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Senstar welcomes new Vice President, Sales for North America

15th January 2019Zoe Deighton-SmytheNo CommentsKristen Cory, new appointment, North America, security, senstar, Vice President, video management solutions

Senstar is pleased to introduce Kristen Cory as its new Vice President, Sales, North America. Mrs. Cory has assumed direct responsibility for Senstar’s North American sales organization. “I am excited to join Senstar and I am looking forward to working with the US and Canadian teams to grow the Senstar brand,” said Mrs. Cory. “Senstar’s…

Critical Infrastracture Protection and Resilience North America – call for abstracts, deadline extended January 11th 2019

8th January 2019Zoe Deighton-SmytheNo CommentsAdvisory Committee, Critical Infrastructure protection, cyber terrorism, North America, terrorism

The Advisory Committee is currently inviting abstracts for consideration for the 2019 conference programme. Increasing levels of international terrorism and changes in the global climate continue to pose a very real and escalating threat to critical national infrastructure around the world. The United States, as the world’s largest economy has some of the most developed…

Access Control

Matrix Comsec to host its event Matrix Insight on 24th Jan’19 in Philippines

Matrix Comsec has confirmed it will be hosting its maiden event Insight in Philippines on 24th January 2019. Solution experts will be exhibiting Unified Communication, Video Surveillance, Access Control and Time-Attendance solutions at the event. They will also be highlighting the benefits of partnering with Matrix for the attendees. All of their solutions are reportedly... Read more

Multiple zero-day vulnerabilities discovered by tenable research in building access technology

Tenable, the Cyber Exposure company, have announced that Tenable Research has discovered several zero-day vulnerabilities in the PremiSys access control system developed by IDenticard. When exploited, the most severe vulnerability would give an attacker unfettered access to the badge system database, allowing him/her to covertly enter buildings by creating fraudulent badges and disabling building locks.... Read more

VuWall announces integration with Genetec video and access control technology

VuWall, a manufacturer of videowall controllers and control room videowall management solutions, have strengthened their market offering by integrating with the Genetec Security Centre platform. To provide customers with a comprehensive solution, VuWall has integrated the VuWall2 Video Wall Management Software into the Genetec Security Centre platform for total video wall control. Video wall controllers... Read more

Open Options appoints Steve Wagner as President

Open Options (acquired by ACRE, LLC on December 17, 2018), the leader in open platform access control solutions has appointed Steve Wagner as the company’s new President. Steve began his career in the industry in 1986 as VP of Sales & Marketing for Checkpoint Systems. He moved on to become the COO with HID Global... Read more

Property and site protection teams join forces to create VPS Security Services

Two separate divisions of VPS (UK) are combining to operate under a new banner of VPS Security Services. Their Property division, providing protection for people, property and assets for over 25 years, will merge with their Site Security unit, which specialises in securing construction sites, utilities and assets in remote, challenging environments. “We have the... Read more

Video Surveillance

Milestone Systems introduces push-to-talk in the mobile client

In the latest update of Milestone XProtect 2019 R1 video management software, Milestone Systems introduces two-way audio in the Mobile Client, enabling the users to speak to people on camera, directly from their mobile devices. The first XProtect release of 2019 extends the usability of the Smart Client and takes it outside the control room... Read more

Matrix Comsec to host its event Matrix Insight on 24th Jan’19 in Philippines

OpenView and Bold announce new technology partnership

Bold Communications has announced a new technology partnership with OpenView Security Solutions. This new partnership will enable clients, particularly in the public sector, to take advantage of the significant expertise and capabilities accumulated by both companies over many years in the deployment of innovative alarm and CCTV-based security systems that deliver best value. Bold Communications... Read more