Biometrics have rapidly expanded into our daily lives, as millions of people use fingerprints to unlock their mobile phones, access cash through ATMs, and verify their identity in a growing range of use cases.
- By Steve Carney
- Aug 01, 2019
Recent years have confirmed that data breaches are here to stay. Breaches are growing both in intensity and frequency.
- By Christina Luttrell
- Aug 01, 2019
Criminals often view houses of worship as soft targets. The mission of these groups needn’t change but for the safety of clergy and congregants, leaders must commit to hardening their facilities against those that would do them harm.
- By Dana Pruiett
- Aug 01, 2019
While video surveillance often takes center stage in security deployments, equally as important is audio.
- By Richard Brent
- Aug 01, 2019
Event venues and sporting complexes pose unique security and communication challenges. Numerous factors, including crowd size, whether the event is indoors or outdoors and what time of day the event is taking place all impact how a safety plan is developed.
- By Paul Shain
- Aug 01, 2019
A special word of caution needs to be emphasized when changing over to mobile systems. Many legacy access control systems require the use of backend portal accounts.
- By Scott Lindley
- Aug 01, 2019
For many companies, deploying security information and event monitoring (SIEM) technology to strengthen the ability to identify potential security threats has been an unreachable goal.
- By Mike Sprunger
- Aug 01, 2019
By their very nature, terrorist attacks and errant drivers, who can also create untold damage, are unpredictable and predicated on surprise.
Being a TSA agent at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport doesn’t mean you have to understand the game of football or does it?
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- Aug 01, 2019
The shipping industry is being tasked to improve productivity, increase speed of operations and mitigate risk from new and potentially devastating forms of attack from both external and internal potential threats.
- By Aluisio Figueiredo
- Aug 01, 2019
The Minnesota locksmith wholesale company is the latest to join the ABLOY USA distributor network.
Dominion Nickel Alloys Ltd. operates on a global scale. Dominion specializes in the purchasing, sorting, processing, and marketing of a broad range of high temperature and specialty nickel-based alloys.
- By Suzi Abell
- Aug 01, 2019
Cybersecurity and physical security no longer exist in two different worlds. Each now supports and depends on the other as part of a comprehensive risk and liability management program.
- By Greg Schreiber
- Aug 01, 2019
The term “bad actor” once only referred to someone making a living in Tinsel Town. Now governments have used those words to describe rogue operators who carry out missions or perform actions with the intent to weaken or harm a country for the good of another.
- By Richard Kanadjian
- Aug 01, 2019
As engineers, integrators, and administrators of IP video management and other network-based security systems, we have a heavy reliance on the network.
- By Moses Anderson
- Aug 01, 2019
A lone attacker is accused of stealing personal information that included bank account numbers and Social Security numbers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 31, 2019
Planes using networked communication systems are particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a flaw discovered by researchers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 31, 2019
An employee spoke out due to their concerns about the potential misuse of information by firms working for Apple.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 30, 2019