Access control news

Atos, a pioneer in AI-powered digital transformation, announces the award of a six-year contract worth up to £350 million with the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS). Under the agreement, Atos will deliver service management, application management and application security services, with the option for the MPS to extend the scope to include managed cloud and digital workplace services. The contract reinforces Atos’ long-standing relationship with the Metropolitan Police Service and i...

Advanced has launched a new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) seminar exploring how connected technology, cloud-based monitoring and intelligent data are transforming the management of fire detection systems. The new CPD, ‘The Evolution of Smart Fire System Management’, has been developed to help building owners, facilities managers, responsible persons and fire safety professionals understand how digital technologies can improve the way fire systems are monitored, maintaine...

A new partnership co-funded by Atos and Tech First Youth makes Futures Readiness available free of charge to up to 650,000 learners across the West Midlands. Atos, a pioneer in AI-powered digital transformation, announces a new partnership with Futures Readiness, co-funded with Tech First Youth. Futures Readiness is a holistic AI preparedness programme designed to help students and staff make sense of rapid technological change. The partnership, delivered in collaboration with BMet’s Digi...

Comelit-PAC has appointed Chris Carroll as Sales Director, following an 18-year career with the company, seeing him progress from internal sales support to a senior leadership role. Chris joined Comelit in January 2008 and has worked in several roles across the business, gaining first-hand experience of products, customers and sales operations. “I’m proud to be taking on the Sales Director role,” says Chris. “I’ve learnt a lot from the people I’ve worked with...

Opengear, a Digi International company and pioneer in out-of-band management solutions, has signed its first pan-European distribution agreement with Ingram Micro, one of the world’s largest technology distributors. The agreement will give resellers in participating Ingram Micro countries access to Opengear’s portfolio, supported by Ingram Micro's regional infrastructure, logistics capabilities and partner network. This expands Opengear’s existing reach in the UK, Ireland, Spa...

Netwatch, a pioneer in proactive video monitoring and AI-enabled security services, announces the appointment of Kris Slimmer as Senior Vice President of Sales. Slimmer will lead Netwatch’s North American sales organisation as the company accelerates the adoption of its proactive security model across retail, banking, critical infrastructure, commercial real estate, and other priority markets. Slimmer brings nearly 30 years of sales, business development, and operations leadership in the...

i-PRO Co., Ltd., a pioneer in professional security and public safety solutions, today marks seven years of innovation and transformation since becoming an independent company in 2019. Seven years ago, i-PRO began its journey as an independent company with an opportunity to build a new kind of organisation: one that could make its own technology and business decisions, operate with greater agility and respond more directly to the changing needs of the security market. Strategic direction and f...

ABUS UK has appointed Gary Major as Sales and Marketing Director for Home and Commercial Security. Gary joins ABUS with more than 30 years' experience across sales, marketing and business development, working with a range of manufacturing and retail businesses. He will lead the continued development of ABUS UK's Home and Commercial Security division. “The values of ABUS were a big part of what attracted me to the role,” says Gary. “The emphasis on family, honesty and fairness,...

Commvault, a pioneer in unified resilience at enterprise scale, today announced that it’s enabling IT and Security teams to discover, protect, and recover agent configurations and other AI data in Claude Cowork by Anthropic, Claude Code by Anthropic, and OpenClaw (agentic AI tools) that employees are running on their managed Windows and macOS devices. For workers and IT leaders, this can be a game-changing development. When a laptop is lost, damaged, replaced, or otherwise disrupted, orga...

Euralarm and the Confederation of European Security Services (CoESS) have published an updated edition of their Cybersecurity Guidelines for the Security and Fire Safety Industry. The revised publication provides practical guidance for organisations across the sector as cybersecurity becomes an increasingly important operational, technical and regulatory requirement. The growing connectivity of fire safety and security systems brings significant benefits, including remote monitoring and mainten...

Mercury Security, a pioneer in open architecture access control hardware and an HID brand, releases its 2026 Trends in Access Controllers Report, revealing how changing cybersecurity requirements, interoperability needs, cloud adoption and emerging technologies are putting greater emphasis on the role controllers play in long-term physical access control strategy. Based on a global survey of 561 physical security and cybersecurity professionals, including administrators responsible for access c...

Thales, a pioneer in advanced technologies for cybersecurity markets, today announced CipherTrust Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). It is the first purpose-built DSPM offering designed to help organisations go beyond discovering exposed sensitive data and applying access-based remediation, enabling them to prioritise risks and protect their most sensitive data directly through encryption, masking, or tokenisation natively within the platform. Sensitive data is increasingly distributed ac...

Allied Universal®, the pioneer security and facility services company, announces that its HELIAUS® Guest visitor management system has been named a Security Today New Product of the Year in the Visitor Management category. HELIAUS Guest is Allied Universal’s automated enterprise visitor management system, designed to replace antiquated clipboard sign-in methods. Part of the company’s AI-driven HELIAUS workforce management solution, it manages every stage of the visitor exper...

Allient Inc., a global designer and manufacturer of specialty Motion, Controls, Power and Composite Solutions achieved Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Level 2, effective August 27, 2026. CMMC Level 2 is a U.S. Department of Defense cybersecurity standard that verifies an organisation's ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) through the implementation of 110 rigorous security controls and processes. The CMMC Level 2 assessment was conducted by Cybersecurit...

IQSIGHT, formerly Bosch Video Systems, announced that it has received LenelS2 factory certification under the LenelS2 OpenAccess Alliance Program (OAAP). IQSIGHT’s Video Recording Manager (VRM) versions 4.50 and 4.70 interface with the OnGuard® 8.3 access control system, enabling users to view live and playback video and display Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) and IVA Pro alerts directly within the OnGuard platform. Support for VRM provides access to video stored across multiple iSC...

Cribl, the AI Platform for Telemetry, announces Cribl Detect, built on the company’s open data platform to provide a complete SIEM at up to 50% less cost than other companies. Cribl Detect gives security teams a better way to detect, investigate, and respond to threats without locking their telemetry into another monolithic, single-vendor stack. Cribl’s new platform-first approach lets customers adapt and customise their SIEM to their unique security operations. This announcement br...

Cribl, the AI Platform for Telemetry, announces StreamAI, the latest addition to its AI capabilities: an enterprise AI gateway with a model router built into Cribl’s open data platform. Cribl brings its proven ability in managing and routing data at a massive scale to help organisations control runaway AI traffic, token usage, costs, and risk. After evaluating how various AI models performed on telemetry data, Cribl built a model router to enable more efficient AI inference. StreamAI rout...

NETSCOUT, a provider of network observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, announces nGenius® Copilot, an AI-powered conversational extension to nGeniusONE® that provides intuitive access to NETSCOUT® Smart Data. It gives more people access to Smart Data for easier and faster ways to investigate service disruptions and assess business impact. nGenius Copilot is grounded in NETSCOUT Smart Data, the high-fidelity, contextual data derived from observed n...

Shenzhen Houlong Technology Co., Ltd. (Houlong Security), a Chinese manufacturer of security inspection equipment, has expanded its multi-zone walk-through metal detector line for the Central Asian market. The range now spans 5 to 33 detection zones, from the JT-SP and JT-600 for factory and office entrances to the 18-zone JT-1800B and 33-zone JT-3300 for airports, customs facilities and critical infrastructure. Every detection zone has independent sensitivity adjustment, which allows operators...

Ranger Fire and Security has become one of the first businesses in the fire and security industry to offer fully equalised private medical insurance (PMI) and life assurance benefits. It means that every employee across Ranger, regardless of role, seniority or which business within the Group they work for, will now receive the same wide-ranging and comprehensive package of workplace benefits. The move, which forms part of a wider set of workplace initiatives, breaks from an industry standard in...

Northwave and ESET stand for a common goal: protecting the customers’ business and enabling them to have a safe digital journey. The Northwave Germany team has reason to celebrate. Marcus Hoppe, Sales Director DACH: “We have achieved the highest ESET partner status with the PLATINUM PARTNER AWARD and are very proud of this. It is proof that we are on the right track with our security approach.” A big thanks to Uwe Rehwald, Senior Partner Account Manager ESET, for the honour an...

Chubbsafes, part of Gunnebo Safe Storage, has launched a new technical discussion guide examining when certified storage should be reviewed based on the value of jewellery and precious metals. Developed for jewellery retailers, manufacturers, bullion dealers and security professionals, When Asset Values Rise, Should Storage Be Reviewed? explores the relationship between certified storage, declared asset values and physical security. It considers the technical factors influencing safe storage, f...

His Excellency Mr Hiroshi Suzuki toured the fire detection manufacturer's Gillingham headquarters as part of his visit to Medway Hochiki Europe welcomed His Excellency Mr Hiroshi Suzuki, Ambassador of Japan to the United Kingdom, to its Gillingham headquarters on Thursday 24 September 2026. The Ambassador was spending the day in Medway meeting local businesses and celebrating the area's long-standing links with Japan. He was joined by the Mayor of Medway, Naushabah Khan MP and a delegation of M...

Prior1, a provider of modular IT infrastructure solutions, develops container data centers to meet the highest security and energy efficiency standards. Their containers require optimum protection against both physical threats and environmental risks. To provide this, Prior1 sought a security solution for their new “IT Container FIX” products which offers seamless monitoring and is flexible, scalable, and meets the requirements of EN 50600 certification. By choosing KentixONE as the...

DigiCert, a pioneer in intelligent trust, announces support for the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform to help enterprises establish verifiable identity and authority for autonomous AI agents. At the centre of the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform is NVIDIA OpenShell, an open, secure runtime that places infrastructure-level controls around autonomous agents. OpenShell permits nothing by default, enforces policy outside the agent’s process, and records every decision to allow or deny an act...

3DX-RAY Ltd will showcase its complete portfolio of security inspection, EOD and Human Presence Detection Systems at the International Security Expo. The company’s expanding portfolio provides border, law enforcement and security agencies, correctional authorities, critical national infrastructure (CNI) operators with a comprehensive range of technologies designed to address modern security threats across borders, prisons, CNI, government facilities and transportation hubs. Detection of...

Pyronix has announced the launch of PyronixCloud Connect (PCC), a compact and affordable Wi-Fi-enabled module that brings modern smart features to older wired alarm systems, without the need for a full system upgrade. Designed to integrate seamlessly with legacy Pyronix and third-party control panels, PCC connects older systems to InSite Pro Cloud and the HomeControl2.0 app. This enables users to remotely arm or disarm their system, check status updates and receive alerts in real time, adding p...

iLOQ, a global technology company providing sustainable smart access management solutions that enhance security, flexibility and convenience, has partnered with Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Räikkönen and his son Robin Räikkönen for a new global brand campaign centred on the next generation – and the opportunities that can be created when they are given access to move forward. Under the theme “The Next Generation Is Coming,” the campaign builds on iLOQ&rsqu...

ULTRALOQ, a best-selling smart lock brand under Xthings, a pioneer in IoT solutions, announces the launch and availability of its next-generation smart lock collection, built to redefine access and provide customers with a wide range of effortless entry experiences that best suit their lifestyle. The collection includes ULTRALOQ Bolt Mission, unveiled as the industry’s first ultra-wideband (UWB) enabled smart lock, featuring precise, hands-free approach-to-unlock functionality. Joining Bo...

Zygal, Cloud AI Surveillance Platform, has appointed Jason Bezuidenhout as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO), strengthening its leadership team as the company continues to expand its presence across international markets. Jason brings around two decades of experience in sales and business development, with a career spanning the rapidly evolving security technology landscape. His experience includes electronic surveillance, CCTV, cloud-connected security solutions, remote video monitoring and AI-drive...