Articles Tagged with ''national security''

The US Department of Homeland Security is developing a new system that will centralize data on potential insider threats.
 

ASIS continues its tradition of honoring military and law enforcement professionals as well as emergency services professionals during its Annual Seminar and Exhibits.

Jill M. Hruby was named the next president and director of Sandia National Laboratories, the country’s largest national lab.
 

Consider the irony of withholding threat and vulnerability information in the name of national security that, if properly disseminated, would do more to help our national security.

 We’ve gotten pretty good at collecting all sorts of data from cameras and other sensors – but in the end, it is what we do with the information that counts. Surveillance technologies provide the capability to capture the minutest details, but the real value in collecting information is in its analysis. While technology allows us to observe behaviors that predict criminal intent and can interdict before events occur, often this data is subverted by security professionals and law enforcement misinterpretation based on spurious factors. 

A Harris Poll shows that the U.S. government should increase spending on America's national security relative to the caps set more than three years ago.

Today, the Security magazine staff remembers the terrible events of the morning of September 11, 2001. We remember those and their families who lost their lives. And we continue to honor public servants and military who risk their lives each day, here in the U.S. and abroad, for our freedom and safety. 

Today, as we remember the terrible events of the morning of September 11, 2001, the staff of Security magazine is considering how far we have come, and how far we have left to go.

On the Internet security side, 37 percent of Americans are seriously concerned about the security of shopping or banking online.

Ultimately, with a public-private partnership, what you put in is what you get out, says Wesley Bull, Senior Director/Head of Global Protective Services at NVIDIA, a company that invented the GPU – the engine of modern visual computing.