I have spent a lot of time traveling the security circuit and educating myself about the threats of cybersecurity. Last month I had the privilege to participate at the PSA Cybersecurity Congress, a collection of industry experts and integrator executives. The event covered a lot of ground, and although I consider myself up on the times, I was pleasantly shocked with the abundance of new knowledge I took away from it. Here are a few thoughts from my integrator ownership seat and panel moderator perspective.
Pivot3, Austin, Tex., announced a $45 million equity and bank financing closing in February.
Argonaut Private Equity, Tulsa, Okla., a new investor in Pivot3, joined S3 Ventures, Austin, Tex., InterWest Partners, Menlo Park, Calif., Mesirow Financial Private Equity, Chicago, and the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati investment fund, Palo Alto, Calif., in providing additional equity in the closing. As a part of this round, Steve Mitchell, managing director of Argonaut Private Equity, will join Pivot3’s board of directors.
The mydlink® NVR with HDMI output (DNR-312L) is allows users to keep monitor their businesses locally with a mouse and HD monitor, or remotely with a phone, tablet or PC.
The Turbo HD line of cameras and recorders utilizes high definition transport video interface (HD-TVI) technology, which allows users to send uncompressed, hi-res video over coaxial cable.
Genetec’s™ Cloud Archives service for Security Center is designed to allow organizations to easily scale the available storage capacity of their surveillance system and to eliminate the need to invest in additional servers.
In January of each year, the President of the United States delivers the annual State of the Union address, without fail declaring the union to be strong. In security, the same can be said for the state of the video surveillance industry in recent years. Strong growth has become a hallmark of this segment for the last several years, and there’s no reason to think that won’t continue to be the case.
MorphoTrak, Alexandra, Va., a Morpho (Safran) company, announced its 40th anniversary as the pioneer developer of automated fingerprint identification systems (AFIS). The last four decades have been revolutionary in helping law enforcement fight crime, the company stated.