Milestone CEO Speaks On The Future Of Cloud
By Angelique Chen (Info+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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 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+)
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 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 credentials. Not only have such credentials been cracked for many, many years, but new devices...
By IPVM Team - 7 days ago | 27 Comments
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 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+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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+)
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 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+)
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 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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