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Credit transition fraud is a wide-ranging term for theft and fraud committed using a credit card or any similar payment mechanism as a fraudulent source of funds in a transaction. The purpose may be to obtain goods without paying, or to obtain unauthorized funds from an account. It’s an adjunct to identity theft.
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 | Closing the CEO, CSO Gap
A
number of security executives routinely interact with top CEOs and top
enterprise chief security officers as a way to conduct their business and
bridge the gap. Three are Michael McCann, president and CEO at McCann
Protective Services; James Lee Witt, CEO, Crisis Management and Preparedness
Services, James Lee Witt Associates; and Howard Safir, CEO, Security Consulting
and Investigations Unit, SafirRosetti.
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| So Sell Advertising and Make Money
Where
I live, just a couple of blocks from Wrigley Field, the big conflict is naming
rights for the Cubs Park. The current owner, the Tribune Company, has placed the ballpark on the
block. To extend its revenue, the Tribune folks want to sell Wrigley in two
packages – the team and its park and the naming rights to the park.
by Bill Zalud
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 | Casinos Are Flush with PSIM and Video
The two most talked about trends – physical security information management (PSIM) and video analytics – are the hot hand in U.S. and international gaming organizations.
by Bill Zalud
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 | Taking Video to the Bottom Line
Four security market leaders gazed into their crystal balls and shared their thoughts on “Technology Trends in the 21st Century” at the 12th annual Securing New Ground conference in New York City in November 2007. Security Magazine is a partner. The group focused on IP video, network solutions and video analytics because, as moderator Sandra Jones, principal, Sandra Jones & Co., Chardon, Ohio, summarized: “These are sectors with the greatest growth potential, both in and of themselves and as drivers of additional technologies.”
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 | But Will It Work?
When I was in Viet Nam during the late 1960s, the Pentagon was testing some new technologies at that time. I wasn’t into the nuts and bolts of security tech at that time; but, my buddies and I, assigned to a military police brigade, knew enough to figure out what wouldn’t work.
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 | Government in the Cards
Government identity management programs took center stage at the Smart Card Alliance just weeks ago. Critical security initiatives have now entered the issuing phase and over the next year will put millions of smart card-based IDs in the hands of all maritime workers at the nation’s seaports and all federal employees. It’s the biggest boost to the smart card industry in the U.S.
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 | In the Video Integration Driver’s Seat
For those folks fixated on convergence, the hip-hop hype really is nothing new. Years ago, and I go back too many, the buzz word was integration.
by Bill Zalud
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 | Parking ‘Lots’ of Trouble
Parking professionals resoundingly believe that security is their top headache. End-users agree. Dodd Day, manager of safety, security and emergency preparedness at Tampa’s St. Joseph’s Hospital agrees. In an article elsewhere in this issue, he talked about security at a new 10-story parking garage.
by Bill Zalud
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 | Buzz Words and Emerging Tech
Dielectrics, mesh networks and potted video – what the heck is happening on the technology side of the security industry? Or is it just a case of old folks like me, used to Beatles songs, running into a hip hop music world?
by Bill Zalud
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 | No Chicken with Web-hosted Access Systems
One of the first interviews I conducted after getting out of Vietnam was with Ross Perot. Son of a cotton broker, U.S. Naval Academy graduate, one-time top IBM salesman, widely acknowledged as the founder of the IT services industry and unfortunate third-party Presidential candidate, Perot told me two things that stuck even today.
by Bill Zalud
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 | Saving Lives in Domestic Violence Situations
The government calls it intimate partner violence or IPV; some incidents seep into the workplace with disastrous results. Most of us call it domestic violence; all of us say we must help people caught in such heartbreaking and dangerous situations.
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| Seeing Is Believing…and Securing
Let me twist around a Ben Franklin saying, taking it from home life (“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”) to enterprise and homeland security: “Keep your eyes wide open before an incident, and wide open afterwards, too.”
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 | A Most Complex Fence Indeed
There’s a battle on the Peace Bridge between the U.S. and Canada. There’s a battle along the U.S. and Mexico border, too.
by Bill Zalud
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 | Doors Open on the Left at Logan Square
I get on and off at the Logan Square
train stop on the way to and from work every day. At that station, in the mornings, I’ve
already read two or three newspapers. There’s a recycle newspapers box there
where I shove in the papers. But the box will soon disappear because of two
reasons: one, the fear that someone, a terrorist, a nut, a disgruntled
employee, could shove a bomb in the box or in a trash receptacle; reason two,
there’s grant money to convert and reinforce receptacles.
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 | Learning from Airport Actions
While this month’s cover story features five diverse
facilities with five different missions but a shared focus on people, airports
are another story. That’s thanks in part to the very high security profile of
these operations as well as the unique solutions they employ.
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 | Zalud Report: Spread This ‘Muster’
In high-rise buildings and even under water, unique security technology aims at identifying people and their location when there are disasters and emergencies.
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| From Bow-wow to Oh-wow
Ever notice that when you blow in a dog’s face, he gets mad at you. But when you take him in a car, he sticks his head out the window, big old ears flapping in the wind.
by Bill Zalud
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 | Zalud Report: Heightened Security Concerns Push Double-digit Salary Growth
What a difference a year makes to some wallets.
The nation’s top corporate chief security officers (CSO), those executives in charge of security for global companies in the U.S., are paid, on average, more than $293,000 annually in total cash compensation (base salary and bonus paid), according to a compensation survey by compensation consulting and research firm, Foushée Group of Ft. Meyers.
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 | Zalud Report: In the Palm of Your Hand
Enterprises big and small share goals when it comes to security. When it makes business sense, they want to leverage what exists; speed up the delivery of more accurate information to the appropriate decision maker; improve a process that’s essential to the organization; piggyback one solution to help solve sometimes unrelated others; and save time or money or both.
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 | Data, Identity Theft New-age Terror Threats
There was a time about a decade or so ago when a handful of infant abductions from hospital rooms and wards created national headlines and fear among healthcare security executives.
by Bill Zalud
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 | Pedal to the Metal
Move over, NFL. Get out of the way, MLB. Forget about it, NBA. It’s NASCAR that, without a doubt, is the top live spectator sport, boasting 17 of the top 20 attended events in the country. NASCAR annually grabs more than 75 million fans, according to marketing research firm Ipsos Insight. On television, stock car racing is second only to pro football.
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 | ZALUD REPORT: Homeland Security Bucks Go IT
Enough with the convergence talk already. Except there are things happening out there. Cisco, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Northrop Grumman, among others, are rapidly betting their IT money on the combo of physical and logical security.
by Bill Zalud
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 | Zalud Report: That Toddling, Camera-crazy Town
Here’s the thing. I’ve lived in Chicago all my life. On the same block. Most folks outside of Chicago always ask how I like living in the Loop. It doesn’t matter that I live 25 blocks from the Loop, which is downtown Chicago circled by several lines of elevated commuter trains.
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 | Zalud Report: Danger Will Robinson!
Let’s face it, a robot’s no good unless it does something that I can’t do or don’t want to do or something the mechanical dude can do better.
Back in the earlier 1950s, it was Gort. Seven feet tall and solid metal, movie star Gort arrived in The Day the Earth Stood Still to quell human violence. Forget it, Gort! I can’t do that – nor can anyone else.
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Walking the ASIS Floor
I can describe three trends in just six words: higher visibility, more openness and convergence. Presidents and chief executive officers of the most influential businesses better know their security operation, its return on investment and the real need to have professional security using appropriate technology.
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