For example, it can control lighting and shades like those from Lutron, music systems like Sonos, dozens of brands of security cameras, Nest thermostats, Samsung smart TVs, and even more niche products like Global Caché's box for controlling IR devices (such as your "not-so-smart" TVs).
Through its acquisition of the Czech security startup, Cisco will be able provide its enterprise customers with a brand of advanced security that their networks require today.
And at a time when many aspects of contemporary life feel unreliable, heritage brands offer a degree of security.
As if winking at the critics who called muzak (a portmanteau of Kodak and music) an instrument of societal control, the Muzak corporation branded itself a "System of Security for the '70s," as well as "The Total Communications System".
DBMS offers a portfolio of digital brand security services, including domain name management, global brand expansion services and digital brand monitoring solutions.
Although there are a handful of security key brands out there — Yubikey and Feitian to name two — Google thinks it can do better with its own Titan security keys.
As Richard Krevolin, author of "How to Adapt Anything Into a Screenplay," notes: "They're a brand, and there's a feeling of security that if a stage work does well around the world, the investment in the film is more secure than an original screenplay".
The resulting serial collapse of Wall Street behemoths, in turn, led Uncle Sam to step in and issue his own brand of increasingly hard-to-value securities–some $24 trillion (according to Neal Barofsky, Congress TARPP watchdog) in contingent guarantees to all manner of financial companies.
Now more than ever, consumers want the sense of security and community that comes from emotional linkages with a brand.
"Luxury brands are typically sold to households with significant incomes and large holdings of security outside of retirement programs.
Branding a child care facility as paedophile free would give a false sense of security to parents conflating paedophilia with child sexual abuse.
