Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 31 | Page 10

NEWS Genetec highlights physical and cybersecurity challenges at Intersec Saudi Arabia 2018 HID Global unveils new physical access solutions at Intersec Saudi Arabia 2018 H Genetec has highlighted its premier solutions, addressing the evolving physical and cyberthreats in the Middle East region, at Intersec Saudi Arabia G enetec, a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety and operations, has highlighted its premier solutions, addressing the evolving physical and cyberthreats in the Middle East region. This took place at the second edition of Intersec Saudi Arabia, which was held at the Jeddah Centre for Forums and Events in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) in April. At the event – the biggest trade fair for safety, security and fire protection in the KSA – Genetec demonstrated its security, intelligence and operations solutions designed to help protect the everyday. Genetec showcased Citigraf – a decision support system that unifies public safety operations across city departments for inter-agency collaboration – and Genetec 10 INTELLIGENTCIO Traffic Sense, a unified traffic operations platform driven by advanced analytics. The company also put the spotlight on its Security Centre 5.7 solution, a unified, open architecture security flagship. Firas Jadalla, Regional Director – Middle East, Turkey and Africa, Genetec Inc, said: “Genetec continues to bring clever technologies to market that expand our flagship unified security platform and helps our end users implement the most effective security strategies that have been designed to protect their organisations, cities and schools from both physical and cyberthreats. “In today’s highly connected world, we need to defend our physical security system as well as our communication infrastructure, servers and data from cyber criminals.” ID Global, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, has unveiled a new physical access solution tailored for SMBs in the Middle East. It also showcased its innovative HID Location Services offering for workplace optimisation, as well as its broad range of trusted identity offerings – including its latest embedded solution which facilitates integrating mobile access capabilities into products and services – at Intersec Saudi Arabia 2018. Wisam Yaghmour, Regional Director at HID Global, said: “Physical access security is rapidly moving to the cloud to support regional businesses that are adopting an IoT environment. This move is creating a growing demand for increased, real-time visibility into the most important areas of the organisation’s operations across multiple locations or a specific area. “Through our participation at Intersec Saudi Arabia we aim to enable organisations with solutions to efficiently manage their security needs and reduce risk with cost-effective yet advanced technology which only HID Global brings to the market.” HID Location Services is designed to address a growing market need for accurate, real- time location of an organisation’s workforce. HID Mobile Access leverages Seos as its underlying credential technology to enable employees to now use their smartphone, tablet or wearable to access doors, gates, networks and more. www.intelligentcio.com