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How One District Built a Safer Campus, and How You Can Too Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 2:00pm ET - 1:00pm CT - 11:00am PT Most public schools already have cameras, but that technology alone doesn't answer the questions superintendents and K-12 security directors lose sleep over: what to upgrade next, who to trust to do it right, and how to make sure the investment still holds up as risks, requirements, and legislation evolve.

John Haspel will lead sales engineering while Tom Sinciro will oversee national accounts. DMP has named John Haspel director of sales engineering and Tom Sinciro executive director of national accounts. Haspel has more than 30 years of experience in physical security. He previously led sales engineering and technical services at Verint and Cisco Systems and held roles at Avigilon, Oncam and Soterix Systems. He has worked with DMP on its XV Plus Gateways since 2025.

Automated detection and response will support a security operations center serving colleges and universities. OculusIT has added Seceon’s threat detection and response platform to its security operations center service for colleges and universities. OculusIT analysts will use Seceon’s platform to monitor activity across networks, devices, identities, cloud services and applications.

Courses are available to sales and marketing professionals, installers and operators, and are intended to strengthen security and system efficiency. Security professionals will have access to a tiered training program on the Open Supervised Device Protocol through a new partnership between the Security Industry Association and AMAG Technology.

Colorado tech firm celebrates 40 years as it expands wireless intrusion detection and cloud technologies. Wireless hardware manufacturer Inovonics has reached its 40th year of operations while expanding its range of commercial security, senior living emergency calls and utility submetering products. The company was founded in Boulder, Colorado, in 1986 by Steve Koonce and Don Hume to develop commercial wireless devices using frequency-hopping spread spectrum radio technology.

New research reveals 86% of multi-location brands suffered cyberattacks, with most spreading across locations due to weak governance. Distributed enterprises are experiencing a surge in cyberattacks, with the vast majority of incidents spreading beyond the initial point of compromise to affect broader corporate networks, store locations and supply chains.

Adams Rite, an ASSA ABLOY Group company, has launched the RITE Touch® RT2050 (RT2050) Digital Glass Door Lock for interior swinging or sliding glass doors. Designed for modern office environments, the RT2050 features surface-mount installation that eliminates the need for complex glass preparation or drilling.

Research commissioned by Bridewell puts average cybersecurity breach losses among aviation organizations at $1.4 million over the previous 12 months. Censuswide surveyed 250 cybersecurity professionals working in the U.S. aviation sector. Phishing was the most widely reported attack, experienced by 90% of respondents. At least 88% of respondents encountered an incident involving malware, credential theft or distributed denial-of-service attacks.

Two 2026 studies highlight weaknesses in visitor oversight and contractor identification despite confidence in security and audit readiness. Forty-four percent of surveyed leaders at high-security workplaces could not confidently identify who had been in their buildings the previous day, according to research released by workplace management provider Envoy.

The company says its new runtime monitoring maps suspicious LLM activity across connected tools, MCP servers and APIs. With its latest platform update, Salt Security has introduced native AI Detection and Response for monitoring large language models during operation. The capabilities are available through Salt Agentic Detection and Response (AG-DR). Salt said the new monitoring looks for jailbreak efforts and model activity it flags as unsafe.