Michael H. Welles FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
S2 Security Systems
781-237-0800 x222
Tristam Wallace
Harpell, Inc.
781-274-8710
NEW API FROM S2 SECURITY ALLOWS USERS TO LINK S2 NETBOX PRODUCTS WITH ENTERPRISE IT APPLICATIONS
Foxwoods Resort Casino Deploys API to Reward V.I.P. Customers with Preferred Parking Access
WELLESLEY, MA - March 9, 2005 — S2 Security Corporation (S2) today announced the availability of a Web services-based Application Program Interface (API) for its S2 NetBox™ line of integrated security management network appliances. The API enables an enterprise IT system to issue and revoke access credentials for areas controlled by an S2 NetBox.
The first installation of the new API is at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. Using S2’s new API, the Foxwoods IT department linked an S2 NetBox to its enterprise IT system that accesses customer information to assign certain access privileges to its guests. “This API makes it possible for us to use data in our IT systems to deliver better services to our guests,” noted Allen House, Senior Application Architect for Foxwoods.
S2’s proprietary authentication methodology, already in use in its networked devices, is also used to protect communication between the IT system and the security system through the API. In addition, S2’s high-level API protects software developers from product changes that often become obsolete due to subsequent software revisions, a problem common to lower level database integration methods.
According to a January 2005 report by Forrester Research, Trends 2005: Security Convergence Gets Real: “Growing numbers of organizations are recognizing the natural economies of scale and operational efficiencies available when physical security teams work with similar, complementary IT security groups.” The report continued: “By assessing authentication and authorization processes and controls across IT and physical facilities, organizations will find many opportunities for improved efficiencies and security.”
“The Foxwoods application is a good example of a converged system between IT and physical security,” noted John L. Moss, CEO of S2 Security Corporation. “With this new API and the S2 NetBox architecture, enterprise developers can cost-effectively integrate physical access control across enterprise applications and across networks of any size.”
The API for the S2 NetBox is available immediately as an option for users of Version 1.2 or higher of S2 NetBox software through S2’s network of systems integrators and OEMs. A list of SIs/OEMs is available by calling or emailing S2 Security at 781 237-0800 x224 or sales@s2sys.com.
S2 Security Corporation, headquartered in Wellesley, Mass., is an innovator in the development of network-based integrated physical security systems supporting access control, alarm monitoring, temperature monitoring, video and intercom. S2’s first product is a network appliance that is a “security management system in a box” allowing commercial, industrial, and multi-tenant organizations to manage their physical security needs from anywhere over IP networks.
S2 Security Corporation Web site: http://www.s2sys.com.
About Foxwoods
Foxwoods Resort Casino, owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, is the world’s largest casino resort with nearly 5 million square feet of exhilarating entertainment, gaming, dining, shopping, and resort experiences, all under one roof. Honored with 31 “Best Of” awards by Casino Player Magazine as well as AAA 4-Diamond awards for both its Paragon Restaurant and Grand Pequot Tower Hotel, Foxwoods is recognized as an incomparable entertainment destination.
With more than 50 restaurants, retail shops and nightclubs throughout its airy glass enclosed concourse, every imaginable amenity is available for leisure and business guests. Foxwoods features 1,400 luxury hotel rooms and suites, 55,000 square feet of superior meeting space as well as world class entertainment in its 1,400 seat Fox Theater. Six distinctive casinos with over 7,400 slot machines, 380 table games, the largest poker room on the East Coast, High Stakes Bingo and the Ultimate Racebook offer visitors the gaming experiences of a lifetime
Foxwoods is the premier resort destination in the Northeast and recently completed a $300 million expansion adding a visually stunning Hard Rock Cafe, the first legendary Amy Ruth’s restaurant outside of New York City, a world-class golf destination, Lake of Isles, featuring two Rees Jones designed courses as well as clubhouse facilities and private villas, and additional gaming, retail, nightlife and dining experiences.
An additional $700 million expansion was recently announced that will add a new 825 room hotel tower with an expanded spa, 150,000 square feet of meeting and convention space, more restaurants, nightclubs and retail, as well as a new 5,000 seat multi-purpose theater. This expansion will be completed during the summer of 2008.
Conveniently located only 8 miles from Long Island Sound and Mystic, Connecticut, Foxwoods is easily accessible from Boston, New York, Hartford, Providence and Newport, R.I.
For more information call 1-800-FOXWOODS or visit www.FOXWOODS.com
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