Day: December 21, 2020

Global security manufacturer, Gallagher, has recently appointed Shamsher Singh as the Regional Manager for North India. Singh joined the team lead by Gautham NV to support Gallagher’s growing business opportunities in India – including a significant project currently underway with the Indian Air Force. Singh brings to the role over 11 years of sales and business development experience working with multinational companies. He holds an MBA in Marketing and International Business and an engineering degree in Electronics and Communication. “We’re thrilled to welcome Shamsher to the Gallagher India team,” said Ian Meadows, Sales Manager for India, the Middle East, and Africa, “With the skills and experience Shamsher brings to the table, he will play a key role in our North India growth.” Singh started in the role on 5 October 2020 and will work closely with Gallagher’s network of channel partners to bring the latest security technology to the region. A technology leader in integrated access control, intruder alarms management and perimeter protection, Gallagher’s security solutions are in use within the highest levels of national and local government, military, commercial, industrial, healthcare, transportation, and academic organisations in more than 130 countries.  

Held from 18 to 20 November, the 2020 edition of InfoComm India, a fully-online experience hosted on the specially-tailored GoVIRTUAL platform, was attended by 3,410 unique visitors. While a scaled-down version of what would have been a conventional in-person exhibition, InfoComm India GoVIRTUAL was no less exciting, helmed by 92 exhibitors who collectively presented a total of 183 live product demos and 28 webinar sessions. This also marks the first time in organizer InfoCommAsia’s history that it has delivered a fully-digital event. Cutting-edge show walks its talk “ The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruption to businesses around the world. InfoComm India was not spared either, and we had to make the difficult decision of cancelling the in-person show earlier this year,” said Richard Tan, Executive Director, InfoCommAsia, “Yet in every crisis lies an opportunity. Knowing full well the value that InfoComm India has brought to technology innovators and industry end-users over the years, we quickly pivoted and committed to delivering a digital event. As a proponent of technology, InfoCommAsia has walked the talk, adopting cutting-edge innovations such as artificial intelligence and live streaming to achieve a first-of-its-kind event.” The unique and ground-breaking GoVIRTUAL platform is a culmination of over five months of intense development. The platform boasts a range of innovative yet easy-to-use features that helps deepen the business experience for both exhibitors and visitors. Designed to be highly intuitive, it allows both exhibitors and visitors to ensure business continuity, wherever they are in the world. The AI-powered algorithm matched exhibitors with relevant visitors, and vice versa. Through the user’s behaviour, interactions and searches performed on the platform, the algorithm learns and continuously refines its accuracy to provide highly-relevant business matches. At one glance, exhibitors can browse the profiles of sales leads they should be reaching out to while visitors can connect with shortlisted technology innovators whose solutions are transforming their industries. Real-time, live product demos allowed brand ambassadors to explain the salient features of their solutions to the viewers. Thanks to integrated video, audio and chat functions, both presenters and audience can engage in real-time conversations. Exhibitors’ virtual showcases mimic actual exploration experience on the show floor, allowing visitors to meet with exhibitors and see their technologies up close and in action. The integrated video, audio and chat functions here let visitors interact with exhibitors, just like visiting an exhibitor’s booth in person. InfoComm India Summit, the show’s learning platform, hosted a series of webinars. Topical sessions include discussions on a post-pandemic future, India’s smart urbanization journey, cybersecurity, digitalization of healthcare and education, and more. Platinum Partner Crestron Electronics (India) shared that the GoVIRTUAL platform has succeeded in functionally replicating the in-person show experience. “Initially when we were planning this event, we were not expecting ourselves to be so busy,” said Farhan Walele, National Product Manager (Sales), “However, from 10am to 6pm, we had to be at the booth, standing from morning to evening, similar to past InfoComm India events. The only difference is we are now doing this in the comfort of our office.” Echoing this sentiment Kirti Shetti, Director – Operations, Kramer Electronics India said, “InfoComm India GoVIRTUAL measured up to what would have been the physical InfoComm India event. It definitely did justice.” The live demos and webinars drew substantial interest from show visitors. In total, 2,148 visitors participated in the live demos while 3,082 delegates watched the webinars over a period of 3 days. GoVIRTUAL to be adopted across future InfoCommAsia shows With the successful roll out, GoVIRTUAL now serves as an effective proof of concept, and InfoCommAsia plans to adopt this powerful platform for all of its upcoming marquee shows in 2021 – InfoComm China slated for July, InfoComm India in September and InfoComm Southeast Asia in October. Each show will be a hybrid of in-person and virtual platforms. Additionally, InfoCommAsia will host regular one-day preview events on GoVIRTUAL leading up to the main hybrid event, with each one focusing on a different vertical and geographic markets and its business end-users. InfoComm India and InfoComm India GoVIRTUAL 2021 The next hybrid InfoComm India will take place 15- 17 September 2021 at the Bombay Exhibition Center, Mumbai.  

VisionPass joins IDEMIA’s MorphoWave™ Compact fingerprint device as the market’s most efficient and hygienic range of contactless biometric devices for access control IDEMIA, the leading global provider of Augmented Identity, is launching its advanced contactless facial recognition access control device VisionPass for the Indian market. Their way of living has been drastically impacted during the last few months, creating completely new requirements for a contactless approach when it comes to accessing public or private spaces. IDEMIA’s contactless devices for access control answer these new requirements by offering a hygienic, contactless and frictionless experience. VisionPass, the ultimate face recognition device for physical access and time & attendance control, extends IDEMIA’s range of contactless devices for access control. Designed as per the needs and requirements of end-users, VisionPass offers a unique experience – being identified on-the-move in less than 1 second thanks to its powerful algorithms. For more user comfort, VisionPass works in all light conditions from complete darkness to bright sunlight, with all face types and with various vertical and horizontal angles to cope with users of different heights (1.20-2.00 meters/ 3ft 11”-6ft 6”). As VisionPass is designed for access control and security, it can also counter spoofing attempts by image, video or 3D masks. Peeyush Jain, Vice President Terminals business, IDEMIA said, “In the last few months, daily lives have been drastically impacted apprising us with new challenges, and with it there has surfaced a need for a contactless approach especially while accessing public or private spaces. Our contactless devices for access control address such new requirements by offering hygienic and frictionless experiences to end users. With VisionPass & MorphoWave solutions at hand, we now have the most powerful contactless biometric terminals available in India for organizations to ensure a ‘zero human contact’ access experience. Secured access through these robust, reliable, and cutting-edge terminals is unparalleled, be it with facial recognition, or a touchless 3D fingerprint scan.” IDEMIA recently won the Security Industry Association (SIA) New Product Showcase Award in the Biometric category for VisionPass facial recognition device. IDEMIA already received a similar Award in 2018 for MorphoWave Compact, a biometric device that can scan and verify four fingerprints in less than a second. This new Award, this time for a facial recognition device, confirms IDEMIA’s ironclad technology in the field of contactless biometrics for security applications. They have all become hyperaware of the criticality of hygiene in these challenging times. With superlative biometric terminals like VisionPass and MorphoWave Compact and their touchless sensor technology in the Indian market, establishments now have the choice to ensure a fully contactless experience for access control everywhere for authorized users, through these robust, reliable, and powerful devices. With VisionPass (facial recognition) and MorphoWave™ Compact (fingerprints), IDEMIA confirms its leadership in contactless biometrics for secure, convenient and hygienic access control. IDEMIA provides a trusted environment enabling citizens and consumers alike to perform their daily critical activities (such as pay, connect and travel), in the physical as well as digital space.  

Array Networks, the network functions platform company, recently announced that the AG Series SSL VPN Appliances (vxAG on AVX7800) has earned the ICSA Labs SSL-TLS VPN 4.0 certification. The vxAG virtual secure access gateway runs on Array’s Network Functions Platform as well as virtualized servers and industry-standard hypervisors to flexibly enable on-demand, full-featured secure access for users whenever and wherever needed. ICSA Labs that began with the mission to increase awareness of the need for computer security and to provide education about various security products and technologies is today one of most respected security technology testing organizations that offers independent validation of SSL-TLS conformance and efficacy. Enterprises worldwide rely on ICSA Labs to set and apply objective testing and certification criteria for measuring product compliance and performance. While the testing for the SSL-TLS VPN 4.0 certification was performed only on the vxAG (on AVX7800), the certification extends beyond to include the other members of the Array AG series SSL VPN appliances and Array AVX series network functions platform family. ICSA Labs’ clients benefit by working closely with technical analysts, leveraging criteria for product development, accessing research and participating in consortia, all with the objective of contributing to improved products that benefit customers and the security ecosystem ICSA Labs SSL-TLS VPN testing confirms that AG Series SSL VPN appliances properly implement TLS with strong cipher suite support while providing certificate management and validation. Additionally, they include proper authentication and authorization, session control and secure operation in either a Reverse Web Proxy or Layer 3 VPN mode. ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, develops and performs comprehensive, unbiased, third-party security certification testing. ICSA Labs tested the vxAG virtual appliance running on Array Networks’ AVX7800 hardware. vxAG indicates that the virtual appliance runs on other hypervisors. The SSL-TLS certification criteria, version 4.0 is certification criteria for products that implement SSL-TLS for data confidentiality, authentication and integrity assurance for internetwork transactions. ICSA Labs tests SSL-TLS products against a standard yet evolving set of criteria. The SSL-TLS certification criteria is composed of both functional and assurance requirements. The criteria requirements define an industry-accepted standard that all products claiming to have SSL-TLS capabilities must attain. ICSA Labs certification helps enterprises, service providers and government agencies identify and evaluate security solutions with confidence. Array’s scalable secure access gateway centralizes control over access to applications, desktops, files, networks and websites from a broad range of remote and mobile devices providing secure connectivity, end-point and server-side security and application-level AAA policies on a per-user basis. AG series physical and virtual appliances are deployed at the network perimeter or in front of business-critical resources to provide secure remote and mobile access for employees, guests, partners and other communities of interest. Array’s secure access gateways are ideal for consolidating remote and mobile access on a single robust platform to provide end-users with a consistent login experience ensuring consistent access policies and minimize potential attack vectors. Each Array SSL VPN shares a comprehensive secure access feature set, right-sized seat license packs and an option for low-cost business continuity contingency licenses. The AG series SSL VPN appliances are ideal for enterprises that need to support multiple communities of interest as well as service providers that need to provide remote access to globally dispersed data centers.