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Milestone CEO Speaks On The Future Of Cloud

One of the largest VMS providers over the past 20 years, Milestone's route to the cloud has been complex and challenging, including spinning out...

By Angelique Chen - about 4 hours ago (Info+)

Dedicated Vs Converged IP Video Networks Statistics 2023

Using a dedicated or converged network architecture is a fundamental choice for a video surveillance system, but are cloud and cybersecurity...

By IPVM Team - about 6 hours ago (Info+)

Ex-MBX Security Director Denies "Mass Download" Lawsuit Allegation

Former MBX Systems safety and security director Tom Larson asked a judge to rule that most of the company's trade secrets lawsuit against him...

By Christie Smythe - about 6 hours ago (Info+)

Debunking "99%+ Facial Recognition Accuracy" Claims

Many facial recognition vendors claim 99%+ accuracy, even citing government testing. But our testing and the experience of real-world video...

By Mert Karakaya - 1 day ago (Info+)

ADT Commercial Rebrands To "Everon", Good Move

The entity formerly known as ADT Commerical wasted no time moving on from the ADT brand, less than two months after announcing the sell-off,...

By John Honovich - 1 day ago | 9 Comments (Info+)

Verkada Sends Airport to Collections, But Still Wins Project

Unprecedented is Verkada's practice of sending prospects to debt collections. Even more atypical, Verkada sent an airport to collections and still...

By Conor Healy - 2 days ago | 6 Comments (Info+)

Ex-HID Executive Becomes Shooter Detection Systems President, Interview

After six years as an executive at HID, Stephen Carney has become the President of Shooter Detection Systems, which Alarm.com acquired in...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 2 days ago (Info+)

PSA Security CEO Speaks About Integrators Getting Acquired

No organization has been impacted directly as much as PSA Security, whose integrator owners are regularly acquired by mega-integrators. Most...

By Angelique Chen and John Honovich - 5 days ago | 4 Comments (Info+)

BCD Founder Is Out, New CEO Interview

In the last two years, BCD has received private equity investment and broke up with Genetec. Now, BCD's founder and CEO is out, and they have...

By Sean Patton - 5 days ago | 8 Comments (Info+)

HID Patents And Sues Rivals For Vulnerable Multi-Frequency Readers

HID has sued competitors for producing readers that support both 125 kHz and 13.56 MHz frequencies, the device type at the core of downgrade...

By Brian Rhodes - 6 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

US Drone Manufacturer Skydio Plans To Be The First In Fully Autonomous Operations

Skydio, a US drone company with a multi-billion dollar valuation, expects to be the first to reach the milestone of fully autonomous operations...

By Nikita Ermolaev - 6 days ago | 3 Comments (Info+)

PDK Favorability Statistics 2023

PDK is a "mobile first" low-cost, cloud-access control provider (see how they fared in integrator's Favorite Access Control Manufacturers 2022)....

By IPVM Team - 6 days ago | 3 Comments (Info+)

HID Should Stop Selling And Supporting 125 kHz

HID should stop selling and supporting 125 kHz credentials. Not only have such credentials been cracked for many, many years, but new devices...

By IPVM Team - 7 days ago | 27 Comments

Evolv "Deeply Regrets" Generalizing About Its Capabilities, Conflicts With FTC Rules

After years of false marketing issues at Evolv, the company has for the first time admitted that its statements may have "generalize[d] our...

By Conor Healy and William Howard-Waddingham - 7 days ago (Info+)

ZKTeco Planned USA "Factory" Examined

ZKTeco announced the US 'factory' in 2020, but a lack of credible details, changing its proposed location twice, reducing its initial planned...

By Charles Rollet - 7 days ago (Info+)

Pelco Elevate AI "Camera Image Health" Cloud Service Examined

At GSX 2023, Pelco announced Elevate, a new cloud service that offers camera management and AI image health monitoring to any ONVIF-conformant VMS...

By Sean Patton - 7 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

HID Downgrade Attack Makes 13.56 MHz SE / Seos As Vulnerable As Cracked 125 kHz

While 13.56 MHz HID SE and Seos are marketed as high security and used in critical infrastructure, they are just as vulnerable as long-cracked 125...

By Mert Karakaya and Brian Rhodes - 8 days ago | 87 Comments (Info+)

Verkada First Generation Cameras Analytics Performance Decline

How do cloud video surveillance customers know if their provider quietly reduces the performance of their products? New IPVM testing shows this...

By Mert Karakaya - 8 days ago | 5 Comments (Info+)

Vivint Sales Manual Directs Reps To Deceive ADT Customers

IPVM has obtained a Vivint sales manual, via court records, that shows how Vivint's management directed its door-to-door sales reps to deceive ADT...

By Christie Smythe - 9 days ago | 4 Comments (Info+)

The Remote Video Monitoring Market: View From Banker Alper Cetingok

Raymond James, one of a few bankers specializing in deals for physical security companies, is bullish about the future of remote video...

By Angelique Chen - 9 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

Huawei Founded Uniview, Uniview Now Hides

For years, Uniview bragged about how Huawei founded it and its deep ties to Huawei, but, in the past few years, Uniview stopped and even hid such...

By IPVM Team - 9 days ago | 9 Comments (Info+)

Criminally Indicted Aventura Moves To Disqualify Attorney of End User They Are Suing

Suing one's customer is rare enough in physical security, but Aventura has now taken the unusual step of moving to disqualify their end-user's...

By William Howard-Waddingham - 12 days ago (Info+)

Las Vegas CIO Markets Verkada Despite City Ban on Endorsements

Las Vegas told IPVM that its attorney found no violations of the city's policy despite its CIO participating in Verkada's paid advertising, a...

By Christie Smythe - 13 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

VC Firm Sapphire is Looking to Invest in Video Surveillance Startups

Over the past five years, VCs have invested over a billion dollars in video surveillance companies. Now, VC firm Sapphire Ventures, with ~$10...

By Angelique Chen - 13 days ago | 3 Comments (Info+)

Mercury Favorability Statistics 2023

Mercury Security was acquired by HID in 2017 and is part of mega-access control manufacturer Assa Abloy. Its panels are supported by 30+ partners...

By Angelique Chen - 13 days ago | 2 Comments (Info+)

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