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Verint Introduces Facial Recognition Technology Built for Real-World Environments

Verint® Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNT) today announced the availability of its new facial recognition technology designed to work with organizations’ existing infrastructures to deliver highly accurate, automated and intelligent identification capabilities in real-world environments. Ideal for mission-critical security applications, Verint FaceDetect™ is powered by sophisticated, computer-based, multi-layered algorithms designed to operate in today’s most challenging security scenarios.

Facial Recognition Technology

The new Verint FaceDetect analytics solution incorporates neural networks and deep learning intended to imitate and even exceed a human’s ability to recognize. This innovative approach allows the technology to adapt to and learn from new situations, similar to the way the human brain operates. Verint FaceDetect—which is GPU-based to achieve optimum performance, accuracy and scalability—is specifically designed to support advanced facial recognition in real-world environments with heavy traffic and diverse populations, rather than relying on one-to-one scenarios.

Verint FaceDetect is easy to install in existing environments, and supports 10 cameras per GPU and video streams from any IP camera, including PTZ video surveillance devices. In addition to identifying individuals regardless of face obstructions, suspect aging, disguises and ethnicity, the solution features both real-time and forensic comparison capabilities against large databases with millions of faces. It also allows operators to instantaneously add suspects to watch-lists. Leveraging these advanced analytics, organizations can streamline investigations and empower operators to make rapid, informed decisions without expensive and time consuming infrastructure changes.

“Verint is a driving force behind the development of intelligent solutions that allow customers to advance their strategic security efforts,” says Verint’s Alan Stoddard, vice president and general manager, situational intelligence solutions. “Our FaceDetect solution helps organizations automate intelligence gathering, and take a more proactive approach to business and security intelligence, all while increasing the return on their technology investments.”

Verint FaceDetect is part of a robust portfolio of cyber and security intelligence solutions that help today’s organizations modernize security by automating critical functions and gathering valuable intelligence to improve efficiency. Verint’s powerful analytics enable stakeholders to make decisions based on information customized to their organizations’ specific business and security needs.

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U.S. Government Background Check to Benefit from AI Technology, OSINT Tools and Machine Learning

Technology is coming to help to quicken the clearance process while providing a much more extensive background check at the same time. Federal agencies, the US National Background Investigations Bureau among them, increasingly adopt artificial intelligence (AI), OSINT tools and machine-learning capabilities as primary and secondary means of background screening, finds the recent market report U.S. Government Background Check Market Forecast.

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Verint Provides Surveillance and Fraud Investigation Solutions to Financial Institutions

Verint® Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: VRNT), The Customer Engagement Company™, today announced that is has experienced high demand and adoption of its solutions within the global banking market over the past year, with more than 100 leading banks transitioning to its technologies. Investment in Verint’s branch surveillance and investigative solutions was driven by organizational requirements for innovative platforms to reduce fraud, and strengthen the security of valuable data and assets.

The banking industry is constantly evolving, and security professionals are faced with challenges that include protecting people and assets from threats, crime and fraud across the enterprise, as well as the responsibility of meeting financial objectives. Risks abound from cyber and physical orientation points, and can be isolated or in association with organized crime. Robberies, ATM skimming, check and credit card fraud, and identity theft have become commonplace with new schemes invented by sophisticated criminals. As a leading provider of solutions to the financial industry, Verint delivers the technologies, expertise and strategies to help its customers anticipate, analyze and effectively take action to counter these challenges.

What Banks Have to Say About Partnering with Verint to Advance Security, Mitigate Fraud and Enhance Customer Engagement

According to one financial institution, “With more than 100 branches to manage and secure, it’s critical for us to leverage proactive, intelligent security tools to analyze and achieve the video coverage necessary to reduce fraud and enhance the customer experience. By working with Verint, we have found a strong partner that helps us achieve our operational goals through comprehensive service, support and innovation.”

Another bank shares that, “Verint is a true collaborator in every sense. It provides the breadth of solutions that have allowed us to standardize our video surveillance infrastructure across 250 branches. Verint also has the banking expertise to help us maximize ROI as our security and business needs evolve. We have great confidence in its technology innovations and services.”

“We chose Verint based on its extensive knowledge in the banking market and its impressive technology portfolio that enables us to bridge the worlds of security and customer engagement. Verint’s reliable and intuitive solutions are a key component of our fraud-reduction efforts, providing us the intelligence necessary to reduce risk across our branch network,” notes this Verint financial customer.

As a leading global provider of security, fraud and compliance solutions, Verint is dedicated to working closely with its customers and partners. During the Verint Engage™ Global Customer Conference, May 14-17 in Dallas, customers will gain insight into advanced security management solutions, a host of customer engagement technologies, and best practices while networking with industry peers.

To learn more about Verint’s robust portfolio for the financial services sector, visit Booth 28057 at ISC West in Las Vegas, April 11-13, 2018—and to register to attend the Verint Engage Global Customer Conference next month, click here.

About Verint Systems Inc.
Verint® (Nasdaq: VRNT) is a global leader in Actionable Intelligence® solutions with a focus on customer engagement optimization, security intelligence, and fraud, risk and compliance. Today, over 10,000 organizations in more than 180 countries—including over 80 percent of the Fortune 100—count on intelligence from Verint solutions to make more informed, effective and timely decisions. Learn more about how we’re creating A Smarter World with Actionable Intelligence® at www.verint.com.

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Former CIA Officer Arrested for Retaining Classified Information

Jerry Chun Shing Lee, aka Zhen Cheng Li, 53, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, was arrested last night on charges of unlawful retention of national defense information.

Dana J. Boente, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Andrew W. Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, made the announcement.

Lee was arrested after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, New York. Lee is a naturalized U.S. citizen, currently residing in Hong Kong, China. According to court documents, Lee began working for the CIA as a case officer in 1994, maintained a Top Secret clearance and signed numerous non-disclosure agreements during his tenure at CIA.

According to court documents, in August 2012, Lee and his family left Hong Kong to return to the United States to live in northern Virginia. While traveling back to the United States, Lee and his family had hotel stays in Hawaii and Virginia. During each of the hotel stays, FBI agents conducted court-authorized searches of Lee’s room and luggage, and found that Lee was in unauthorized possession of materials relating to the national defense. Specifically, agents found two small books containing handwritten notes that contained classified information, including but not limited to, true names and phone numbers of assets and covert CIA employees, operational notes from asset meetings, operational meeting locations and locations of covert facilities.

Lee made his initial appearance this afternoon in the Eastern District of New York. He is charged with unlawful retention of national defense information and faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, if convicted. The maximum statutory sentence is prescribed by Congress and is provided here for informational purposes. If convicted of any offense, the sentencing of the defendant will be determined by the court after considering the advisory Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors. A criminal complaint contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent until and unless proven guilty in court.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Neil Hammerstrom of the Eastern District of Virginia and Deputy Chief Elizabeth Cannon of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section are prosecuting the case.