Tag: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Poll sees future of residential in smart home integration
May 22, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine — Security Systems News readers are looking ahead at the residential market and seeing a future in smart home device integration and AI, according to the results of a recent news poll.
The poll sought to gather industry perspectives on the factors influencing homeowners' decisions to invest in security systems, the prevailing preferences for residential security solutions, and the emerging technologies expected to impact the market.
Looking to the future...
RapidSOS’s answer to monitoring in digital age: ‘Intelligent safety’
May 22, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
NEW YORK — RapidSOS has spent the last few years trying to enhance operator experience in monitoring centers by improving delivery of critical data and staffing shortages. The company’s answer: Unite and Harmony.
During its 2024 Innovation Day, the company revealed RapidSOS Unite, the latest evolution of its intelligent safety response platform; and RapidSOS Harmony, an AI co-pilot system for 911 operators and first responders.
“Intelligent safety is all about...
The nature of our emergency
May 22, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
The security industry has a problem, and unlike the title suggests an AI doctor probably isn’t going to fix it.
In the past week I’ve probably seen half a dozen references to the shortage of manpower in the security industry. Which sector of the industry? All of it probably, but the two that stood out to me have been CISO’s and security operations centers personnel. Two cogs that are definitely needed for the larger machine to function, and currently AI isn’t...
Synopsys report finds over half of surveyed orgs suffered supply chain attack in 2023
May 16, 2024SSN Staff
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — The majority of global organizations (54%) suffered a software supply chain attack over the past year, and most are unable to keep up with the growing risk landscape according to a report just released by Synopsys.
“The State of Software Supply Chain Security Risk” report, released on 5/16/2024 by Synopsys and the Ponemon Institute also found that 50% of organizations took more than a month to respond to an attack. One in five say that their organization is...
Olivet Community Schools to deploy ZeroEyes AI gun detection solution
May 16, 2024SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA —Per ZeroEyes, Michigan’s Olivet Community Schools will be deploying its artificial intelligence (AI) gun detection solution to protect students and faculty against gun-related violence.
The school was approved for the State’s dedicated grant funding, enabling Olivet to implement ZeroEyes.
Olivet Community Schools comprises an elementary school, as well as a middle and high school that are located at the same complex. According to The Gun Violence Research Center,...
Alarm.com touts cross-selling, data mining
May 10, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
TYSONS, Va. — Alarm.com CEO Steve Trundle, in a recent conference call, highlighted the company’s Connected Fleet offering, which it began offering to partners in April and which he says sets the stage for cross-selling opportunities.
The company talked up the offering – a cloud-based vehicle management solution – with partners at ISC West 2024.
“Many of our partners indicated that connected fleets product integration, along with their existing trusted...
Fortra launches unified cybersecurity platform
May 7, 2024SSN Staff
SAN FRANCISCO and MINNEAPOLIS—Fortra has unveiled its new cybersecurity platform, named Fortra, uniting cutting-edge solutions under a single umbrella for powerful defense against multi-vector attacks.
Fortra’s platform comes to market with an approach that is smart and simple. With security products feeding the platform over time, it will detect attacks from many threat sources, aggregate and correlate them using artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize patterns, and then help...
Town of Braselton teams with Comcast on safety/security in parks and rec areas
May 6, 2024SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA – Comcast Smart Solutions, a division of Comcast that specializes in smart technology solutions for businesses and communities, announced that it will provide the Town of Braselton, Georgia, smart video camera technology with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
The Comcast division said that its deployment of smart video camera technology at the Town Green and Braselton Park will provide the town with real-time visibility into its community spaces, insights into traffic...
Kodem Security announces advancements in application security, team expansion
April 30, 2024SSN Staff
SAN FRANCISCO – Kodem Security, a runtime-powered application security company, have announced several cybersecurity enhancements with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and additions to their team.
Kodem Security recently revealed its latest innovation, a runtime-powered static application security testing (SAST) solution, extending Kodem’s platform, which offers software supply chain security (SCA) and Container Security. These new capabilities reportedly give product and...
Iowa’s East Union Community School District to deploy ZeroEyes
April 25, 2024SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA – ZeroEyes is securing more educational facilities with the reveal that its solution has been chosen by Iowa’s East Union Community School District to protect students and faculty against gun-related threats.
As a result of rising gun violence in the United States, East Union Community School District is adding ZeroEyes’ artificial intelligence (AI) gun detection to detect illegally brandished firearms on campus. “In this day and age, no school is...