ASSA ABLOY has signed an agreement to acquire August Home, a leading smart lock business in the US. “I am very pleased to welcome August into the ASSA ABLOY Group. August constitutes a strategic addition to the Group and reinforces our position in the residential smart door market,” says Johan Molin, President and CEO of…
HID FARGO Connect cuts the cord between printers and dedicated PCs for a new way to create and securely issue IDs. The cloud-based HID FARGO® Connect™ solution has won the 2017 Campus Safety Best Awards in the Access Control & Identity Management category. As the world’s first cloud-based card personalization and issuance solution, HID FARGO…
Extreme Networks, Inc., has signed an asset purchase agreement with Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. to purchase the company’s switching, routing and analytics (SRA) data center business for substantially the same terms as the previously announced agreement between Extreme and Broadcom. The transaction is expected to close within 30 days and is subject to the satisfaction…
Top analyst firm confirms NICE a Leader in Biometric Authentication and Fraud Detection Market. NICE has been recognized by Opus Research as one of the top tier vendors in both authentication and fraud detection using voice biometrics. The company was noted for the breadth of its contact center solutions and the depth of its integration…
Johnson Controls has completed the previously announced sale of its Scott Safety business to 3M for approximately $2.0 billion. Scott Safety is a leader in high performance respiratory protection, gas and flame detection, thermal imaging and other critical products, and is expected to generate sales of approximately $575 million and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation…
Oncam, the leading provider of 360-degree video capture and business intelligence technology has been honored with two awards as part of Retail Risks’ Fraud Awards 2017 program. Oncam, alongside partner Video Analysis Solutions (VAS), was named the winner of the Most Innovative In-store Solution for its Live Customer Occupancy Watch platform and received a ‘highly…
To continue providing the expected, products and services that we expect, businesses handle increasingly large amounts of data. The security of this information is a major concern to consumers and companies alike fuelled by a number of high-profile cyberattacks. The havoc caused by such attacks runs from celebrities embarrassed by careless photos, to the loss…
Presents high accuracy video analytics SaaS for smart cities at the GPU technology conference in Tel Aviv. Agent Vi™, the leading global provider of video analytics solutions has joined NVIDIA’s Metropolis Software Partner Program. Agent Vi employs NVIDIA GPUs to deliver cutting-edge intelligent video analysis via deep learning algorithms. Being a part of the Metropolis…
The MOBOTIX Allround Dual MI6 has received a Merlion award in the ‘Surveillance’ category at this year’s Safety and Security Asia 2017, in Singapore. The Merlion awards, which were being held for the 10th time, recognise outstanding new designs and products in the field of security and the importance of innovation. MOBOTIX and its distributor…
GJD features in the ‘Creating a Security Culture’ programme, introduced by national newsreader Natasha Kaplinksy. The Security Institute and ITN Productions partnered to produce the programme in a news and current affairs style. ‘Creating a Security Culture’ was launched at the Security Institute Annual Conference, on 3rd October 2017 at Armoury House in The City…