Ethics 101
By Michael Fickes
WHAT IF THE MANUFACTURER OF A WILDLY POPULAR METAL GADGET asked its security guard service to begin screening employees with metal detectors as the employees...
SECURITY EXPENDITURES FOR E-MESSAGING ON THE RISE
The total cost to protect e-messaging systems ranges from $117.34 per user per year for companies with fewer than 2,500 employees to $62.87 per user per...
Ready or Not?
By Corrina Stellitano
THE RESULTS OF POOR PLANNING OR FAILED PLANS ranged from cataclysmic to inconvenient: thousands stranded on rooftops and overpasses; highways stalled...
SDY Honor Roll 2005: Ray Miesch, From Educator To Teacher
By Michael Fickes
OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., envy Ray Miesch, the casino's director of surveillance. No one ever...
SDY Honor Roll 2005: Bernard J. Ward, The Professional
By Michael Fickes
IN 1960, following a series of scandals in the Chicago Police Department, Mayor Richard J. Daley named Orlando W. (OW) Wilson as superintendent of police....
Technology Stretch
JUST A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO Kaukauna Utilities, a provider of electrical power and drinking water in Kaukauna, Wis., had one camera. The single camera...
SDY Honor Roll 2005: Sean Williams, Diverse Experience
By Erin Semple
Sean Williams, security director for Greater Richmond Convention Center, gets high marks from fellow employees for his leadership and accomplishments....
IS ANYONE WATCHING?
BY MICHAEL FICKES
The July bombings in London have highlighted again the effectiveness of closed circuit television (CCTV) as an investigative tool. CCTV's successes have...
SDY Honor Roll 2005: William Plante, Giving Credit Where It Is Due
By Michael Fickes
IN JULY, the security department at Symantec Corp. in Cupertino, Calif., helped police bust a crime gang in New York City. The gang had become the largest...
Linking the West
WEST CORP., Omaha, Neb., is a provider of outsourced communication solutions, specializing in customer acquisition, customer care and interactive voice...
Security Director of the Year 2005: Stu Herrington, Combating Copycat Clubs
By Corrina Stellitano
AFTER 30 YEARS in the U.S. Army, Stu Herrington made an interesting retirement choice: He took the job of protecting a worldwide golf equipment manufacturer...
ROI = Greater Value for the User
by James Gompers
RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI) is a prevalent concept in the information technology (IT) industry, and most IT customers demand it. So why does the security...
On The Job
BY MICHAEL FICKES
Early this summer, a man went on a shooting spree in downtown Atlanta. Upon receiving the news, Glade Johnson, president of Atlanta-based Conquest Protective...
From Barcodes to RFID
By Jacqueline Emigh
An airplane engine, a cell phone, a Microsoft Word software package and an aluminum shipping container filled with cereal boxes. All have something in...
The Struggle Over VIDEO BANDWIDTH
By Michael Fickes
Today, somewhere in corporate America, a CEO is dressing down a chief information officer (CIO) because it just took the CEO five minutes to send an e-mail...
On The Job
BY MICHAEL FICKES
Last June, a woman slipped four butcher knives into her purse, went to a mall, stabbed two women and chased another one, sending shoppers and employees...
ID THIEVES AMONG US
BY JACQUELINE EMIGH
As more and more records move from paper to the Web, personal information is becoming increasingly accessible not just to legitimate organizations, but...
IS YOUR Building Safe?
by Maxwell A. Stevens
The eyes have it. At least they did when Tom Cruise stepped up to a camera to scan his retina before gaining access to a top-secret clearance area. This...
TESTING & BACKGROUND CHECKS
ERIN SEMPLE
Bill Greenblatt is president and CEO of Sterling Testing Systems, a provider of outsourced pre-employment screening and background checking services....
Precision Security
By Randy Southerland
One night, a large metal loading bay door at the warehouse section of the Orangeburg, N.Y., distribution center for Olympus Surgical and Industrial America...
REPORT: ONE IN THREE FIRMS LACKS BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN
Almost a third of firms (28 percent) have no formal plans to protect against disasters caused by terrorism, natural disasters or systems failures, according...
Phish in the E-mail
By Jacqueline Emigh
There's something phishy going on in cyberspace these days, and the situation is getting worse. Through a type of e-mail attack called cybercriminals...
THE 7 DEADLY SINS OF NETWORK SECURITY
THE FAMILIAR LIST OF BAD HABITS first compiled by a sixth-century pope matches up pretty well to many of the security problems of today's IT network administrators,...
TAKE A LESSON FROM CISCO
BY MICHAEL FICKES
While a lot of people talk about creating returns on investment or ROI with security technology, it really isn't security technology that produces ROI....
Vulnerability To Go
By Jacqueline Emigh
Protecting desktop PCs is tough enough, but securing mobile devices is even harder. Yet as laptops, PDAs, and cell phones proliferate inside and around...
