Access control news

BCD, a provider of purpose-built video infrastructure solutions, today announced the upcoming official launch of BCD Digital Asset Engine (DAE) at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Annual Conference and Exposition, taking place October 25–27, 2026. Built on Dell Technologies infrastructure, Digital Asset Engine is a vendor-neutral digital evidence workflow solution designed to help law enforcement agencies capture, authenticate, process, manage, and preserve digital...

i-PRO Co., Ltd., a global pioneer in professional security and public safety solutions, today announced that its Spatial Integration Camera has received ‘Red Dot: Best of the Best’ in the Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2026, one of the competition’s highest distinctions. The award recognises the concept’s innovative approach to security equipment, bringing professional video protection together with the design and character of the spaces where it is used. Premium commerc...

Interface Systems, a provider of AI-powered security and expert remote video monitoring for restaurants, retailers, and commercial businesses, today announced that a veterinary hospital network has consolidated security services with Interface across more than 1,000 U.S. locations, addressing recurring false alarm fines, inconsistent alarm monitoring support, and poor utilisation of its video management system (VMS). For the veterinary network, false alarms had become a costly and recurring pro...

FireMon, the founder of Network Security Policy Management (NSPM) and the control plane for network security policy, today announced an integration with Akamai Guardicore Segmentation that extends FireMon's policy control plane for microsegmentation. Organisations that have already governed firewall policy across their hybrid environment can now bring that same governance, normalisation, and audit rigor to Akamai Guardicore segmentation policy as they scale zero trust programs. Akamai research...

Yale, part of Fortune Brands Innovations, announces an integration with Yardi® to offer a digital key solution within the RentCafe® Resident App. The integration will give residents a convenient way to unlock their homes and community spaces through the same app they already use to pay rent, submit work orders and manage other aspects of resident life. It will also help property teams simplify access management. With annual resident turnover averaging approximately 50% across multifamil...

Advanced has launched Smart Walk Test, a new feature within AdvancedLive, the smart management platform available on MxPro 5 Gen-2 fire panels. Designed to support the testing and record-keeping requirements highlighted in the latest revision of BS 5839-1:2025, Smart Walk Test simplifies routine fire system testing and helps organisations demonstrate that testing has taken place. Although facilities teams and maintenance contractors are both responsible for testing fire systems, their requireme...

ASSA ABLOY has signed an agreement to sell HID’s PKI business unit to Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”). The PKI business unit (Public Key Infrastructure) provides digital trust, identity, authentication, encryption, and certificate management solutions. The business unit includes PKI SaaS - IdenTrust and HydrantID - credential management, and ZeroSSL. Customary closing conditions "I find it very satisfying that with Vista, the PKI business unit and its employees and customers...

Gallagher Security's High Sec T30 Keypad Reader has achieved approval under the UK National Protective Security Authority's (NPSA) Readers and Keypads standard, further strengthening Gallagher’s suite of NPSA-approved solutions for high-security environments. The approval reinforces Gallagher's commitment to developing security technologies that meet some of the world's most rigorous physical and cybersecurity standards, while expanding the company's trusted high-security offering for cus...

Commvault, a pioneer in unified resilience at enterprise scale, announces new data security and threat hunting capabilities for Microsoft 365. With more than 450 million paid commercial seats worldwide, Microsoft 365 is a popular cloud productivity and collaboration platform. Bad actors often target emails, attachments, and shared files associated with the SaaS application. Historical backup copies Commvault is helping Microsoft 365 customers advance resilience in the following ways: Disco...

DigiCert, a pioneer in intelligent trust, announces Secure Releases, new functionality in DigiCert Software Trust Manager that helps organisations assess software risk when a release ships and as new vulnerabilities emerge. Part of the DigiCert ONE platform, it brings together information about supported GitHub releases, their software bills of materials (SBOMs), known vulnerabilities, severity, and security scan results. Teams can identify which versions need attention and use that information...

Arctic Wolf®, the cybersecurity and AI company, announces a strategic partnership with Veeam, the Data and AI Trust Company, to bring backup and recovery intelligence into the Aurora® Superintelligence Platform, Arctic Wolf’s AI-native security operations platform, helping organisations strengthen security and improve cyber resilience. By integrating Veeam Data Platform events with the Arctic Wolf Aurora Superintelligence Platform and the Aurora Agentic SOC, organisations can exte...

Foresite’s new service is designed to extend the company’s Catalyst platform to the endpoint layer. By integrating Tanium’s Autonomous IT capabilities—including Endpoint Management, Exposure Management, and Security Operations—Foresite enables customers to take governed, policy-driven action instantly to maintain endpoint resilience and security posture. Driven by real-time intelligence and supported by automation, the combined solution enables trusted action at sc...

Foresite, announces a new partnership with CrowdStrike, a pioneer in cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity, and data protection. This collaboration will provide customers the opportunity to leverage the industry-pioneer, AI-Powered CrowdStrike Falcon® platform with Foresite's proprietary ProVision Managed Services for Foresite's Channel Partners and their customers. Meeting compliance requirements "Foresite is known for helping organizations get the most value...

Foresite Cybersecurity, the 2026 Google Cloud Security Partner of the Year for North America, announces the expansion of its cloud security services to include Wiz, alongside its achievement of Premier tier in the Wiz Partner Alliance Services Program and participation in the Wiz Partner Alliance Managed Service Provider Program. The expansion builds on Foresite's experience deploying and operating the Google Cloud security stack, helping enterprises connect cloud risk management with security o...

Teledyne Gas and Flame Detection, a portfolio of safety instrument businesses of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, today unveiled its new-generation FREEDOM range of gas detectors. The series is designed for industrial sites where gas detection technologies must demonstrate reliable monitoring with minimal maintenance requirements. Available in three models - FREEDOM GP, XP and Xi - the range provides detection solutions for applications spanning oil and gas, general industry, utilities, wate...

Colt Technology Services (Colt), the digital infrastructure company, announces it is the first European-based provider to integrate its last-mile connectivity services with the Equinix Fabric Marketplace. Fabric Marketplace simplifies access to services across the world’s largest digital business ecosystem. It gives enterprises a single destination to quickly discover, learn about and connect with service providers that can enhance their distributed networking deployments for multicloud a...

Gunnebo Entrance Control is at SKYDD 2026 to showcase its latest pedestrian entrance security technologies and explore how different approaches to entrance control can support the needs of smart buildings. Visitors to stand A18:33 at Nordic’s leading trade fair for security will be able to see the SpeedStile FLs UC, SpeedStile FP Glide and NexGate, with each offering a different approach to managing pedestrian movement and controlling access. Tailored to specific requirements “Cho...

Echo, which delivers frontier-hardened software across the enterprise software supply chain, launches Echo Frontier, a new offering designed to protect organizations from frontier AI vulnerabilities, zero-days uncovered by LLMs, before public vulnerability disclosure. Frontier AI models are rapidly advancing vulnerability discovery and exploitation, and that power is moving beyond tightly controlled environments with clear security guardrails. According to Anthropic research published Sept. 29,...

Arctic Wolf®, the cybersecurity and AI company, announces at the 2026 Security Operations Summit new capabilities in the Aurora® Superintelligence Platform that help organisations gain visibility into AI adoption, access security insights faster, and extend protection across customers’ rapidly expanding attack surfaces. As AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise, organisations face a growing challenge that they cannot secure what they cannot see. Employees are rapidly embrac...

Arctic Wolf®, the cybersecurity and AI company, today at the 2026 Security Operations Summit announced SwarmView™, a new capability that brings the power of the Swarm of Experts™ directly to customers, providing unprecedented visibility into how the Aurora Agentic SOC® investigates, validates, and responds to modern threats at machine speed. By providing a direct view into how AI agents and human experts work together throughout every investigation, SwarmView gives organisati...

Arctic Wolf®, the cybersecurity and AI company, today at its 2026 Security Operations Summit introduced Aurora Adaptive Threat Protection, a next-generation endpoint security solution designed to unlock AI-powered, intent-based detection to identify, disrupt, and reverse ransomware, credential theft, and other evasive attacks earlier in the attack chain. Aurora Adaptive Threat Protection introduces a new approach to endpoint security built for today's AI threat landscape. As AI enables atta...

DICE Corporation, a developer of alarm monitoring, video and automation software, announces that AURA is now built into DICE's dispatching products. Clear Response Monitoring and Clear Watch are the first monitoring centers to put the integration into service. The security dealers they support can now sell on-demand guard response alongside monitoring, with dispatch handled inside DICE in areas AURA covers across the United States. AURA is a technology platform that connects alarms to a network...

Veeam® Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, announces that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. a pioneer in the first Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Privacy UX. The evaluation was based on specific criteria that analysed the company’s overall Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. In their opinion, Veeam’s privacy UX capabilities offer organisations one way to understand, secure, and govern personal data across production and backup environments, so that...

DigiFlight, Inc., a provider of aerospace, cybersecurity, engineering, and training solutions for government and commercial organisations, announces that industry veteran Melody Berry has joined the company as manager of cybersecurity and compliance. She will support the cybersecurity, assessment, and compliance programs of DigiFlight and its affiliated cybersecurity company, Camelot Secure, helping manage requirements across multiple industry frameworks, National Institute of Standards and Tec...

NETSCOUT® SYSTEMS, INC. released its first half 2026 Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Threat Intelligence Report, revealing a significant shift in how attacks are launched and sourced. With more than 9.1 million DDoS attacks recorded globally by NETSCOUT between January and June 2026, the report highlights that DDoS risk is growing along three axes: the volume of traffic that must be inspected, the number of places where mitigation must be deployed, and the share of attacks that disrupt...

Blackline Safety Corp., a pioneer in connected safety technology, has announced that its G8 safety wearable has won a 2026 Firehouse Innovation Award, marking the company's second consecutive win following last year's recognition of its EXO 8 area monitor. The Firehouse Innovation Awards recognise breakthrough technologies that advance firefighting and emergency response capabilities. G8 was selected for its ability to “improve situational awareness and support safer decision-making durin...

Atos, a pioneer of AI-powered digital transformation, announces that it is expanding its longstanding partnership with Fortinet, a global cybersecurity pioneer, from a country-led to a global engagement model. The agreement will help organisations strengthen security across hybrid and multi-cloud environments worldwide through a unified framework including reselling and managed cybersecurity services. It will also align joint business development, customer engagement, service delivery and compet...

Constellis, a provider of integrated security and risk management solutions, announces it has been awarded a contract to provide 24/7 access control and physical security services for Project Matador at Fermi America’s Main Campus near Amarillo, Texas. Fermi is building Project Matador, a next-generation private power grid designed to support hyperscale AI and advanced computing. The campus is expected to integrate multiple power sources, including natural gas, nuclear, and solar. Focuse...

SwiftConnect, the connected access network for places and spaces, announces that international law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) has launched company badges across major digital wallets for mobile-only access at its new London office at 25 Moorgate. As WFW prepared to relocate, more than 450 of their lawyers and staff were provisioned with a mobile credential ahead of their move-in. “Using mobile access at 25 Moorgate from day one is another example of how Watson Farley & Wi...

barox Kommunikation AG will showcase its powerful integration with Milestone Systems’ XProtect® video management platform at SKYDD 2026, as the company introduces its integrated network management capabilities to the Nordic security market for the first time. Taking place at Stockholmsmässan, Sweden, from 20–22 October, barox will exhibit alongside longstanding technology partner Milestone Systems A/S on stand A03:30, demonstrating how the Smart-barox plug-in brings network...