This is a lesson we need desperately, as enterprises ask for maturity models and best practices become synonymous with sufficiency.
The increasing instability in the Middle East, precipitated by the Arab Spring, necessitates global firms to better accentuate political risk and conflict, including terrorism and kidnapping for ransom, in their daily operations.
Time and attendance, physical and logical access control applications, together and separately, are emerging as drivers in biometrics.
Sometimes it can be difficult to measure how well a security system is working. “You can’t measure crimes that aren’t committed,” says Steve Reed, security director at Arden Fair Mall in Sacramento, Calif.
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For security officers on patrol, keeping surveillance close can be both a practical investigation tool and a strong deterrent against assault or other crimes
More than $1 million worth of jewels due to be lent to movie stars at the Cannes film festival were stolen from a hotel room in the French Riviera town.
The Lancaster. Pa. Community Safety Coalition is embarking on an "Adopt-A-Camera" campaign to raise funds that will help pay for the coalition's 161 surveillance cameras deployed around the city.
A new report from Chicago's inspector general finds safety might not be the city's main goal when picking the locations of red light cameras.
They did not swim in. Two goldfish have been found swimming in slightly radioactive water in a lemonade pitcher inside a secure area of the Perry nuclear power plant, Perry, Ohio.
In Arizona, law enforcement just broke up a copper theft ring that stole $10 million in the metal. In Kansas, an energy firm hit by thefts said it will make ratepayers cover the losses.
In the wake of the Boston marathon bombings much attention has focused on domestic and foreign intelligence gathering, analysis, and sharing as well as law enforcement responses to terrorism.
Discussing the Boston Marathon bombers, Vice President Joe Biden aptly asked, “Why do they do what they do?”
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As companies grow, security becomes both a bigger challenge and a more urgent concern. Companies typically add new security systems as they grow, often resulting in an assortment of disparate systems that lack centralized management.
As budgets are cut or frozen in today’s stagnant economy, the IT department is under increasing pressure to reduce office costs and effect efficiencies by enabling staff to work away from their desks.
As fraud controls get stronger, criminal elements start teaming up to beat the system. But, as Jason Lelio points out, collusions schemes get harder and harder when faced with stringent internal controls.
For many of Boston's hotel security directors, the day started like so many other Marathon Mondays, a calm morning full of excitement and anticipation for the events about to begin in the quaint New England town of Hopkinton, 26.2 miles from the Marathon's finish line in Boston's historic Copley Square.
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More than $1 million worth of jewels due to be lent to movie stars at the Cannes film festival were stolen from a hotel room in the French Riviera town.
In 2004, the United State’s Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration established the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI) to, as quickly as possible, identify, secure, remove and/or facilitate the disposition of high-risk vulnerable nuclear and radiological materials around the world that pose a threat to the United States and the international community.
The usernames of 22 million people may have been stolen from Yahoo Japan.
Nothing is more basic than effectively communicating.
The Chicago Transit Agency has begun replacing hundreds of contract security guards with full- and part-time CTA customer-service employees.
The increasing instability in the Middle East, precipitated by the Arab Spring, necessitates global firms to better accentuate political risk and conflict, including terrorism and kidnapping for ransom, in their daily operations.
As fraud controls get stronger, criminal elements start teaming up to beat the system. But, as Jason Lelio points out, collusions schemes get harder and harder when faced with stringent internal controls.
As companies grow, security becomes both a bigger challenge and a more urgent concern. Companies typically add new security systems as they grow, often resulting in an assortment of disparate systems that lack centralized management.
As enterprise security leaders know, many of their employees are badged and enter and leave facilities through an electronic access control system
This month in Security, discover how security can span the globe with our special feature on Securing the Global Enterprise. Also, determine how to do business in conflict zones, learn the top 11 errors in emergency planning, get smart about smartphones and study the consequences of performing temporary security for temporary employees.
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May 20, 2013
Our Global Energy Security Conference 2013 will cover security issues related to both offshore and onshore oil and gas arising out of terrorist activities, civil unrest, and a competitive global market.
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April 23, 2013
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND Most surveillance systems are at best reactive: they provide crystal clear videos of a crime after the fact. This recorded video may help the police or district attorney but unfortunately, it does not prevent crime. VideoIQ will discuss why advanced video analytics transform standard IP and analog cameras into a prevention-based system, and how multi-channel video analytic appliances deliver an easy to deploy, advanced prevention-based security solution with a demonstrable ROI.
May 15, 2013
AVAILABLE ON DEMAND Attend this live webinar to hear how organizations are combining identity management and PSIM technology to recognize the value of complete security convergence. Real life examples including results and benefits as well as lessons learned from implementations will be discussed.
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