For years, Jeffrey Zwirn has warned about a "catastrophic flaw" that his product, "The Interceptor" claims to solve. However, UL and alarm...
By John Honovich - 22 days ago (Info+)
Ongoing Verkada outages at an NJ school resulted in a frustrated dean exclaiming "Verkada is not working!!" in a frantic email to district IT staff...
By Donald Maye - about 1 month ago (Info+)
With the top surveillance trends of AI and cloud VSaaS growth, are integrators replacing cameras before they fail, to take advantage of new camera...
By Sean Patton - 3 months ago (Info+)
A common concern is that network cable will be damaged when rolled over by various machines on a job site, but how much of an impact does that...
By John Scanlan and Jermaine Wilson - 7 months ago (Info+)
Axis's website and other online services have been offline for more than 24 hours with Axis confirming to IPVM that they are "experiencing an...
By John Scanlan - 7 months ago (Info+)
Ireland's data protection watchdog has reprimanded and fined one of the country's biggest cities over $120,000 for non-compliance with GDPR and...
By Robert Wren Gordon - 8 months ago (Info+)
Just 4 months after Dahua admitted 2 critical vulnerabilities, Dahua is quietly admitting a new high (8.1) vulnerability. The researchers found...
By John Scanlan - 8 months ago (Info+)
For more than a decade, IPVM has tracked integrator's favorite camera manufacturers. In this 6th installment, a PRC China manufacturer makes the...
By IPVM Team - 9 months ago (Info+)
"Vandal-proof" is a term often used by manufacturers to market their products, but the reality is that these specifications are mostly...
By Ethan Ace and Ilya Ignatenko - 11 months ago (Info+)
PSIM failed a decade ago but with the cloud and SaaS becoming mainstream, can LA-based startup HiveWatch benefit from these trends in the...
By Robert Wren Gordon and John Honovich - 11 months ago (Info+)
Hikvision has admitted a 9.8 vulnerability that is "the highest level of critical vulnerability—a zero-click unauthenticated remote code execution"...
By John Honovich - about 1 year ago
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities have escalated over the past few years and keeping track of who is impacted by each can be difficult. This list,...
By IPVM Team - about 1 year ago (Info+)
ADT apologized and fired an employee whose error resulted in a home being flooded, causing alleged damages of ~$1.6 million. However, ADT is now...
By Isabella Cheng - about 1 year ago (Info+)
This 23-page guide provides an in-depth explanation of VMS/VSaaS recording, including NVRs. Inside we cover: Recording Management...
By Sean Patton - over 1 year ago (Info+)
A jewelry store alleges it was "robbed and destroyed" after its ADT silent alarm failed to go off during a break-in, the second failure in 7...
By Isabella Cheng - over 1 year ago (Info+)
SecuriThings has raised $14 million, aiming to deliver a platform for securing and managing IoT devices, such as IP cameras. But how likely are...
By Zach Segal - over 1 year ago (Info+)
Arecont Vision was one of the biggest failures of the 2010s but acquired by Costar in 2018, has integrator sentiment towards Arecont...
By Ethan Ace - over 1 year ago (Info+)
3 primary and 4 secondary issues stood out as causing the most problems when maintaining video surveillance systems, according to ~200 integrators...
By IPVM Team - almost 2 years ago (Info+)
Which camera manufacturer have integrators had the worst experience with in the past year? 200+ integrators told us. 200+ integrators...
By IPVM Team - over 2 years ago (Info+)
On February 20, IPVM visited another live face rec deployment by London police, but this time the system was thwarted by technical problems and...
By Kayleigh Long, Sean Patton, and Charles Rollet - over 2 years ago (Info+)
Access control systems can do more than lock doors. With little or no extra equipment, they can be used to track labor hours for employees...
By Brian Rhodes - about 3 years ago
The "old" Arecont was infamous not only for its camera failures but for making their "partners" fight to get them fixed. IPVM drew the ire of...
By IPVM Team - over 3 years ago (Info+)
Abruptly, IBM has discontinued its Intelligent Video Analytics solution, it confirmed to IPVM. IBM's video analytics have faced recent media...
By Charles Rollet - over 3 years ago
Arecont's net negativity remained the same in IPVM's 2019 integrator study, though integrator's feeling became relatively more neutral compared to...
By IPVM Team - over 3 years ago (Info+)
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By Brian Rhodes - over 3 years ago (Research)
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