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A LAYERED APPROACH TO THREAT DETECTION AND MITIGATION, WITH ESCALATION Cameras offer simple, but useful, detection of breach, yet still, humans monitoring 24x7 begin to miss anomalous activity after 24 minutes (MIT study) due to normal cognitive processing by the human brain. The brain gets "tired", very quickly, after watching 24 screens in real-time. Even then, detections are only that which a trained eye can see. ...

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By Morgan Greene and India Sayer Open-source software (OSS) refers to software whose source code is freely available for anyone to view, modify, and distribute. Open-source software has gained popularity over the years due to its purported benefits. However, as with any technology, it presents challenges to consider prior to adoption. One of the most touted benefits of open-source software is that it’s “free”. Organizations can download,...

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Samsung Electronics America, Inc., an industry leader in the global display market, will showcase its technology at NRF 2023: Retail’s Big Show (Booth # 3657), offering retailers and system integrators a glimpse into the ways these solutions can reinvigorate brick-and-mortar experiences for customers and employees alike. Leveraging Samsung visual display technology, retailers such as Duck Donuts, The Honest Worm and Beach People Studios now have a...

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SPOKANE, WASHINGTON – JUNE 2, 2022 – Unifire, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mission Ready Solutions Inc. (“Mission Ready“) (TSX Venture: MRS) (OTCQX: MSNVF), proudly announces that it has secured terms with Blueforce Development Corporation (Blueforce) for their turnkey solutions, including IoT/sensors communication platform, through a distribution agreement for the United States, Canada and Latin America. Blueforce’s edge-based situational awareness solutions deliver real-time actionable insight to...

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There is a place in the world for the “big red button” hardware solutions and that is for medical emergencies, particularly for the elderly. The big red button hanging around one’s neck is an easy target to hit in a medical emergency, but most emergency situations require clarity in the nature of the issue so that the appropriate responders are dispatched. For example, teachers in...

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The origins of the Blueforce platform began with a singular and simple mission set: Enable warfighters and first responders to leverage their mobile compute devices to quickly form secure human workgroups in order to respond to a rapidly evolving incident. Blueforce delivered this in 2012 in the form of BlueforceTACTICAL for Android which enabled self-synchronization of location, shared ground intelligence, and the fusion and movement...

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"Power to the Edge" is the name of a book written by Dave Alperts and Richard Hayes which describes a shift in the late 90’s to a threat model that required that we think differently about conflict and threats to our interests. The book describes technology frameworks that can deliver small unit swarming effects in time-collapsed decision environments to more quickly respond to, make sense...

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Here in the heat of summer, companies are coming to understand that the virus and its aftershocks will be felt for months, if not years.  The coronavirus will eventually be controlled, but by the time this happens, employers will have new regimens in place for managing their workforces.  So they are starting to make longer-term investments in technology to inject distance into in-person commerce, but to...

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It would be an understatement to say that pandemics aren’t the norm for today's crisis managers. While we have trained and prepared for years on man made mass casualty scenarios (which have included training scenarios built on nation state actors initiating biological attacks), who would have thought a previously unknown virus would emerge from a wet market in Asia, and then one that could be...

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