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Connect ONE Customers Can Now Connect Additional ASSA ABLOY Locks to New Installs

December 8, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions has completed the integration of its Aperio wireless lock technology with the Connect ONE Cloud-hosted management platform from Connected Technologies. Connect ONE manages all connected customer devices, including wireless and hardwired locks, access control, intrusion, video surveillance, critical environmental monitoring and energy management from a single interface. “We’re excited to present […]

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Slack Announces Improved Security Features

August 13, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Slack is upgrading the communication and collaboration app’s security features including Slack Connect, a new feature that the company says will allow for faster communication, stronger relationships and improved security. Slack Connect, which the company calls “a more secure and productive way for organizations to communicate wit each other,” gives admins the ability to maintain […]

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The Death of Guardzilla Suggests DIY Security is Still Too Risky

June 29, 2020 Steve Karantzoulidis Leave a Comment

There are far, far too many defunct DIY security companies and products. Guardzilla is the latest. The company, which offered a lineup of DIY security cameras with a live 360° view, appears to have gone out of business. Guardzilla’s homepage is now blank except for a message that reads, “We deeply regret that these troubling times have […]

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New Viking Electronics Panic Button Allows Security to Silently Monitor or Engage

February 14, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Viking Electronics introduces PB-3-IP, a new VoIP emergency panic button. The panic button is designed to mount under a desk or a countertop and enables a user to make a silent emergency call, according to the company. The button’s blue LED will light when pressed, indicating an emergency call is in process. A built-in auto dialer will […]

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Why This School District will Deploy a Patriot One Threat Detection

February 13, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Patriot One Threat Detection has received a purchase order for its PATSCAN multisensor threat detection platform for the Mt. Healthy City School District in Mt. Healthy, Ohio. The solution will be deployed by Patriot One Technologies’ security system integrator/reseller partner, Ginter Electrical, of Ohio. “We’re excited with our growing list of deployments of our PATSCAN […]

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Why This School District’s $1 Million Panic Button System Just Doesn’t Work

February 12, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

After a North Carolina school district spent over $1 million on a panic button system, it isn’t working. Following the 2017 Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools’ former superintendent Clayton Wilcox urged the district to install a panic alarm system. On Oct. 28, 2018, school violence directly affected a Charlotte-Mecklenburg school when a 16-year-old student was […]

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7 Hidden Security Sensors That Prove You Shouldn’t Bring DIY Security to Your Office

October 23, 2019 Adam Forziati Leave a Comment

If you’re in the technology industry, be it as an IT workhorse, a CIO, or as any kind of tech decision-maker, chances are you’re familiar with DIY wireless security systems (you know: the minimalist fonts; the IoT connectivity; the name which rhymes with “bing”). The consumer public is already convinced these systems will replace the […]

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Apple’s Hong Kong Flub Is Why Silicon Valley Should Avoid Politics

October 17, 2019 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Apple is one of the most powerful companies in the world, boasting a market valuation that has consistently hovered around $1 trillion for most of the month. However, the technology conglomerate still appears to bow to public pressure, even from foreign governments dealing with a public uprising. The company removed a smartphone app from the […]

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These Awful Security Camera Systems Aren’t Monitoring ANYTHING

September 25, 2019 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Physical security might be a topic that, for a modern IT Director, CIO, or anyone making technology calls at a company or org, may fall by the wayside more easily than they’d care to admit. After all, who has time to worry about security camera systems when so many threats are digital nowadays? But then again, people’s […]

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The 5 Biggest Data Breaches in 2019 So Far (And How They Could Have Been Prevented)

June 20, 2019 Adam Forziati Leave a Comment

IBM says in a study that the cost of lost business after a breach for US organizations is $4.2 million. It is evident, then, that the organizations involved in the 5 biggest data breaches in 2019 thus far will likely suffer a considerable economic blow.   But if you read this data breaches list thinking, “these are mega-companies; the risk of a data […]

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