19 September 2018

360 Vision Technology promotes Mark Rees to Managing Director

CCTV manufacturing company, 360 Vision Technology, has promoted Mark Rees from Business Development Director, to Managing Director. This appointment which coincides with the announcement that Phil Burton will become the manufacturer’s Chairman. Rees is a founding director and shareholder of 360 Vision Technology and has continuously developed his responsibilities throughout his career at the company. This included a promotion from Sales Director to Business Development Director, during which time he pioneered the transition of 360 Vision products from analogue to digital. The new MD also spearheaded the task of developing a wide range of technical partners across the globe, ensuring the manufacturer’s range of products were compatible with virtually all leading video management systems. More recently, he has focused his energies on developing the substantial export potential for 360 Vision’s range of high-end ruggedised products and has started building a structure of in-country sales presence, starting with France. “After 16 years of predominantly being in sales focused positions at 360 Vision, I feel massively privileged and proud to be taking on the role of Managing Director,” said Rees. “This will allow Phil Burton to step back from his day-to-day management at 360 Vision and focus more on the strategic direction and opportunities that present themselves. “I’m excited about the prospect of working closely with the full management team and steering the progress of 360 Vision through the current turbulent times of Brexit and beyond, which I believe will present many opportunities to continue sales growth, innovate new products, and establish 360 Vision’s product portfolio in an increasing number of world markets. “I take great pleasure in working with our many customers both here in the UK and overseas – this offers me a great insight into the future trends and requirements of our industry. I will therefore retain these activities and when viable, develop a solid local sales presence for our industry leading products in international regions.” Phil Burton commented: “Having worked closely with Mark over the last three decades, I have been extremely impressed and delighted to have witnessed the progression in his professionalism, and dedication to success, which I am sure he will carry in to his new role.” www.360visiontechnology.com

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Mark Rees to managing director

360 Vision Technology promotes Mark Rees to Managing Director

CCTV manufacturing company, 360 Vision Technology, has promoted Mark Rees from Business Development Director, to Managing Director. This appointment which coincides with the announcement that Phil Burton will become the manufacturer’s Chairman.   Rees is a founding director and shareholder of 360 Vision Technology and has continuously developed his responsibilities throughout his career at the company. This included a promotion from Sales Director to Business Development Director, during which time he pioneered the transition of 360 Vision products from analogue to digital.   The new MD also spearheaded the task of developing a wide range of technical partners across the globe, ensuring the manufacturer’s range of products were compatible with virtually all leading video management systems. More recently, he has focused his energies on developing the substantial export potential for 360 Vision’s range of high-end ruggedised products and has started building a structure of in-country sales presence, starting with France.   “After 16 years of predominantly being in sales focused positions at 360 Vision, I feel massively privileged and proud to be taking on the role of Managing Director,” said Rees. “This will allow Phil Burton to step back from his day-to-day management at 360 Vision and focus more on the strategic direction and opportunities that present themselves.   “I’m excited about the prospect of working closely with the full management team and steering the progress of 360 Vision through the current turbulent times of Brexit and beyond, which I believe will present many opportunities to continue sales growth, innovate new products, and establish 360 Vision’s product portfolio in an increasing number of world markets.   “I take great pleasure in working with our many customers both here in the UK and overseas – this offers me a great insight into the future trends and requirements of our industry. I will therefore retain these activities and when viable, develop a solid local sales presence for our industry leading products in international regions.”   Phil Burton commented: “Having worked closely with Mark over the last three decades, I have been extremely impressed and delighted to have witnessed the progression in his professionalism, and dedication to success, which I am sure he will carry in to his new role.”   www.360visiontechnology.com

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Keeping up with the changing face of security By Philip Ingram MBE

We have been lucky in 2018 after the terror that tore across Europe and the UK in 2016 – 2017 with vehicle, knife and bomb attacks happening in Nice, London Bridge, Westminster, Manchester and Barcelona.  These are just a few of the places left reeling from a wave of extremism targeting people going about their normal lives and enjoying themselves.  The often crudeness of the weaponry used belies the sophistication of many of the attacks.   2018 has been successful for the security services with a number of attacks being stopped, but the UK Counter Terror Police continue to remind everyone that they have approximately 600 active investigations going on with over 3000 people of immediate concern and another 20,000 on their radar!   2017 was marked by some of the most virulent global cyber-attacks with Wannacry infecting more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries disabling parts of the UK’s health care in the NHS, the Spanish Telecoms giant, Telefonica and FedEx.  North Korea was blamed for this incident.   In another state blamed attack, Russia was blamed for unleashing the NotPetya attack on the globe which hit many government systems in the Ukraine and elsewhere but had a massive impact on global logistics with the shipping giant Maersk falling victim and having to shut down its terminals in 4 different countries for a number of weeks costing the company an estimated $200 million in losses.   2018 has seen a development of the threat environment with the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) meaning that data breaches could well have huge implications for companies that suffer them with a €20 Million or 4% or global annual turnover fine brining additional focus to the cyber security environment.   In addition, whilst not a terror attack, we saw the first use of the colourless, odourless, virtually undetectable nerve agent Novichok, used on the streets of the small, sleepy English city of Salisbury. The attack, against a former Russian intelligence officer who defected to the West, Sergei Skripal, resulted in 7 people being contaminated and one dying.  The British government quickly blamed the Russians and the international community followed suit.   At the same time, ISIS and Al Qaeda terror videos and propaganda are advocating the use of drones against crowded places, during the FIFA World Cup in Russia an ISIS propaganda video was released in which the terrorist group claim that they would attack with drone bombs. The recipe and design for chemical weapons and chemical dispersion devices is freely available in the extremist circles according to Aimen Dean, a former MI6 spy inside Al Qaeda in his book ‘Nine Lives.’   Andrew Parker the Director General of MI5 said in May this year that, “Europe faces an intense, unrelenting and multidimensional international terrorist threat. Daesh continues to pose the most acute threat, but Al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups haven’ gone away.” Keeping abreast of the threats, the countermeasures, the developing technologies, having a platform to discuss and share best practice is always a challenge for the security community.  This is where Peter Jones, the CEO of Nineteen Events comes in.  He recently said in a blog, “all I want to do, with my team, is something to help make it a little less chaotic and bring the chance of a little more safety and security. If I can do that, then it is all worth it and will leave the world a little better for my loved ones!”  This is his mantra behind the International Security Expo. What many don’t realise is a big part of his team consists of 40 Advisory Council members who come from all aspects of the security community including Government, Industry & Academia, all at senior levels and they assist in the development of International Security Expo and help shape the content to attract the highest calibre visitors.   That content is delivered in 12 free to attend conferences held over the 2 days and these conferences include: Retail, Hotel, Education, Maritime and Transport, CNI, Crisis Response and Business Continuity, Protecting Crowded Places, Night-time economy, Designing Out Terrorism, Cyber, Data and Information Security, Aviation and Border security and finally Facilities Management security.  Some of the speakers come from the Advisory Council but many are industry leaders in these spheres and are not generally on many conference circuits.   The International Security Expo provides a unique platform for the entire security industry to come together to source products, share experience and gain the knowledge needed to address current and emerging security challenges. It and all of the conferences are free-to-attend and unite the entire security community allowing shared learning and collaboration from Government, CNI, Law Enforcement, Military, Major Events, Transport & Borders, Cyber Security, Facilities and Public and Private sectors.   A key theme running through the two days of the expo is that of innovation and many new technologies will be on display, ranging from a cost effective British built drone with thermal and optical zoom cameras that has a flight time of an hour, to the Protecting Urban Spaces feature.  This new immersive demonstration area will showcase physical products, technologies and have live scenarios to illustrate how urban spaces can be protected from mass casualty terrorist attacks.   Given its ambition, the UK Government has come on board in strength and forms the core of the Government Agency and Department zone. The USA, Canada, China and the EU all have their own zones but it is expected that representatives from over 50 countries across the globe will attend the event. In fact, over 12,500 are confidently expected to attend over the 2 days, the networking alone will be amazing.   With the rapidly changing threat landscape the one place to come for 2 days to be brought up to speed with everything that is needed, is the International Security Expo. This is one not to miss. Visit internationalsecurityexpo.com for further details and register to attend the free conference series.

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We have been lucky in 2018 after the terror that tore across Europe and the UK in 2016 – 2017 with vehicle, knife and bomb attacks happening in Nice, London Bridge, Westminster, Manchester and Barcelona.  These are just a few of the places left reeling from a wave of extremism targeting people going about their normal lives and enjoying themselves.  The often crudeness of the weaponry used belies the sophistication of many of the attacks.   2018 has been successful for the security services with a number of attacks being stopped, but the UK Counter Terror Police continue to remind everyone that they have approximately 600 active investigations going on with over 3000 people of immediate concern and another 20,000 on their radar!   2017 was marked by some of the most virulent global cyber-attacks with Wannacry infecting more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries disabling parts of the UK’s health care in the NHS, the Spanish Telecoms giant, Telefonica and FedEx.  North Korea was blamed for this incident.   In another state blamed attack, Russia was blamed for unleashing the NotPetya attack on the globe which hit many government systems in the Ukraine and elsewhere but had a massive impact on global logistics with the shipping giant Maersk falling victim and having to shut down its terminals in 4 different countries for a number of weeks costing the company an estimated $200 million in losses.   2018 has seen a development of the threat environment with the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) meaning that data breaches could well have huge implications for companies that suffer them with a €20 Million or 4% or global annual turnover fine brining additional focus to the cyber security environment.   In addition, whilst not a terror attack, we saw the first use of the colourless, odourless, virtually undetectable nerve agent Novichok, used on the streets of the small, sleepy English city of Salisbury. The attack, against a former Russian intelligence officer who defected to the West, Sergei Skripal, resulted in 7 people being contaminated and one dying.  The British government quickly blamed the Russians and the international community followed suit.   At the same time, ISIS and Al Qaeda terror videos and propaganda are advocating the use of drones against crowded places, during the FIFA World Cup in Russia an ISIS propaganda video was released in which the terrorist group claim that they would attack with drone bombs. The recipe and design for chemical weapons and chemical dispersion devices is freely available in the extremist circles according to Aimen Dean, a former MI6 spy inside Al Qaeda in his book ‘Nine Lives.’   Andrew Parker the Director General of MI5 said in May this year that, “Europe faces an intense, unrelenting and multidimensional international terrorist threat. Daesh continues to pose the most acute threat, but Al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups haven’ gone away.” Keeping abreast of the threats, the countermeasures, the developing technologies, having a platform to discuss and share best practice is always a challenge for the security community.  This is where Peter Jones, the CEO of Nineteen Events comes in.  He recently said in a blog, “all I want to do, with my team, is something to help make it a little less chaotic and bring the chance of a little more safety and security. If I can do that, then it is all worth it and will leave the world a little better for my loved ones!”  This is his mantra behind the International Security Expo. What many don’t realise is a big part of his team consists of 40 Advisory Council members who come from all aspects of the security community including Government, Industry & Academia, all at senior levels and they assist in the development of International Security Expo and help shape the content to attract the highest calibre visitors.   That content is delivered in 12 free to attend conferences held over the 2 days and these conferences include: Retail, Hotel, Education, Maritime and Transport, CNI, Crisis Response and Business Continuity, Protecting Crowded Places, Night-time economy, Designing Out Terrorism, Cyber, Data and Information Security, Aviation and Border security and finally Facilities Management security.  Some of the speakers come from the Advisory Council but many are industry leaders in these spheres and are not generally on many conference circuits.   The International Security Expo provides a unique platform for the entire security industry to come together to source products, share experience and gain the knowledge needed to address current and emerging security challenges. It and all of the conferences are free-to-attend and unite the entire security community allowing shared learning and collaboration from Government, CNI, Law Enforcement, Military, Major Events, Transport & Borders, Cyber Security, Facilities and Public and Private sectors.   A key theme running through the two days of the expo is that of innovation and many new technologies will be on display, ranging from a cost effective British built drone with thermal and optical zoom cameras that has a flight time of an hour, to the Protecting Urban Spaces feature.  This new immersive demonstration area will showcase physical products, technologies and have live scenarios to illustrate how urban spaces can be protected from mass casualty terrorist attacks.   Given its ambition, the UK Government has come on board in strength and forms the core of the Government Agency and Department zone. The USA, Canada, China and the EU all have their own zones but it is expected that representatives from over 50 countries across the globe will attend the event. In fact, over 12,500 are confidently expected to attend over the 2 days, the networking alone will be amazing.   With the rapidly changing threat landscape the one place to come for 2 days to be brought up to speed with everything that is needed, is the International Security Expo. This is one not to miss. Visit internationalsecurityexpo.com for further details and register to attend the free conference series.

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UK Software Developers May See Surge in Demand Post Brexit

Brexit Could Be Good News for Domestic Developers The uncertainty surrounding Brexit is prompting plenty of concern across all industries. But there could be a positive aspect for established UK companies. A recent survey among IT executives across the UK has shown widespread concern that the industry might face a talent shortage after Brexit. This in itself is nothing unusual and reflects the uncertainty across all industries across the UK, and indeed the EU, as the “deal or no deal” debate continues to rage. However, for established businesses that offer bespoke software development services, this could represent an opportunity. The study found that two thirds of businesses are worried that they will lose vital talent in the field of software development, while more than three quarters have plans to recruit developers from overseas and are concerned that Brexit will make this difficult. Plugging the talent gap It doesn’t take a business genius to see that the first place these employers will look in seeking to fill this talent gap is to domestic talent. The inevitable shortfall in imported workforce will force UK business owners to place a greater focus on up-skilling their existing staff, and, where possible, filling talent gaps with skilled UK-based workers. Typically, staff have a greater inclination to really commit to a company when it is willing to invest in them and it gives them the encouragement and opportunity to grow and develop. Ultimately, investing in the existing workforce in this way doesn’t just plug the skills gap, it also reduces staff attrition rates and leads to a more engaged, motivated and productive workforce. Good news for SMEs in the tech arena Of course, that sounds great in theory, but is not something that will be achieved overnight, or indeed in six months. The interesting point to note about the above survey is that it was carried out among “large UK organisations.” While upskilling from within might be a long term gain, the immediate solution is far simpler, and that is outsourcing. SMEs have long been the lifeblood of the UK economy, and they make up more than 99 percent of businesses in the private sector. Established UK developers with a good reputation and track record will be in greater demand than ever. Greater scope for investment Raising capital is always a challenge for small businesses. However, the almost inevitable depreciation of the pound post-Brexit will make UK SMEs a far more attractive proposition for private equity firms. For the UK’s burgeoning software development sector, this could signal the start of a boom. The increased demand for services from those large companies that are struggling to meet their software development needs will mean they are ripe for investment and growth. There is also a greater opportunity for software developers looking to go it alone. The UK economy will inevitably go into a period of instability post-Brexit, and it is at times like these that entrepreneurs and freelancers typically thrive. Weighing the positives and the negatives  While nobody is disputing the fact that Brexit is going to bring plenty of challenges in terms of trade, tariffs and the like, there are positive aspects to most things. For the UK tech sector, it might not all be bad news after all.

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How can True Wide Dynamic Range benefit security applications?

Surveillance Cameras need proper illumination to capture images. So, low or no light means that there are essentially no proper images. Matrix believes that the solution to this is True Wide Dynamic Range (True WDR). This is a sensor-based technology used in modern IP Cameras. Using True WDR, cameras can produce images even under varying light conditions. It can also maintain proper image brightness, exposure and contrast to ensure good image clarity.   It works by capturing several images with slow shutter speed (to capture more light) as well as fast shutter speed (to capture less light) and then combines them into a single frame. This identifies the difference in light levels in an image and rectifies the under exposed and over exposed areas to give clear and detailed images. WDR is measured in dB. A WDR of range (120dB) can capture greater scale of brightness.   The manufacturer states that the benefits of this technology are threefold. First, users can capture images even under varying light conditions. Second, True WDR maintains proper image brightness and exposure. And finally, it adjusts contrast to ensure image clarity.   Matrix believes that this feature can be used for all applications as the lighting conditions may vary in all situations during different times of a day. Every enterprise has areas that are over exposed with light that makes identifying objects difficult. Other areas are under exposed to light, such as parking lots, garages and so on, making it difficult to monitor these areas as well. Hence, True WDR can solve visibility issues and adjust the light exposure in such situations, giving clear colourful images.   www.matrixvideosurveillance.com

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How can True Wide Dynamic Range benefit security applications?

Surveillance Cameras need proper illumination to capture images. So, low or no light means that there are essentially no proper images. Matrix believes that the solution to this is True Wide Dynamic Range (True WDR). This is a sensor-based technology used in modern IP Cameras. Using True WDR, cameras can produce images even under varying light conditions. It can also maintain proper image brightness, exposure and contrast to ensure good image clarity.   It works by capturing several images with slow shutter speed (to capture more light) as well as fast shutter speed (to capture less light) and then combines them into a single frame. This identifies the difference in light levels in an image and rectifies the under exposed and over exposed areas to give clear and detailed images. WDR is measured in dB. A WDR of range (120dB) can capture greater scale of brightness.   The manufacturer states that the benefits of this technology are threefold. First, users can capture images even under varying light conditions. Second, True WDR maintains proper image brightness and exposure. And finally, it adjusts contrast to ensure image clarity.   Matrix believes that this feature can be used for all applications as the lighting conditions may vary in all situations during different times of a day. Every enterprise has areas that are over exposed with light that makes identifying objects difficult. Other areas are under exposed to light, such as parking lots, garages and so on, making it difficult to monitor these areas as well. Hence, True WDR can solve visibility issues and adjust the light exposure in such situations, giving clear colourful images.   www.matrixvideosurveillance.com

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