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Farpointe's New Vandal- and Bullet-resistant Contactless Card Readers Take a Hit

Increased access control security from thugs, delinquents, criminals and terrorists.

Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents Selects AMAG Technology's Symmetry

Newly strengthened partnership between AMAG Technology and Salient Systems provides unmatched security system for adolescent mental health hospital.

Delta Vehicle Access Control Systems Integral to Meeting CIP-014

Protects electric power infrastructures from terrorist vehicle attacks.

First Online Security Game Launched to Help Educate and Raise Awareness

IS Decisions launched ‘The Weakest Link: A user security game,' with the input of security experts and analysts.

Securityhunter Awarded Multiple Award Task Order Contract by Department of Health and Human Services

Company delighted about government award for enterprise-wide physical security and security system integration support services.

Razberi Technologies Launches New Channel Partner Program

Provides valued system integrators with the tools, resources and benefits needed to maximize long-term customer relationships and drive sales.

JFK Airport Threats

Authorities Believe 11 International Flight Threats Were From Single Source

U.S. officials say all 11 threats were phoned in by a single person.

TRI-ED Honored with Two Distributor of the Year Awards

Company committed to being a true distribution partner.



Five Key Benefits of Incident Management Software for the Retail Market

Five Key Benefits of Incident Management Software for the Retail Market

Security efforts often hindered by losses related to theft, damage or other factors.

Hikvision and Citizen Schools Provide STEM Education to Students in Need

Company volunteers provided hands-on classroom opportunities for middle schools students at Chase Elementary in Chicago.

Morse Watchmans SmartKey Reader Improves Security and Workflow Productivity

Single location automated process offers convenience and speed to system programming.

Code Blue IP Phones Integrate with Genetec's Security Center Sipelia Software

Effective communication enabled between operators and IP speakerphones deployed throughout a location in a single system.

Denis Hébert Leaves HID Global as President and CEO

A little investigative journalism identifies access control company's rather quiet change.

Rating a Company

Rating a Company's Security Effectiveness

Tallying the number of alerts and breaches doesn't tell the whole story.

Security Guards of French President Being Questioned

Security Guards of French President Getting Questioned

Questions have now been asked in the wake of the incident.

New Airline Safety Video Sure to Please Web-savvy Passengers

New Airline Safety Video Sure to Please Web-savvy Passengers

Video features familiar faces, animals and animations.

Password Recovery Questions are a Terrible Way to Protect Online Accounts

Password Recovery Questions are a Terrible Way to Protect Online Accounts

A new research paper found that people often choose obvious answers that are easy for hackers to guess.

School Security Findings from National Center for Education Statistics Survey

School Security Findings from National Center for Education Statistics Survey

Overall, reporting violent incidents is down 9% perhaps due to beefed up security.

Music Festival Safety Coordinated with Milestone Video

Unified Command’s mobile security unit uses XProtect IP video management technology to manage crowd services with fast incident response.

Pelco by Schneider Electric Releases Optera Series

Panoramic cameras featuring unique panomersive experience.

Security Video Shows Bikers Fleeing Gunfire and Guiding Others to Safety

Security Video Shows Bikers Fleeing Gunfire and Guiding Others to Safety

The video captured the events of the Waco biker violence.

IDEAL Networks Releases Latest Generation of DataCENTER Software

Free software allows datacom professionals to download, manage, edit and print pdf reports in three easy steps.

Bin Laden Haunted by Fear of Being Hunted

Bin Laden Haunted by Fear of Being Hunted

Recently declassified letter warns wife to take extra precautions, discusses Internet security and overall physical security for Al-Qaeda members.

PSA Security Network Announces New National Deployment Program

First of its kind online platform to bring comprehensive search and mapping tools to the physical security industry.

Exacq Technologies Announces Integration with Tyco's Sensormatic Anti-theft System

Real-time loss event data improves merchandise protection.

Idesco Partners With Viakoo

Partnerships to help customers eliminate missing video & keep an eye on their facility at all times.

U.S. Air Force Renews Honeywell's Certification to Protect Critical Assets

Grants Vindicator critical asset security solutions authority to operate on USAF networks worldwide.

VITEK to Showcase High Quality and Affordable Video Surveillance Products at NRF PROTECT

Featured products included On Cue, Alpha & ENVI Lines.

Vidsys Releases New Educational Videos

Expands discussion of converged security.

President to Declare Climate Change a National Security Threat

President to Declare Climate Change a National Security Threat

Excerpts from a commencement speech describe how the president will define climate change as a national security threat.

Featured

  • Mall of America Deploys AI-Powered Analytics to Enhance Parking Intelligence

    Mall of America®, the largest shopping and entertainment complex in North America, announced an expansion of its ongoing partnership with Axis Communications to deploy cutting-edge car-counting video analytics across more than a dozen locations. With this expansion, Mall of America (MOA) has boosted operational efficiency, improved safety and security, and enabled more informed decision-making around employee scheduling and streamlining transportation for large events. Read Now

  • Security Industry Association Launches New “askSIA” AI Tool

    The Security Industry Association (SIA) has unveiled a brand-new SIA member benefit – askSIA, a conversational AI agent designed to help users get the most out of their SIA membership, easily access SIA resources and find the latest information on SIA’s training and courses, reports and publications, events, certification offerings and more. SIA members can easily find askSIA by visiting the SIA homepage or looking for the askSIA icon in the top left of webpages. Read Now

    • Industry Events
  • Industry Embraces Mobile Access, Biometrics and AI

    A combination of evolving workplace dynamics, technology innovation and new user expectations is changing how people enter and interact with physical spaces. Access control is at the heart of these changes. Combined with biometrics and AI, mobile access control has become increasingly crucial for deploying entry solutions that are seamless, secure and adaptive to user needs. Read Now

  • Sustainable Video Solution Delivered for Landmark City of London Office Development

    An advanced, end-to-end video solution from IDIS, with a focus on reducing waste and costs, has helped a major office development in the City of London align its security with sustainability objectives. Read Now

  • DHS to End ‘Shoes-Off’ Travel Policy

    Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced a new policy today which will allow passengers traveling through domestic airports to keep their shoes on while passing through security screening at TSA checkpoints. Read Now

New Products

  • 4K Video Decoder

    3xLOGIC’s VH-DECODER-4K is perfect for use in organizations of all sizes in diverse vertical sectors such as retail, leisure and hospitality, education and commercial premises.

  • Luma x20

    Luma x20

    Snap One has announced its popular Luma x20 family of surveillance products now offers even greater security and privacy for home and business owners across the globe by giving them full control over integrators’ system access to view live and recorded video. According to Snap One Product Manager Derek Webb, the new “customer handoff” feature provides enhanced user control after initial installation, allowing the owners to have total privacy while also making it easy to reinstate integrator access when maintenance or assistance is required. This new feature is now available to all Luma x20 users globally. “The Luma x20 family of surveillance solutions provides excellent image and audio capture, and with the new customer handoff feature, it now offers absolute privacy for camera feeds and recordings,” Webb said. “With notifications and integrator access controlled through the powerful OvrC remote system management platform, it’s easy for integrators to give their clients full control of their footage and then to get temporary access from the client for any troubleshooting needs.”

  • A8V MIND

    A8V MIND

    Hexagon’s Geosystems presents a portable version of its Accur8vision detection system. A rugged all-in-one solution, the A8V MIND (Mobile Intrusion Detection) is designed to provide flexible protection of critical outdoor infrastructure and objects. Hexagon’s Accur8vision is a volumetric detection system that employs LiDAR technology to safeguard entire areas. Whenever it detects movement in a specified zone, it automatically differentiates a threat from a nonthreat, and immediately notifies security staff if necessary. Person detection is carried out within a radius of 80 meters from this device. Connected remotely via a portable computer device, it enables remote surveillance and does not depend on security staff patrolling the area.