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Cat 6 Network Cable Shootout - Belden, Berk-Tek, Commscope, Panduit, Superior Essex, Windy City Wire, More

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By John Scanlan - about 3 years ago | 59 Comments

Remote Access (Port Forwarding, DDNS, P2P, VPN) Usage Statistics 2021

With new Dahua and Hikvision critical vulnerabilities this month, it raises the question of what integrators are doing for remote access? Port...

By Ethan Ace - about 3 years ago | 16 Comments

Dahua Accuses Ex-Dahua US President of "Poor Performance" and "Mismanagement"

Former Dahua North America President Frank Zhang mismanaged the company, with "annual revenues crashed" and failed to get along with other company...

By Isabella Cheng - about 3 years ago | 2 Comments

Signal Sues ADT Over "Signal Chat"

ADT, America's most well-known home security company, is being sued by the Signal Foundation, the makers of the increasingly widely-used chat...

By Robert Wren Gordon - about 3 years ago | 6 Comments

No Impact, No Idea: Hikvision Partners On Critical Vulnerability

IPVM spoke with 21 of the 100 Hikvision partners who asked the FCC not to ban the company's products about whether the recent discovery of a 9.8...

By IPVM Team - about 3 years ago | 47 Comments

Verkada Claims $130 Million Revenue And 60,000 Devices Every Quarter

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By John Honovich - about 3 years ago | 15 Comments

IDIS DirectIP End-to-End NDAA NVR Tested

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By Derek Ward - about 3 years ago | 15 Comments

Hikvision, HWG Deceive FCC About New Critical Vulnerability [Update: Hikvision Issues Correction]

Hikvision and its law firm, HWG, deceived the FCC in a lengthy submission filed on September 20th about Hikvision's critical new vulnerability...

By Charles Rollet - about 3 years ago | 14 Comments

Panasonic iPro Asks For Huawei Chips To Be Exempt From FCC Ban

Panasonic's multi-year effort to support ongoing Huawei Hisilicon chip usage continues, with the company's attorneys asking the US government for...

By John Honovich - about 3 years ago | 18 Comments

Open Access Controller Guide (Axis, HID VertX & Aero, Isonas, Mercury)

There are dozens of software platforms in the access control market, but few companies make non-proprietary door controllers. We examine four of...

By Brian Rhodes - about 3 years ago | 24 Comments

VMS/VSaaS Access and Intrusion Integration Guide

This 11-page guide explains the fundamentals and challenges of VMS/VSaaS integration with access and intrusion systems. In this report, we...

By IPVM - about 3 years ago

Rhombus Makes Secret Deals Not To Take Select Customers Hostage

Rhombus Systems, one of 3 "Hostage as a Service" providers, has been making secret deals with select customers to allow them an open option if they...

By John Honovich - about 3 years ago | 21 Comments

Problems Fixing Critically Vulnerable Hikvision Devices

IPVM has been investigating means to upgrade and fix vulnerable Hikvision devices and has discovered a number of problems in doing so. In this...

By Ethan Ace - about 3 years ago | 22 Comments

PRC China Alleges FCC Ban Plan Is Discriminatory, Violates WTO

The PRC (China) has submitted comments on the FCC plan to ban Dahua, Hikvision, Huawei, Hytera, and ZTE arguing it "violates non-discriminatory...

By Charles Rollet - about 3 years ago | 3 Comments

Evolv: "We're A Channel First Company"

Evolv is one of the newest physical security unicorns, raising nearly $500 million earlier this year, and now rapidly expanding its sales...

By Isabella Cheng and John Honovich - about 3 years ago | 17 Comments

Hikvision Has "Highest Level of Critical Vulnerability," Impacting 100+ Million Devices

Hikvision has admitted a 9.8 vulnerability that is "the highest level of critical vulnerability—a zero-click unauthenticated remote code execution"...

By John Honovich - about 3 years ago | 152 Comments