Industry News: Virtual Perimeter Solution Increases Late-Night Security at White Castle
Decreasing Vandalism and Crime for Late-Night Shifts
Fast-food hamburger chain White Castle has piloted an artificial intelligence (AI) powered exterior solution at one of its high-risk locations in St. Louis, Missouri. The Interface solution, Virtual Perimeter Guard, delivered measurable reductions in loitering, late-night incidents, and security escalations, all while improving safety for employees and customers.
During the first 30 days of the solution’s deployment, 91 percent of perimeter security issues were resolved with the use of AI detection and live voice deterrence. The system combines detection with escalating voice-downs, powerful strobe lighting, and live security professionals who can intervene in real time.
White Castle also reported a boost in employee morale that came with the stronger sense of workplace safety, plus increased customer comfort while waiting in late-night drive-thru lines.
Mergers & Moves
VerifyMe, Inc. // Open World Ltd.
Blockchain infrastructure and asset tokenization platform OpenWorld and authentication and precision logistics technology company VerifyMe announced a merger agreement. The combined entity will focus on token listings, regulated digital asset infrastructure, enterprise-grade compliance frameworks, and institutional real-world asset tokenization across multiple jurisdictions.
Highland Rim Capital // Xybix
Highland Rim Capital acquired Xybix, a designer and manufacturer of ergonomic workstations and control-room furniture built for mission-critical, 24/7 environments, such as 911 dispatch centers, command and control rooms, and other continuous-operations settings. The acquisition is expected to boost product development and expand market reach.
Overhead Door Corporation // Your Automatic Door Company
Door and access solution provider Overhead Door Corporation acquired the other company, which will continue to operate under the name of Your Automatic Door Company (YADC) as part of Horton Automatics. YADC specializes in the service and installation of automatic door products in Indiana.
Swiftconnect // Trecerdo
SwiftConnect is acquiring the boutique engineering firm Trecerdo, which produces embedded software and hardware-level access control integrations. The move strengthens SwiftConnect’s end-to-end capabilities with Trecerdo’s deep expertise in bridging access control platforms with downstream hardware and elevator destination-dispatch systems.
Cellebrite // Corellium
AI-powered digital investigative and intelligence solutions provider Cellebrite has purchased Corellium, which provides ARM-based virtualization software. The addition of its technology strengthens Cellebrite’s market presence and expands its digital investigation portfolio, including physical device access, virtual device testing, and real-time intelligence.
Awards
Frost & Sullivan awarded Delta Intelligent Building Technologies the 2025 Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award, which recognized the company’s commitment to openness, reliability, intelligent automation, and forward-looking innovation.
Contracts
The National Purchasing Cooperative awarded access control and emergency response technology provider Sielox a new PEPPM purchasing contract for its Crisis Lockdown Alert Status System. The contract, which will run until the end of 2028, can be used as an agreement with participating schools, local and state agencies, and nonprofits in all 50 U.S. states for available products, including its Crisis Lockdown Alert Status System.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services awarded ID.me a contract to provide secured access and improved user experience on medicare.gov beginning in early 2026. This will allow Medicare beneficiaries to verify their identity and sign in with a digital identity wallet.
Reports
Axis Communications released its first annual Axis Perspectives report, which examines the evolution of intelligent video and its expanding role. The report quantifies how intelligent video enhances security and drives safety, operational efficiency, and business intelligence across industries.
According to the 2026 Cargo and Logistics ID Fraud Report, identity fraud attempts in the U.S. cargo and logistics sector surged in the past two years. The report, published by IDScan.net, was based on more than 1 million identity verification transactions in manufacturing, processing, transport, and warehousing operations.
Xtract One Technologies recently released a technical white paper, The Three Legs of the Security Screening Stool: How Weapons Detection Systems Fail Without People and Processes. The paper examines why weapons detection systems that perform well in demos often fail to deliver expected outcomes in real-world operations.
Data privacy company Icogni released a new report that looks at the availability of NFL players’ personal information on people search sites (PSS), including phone numbers, home addresses, and family details. According to the report, No Defense, as many as 61 percent of all players had their personal information exposed on a PSS.
Quorum Cyber published its 2026 Global Cyber Risk Outlook report, which looked at nine industry sectors, including energy, financial services and insurance, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, high education, housing and constriction, legal and professional services, manufacturing, the public sector, and retail and hospitality. The report included several key findings, including that average ransom demands surged across multiple sectors, including 179 percent in financial services and 97 percent in manufacturing.
Cyberhaven Labs released the 2026 AI Adoption & Risk Report, looking at how employees use AI at work, which tools are most popular, and how much sensitive data is being fed into these tools. Along with other key findings, the report reveals that more than one-third (39.7 percent) of all interactions with AI tools involve sensitive data.
Announcements
Global data and technology company DTN announced the launch of its Weather Hub for Outdoor Safety, a weather risk management platform purpose-built to support event safety, crowd protection, and emergency response operations. The platform translates complex weather data into clear, actionable safety intelligence surrounding high-impact events.
Partnerships
Identity verification. Idemia Public Security North America has partnered with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to launch a mobile ID app for Kentucky residents. Residents in the U.S. state can use the app to immediately and securely verify their identity on their smartphone at TSA checkpoints at participating airports.
Fire safety. Applied safety science company UL Solutions is collaborating with Saudi Electricity Company to advance fire protection and life safety standards, including the delivery of targeted fire safety training and the testing and certification of systems and components to improve public safety.
Biometrics. Fingerprint scanner and sensor manufacturer Secugen has partnered with Precise Biometrics to launch Biolive, an antispoofing and liveness detection solution for national identity programs all over the world.
