In the News
August
18, 2004
Vigilos and Hirsch Partner for Advanced Security Solutions
SEATTLE, Washington, 18-August, 2004 --
Hirsch Electronics, a leading provider of high security
access control systems, and Vigilos, Inc., a leading
provider of Enterprise Security Management (ESM) software
for the
physical security needs of large enterprises, announced
today they have entered into an agreement to jointly
develop and market new security management solutions. Under
the
agreement, Hirsch will share proprietary code, hardware
and technical support to enable Vigilos to develop
software to fully integrate, control, and program Hirsch
access
control panels through the Vigilos software interface.
Vigilos
will develop, and the companies will jointly market,
an extension of the Vigilos software that
leverages the capabilities of the time-tested Hirsch
hardware and firmware to address new challenges faced by
large enterprise
customers today. The Vigilos software integrates video
and other enterprise security data with activities associated
with the Hirsch system, making both video and access
control work in concert to improve security. The software
also
automates many tasks that currently require human operators,
and prioritizes and filters events to focus operators'
attention on the most critical situations.
About Hirsch Electronics
Hirsch Electronics Corporation manufactures
high security access control and security management systems
for worldwide markets. Hirsch products include VelocityÈ Security
Management System, high security controllers, ScramblePad and
ScrambleProxÂ. Hirsch has earned numerous industry awards
for their integration of door control, alarm monitoring,
video, enrollment, badging, graphics and database management.
Hirsch Electronics is located at 1900-B Carnegie Avenue,
Santa Ana, California, U.S.A., Phone: , email: marketing;
website: www.HirschElectronics.com .
About Vigilos Vigilos is a leading provider of Enterprise
Security Management (ESM) software that is designed for
large enterprises to help them solve a diverse set of physical
security and operational problems. The Vigilos platform
is a solution designed for government and businesses with
one or more locations at which intrusion, access control,
bar code, point-of-sale, video, audio and other physical
security, transaction, and operational data is generated.
Vigilos coordinates with the manufacturers of a variety
of related hardware systems to seamlessly integrate data
from all connected systems into an enterprise security
information management platform.
Vigilos is located at 2030 First Avenue,
Suite 300, Seattle, Washington, USA. Telephone ,
email
,
or website at www..
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