Universal Electronics Selects Firedome to Provide Enhanced Cybersecurity Features to the Nevo® Butler Digital Assistant Platform Product
January 4, 2019
Firedome Home brings cybersecurity as a service capabilities to smart
home platforms
SANTA ANA, Calif. & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Firedome
Inc., the creators of the leading endpoint cybersecurity solutions
for home IoT manufacturers; and Universal
Electronics Inc. (NASDAQ: UEIC) announced today that the Firedome
Home solution, will be launched as part of Universal Electronics’
Nevo® Butler platform. Firedome Home adds Cybersecurity Protection, Home
Digital Diary, and Enhanced Remote Customer Support to the UEI product.
Firedome solutions are designed to close critical security gaps that are
a byproduct of the IoT era. IoT devices have become “low hanging fruit”
for attackers for their low cost of attack and lack of supervision which
make them a common target for hackers. Cryptojacking, DDoS and
ransomware attacks are only a few examples of cyber crimes that are
threatening the home IoT ecosystem.
Firedome Home is pre-integrated into the Nevo Butler product and
includes advanced monitoring and insights derived from any connected
device in the home environment. Firedome’s non-intrusive solution
includes digital presence alerts, parental control mechanisms and
network enhanced data. Offered as part of a marketplace of partner
services, this capability can extend and complement the physical
security services offered in the safety & monitoring segments, as well
as an enhanced digital well-being under broadband services.
According to Moti Shkolnik, Firedome’s Co-founder and CEO: “We
are excited to join forces with Universal Electronics, the worldwide
leader in universal control and sensing technologies for the smart home,
to help enable service providers and home IoT companies to become the
home security gatekeeper and enrich their value added services through
our innovative, non-intrusive software-only solution.”
“Privacy and security have been a core foundation of the Nevo Butler
design since inception, and are offered as a managed service rooted in
hardware. It is only logical for such a platform to not only offer
physical security services, but also address the digital security of
connected homes as a service to our customers, and end consumers,” says Arsham
Hatambeiki, SVP Product and Technology for Universal Electronics Inc.
Universal Electronics will host product demonstrations for their new
product, Nevo Butler, at booth #42325 at CES 2019 in Las Vegas from
January 8-11, and will jointly showcase the combined solution with
presentations and demos.
About Firedome
Firedome is built to secure billions of home IoT devices and prevent the
next cyber-catastrophe. As Home IoT device companies are at risk of
being held responsible for harmful breaches and attacks, Firedome has
tailored its offering to their business and product needs. Firedome was
founded by top security veterans with offices in New-York and Tel-Aviv
and employs multinational cyber, embedded, research and analysis experts.
About Universal Electronics
Universal Electronics Inc. (NASDAQ: UEIC) is the worldwide leader in
universal control and sensing technologies for the smart home. Its broad
portfolio of patents includes QuickSet Cloud® service that utilizes the
world’s most complete knowledge graph of devices to detect and interact
with thousands of entertainment and smart home devices. The company
designs, develops, and manufactures innovative products that are used by
the world’s leading brands in the audio, video, subscription
broadcasting, connected home, home energy management, and mobile device
markets. UEI’s many first-to-market innovations have helped transform
the home entertainment control, home security, and home energy
management and sensing industries. More information is available at www.uei.com
and quicksetcloud.com.
* For more information please visit www.firedome.io
** For media inquiries only please contact Einav Laviv press@firedome.io
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owners.
Nevo and QuickSet
are trademarks of Universal Electronics Inc.
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Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words and expressions reflecting
something other than historical fact are intended to identify
forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve a
number of risks and uncertainties, including the timely development,
delivery and market acceptance of UEI’s Nevo Butler product and
associated service offerings, and other technologies identified in this
release; the continued penetration and growth of the digital assistant
products and consumer technologies identified in this release; and other
factors described in the Company’s filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. The actual results that the Company achieves
may differ materially from any forward-looking statement due to such
risks and uncertainties. The Company undertakes no obligations to
revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect
events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this release.
Contacts
UEI Contact:
Benny Canady
Universal Electronics Inc.
bcanady@uei.com
714-918-9500
Firedome Contact:
Sharon Mirsky
Firedome Inc.
sharon@firedome.io
267-423-3894