Hirsch gets award from Frost and Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan has selected Hirsch Electronics, Santa Ana, Calif., for its Market Engineering Entrepreneurial Company award. This award signifies the...
ALPA follows through on request for guns
The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has filed a formal petition to the U.S. Department of Transportation, requesting new rules to allow pilots to carry...
Report outlines D.C. camera network
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Washington D.C. police are building the nation's largest network of surveillance cameras to monitor shopping...
Ridge stresses increased border security
The deployment of National Guard troops at the U.S.-Mexican border will be a temporary measure until new Customs agents can be hired and trained, U.S....
Federal attention turns to securing research labs
Federal investigators are examining the security measures taken by university and biological research labs across the country for vulnerabilities against...
DOT approves funding for seaports
A new Port Security Grants program allotting more than $93 million in funding for security upgrades at seaports has been approved. The Maritime Association...
March's Pop Quiz answers
Here are the answers to March's pop quiz, located on the back page of Access Control & Security Systems. How did you do? 1. True 2. False 3. an ID card...
NRC upgrades security at U.S. nuclear plants
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued orders to upgrade security measures already in place at the nation's nuclear power plants. "Some of the requirements...
Former FEMA director to give keynote address at ISC/West
Clinton administration Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) president James Lee Witt will deliver a keynote address at the Fourth Annual...
Seaport securty still questioned
A federal port security commission has found that just 2 percent of cargo moving into U.S. seaports was inspected in 2000. The 361 U.S. sea and river...
Olympic security hailed
U.S. Representative Jim Matheson (D-Utah) has hailed federal, state and local agencies as successful in protecting the Salt Lake City Olympics, which...
Aircraft owners, pilots ask for pilot IDs
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) has petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration to require pilots to carry government-issued photo...
Computer security warning issued
President Bush's top computer security advisor, Cyber Security Czar Richard Clarke, says high-tech companies, customers and government agencies are well...
Biometric firm Identix to acquire Visionics
Identix Inc., Los Gatos, Calif., has announced it will buy fellow biometric security technology firm Visionics Corp., Jersey City, N.J. in an all-stock...
2002 Industry Calendar
Oct. 9-11 Door and Hardware Institute (DHI) 27th Annual Convention and Exposition America's Center Renaissance Gateway Hotel, St. Louis, MO For architectural...
Florida nuclear plant responds to Bush statement
President Bush cautioned during his State of the Union address that there were diagrams of American nuclear power plants found in Afghanistan. One power...
FAA to test network security system
A security screening system establishing a computer network linking every ticket reservation system in the U.S. to private and government databases will...
Internet security report details attacks
The rate of cyber-attack activity has increased by 79 percent between July and December 2001, according to The Internet Security Threat Report, released...
Defining Homeland Security: Where is the money going?
In an effort to further define what defending the homeland involves, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office started by reporting that the federal government...
Florida nuclear plant responds to Bush statement
President Bush cautioned during his State of the Union address that there were diagrams of American nuclear power plants found in Afghanistan. One power...
Security firm faces accounting probe
The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating past accounting practices of RSA Security, Bedford, Mass. The company said in a filing that the...
FAA to test network security system
A security screening system establishing a computer network linking every ticket reservation system in the U.S. to private and government databases will...
Internet security threat report details attacks
The rate of cyber-attack activity has increased by 79 percent between July and December 2001, according to The Internet Security Threat Report, released...
Defining homeland security: Where the money's going
In an effort to further define what defending the homeland involves, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office started by reporting that the federal government...
Enron team forms new security firm
The Houston Chronicle has reported that the top security team from troubled energy giant Enron, which includes four former CIA officers and an ex-FBI...
