Intercon Security
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| Company type | Limited Company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Security Biometrics |
| Founded | Toronto, Canada (1972) |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Canada |
Key people | Max Warmuth, Vice President, Operations William McKinnon, Vice President & General Manager, Western Canada Peter Zed, Vice President, Analysis |
| Products | ISL 2000 SERIES SYSTEMS ISL 8000 SERIES SYSTEMS ISL 9000 SERIES SYSTEMS |
| Revenue | FirstService Corporation |
Number of employees | 2,500 |
| Website | www.interconsecurity.com |
Intercon Security is a global security solution provider with headquarters in Toronto, Canada.
Intercon provides security services for a wide range of organizations and individuals. Over 2,500 elite security personnel are deployed across the planet in various roles ranging from uniformed Security Officers to biometric system installation and analysis. In Canada, Intercon personnel regularly provide tactical and technical assistance to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and to local and provincial police services.
Intercon Security is a division of FirstService Corporation.
History
ntercon Security Limited was founded in 1972 in Toronto and has grown steadily in all aspects of its business since its inception, and now employs more than 2,500 people.
Intercon’s roots were in the retail shopping malls and other properties with a lot of public use that traditionally had a high level of security problems and, at the same time, a vested interest in promoting a stable and inviting public image. The next phase of growth was into major, multi-use complexes and corporate head offices. From the onset, Intercon was alone in its belief that a small group of well trained, and motivated security personnel could do a better, more cost-effective job than a larger group of traditional security guards. As proof, Intercon was the first such company to outfit its personnel with blazers and slacks, an attire more suited to their roles as professional Security Officers and in keeping with the character and environment of the property they were responsible for protecting. It was at this stage of the company’s growth that it pioneered the development of electronic technology to provide both higher levels and more sophisticated means of security in the area of security systems.
Intercon’s successful development and application of technology paved the way for the company’s entry into the residential and commercial intrusion alarm markets. The next step was the innovative development of electronic access control, whereby electronic card readers, connected to an on-site, central processing unit, allowed automatic access to the card holder. Later, Intercon adapted technology to provide remote access control, whereby property access was controlled by Intercon from an off-site central processing unit. This development enabled smaller companies, with neither the means nor the need for an in house system, to benefit from this cost-effective security solution.
During the 80’s, Intercon developed an elite group of security specialists with the experience and expertise to meet virtually any corporate security need from crisis management to executive close protection. After three decades, Intercon is still the only security company with the depth and range of services capable of providing comprehensive, cost-effective security protection.
Beginnings
Google began as a research project in January 1996 [1] by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford. They developed the hypothesis that a search engine based on analysis of the relationships between Web sites would produce improved results over the basic techniques then in use. It was originally nicknamed BackRub because the system checked backlinks to estimate a site's importance. (A small search engine called RankDex was already exploring a similar strategy.) Convinced that the pages with the most links to them from other highly relevant Web pages must be the most relevant pages associated with the search, Page and Brin tested their thesis as part of their studies, and laid the foundation for their search engine. Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.stanford.edu (see the Internet Archive Wayback Machine search for http://google.stanford.edu). The domain www.google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. They formally incorporated their company, Google Inc., on September 7, 1998 at a friend's garage in Menlo Park, California.