Access control news

Zimperium, the pioneer in AI-empowered mobile security, releases new research revealing how threat actors are using sophisticated recruitment-themed phishing campaigns to specifically target corporate credentials, with mobile devices creating an especially effective attack surface. The campaigns impersonate recruiters and HR personnel from well-known global brands, using realistic interview and scheduling experiences to lure victims into counterfeit login pages. Critically, the phishing infrast...

Secure Logiq and Cortech Developments are joining forces for Resilience by Design, a new CPD-accredited event designed to get consultants and specifiers thinking about resilience from the very beginning of the security system design process. Taking place at The British Library in London on 16th September and The Lowry in Salford on 7th October, the sessions will bring together Secure Logiq’s expertise in server and storage technology for HD surveillance with Cortech Developments’ in...

Iris ID, announces its successful completion of its SOC 2 examination as of October 24, 2025. The SOC 2 audit was conducted by A-LIGN, the provider in cybersecurity compliance trusted by more than 4,000 global organisations to help mitigate cybersecurity risks. Mitigating cybersecurity risks Established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the SOC 2 examination is designed for organisations of any size, regardless of industry and scope, to ensure the personal ass...

Securitas Technology, one of the world’s largest electronic security companies, will highlight the technologies, trends and innovations shaping the future of physical security at Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. Attendees are invited to visit Booth #1905 to explore emerging technologies, engage with industry experts and gain insight into the evolving security landscape. A centerpiece of the company's presence at GSX will be the debut of the 2027 Global Technology O...

Showcasing the power of partnerships, barox and Gallagher will highlight their joint value proposition at GSX, booth #3433, 14-16 September, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta. Revealing seamless integration with Gallagher Security’s award-winning Command Centre site management platform, at the show, a range of barox Ethernet switches will demonstrate how an unparalleled level of monitoring and diagnostics capability can be achieved in just a single integrated platform, covering every...

Alcatraz, the pioneer in facial biometric authentication for physical access, today announced the rollout of several new platform innovations designed to enhance accessibility, streamline system management and deliver a more intuitive user experience. These new enhancements underscore Alcatraz’s commitment to frictionless, privacy-first security for enterprises, critical infrastructure and regulated industries. As part of Alcatraz’s ongoing commitment to innovation, its latest produ...

Alcatraz, the AI-powered physical access control company redefining secure entry through facial authentication, announces the appointment of Ilya Ozerets as Senior Vice President of Product & Innovation. In this role, Ilya will lead Alcatraz’s next phase of product and technology evolution, overseeing product, software, and hardware teams to accelerate execution, strengthen cross-functional alignment, and deliver high-impact, revenue-generating innovations across the company. Revenue...

BuzzFeed, Inc. is one of the most recognisable names in digital media, with 500+ employees, a newsroom and operations across Los Angeles and New York, and a brand built on being fast, scrappy, and ahead of the curve. Their physical security program was trying to keep pace. BuzzFeed was spending more on physical security, not technology, to manage security. In-person guards. Long shifts. Weekend coverage. Manual paper reports. The model was expensive. It wasn’t scalable. And it was overdue...

Gunnebo Safe Storage is returning to Security Essen, to showcase how secure storage, connected locking technologies and cyber resilience are converging to shape the future of physical security. On stand 3A65 in Hall 3 within the Euro Defence Expo, visitors can explore TransitGuard, Gunnebo Safe Storage's mobile vault solution, developed to provide secure protection for cash, valuables and other high-value assets while in transit or in mission. As organisations continue to review how assets are...

F5, the global pioneer in delivering and securing every app and API, introduces significant enhancements to the F5 AI Gateway and integrated the solution into the F5 AI Security Platform. The enhanced F5 AI Gateway seamlessly enforces policies on every AI request, giving enterprises a unified control plane to govern how AI models, agents, and tools are accessed and used, while optimising the economics of AI at scale. Enterprises have moved past AI experimentation, but governance has not kept pa...

NETSCOUT®, a provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, announces enhancements to its Arbor Edge Defense (AED) solution that helps enterprises maintain the availability of revenue-generating and mission-critical applications against sophisticated DDoS attacks that evade or bypass content delivery network (CDN) DDoS defences. The enhancements identify malicious sources concealed behind shared CDN infrastructure and apply precise, service-specific c...

DigiCert, a global pioneer in intelligent trust, today announced the speaker lineup for its third annual World Quantum Readiness Day, taking place virtually on September 17, 2026. Bringing together experts from across cryptography, cybersecurity, and technology, the event will focus on how organisations can move from quantum readiness planning to action. This year’s theme, “From Blueprint to Build,” covers practical approaches to PQC migration, changes in global regulations an...

Boon Edam Inc., a global pioneer in physical security entrance solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Sitemetric centred on a customised Boon Edam Turnlock 100 Mobile Platform. Marketed as the Sitemetric Deluxe Turnstile, the mobile full height turnstile combines Boon Edam’s proven security entrance expertise with Sitemetric’s Integrated Construction Intelligence platform to deliver superior security and safety for evolving construction projects. Boon Edam and Sitemet...

Zero Networks, the provider of Zero Trust security solutions, announces a major expansion of its integration with Palo Alto Networks, extending the companies’ joint solution from automated microsegmentation and firewall policy orchestration to zero-touch containment and AI security. The original integration combined Zero Networks’ automated asset discovery, dynamic tagging, and identity-driven microsegmentation with Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls. The expanded integrat...

Cribl, the AI Platform for Telemetry, announces it has acquired technology assets from Radiant Security’s AI-native security operations centre product including intellectual property to autonomously triage, investigate, and resolve security alerts. With this acquisition, Cribl moves further into security and is adapting this AI SOC technology to run as an application on its telemetry data platform, giving security teams peace of mind that AI is making high-quality decisions over the right...

CREST, the international non-profit representing the global cybersecurity industry, announces the launch of its Security Testing of AI standard and accreditation. The new standard for cybersecurity service providers establishes independently assessable requirements for testing Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM)-enabled systems. AI systems are moving rapidly from experimentation into real-world deployment, with AI becoming embedded within organisations’ applications, workflows, p...

OpenAI has announced a series of enhanced safety measures designed for under 18’s using ChatGPT to introduce controls that limit how “human” the chatbot can appear amid growing concerns about the use of AI among children. Those with the new teen account can disable voice responses to ensure the tool is understood as AI rather than a person. OpenAI is also introducing reminders for young people to take a break when using the tool to prompt healthier usage patterns. Reinforcing...

Managing access control for a single facility is very different from overseeing dozens of locations across multiple regions. As organisations grow, security teams must manage more access requests, frequent role changes, and compliance across multiple sites. At the same time, access control systems are becoming more connected to identity management platforms, business applications, and corporate networks. Access control was once considered primarily a door-management function, it is now closely...

Alarm.com, the platform for intelligently connected properties, has announced the appointment of Bert McGaughey as International Business Development Manager. In this role, McGaughey will drive dealer growth and partner development across the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa, reporting to Aitor Gauna, Alarm.com European Sales Director, supporting Alarm.com's continued expansion into international markets. McGaughey brings more than 15 years of experience across the security, smart home...

Brinqa, the pioneer in exposure management for enterprise security teams, announces it has acquired PlexTrac, the trusted platform for offensive security validation, workflow, and reporting. The acquisition adds the ability to verify that remediation has actually worked, uniquely positioning Brinqa to identify and prioritise the exposures that matter most, drive remediation, and prove the fix held, closing the CTEM loop. The acquisition also makes Brinqa the largest standalone vendor in Unified...

Genetec Inc., the global pioneer in enterprise physical security software, releases retail-specific findings from its 2026 State of Physical Security Report. Based on responses from retail professionals worldwide, the research shows retailers increasingly view physical security as a business function that supports operations, employee safety, and modernisation efforts—not solely loss prevention. While retailers continue to manage everyday security challenges across stores, many are expand...

Cellebrite DI Ltd., a pioneer in AI-powered Digital Investigative and Intelligence solutions for the public and private sectors, today announced that Cellebrite Genesis is expanding to more global markets and is now generally available for enterprise organisations. The expansion builds on a successful early access program and strong momentum following Genesis' June 2026 public safety launch. Genesis has seen meaningful user growth worldwide and continues to expand internationally, with availabi...

Allied Universal®, the world’s pioneer security and facility services provider, announces the appointment of Jordan Avnaim as Global Chief Information Security Officer. Avnaim will be responsible for the company’s global cybersecurity strategy and operations.  Avnaim brings more than 20 years of experience to this role and will lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive, risk-based cybersecurity program designed to help protect Allied Universal employees, s...

Zimperium, the global pioneer in AI-empowered mobile security, announces new research from its zLabs threat research team detailing the evolution of ToxicPanda 2.0, an advanced Android banking trojan that significantly expands both its technical capabilities and the scale of its fraud campaign. The latest variant represents a new generation of the original ToxicPanda banking Trojan and introduces 167 remote commands, expanding credential theft from a handful of banking applications to 349 banki...

The new AIE-VN34/44 and AIE-VO24/34 combine up to 100 TOPS of AI performance, four GMSL2 camera connections, and fanless rugged operation for transportation, AMR, and industrial automation applications. Aetina Corporation, a pioneer AI solution provider and an accelerator of edge AI infrastructure, announces the DeviceEdge AIE-VN34/44 and AIE-VO24/34, Aetina’s first palm-sized in-vehicle edge AI systems, powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano modules. Delivering up t...

NETSCOUT®, a provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, today announced an extension of its Adaptive DDoS Protection (ADP) solution enabling service providers to automatically detect and mitigate outbound DDoS attack traffic. By extending protection from the attack target towards its source, NETSCOUT helps operators prevent compromised subscriber devices from disrupting their own networks, consuming costly capacity and attacking customers and orga...

With its Middle East entity now operational, Gallagher Security is building on more than 20 years of regional success through continued investment in local talent and a new office in Dubai Silicon Oasis, reinforcing its long-term commitment to a key growth market. “When we announced the establishment of our Middle East entity, we made a commitment to bringing Gallagher closer to our End Users and Channel Partners. The Middle East remains one of the most important growth regions in our glo...

Teleport, the AI Infrastructure Identity Company, announces support for Linux Desktop as a protected resource within the Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform. Engineering teams can now apply the same cryptographic identity, least-privilege access controls, and session auditability to Linux desktops that they rely on for servers, Kubernetes clusters, databases, GitHub, and cloud environments. The result: Their developer workstation will reside within the same unified identity layer as the r...

Commvault, a pioneer in unified resilience at enterprise scale, announces advancements to Cloud Rewind, expanding Microsoft Azure resource coverage for configuration protection and recovery. Through this expansion, Commvault is helping organisations more rapidly restore cloud applications and the resources that support them. Manually rebuilding environments is often slow, complex, and error-prone. According to Absolute Security's 2026 State of Enterprise Cyber Resilience report, 57% of enterpri...

Netwrix, a recognised pioneer in identity and data security, announces new capabilities across Netwrix PingCastle and Netwrix Threat Manager that extend identity security deeper into the Microsoft cloud, including coverage of AI agents. Organisations are deploying AI agents faster than they can govern them. Each agent is an identity holding real permissions inside the enterprise environment, yet most exist outside any inventory, ownership, or review process. Identities needing access A Cloud...