Archive: June 2024
ESA announces 2024 Youth Scholarship Award winners
June 30, 2024SSN Staff
DALLAS—The Electronic Security Association (ESA) has announced the winners of the 2024 ESA Youth Scholarship Awards, a philanthropic initiative dedicated to supporting the children of first responders.
This year’s program recognizes and reward the remarkable achievements and aspirations of high school seniors whose parents serve as police officers, firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs. The ESA Youth Scholarship Program has awarded over $941,500 to these outstanding...
SIA announces 2024 Women in Security Forum Scholarship opportunity
June 30, 2024SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) is now accepting applications for the 2024 SIA Women in Security Forum (WISF) Scholarship, an initiative led by the SIA Women in Security Forum.
The 2024 program will offer multiple scholarships worth $7,500 each that SIA members and students can use toward professional development and education.
SIA’s Women in Security Forum is a community for both women and men that works to promote, recruit and...
Intellicene appoints Greg Colaluca as new general manager
June 30, 2024SSN Staff
MELVILLE, N.Y.—Intellicene, a provider of intelligent security management platforms, has announced the appointment of Greg Colaluca as general manager.
With more than 20 years of global leadership experience, Colaluca will guide the company into its next growth phase, emphasizing the delivery of intelligent security solutions for mission-critical environments.
Colaluca brings a wealth of experience in customer success, growth, profitability, and operational excellence. He leverages...
Quorum Cyber recognized as finalist for 2024 Microsoft Security Partner of the Year
June 30, 2024SSN Staff
TAMPA, Fla.—Global cybersecurity firm Quorum Cyber announced it was named a finalist of the 2024 Microsoft Security Partner of the Year Award. The company was recognized for providing outstanding solutions and services in security.
Quorum Cyber was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.
“Microsoft Security is the foundation of our business...
ESA creates and names first winner of Stan Martin Excellence in Advocacy Award
June 30, 2024SSN Staff
DALLAS—The Electronic Security Association (ESA) has announced the creation and winner of the first Stan Martin Excellence in Advocacy Award, Dr. Shane Clary. This prestigious accolade recognizes individuals who exemplify an extraordinary commitment to advocacy in the electronic security and life safety industry.
Dr. Clary entered the industry 50 years ago and has been with Bay Alarm for the last 40 years. He has been involved with code promulgation for over 30 years, serving on several...
NMC renews TMA Five Diamond Monitoring Center designation
June 30, 2024SSN Staff
VIENNA, Va.—The Monitoring Association (TMA) announced that National Monitoring Center (NMC) has renewed the prestigious “TMA Five Diamond Monitoring Center” designation.
This designation is granted annually to monitoring centers that satisfy all the requirements of the “five points of excellence:”
Commitment to ongoing job-related education and testing by having 100% of its monitoring center operators certified using the TMA online training series...
AI gun detection platform provider ZeroEyes secures $53M+ Series B funding
June 28, 2024SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA — Gun-detection video analytics platform provider ZeroEyes has announced that it secured more than $53M in Series B funding.
The oversubscribed round was led by Sorenson Capital, with participation from Intel Capital, BroadLight Capital and existing investors.
The company offers an end-to-end security solution, from threat detection to situational awareness, focused on proactively identifying guns before shots are fired and providing actionable intelligence to on-site staff...
Security LeadHER concludes engaging, enriching, connecting conference
June 28, 2024SSN Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va., and SILVER SPRING, Md.—ASIS International and the Security Industry Association (SIA) closed out a successful second annual Security LeadHER conference, a unique event dedicated to advancing, connecting and empowering women in the security profession.
The sold-out event took place June 24-25, 2024, in Phoenix, bringing together more than 400 security professionals from seven countries.
Security LeadHER 2024 built on the tremendous success of last year’s inaugural...
Z-Wave Alliance announces release of 2024A Spec and new ZRAD
June 27, 2024SSN Staff
BEAVERTON, Ore. — The Z-Wave Alliance is announcing the release of its 2024A Z-Wave Specification Package, which includes new User Credential Command Class features, as well as new User Credential Control Specifications.
Additionally, the Alliance has also published a new Z-Wave Reference Application Design (ZRAD), a publicly available repository of data including detailed schematics and reference designs to help developers create Z-Wave products with enhanced range capabilities using Z-Wave...
Axelera AI raises $68 million Series B funding
June 27, 2024SSN Staff
SILICON VALLEY, Calif. and EINDHOVEN, Netherlands — Axelera AI, a provider of purpose-built artificial intelligence (AI) hardware acceleration technology for generative AI and computer vision inference, has announced its successful close of an oversubscribed $68 million Series B financing round.
This latest round brings the total amount raised to $120 million. Axelera AI has spent the past three years building a team of 180+ employees (including 55+ PhD’s with more than 40,000 citations...