"Fear Mongering": Hikvision USA Cybersecurity Director Dismisses PRC Government Ownership Concerns
By John Honovich
| 25 CommentsThe facts are: The PRC government created Hikvision and is Hikvision's controlling shareholder. Hikvision's Chairman, a Communist Party...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago | 25 Comments
What aspect ratio do security integrators prefer? The 'standard' 4:3 or the 'wide' 16:9 one? 100+ integrators told us what they preferred, with...
Mercury Security has their first major product release post-HID buyout, and things literally look different. The Series 3 SIO boards now are red...
While Hikvision is heavily marketing deep learning and 'AI' as their next big thing, new IPVM test results of their DeepInMind NVR shows their...
Genetec's CEO, Pierre Racz, delivered a direct message at their channel partner conference: Racz has become a focal point in the industry debate...
Securitron produces some of the most extreme maglocks on the market, including massively strong maglocks and even ones with integrated CCTV cams...
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Security projects routinely encounter issues that jeopardize deadlines, create confusion, and shrink profits. Unfortunately, there are common...
The US Embassy Ukraine specified 40 Hikvision cameras in 2017 despite Hikvision being removed from the US Embassy in Afghanistan in 2016. This...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago | 5 Comments
ADT, the $4 billion annual revenue security giant, recently publicly traded again, has merged with security integrator Aronson Security Group,...
There is a new integrator favorite VMS. In 2016, 2 VMSes were effectively tied for top choice. One of those VMSes favorability was stable while...
Motorola joins the growing list of companies taking aim at Chinese manufacturers. Recall, last week it was Hanwha: Chinese Products Damaged...
Below is a directory of 50+ manufacturer's default passwords. Note: Change Default Passwords Leaving default passwords is dangerous and makes it...
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Just 2 years ago, Ingram Micro was acquired by a Chinese company that paid them $6 billion in cash, nearly 40% more than their then stock...
When Convergint acquires companies, as they continuously do, it is an acquisition, e.g.:
A decade ago, 3VR raised more than $60 million to deliver facial surveillance and video analytics in a '3rd generation' video recorder. Now, 3VR...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago | 18 Comments
Being able to remotely support video surveillance systems is important both to reduce costs (eliminating truck rolls) and for...
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Would you buy your own customer? Well, Dahua has just done that. FLIR has sold its Lorex / home / SMB business to Dahua, just over 5 years after...
This is a very interesting and highly atypical usage of facial recognition that the Chinese government touted this week [link no longer...
What happens if Trump bans Hikvision from US government entities? This is being considered in a new profile by financial magazine...
Convergint literally has been acquiring integrators left and right, with more than a dozen in the past 2 years. Now, it is Convergint's turn to...
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