The new Tyco Software House iSTAR Ultra G2 is a powerful, cyber-hardened network door controller that supports up to 32 readers. Built using a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), iSTAR Ultra G2’s rock-solid, hardware-based cyber protection guarantees confidentiality of code and data, and includes advanced enterprise features such as OSDP encrypted, two-way reader communications and peer-to-peer clustering. […]
As law enforcement authorities are grappling with the rise of ransomware and cryptocurrency technologies, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Manac has formed a new National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET). The team will tackle complex investigations and prosecutions of criminal misuses of cryptocurrency and investigate crimes committed by virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and […]
A faulty configuration change led Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp to all go down for at least six hours on Monday, October 4. Those trying to reach the social media platforms were met with browsers and apps displaying DNS errors on connection attempts. The routing prefixes suddenly disappeared from the internet’s border gateway protocol (BGP), a […]
Americans may have to swap out their surveillance cameras that are NDAA-compliant pending FCC and NDAA regulation.
Both the cloud and on-premises systems have their advantages and disadvantages, but recent attacks against on-premise systems coupled with the proliferation and advancement of cloud-based IT architecture are tilting the scales in favor of the cloud. A company that owns its own on-premises servers has more control over security, but are responsible for all of […]
System operators within an electric utility control room are responsible for balancing and maintaining the grid and reliably providing critical resources to millions of people over a wide area. Failures in the electric grid, including downtime or malfunction, could mean life or death. In the mission-critical space of control rooms, systems need to be functioning […]
Japan puts on a mini-show to the world what advanced technologies are yet to come at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Sponsored Content The control room market is changing as operators have access to more content and a more comfortable work environment, and there are now several key things that end users need to consider when building out a control room that is future- proof, says Simon Williams, technical director of CCOMM Integrated Technology Service Inc. Williams says […]
It is my first day back in the office in well over a year, and minus the Boston-area traffic on my way in this morning, it felt kind of good to get out of the house and see some of my coworkers again. However, tech issues were abound as we all fired up our monitors […]
As schools and districts rush to “reopen” during the pandemic, one immediate goal is to equip classrooms with audio and wireless microphones for the teachers so students in class or attending remotely can clearly hear lessons. Some schools are even installing basic wireless microphone systems, portable audio systems, and soundbars. However, these residential-grade systems are […]
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