"We are pleased to join and help lead an organization that will define and promote standards in our industry, which will improve the overall value and experience of security solutions for our customers," said Jim Clark, GE Security's vice president of global marketing. "The recent organizational changes in the OSE, which introduce two membership levels, and guarantee an equal level of participation for all OSE members, ensure that the OSE will be a robust and authoritative forum for industry-wide initiatives."
Deister Electronics joined the Open Security Exchange as a General Member. "As a leading developer and manufacturer of RFID technology and equipment, Deister is at the forefront of developing innovative OEM solutions to address the most demanding client requirements," said Bill Nuffer President of Deister Electronics USA. "The Open Security Exchange provides a valuable means for security vendors to collaborate and provide pragmatic technical integration solutions. "
The Open Security Exchange is a unique program designed to provide physical and cyber security vendors with a forum to allow the definition of vendor-neutral technical interoperability specifications and the promotion of these specifications to standard organizations. For example, The Open Security Exchange has issued the first of its kind technical specifications for the convergence of physical and cyber security systems. These specifications, named PHYSBITS, are publicly available and can be downloaded from the Open Security Exchange's website.