Large Urban Areas Get Extra Funding From DHS
The Department of Homeland Security, through the Office of Domestic Preparedness, will distribute $100 million in funding to large urban areas. The money,...
A Critical Responsibility
Protecting critical infrastructures and key assets in the U.S. involves a multitude of physical protection challenges due to the complex nature of the...
How Can We Protect Our Critical Infrastructure From Cyber-Attack?
By PAUL ROTHMAN
Computer networks everywhere were under attack. The Sapphire (or Slammer) Worm was spreading throughout the Internet like wildfire, doubling in size every...
City of Edmonton Upgrades Access Control
15 years ago city officials in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, Canada, wanted an electronic access control system that could help protect dozens of...
Eyes On The Bridges
New York City's Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority (TBTA) has tightened security in and around New York City with the help of video surveillance systems....
The Password is Biometrics
By JACQUELINE EMIGH
Fingerprint verification allows Los Angeles facility to do away with multiple log-ins....
Faces In The Crowd
Michael Fickes
In a test conducted for the Virginia Beach Police Department during the summer of 2002, facial recognition software found and matched faces in a crowd...
In One Door, Out The Other
Paul Rothman
Cities nationwide spent about $70 million per week on additional Homeland security measures due to the war in Iraq and the national high state of threat...
Roadblocks To Disaster
By CORRINA STELLITANO
Stopping weapons disguised as vehicles requires varied approaches -- and available technology stands ready to do the job....
Raising The Bar On Protecting Nuclear Power Plants
Security guards at only one out of four nuclear power plants are confident their plant could defeat a terrorist attack, according to interviews conducted...
UNBREAKABLE INC.
by DONALD R. TURNAGE & WILLIAM F. BOOTH
While the United States government defends itself against terrorism by military means, American corporations employ terrorism defense measures that are...
Alert Security Guards Play Role In Deterring Terrorism
by Lucien Canton
Since Sept. 11, 2001, considerable public concern has been focused on the potential use of weapons of mass destruction by terrorists. Responding to these...
Security Is In The Air
Larry Anderson, Editor
Vulnerabilities to attack come in all shapes and sizes, and some are more obvious than others. Even mindful security directors, those who try to plan...
Homeland Security Department Details Funding Plans
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has outlined its immediate priorities for funding in 2003, much of it centering on the monumental task of integrating...
Paying the Airport Share of Explosives Detection
Michael Fickes
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are negotiating a deal that may serve as a model for...
A victory for Victoria, B.C.
Compiled by JENNIFER PERO
A Victory for Victoria, B.C. LOCATION:Victoria, B.C. USER:Victoria International Airport TECHNOLOGY:Access Control Software As one of the world's most...
Creating A Professional Workforce: A Look At Office Building Security
Creating a security workforce requires thinking of security officers in a different way. So says the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). According...
Airplane Cabins Fortified And Monitored
Paul Rothman
In-flight security has been grabbing headlines ever since Sept. 11. Congress has given airline pilots the go-ahead to carry firearms in the cockpit after...
Bush Proposes Homeland Security Department's Budget
As part of his $2.23 trillion spending proposal, President Bush has set aside $26.7 billion for the Department of Homeland Security. Included among the...
Technologies of Tomorrow
by Michael Fickes
In 1998, an L-1011 jet blew up at the Atlantic City International Airport in New Jersey. A bomb placed in an aluminum cargo container inside the plane...
Infrastructure Strategy Released
The Department of Homeland Security has released a 96-page report detailing a national strategy to protect the nation's critical physical infrastructure...
SMART CARDS AT THE STATE DEPT.
By KATE HENRY
Pick a door, any door, and procure a solution that will authenticate the movement of users through it. Now leverage that function worldwide, add in four...
Border Security Starts With Cargo
Paul Rothman
A recent development in cargo security along U.S. borders is the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, or the C-TPAT, a program to track shipments...
Laboratories Put Homeland Security Under The Microscope
Michael Fickes
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to establish a network of national laboratories to develop and foster the implementation of counter-terrorism...
Twelve Steps To Assessing Vulnerability
Tom Allen, vice president of security systems for Johnson Controls Inc., Controls Group, Milwaukee, manages a subsidiary focused on large design-build...
