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New head for Agenda Security Services
Hull-based Agenda Group has appointed Alan Fletcher as Head of the company’s Security Services business. Having moved through the ranks in the Cambridgeshire Constabulary up to the position of Detective Superintendent within the Criminal Investigations Department, Alan moved to the USA where he joined Target, the second largest chain of discount department stores in the country. There he pioneered ‘intelligence led’ investigations, investigated ‘organised’ criminal activity against the company, and trained Asset Protection personnel in mobile surveillance techniques. After the attacks of 9/... [more]
QinetiQ increases presence in the US Intelligence Community with DTRI acquisition
QinetiQ Group plc has agreed to acquire Dominion Technology Resources, Inc. (DTRI), a leading provider of high end products and services to the US Intelligence Community. DTRI’s expertise focuses on mission architecture engineering, integration and operations support. Under the terms of the agreement, which is conditional upon regulatory clearance in the United States, QinetiQ will acquire 100% of the stock of DTRI for a net cash consideration of approximately $104.5m (post tax attributes of the transaction). The acquisition will be organised under the Mission Solutions Group of QinetiQ Nor... [more]
Passlogix v-GO single sign-on SSO increases Irish Life network security
Irish Life & Permanent is a leading provider of personal financial services in the Irish market. Irish Life & Permanent grew rapidly through both organic and acquisitive growth, and this meant that the organisation's 5,000 staff were faced with a diverse number of systems, user IDs and passwords. This inevitably led to challenges of staff logon and password management. A new approach was needed to address and manage all of the identity and access challenges. The Central IT function, Group IT, of Irish Life & Permanent determined that the there were two main criteria for the project; they ne... [more]
Lynx Technologies announces mobile solution for VECTA ACS
Lynx Technologies has announced that a new mobile solution has been implemented in its software product VECTA ACS. VECTA is a universal integrated software solution with access control, burglar and fire monitoring, CCTV and building management subsystems. The VECTA suite includes main applications for configuring, alarm monitoring, report generation as well as specialized solutions for Badge printing, Time & Attendance and third party integration tools such as SDK and automation subsystem. It has build-in support of well known hardware manufactures: HID Global and Apollo Inc. The new m... [more]
BoundaryGard prevent ongoing thefts at a Lincolnshire church
With metal prices rising, churches and other historic buildings are increasingly finding themselves the target of lead thieves. Sonic Security UK selected BoundaryGard detection technology from Optex Europe, to prevent ongoing problems from intruders at a Lincolnshire church. After the theft of a large quantity of lead from its roof, the church decided to take preventative measures, as Systems Assessor of Sonic Security UK, Mark Johnstone explains: “After one failed attempt to steal lead from its porch and roof, at the second attempt the thieves were successful in removing large strips of l... [more]
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