Due to increases in maritime commercial trade and related terrorist activity, challenges to maritime security have produced a demand for better and smarter technology to support our forces and protect our offshore assets.
- By Thurston Brooks
- Sep 01, 2012
When police in Racine, Wis., issued an “attempt to locate” alert for a sexual assault suspect at Gateway Technical College, students received an email from campus security stating that the college had video footage of the event that might help authorities apprehend the culprit.
- By Fredrik Nilsson
- Sep 01, 2012
In 2011, U.S. imports of manufactured goods exceeded $2 trillion and exports reached approximately $1.3 trillion, reflecting an annual growth of more than 15 percent from 2010.
- By Debjit Das
- Sep 01, 2012
A year ago—new to the industry and lacking any special knowledge associated with campus safety or general security—I started working at an Illinoisbased emergency communication company.
- By Eric Holtane
- Sep 01, 2012
The idea that disease and infection might be used as weapons is truly dreadful, but there is plenty of evidence showing that biological weapons have been around since ancient times. Bioterrorism, as it is dubbed, is nothing new, and although medicines have made the world a safer place against a myriad of old scourges both natural and manmade, it still remains all too easy today to uncork a nasty cloud of germs.
Security Products magazine, the only integrated product magazine reaching the entire security market, announced the winners of its 2012 New Product of the Year Award.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will address attendees at the ASIS International 58th Annual Seminar and Exhibits (ASIS 2012), the world's largest educational event and trade show dedicated to security, on Monday, September 10 at noon.
UT Dallas computer scientists are trying to stay one step ahead of cyber attackers by creating their own monster. Their monster can cloak itself as it steals and reconfigures information in a computer program.
American Science and Engineering, worldwide supplier of x-ray detection solutions, has received an $8.2 million order for Z Portal and Sentry Portal cargo and vehicle screening systems from a Latin American government agency to protect an international airport.
The Ottumwa Police Department in Iowa has worked to improve service and protect its town by implementing the Milestone XProtect video management software (VMS) and strategically mounted surveillance cameras. Since adding the software, crime rates have decreased with live events streatming to dispatchers.