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UK food exporter deploys Avigilon HD surveillance

Fri, 2010-03-19 01:30 PM

Vancouver-based Avigilon reports that Airberg, a UK specialist food exporter, has deployed the Avigilon HD surveillance system.Airberg now can meet the security, health and conformance requirements...

BRS Labs unveils AISight 2.1

Fri, 2010-03-19 01:26 PM

Houston-based Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. (BRS Labs) reports the release of the latest version of AISight, which it calls the “first and only” behavioral analytics solution. The...

Information security and privacy panel to meet in DC April 7-9

Fri, 2010-03-19 12:36 PM

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, which provides advice on federal government information systems, will hold three days of public meetings in Washington, DC, April 7-9, which will...

Agiliance introduces RiskVision 5.0

Thu, 2010-03-18 03:23 PM

Agiliance Inc., a provider of integrated governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solutions, has unveiled RiskVision 5.0, which the company calls an “industry-first” GRC solution, giving organizations a...

SafeNet offering cloud security

Thu, 2010-03-18 03:16 PM

Belcamp, MD-based SafeNet, Inc., a specialist in information security, has unveiled solutions that it characterizes as enabling organizations to ensure the security of sensitive data in cloud...

Navy seeks ‘new paradigm’ to defend its networks against cyber-attacks

Thu, 2010-03-18 01:59 PM

The Office of Naval Research has issued a broad agency announcement seeking new technical approaches to defending its worldwide computer networks. It says this will require a major paradigm shift...

Avalias’ Avalanche TTX offers immersive disaster response training

Wed, 2010-03-17 03:51 PM

Sydney, Australia-based Avalias, a creator of immersive emergency training software solutions for homeland defense / response agencies and corporate continuity planners, has introduced Avalanche TTX...

Sonasoft joins the Intel ESAA program

Wed, 2010-03-17 03:47 PM

San Jose, CA-based Sonasoft Inc., an emerging provider of archiving, disaster recovery, and data backup / recovery solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, reports that its business...

DHS unveils tribal consultation and coordination plan

Tue, 2010-03-16 03:11 PM

DHS has unveiled an initiative for increased consultation and coordination with federally recognized tribes across the U.S., which it says “builds on current tribal partnerships to protect the safety...

Grants available to study computing in the cloud

Tue, 2010-03-16 03:07 PM

The National Science Foundation is offering grants to “science and engineering communities” to conduct “research and education activities in cloud computing and data-intensive computing, and their...

Trilogy Networx wireless networking locks get thumbs up from Devils Thumb Ranch

Tue, 2010-03-16 03:02 PM

Amityville, NY-based Alarm Lock Systems, Inc. (ALS), a Napco Security Group company, reports that its Trilogy Networx electronic locksets, designed to communicate wirelessly over any size network,...

Alvarado’s GateLink provides entry control at Australian Open

Tue, 2010-03-16 02:58 PM

Chino, CA -based Alvarado Manufacturing's GateLink Validation system provided spectator entry control at this year's Australian Open, held this past January, the company wants you to know.This year's...

News Analysis

AES joins with Siemens Government Services to protect Army installations

Peabody, MA-based AES International Corp. reported that it will become a subcontractor under Reston, VA-based Siemens Government Services, Inc., to assist with the maintenance of access control point (ACP) equipment at U.S. Army installations, both...

HID Global extends iCLASS for Dutch Rijkspas program

Irvine, CA-based HID Global, the secure identity specialist, reports the launch of its Rijkspas-compliant ICLASS smart card reader, designed for Dutch government agencies adopting MIFARE DESFire EV1 smart card technology.The reader features DESFire...

CNL and Pelco form technology partnership

CNL, a developer of physical security information management (PSIM) software, and Pelco, Inc. by Schneider Electric, a designer and developer of next-generation video and security systems, have formed a technology partnership.Specifically, CNL is...

Former NSA deputy director joins Proximex advisory board

Sunnyvale, CA-based Proximex, the developer of products for the physical security information management (PSIM) market, has announced that William Crowell, a security consultant and a former Silicon Valley CEO and NSA deputy director, has joined the...

Grant available for 2010 survey of campus law enforcement agencies

What kind of a job are campus law enforcement agencies doing to keep your college-age kids’ schools safe?

Commentary and Opinions

OPINION / Using good technology to find bad people

By Jonathan McDonald

Many government organizations are charged with combating terrorism, identifying criminals and effectively applying immigration policies. All these activities require that persons of interests (and organizations and networks) be accurately identified. Identification is an extremely complex process that is only compounded by increasing data volumes, complex relationships, and tightly coupled application and data architectures.

OPINION / With Malware, everything old is new again

By Andy Hayter

If you look back through the history of malware, you can expect the bad guys to use special occasions such as holidays or major world events to trick unsuspecting end-users into doing something with dangerous consequences.

OPINION / Mobile Communication: New weakest link to enterprise security

By Chris Herndon

Case Study / Letter bomb discovered in local post office in Israel

A resident of the northern Israeli city of Migdal Haemek received two letter bombs by post earlier this month. The woman who received the packages, whose name has not been released, felt the packages were suspicious and called the police.

Although she said she was not under threat and could not understand who could have sent her the bombs, she was vigilant enough to alert the professionals.

The officers who arrived on the scene, called in the police IED unit to examine the letters and bomb techs determined that they were, indeed, letter bombs.

OPINION / The support security bubble

By Nathan McNeil

If there is anything we should have learned from the economic debacle of the last two years, it is that the status quo is not safe. And yet we continue building upon it until right past the point of collapse. It has happened time and again in our markets, and it is happening in IT support as we speak.

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