Security Innovators Take Center Stage
By PAUL ROTHMAN
They include X-ray technology designed to detect explosives, a dishwasher-sized mail decontaminator, and a virtual reality headset that allows someone...
Everyday Encryption
By SANDRA KAY MILLER
Encryption is being implemented in many places besides the office. Most people associate encryption with protecting information as it travels across a...
San Diego Hits New Security Heights
San Diego's budget crisis has left the city's police department struggling to find ways to do more with fewer resources. Through the help of private individuals...
TSA Kicks Off Shoe Scanner Program
Many air travelers are now being screened by a new machine aimed at letting them keep their shoes on through airport security. Although the scanners are...
Collaboration Works
Following encouragement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in early 2004, seven Pittsburgh business, university, civic and public organization...
Preparing Puppies for Patrol
By ASHLEY ROE
In some cases, terrorism prevention depends on assets that walk on four legs, hear with floppy ears and smell through wet noses. At Lackland Air Force...
From The Field
GOVERNMENT Technology To Protect Springfield, Mass., Water Supply The Springfield (Mass.) Water and Sewer Commission has deployed the intelligent Security...
RFID-Based Security and Tracking at Virginia Ports
To enhance the security and efficiency of cargo container shipments at its terminals, the Virginia Port Authority has chosen Radio Frequency Identification-based...
Connectivity Is Key
By ASHLEY ROE
How do you manage and track nearly 7,000 metric tons of dry cargo in an environment where connectivity is elusive? The U.S. Navy's Dry Cargo/Ammunition...
Alaska Correction Officers Have On-Demand Database Access
By ASHLEY ROE
In security speak, it's known as the first mile of information. Synonymous with the concept of the right information at the right time, that first mile...
Security of State
By SANDRA KAY MILLER
Next to the remnants of a 19th century crumbling stone barn foundation is a nondescript brick building on a hillside overlooking the Pennsylvania state...
No Room For Error: Network Video Tightens Security at Juvenile Center
Jamie Girard knows well the importance of security at the Gary E. Miller Canadian County Children's Justice Center, a 28-bed state-of-the-art detention...
Iris Recognition Plays Key Role in CHILD Project
When Sheriff Robert Garvey of the Hampshire County Sheriff's Office in Northampton, Mass., officially launched the Children's Identification and Location...
Safeguards on the Rise
By Michael Fickes
The arrest of seven men allegedly plotting to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI building in Miami has re-focused the nation's attention on the threat of terrorist attacks on iconic urban skyscrapers. What high-rise buildings are at risk? The ...
Pittsburgh Airport Goes With Intelligent Video
Pittsburgh International Airport, one of the world's most modern airport terminal complexes, opened in October 1992 and services more than 20 million...
Power Generation Sector Vulnerable to Terrorist Attacks?
While most U.S. refineries are well prepared to identify, repel or neutralize man-made attempts to disrupt operations, it does not mean that refineries...
Airports Still at Risk
By Billie H. Vincent
THE UNITED STATES and a number of other countries are particularly vulnerable to the simultaneous use of suicide car bombs against airport terminal buildings....
Investigators Easily Slip Bomb Parts Past Airport Screeners
PAUL ROTHMAN
Despite the multibillion-dollar ramp-up in aviation security since Sept. 11, 2001, congressional investigators were able to sneak homemade bomb components...
Security Along the Supply Chain
By Ronald Greene
WOULD THE COMPANY PASS A SUPPLY CHAIN SECURITY TEST? What level of security is sufficient to meet the minimum government program requirements? What level...
Boston Park Murder Spurs Emergency Towers
Last spring, a popular community activist who had lobbied for more security at Boston's Ronan Park was murdered there after confronting two muggers. News...
Biometrics in 2006
By Michael Fickes
At the beginning of the 20th century, the federal government decided that U.S. Navy ships should be made out of steel. Up until that time, the steel industry...
Star Struck
By Erin Semple
The number of arrests in the Hollywood Entertainment District in Los Angeles has decreased by 31 percent since the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)...
Fire Protection System Keeps Inmates Secure
At the new Yakima Valley Justice Center in Yakima, Wash., security is everywhere. An imposing mixture of steel, concrete, wire mesh and re-bar, the new...
Energy Synergy
PROVIDERS OF THE NATION'S ENERGY SECTOR (ELECTRICITY AND GAS) ARE ON ALERT. Laptop computers captured from Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan had maps...
NETWORKED CAMERAS PROTECT JFK RAILWAY
Built, managed and maintained by The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, AirTrain JFK is the 8.1-mile light rail system that connects JFK International...
