The NYPD installed 200 temporary security cameras around midtown Manhattan in order to guard against terrorism during the city's Super Bowl activities.
NJ state casino regulators canceled a poker match and ordered all prize money frozen until an investigation is complete on whether counterfeit poker chips were used.
Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic surveillance operations, according to flight logs recently released in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties group.
The federal government said that it will take action this year that could eventually require Metra and other railroads to install inward-facing video cameras in locomotives.
Video surveillance continues to be an evolving market, and its innovations serve as the cornerstone of many security departments. The following are five predictions for what’s over the security horizon as we leave 2013 and start 2014.
During the past 20 years, product technology within the analog security video industry had been very stable, with only minor product advances.
January 6, 2014
In the analog security video boom, end users’ surveillance needs were very similar, regardless of their company’s size, but today’s surveillance product technologies are rapidly changing this historical norm. The needs of small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are moving in the opposite direction of enterprises, where the surveillance needs are getting more closely aligned with the enterprise’s IT requirements.
Technology has become ingrained in enterprise security operations.
December 1, 2013
Like most other segments of the business world, technology has become ingrained in enterprise security operations. With that increased use of technology comes a new set of risks.
As healthcare security leaders endeavor to ensure the safety of employees, patients and their visitors, tightened surveillance and access is a growing trend, and the need has been met with the integration of new technology, including advanced security cameras, biometrics and fingerprint readers.