AST Digital Magazine June 2016 | Page 35

Tyco Security Products Acquires Innometriks
Volume 5
June 2016 Edition

Tyco Security Products Acquires Innometriks

“ The founders of PerimeterX were executives at Cotendo , a CDN company that envisioned mobile application acceleration before mobile was a thing . They were instrumental in its success up through the acquisition by Akamai . Since founding PerimeterX , Ido , Omri and Ophir have recruited an incredible team with unique expertise in web-scale infrastructure and distributed security systems ,” said Jonathan Heiliger , General Partner at Vertex Ventures . “ PerimeterX ’ s scalable threat protection is a necessary tool for every enterprise security arsenal and I am delighted to be part of the team that will make the Internet safer .” PerimeterX™ is a provider of scalable , behaviorbased threat protection technology for the web , cloud and mobile . Its security service PerimeterX Bot Defender™ accurately protects commerce , media and enterprise websites from all types of automated or non-human attacks , at any scale . Unlike other security solutions which place a proxy between customer and website , PerimeterX can detect and stop any automated threats with integration that is as simple as adding a JavaScript tag . For more information , please visit https :// www . perimeterx . com /.
John Cassise , CEO of Innometriks
Tyco Security Products has acquired substantially all of the assets of Innometriks and 2DogsStudios , developers of high assurance readers , software and mobile solutions for FIPS-201 ( Federal Information Processing Standard ) smart card credentials .
This acquisition strengthens Tyco Security Products ’ position in the federal market by adding the Innometriks team ’ s open , seamless high-assurance solution integrated directly into Tyco Security Products ’ Software House C • CURE 9000 access control and security management ecosystem , as well as enabling the ability to integrate with systems from other manufacturers . This is achieved with an open architecture that moves government credential authentication directly into the physical access panel , and leveraging OSDP ( Open Supervised Device Protocol ) capable readers . These combined technologies will become part of Tyco Security Products ’ access control solution portfolio .
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