July 2002 Vigilos, Inc. was nominated by Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Patty Murray (D-WA) to participate as the state’s representative in the Small Business Homeland Security Expo. Members of Congress and federal procurement agents learned about innovative products to help make the Homeland Security Initiative a reality.
May 2002 Geof Barker, CEO is a named a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in the Emerging Entrepreneur catagory from the Pacific Northwest Region.
March 2002
New, powerful Avanta functionality and our new booth attract hundreds of interested ISC West conference attendees. Bruce Alexander spoke in the show's Conference Program about implications of the merging of IT and security.	Click to download this presentation
'Access Control and Security Systems' magazine publishes Paul Talley's article, "Integration: Just What Does it All Mean?"
December 2001 Vigilos finishes the year with 25 patents pending, including some for facial recognition, fraud prevention and predictive data assessments applications.
November 2001	Click to download this presentation
Paul Talley, EVP, joined a panel to discuss his topic the 'Challenges and Solutions to Integration' at the Securing New Ground Conference.
October 2001 Vigilos comes to ASIS San Antonio in style…in limousines that whisked customers from the convention center to the La Mansion hospitality suite.
September 2001	Click to download this article
The Puget Sound Business Journal names Geof Barker, Vigilos CEO, one of the 40 Under 40--a group of the next generation of leaders from our region.
Security Technology & Design publishes Vigilos' VP of Engineering, Bruce Alexander's second article, "Broadband Network Technology in Security Applications."	Click to download this article
August 2001 The Security Industry Association forms the Systems Integrators Industry Group (SIIG); Paul Talley, Vigilos EVP, is named Chair. The SIIG held its first meeting at ISC East in New York.
Security Technology & Design published Vigilos' VP of Engineering, Bruce Alexander's article, "Sitting on a Gold Mine: Merging Information Technology and Security Operations."	Click to download this article
June 2001 The engineering team has packed the initial release of Avanta with intrusion verification features and functionality the industry has been seeking. During a recent online demo an end user exclaimed, "You've already sold me. You've hit the end-user need exactly!"
May 2001 The Vigilos sales team is swamped with meeting and demo requests from ISC. The company engages a real-time communications infrastructure company to host online meetings and demonstrations for dealers and end users.
April 2001 Vigilos formally launches the company at International Security Conference & Expo in Las Vegas; the need to integrate security information is reaffirmed from dealers and end users frequently. Over 1,500 attendees visit the booth and see the product, Avanta. Paul Talley presents a "hybrid ASP" model for the security industry at the conference. The Company has filed eight new patent applications for its core technology; the patent portfolio now contains 11 pending applications!
Feburary 2001 Vigilos generates more buzz in the security industry. Key meetings at February the Barnes-Buchanan conference and Security Industry Association affirm the need for a solution to integrate disparate and geographically-disperse systems. Vigilos management repeatedly hears, "We've needed a product like yours" from dealers, consultants, and end users."
December 2000 Vigilos has completed three patent applications and employees nearly 30 employees. The company is bursting at the seams and is planning a move to larger offices.
November 2000 Paul Talley, EVP Sales & Marketing joins 150 other industry captains at the 5th annual Securing New Ground Conference. Speaker after speaker emphasized the importance of leveraging new technology and making it easier to provide integrated solutions.
March 2000 Geof Barker incorporates Vigilos, Inc. with first employees, Doug Gorder and Liem Bahneman. Their goal is to find a way to effectively utilize data generated from security systems so that the information is more useable and accessible throughout the organization.