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Private security guards protecting the Social Security Administration were found napping, watching television, chatting with co-workers, talking for hours on the phone and failing to examine identification badges at checkpoints, according to a report.

Facial recognition and video based biometrics continue to be a hot topic with security professionals. While shows like CSI, Law & Order and 24 make it seem that technologies exist that can pick a terrorist out of a crowd in Times Square or spot a criminal the moment he steps foot on the street, the reality is that we're not quite there...yet.

The Department of Homeland Security delayed for the third time enactment of the 'Real ID' law by 21 months to January 2013.

A computer security breach has been reported at the University of South Carolina-Sumter.

Police arrested a city employee in Pinellas Park, Fla. last week and charged him with stealing scrap copper from the city.

Two proposed New Hampshire House bills that would restrict the government's ability to monitor private individuals will be discussed at a Commerce Committee executive session this week.

ASIS International presented the Award for Senior Regional Vice President (SRVP) of the Year to security consultant William G. Bradshaw, CPP, and the Award for Regional Vice President (RVP) of the Year to Robert E. Johnson, Executive Director of Operations, RIBI Security.

The Illinois House today approved legislation that would require registered sex offenders who work at or attend a college or university to register with security personnel at that school as well as with the state.

The Transportation Security Administration said it is sending three screeners for remedial training after a passenger carried three box cutters onto a JetBlue plane at New York's Kennedy airport.