Alleging privacy violations and potentially invasive tracking of activists’ actions, statements and protest plans, the American Civil Liberties Union has taken aim at social media monitoring software that has been used to monitor and analyze social media data from platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

In the small ports category, the Port of Port Angeles in Washington stood out due to a commitment to security technology and coordination. 

Get an exclusive first look at the security technology in U.S. Bank Stadium, the new fortress of football in Minnesota.

Like many of you, I have been highly focused on end-of-year budgeting and planning leading into January 2017.

Along with the holy grail of tighter overall security, the benefits of electronic access control systems include a better handle on who’s coming and going, the ability to restrict access to certain times and places depending on a person’s function in the organization, the ability to remotely control access, the extra assurance a company or organization can give its customers, and the lack of need for rekeying doors or replacing lost keys.

One minute and thirty-six seconds. That’s all it took for seven thieves, both men and women, dressed in hoodies and jackets that adequately concealed their identity, to enter an Apple store in Natick, Massachusetts, in a carefully coordinated heist.  They were able to disable security tethers and make off with 19 iPhones, worth about $13,000.

Consolidation, technology, training and partnerships are among the watchwords for security officer firms and their clients as the calendar turns toward 2017.

The integration of high-definition surveillance video and data from RFID-tagged items allows enterprise security personnel to quickly search events by data, time, brand, product type, serial number of Electronic Product Code, allowing them to see exactly when and how an item entered or left a location.