Entries by Leigh McGuire

Rapid Response Announces Indira Emmadi as Vice President of Information Technology

Jeffrey Atkins, President of Rapid Response Monitoring Services, Inc., announced the appointment of Indira Emmadi to Vice President of Information Technology at Rapid Response. Indira joined Rapid Response from Palo Alto Networks where she served as a Solutions Engineer managing engagements with their key strategic accounts and led a team that provided cybersecurity solutions to […]

City of Baltimore 911 ECC Implements TMA’s ASAP-to-PSAP

The City of Baltimore 9-1-1 Public Safety Emergency Communications Center (ECC) is the 115th ECC in the United States and the 2nd agency in the state of Maryland to implement the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP).  The City of Baltimore ECC went live the week of October 17th, 2022, with: Vector Security, Rapid Response Monitoring, Security Central, Stanley Security, […]

Axis Communications Announces a New Cybersecurity Feature for its Body Worn Cameras

Axis Communications announces a new cybersecurity feature for Axis body worn cameras. Available with firmware release 11.0, signed video provides an additional layer of protection for body worn solutions helping to enforce trust in video evidence. This valuable feature adds a cryptographic checksum into the video stream allowing the video to be reliably traced back […]

Eastern Bank Welcomes Crime Prevention Security Systems, LLC As A Commercial Customer

Eastern Bank is pleased to announce Crime Prevention Security Systems, LLC (CPSS) as a new commercial customer. Founded in 1975 by John Pastore, Founder and President, and his wife Randi Elrad, Vice President of Sales, CPSS is a family-owned business. Headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, servicing North and Central Florida, CPSS designs, installs and services security and fire alarm systems, […]

Jewelers Mutual® Group Establishes New Jewelry Industry Council

Jewelers Mutual Group announced the creation of a Jewelry Industry Council tasked with identifying challenges facing the industry and proposing solutions, including financial investments to address them. The Jewelry Industry Council is comprised of individuals from various areas of the industry throughout the U.S. and Canada who were selected based on their leadership roles and commitment […]

John Deere Wants to Connect its Tractors and Other Machines to Satellites

Published by Fierce Electronics, Sept. 29, 2022 John Deere technology officials met with 60 representatives from various satellite communications providers at a test farm here on Thursday to issue an RFP to set in motion a satellite communications network connected with its Deere tractors and other smart field machines in 2024. Deere already has terrestrial […]

[Eye Opener] The FBI Warns Against a New Cyber Attack Vector Called Business Identity Compromise (BIC)

Shared from CyberheistNews Vol 12 #40, October 4th, 2022 The FBI warns that synthetic content may be used in a “newly defined cyber attack vector” called Business Identity Compromise (BIC). Imagine you’re on a conference call with your colleagues. Discussing the latest sales numbers. Information that your competitors would love to get a hold of. […]