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EFIA expands its development committee

The European Fencing Industry Association (EFIA) has announced the expansion of its development committee, Vigilance can report.

EFIA has renowned, rigorous entry criteria, but continues to see record growth in membership and is determined to ensure that all members have a clear voice in the association. To this end, EFIA will be bringing in some more members to help on the committee, bringing an even wider industry experience to the current expert panel dedicated to the needs of their membership. The newly expanded committee has already brought an element of dynamism to recent meetings, as EFIA Chairman, Bernard Kilbride explains:

: Jo Spencer; International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence; Posted On Friday, 13 May 2016 07:54

MB Technology and Memory Bank to serve UK and Irish channel partners

UK: Opengear has announced two new distribution agreements serving channel partners across the UK and Ireland.

: DAWN NICHOLLS; Industry News; Posted On Thursday, 12 May 2016 12:02

Putting an end to passwords with the launch of a new standard in Identity and Access Management

Secure Cloudlink eliminates the need for passwords safeguarding organisations from cyber attack, security breaches, support costs and software license abuse

A new, patented cloud services brokerage (CSB) solution providing secure identity management and cloud services distribution has been launched designed specifically to eliminate the need for passwords.

The solution from British cloud security software company Secure Cloudlink Ltd – Secure Cloudlink – supports three factor, SSO (single sign on) and biometric user authentication but unlike other solutions in the market, does not store, send or replicate any user credentials outside of an organisations’ directory service.

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Industry News; Posted On Thursday, 12 May 2016 11:58

Photos shared on Flickr used to track world's protest hotspots

Analysis of millions of photographs on Flickr has found that protests can be mapped across the world as they happen.

Merve Alanyali, Tobias Preis and Suzy Moat, of the Data Science Lab at Warwick Business School, analysed data on 25 million photos taken and uploaded to Flickr in 2013 across 244 countries and regions to produce a map of the world’s protests over the year.

The team found that in weeks in which higher proportions of ‘protest’ labelled photographs were detected in a given country or region, the UK newspaper The Guardianalso published a greater proportion of ‘protest’ labelled news reports relating to that country or region.