Excellency Mr Hiroshi Suzuki, Ambassador of Japan to the United Kingdom, to its Gillingham headquarters on Thursday 24 September 2026. The Ambassador was spending the day in Medway meeting local businesses and celebrating the area's long-standing links with Japan. He was joined by the Mayor of Medway, Naushabah Khan MP and a delegation of M...

Chubbsafes guide: Certified storage & asset security

Chubbsafes, part of Gunnebo Safe Storage, has launched a new technical discussion guide examining when certified storage should be reviewed based on the value of jewellery and precious metals. Developed for jewellery retailers, manufacturers, bullion dealers and security professionals, When Asset Values Rise, Should Storage Be Reviewed? explores the relationship between certified storage, declared asset values and physical security. It considers the technical factors influencing safe storage, f...

3DX-RAY showcases security systems at International Security Expo 2026

3DX-RAY Ltd will showcase its complete portfolio of security inspection, EOD and Human Presence Detection Systems at the International Security Expo. The company’s expanding portfolio provides border, law enforcement and security agencies, correctional authorities, critical national infrastructure (CNI) operators with a comprehensive range of technologies designed to address modern security threats across borders, prisons, CNI, government facilities and transportation hubs. Detection of...

Ranger security offers equal employee benefits

Ranger Fire and Security has become one of the first businesses in the fire and security industry to offer fully equalised private medical insurance (PMI) and life assurance benefits. It means that every employee across Ranger, regardless of role, seniority or which business within the Group they work for, will now receive the same wide-ranging and comprehensive package of workplace benefits. The move, which forms part of a wider set of workplace initiatives, breaks from an industry standard in...

Hochiki Europe at Adria security summit 2026

Hochiki Europe will be at stand 140 at Zagreb Fair on 7 and 8 October. It will show its fire detection systems and emergency lighting to customers across the Adriatic region. Hochiki Europe will exhibit at the Adria Security Summit 2026 as a silver sponsor. The summit takes place at Zagreb Fair, Croatia, on 7 and 8 October 2026. It is organised by a&s Adria and is the largest annual security and safety event in Southeast Europe. It brings together manufacturers, system integrators, distribu...

AI security: Thales and Google cloud partnership

Thales announces an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to help enterprises address emerging security and governance challenges associated with agentic AI, bringing integrated protection, visibility, and policy enforcement to AI-driven workflows on Google Cloud. The integration of Thales AI Security Fabric with Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise helps organisations apply security, governance, and visibility across interactions among users, agents, models, and tools in real time. Next generati...

iLOQ & Kimi Räikkönen: Next-gen digital access

iLOQ, a global technology company providing sustainable smart access management solutions that enhance security, flexibility and convenience, has partnered with Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Räikkönen and his son Robin Räikkönen for a new global brand campaign centred on the next generation – and the opportunities that can be created when they are given access to move forward. Under the theme “The Next Generation Is Coming,” the campaign builds on iLOQ&rsqu...

Pyronix Wi-Fi module revolutionises alarm systems

Pyronix has announced the launch of PyronixCloud Connect (PCC), a compact and affordable Wi-Fi-enabled module that brings modern smart features to older wired alarm systems, without the need for a full system upgrade. Designed to integrate seamlessly with legacy Pyronix and third-party control panels, PCC connects older systems to InSite Pro Cloud and the HomeControl2.0 app. This enables users to remotely arm or disarm their system, check status updates and receive alerts in real time, adding p...

Northwave Deutschland cyber security expertise grows

On 1 January 2024, Mrs. Eileen Walther took over the position of General Manager of Northwave Deutschland GmbH, servicing the DACH-region, from their base in Leipzig. In her new role, she will be responsible for the management of the cyber security provider for the entire DACH region. Eileen Walther previously worked successfully as Country Manager Germany for Northwave for four years and has contributed significantly to the success in this region. She takes over the position from Marc de Jong...

Talitha Papelard leads Northwave Benelux region

Northwave Nederland BV, a provider of managed cyber security solutions, announces that Talitha Papelard assumed the role of General Manager for the company’s Benelux region on 1 January 2024. Northwave is again represented by a woman in a leadership role. Northwave has kicked off the new year with a new regional and strategic direction focused on innovation in Europe. The new General Manager for the Benelux, Talitha Papelard, follows Pim Takkenberg, who successfully led the Northwave Bene...

Northwave achieves SOC-CMM certification in Europe

Northwave Cyber Security proudly announces its recent certification with the Security Operations Center Capability Maturity Model (SOC-CMM), making history as the first company in Europe to achieve this distinguished level of quality certification. The SOC-CMM certification marks an important milestone for Northwave and strengthens the company's position as a reliable and innovative partner in the cyber security industry. As a key player in the European market, Northwave's commitment to excelle...

Camelot Secure & Baltimore Ravens cyber partnership

Camelot Secure and its parent company, DigiFlight Inc., announced Tuesday a partnership with the Baltimore Ravens, becoming the team’s “Proud Cyber Resilience Partner” and bringing decades of experience supporting national security and mission-critical operations to one of the National Football League’s (NFL’s) most recognised franchises. The partnership connects the two worlds of professional football and cybersecurity, where preparation, resilience and performanc...

DigiCert unveils quantum central for PQC readiness

DigiCert, a pioneer in intelligent trust, announces the general availability of DigiCert Quantum Central, part of the DigiCert ONE platform, that helps organisations manage and demonstrate progress toward post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness. First introduced in preview in July, Quantum Central offers expanded capabilities that help organisations move from finding cryptographic risks to managing them. Teams can bring together cryptographic data from multiple sources, apply their own securi...

Euralarm guidance on fire-fighting foam disposal

Euralarm has published a new guidance document, Guideline on Disposal of Fire-Fighting Foam Media (UK & Europe), providing practical recommendations for the safe, compliant and environmentally responsible handling and disposal of fire-fighting foam media. The publication reflects the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape surrounding PFAS-containing firefighting foams and supports organisations in adopting best practice throughout the disposal process. The guidance has been developed for man...

Alibaba cloud expands AI services across key markets

Alibaba Cloud, a global provider of AI infrastructure and the intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, today announced its latest global infrastructure expansion plan at the 2026 Apsara Conference, alongside a series of new AI capabilities designed to help enterprises build, deploy and scale AI applications more efficiently. The technology company has also announced its comprehensive collaboration with global enterprises including Panasonic Digital, Unity China, Lion Parcel, Loomi Entertainment...

Teledyne FLIR Si2a-Series: Acoustic imaging launch

Teledyne FLIR, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, announces the launch of the Si2a-LD and Si2a-Pro, completing the new Si2a-Series portfolio of fixed-mount acoustic imaging solutions for continuous condition monitoring in industrial and utility environments. Designed to provide always-on visibility into asset health, the Si2a-LD and Si2a-Pro help organisations move beyond periodic inspections by continuously monitoring critical systems for developing issues. Integrated with the FLIR As...

ClanTect to supply HPDS for Eurasian border security

ClanTect, as part of the 3DX-RAY Ltd portfolio, has secured a significant contract to supply six ClanTect Human Presence Detection systems to support state border security operations in Eurasia. The award represents the first major contract secured by ClanTect since becoming part of 3DX-Ray and marks another important milestone in the continued international deployment of advanced clandestine detection technology. Intrusive inspection procedures ClanTect HPDS is designed to provide a fast, hi...