ONVIF, a standardization initiative for network video products, says that it will extend its scope to also include physical access control systems. The goal of the scope extension is to
Customers of Countrywide Financial have filed a class-action lawsuit over the 2008 data breach that enabled company insiders to steal and sell their personal information. According to a Courthouse
New facial recognition technology will speed up the arrival process for passengers at an airport in Australia, says an ABC Regional News (Australia) report. Brendan O'Connor, federal Minister for Home
Aberdeen Group announced the publication of a new study called The Eyes Have IT: How Video Analytics is Driving a Proactive Approach to Physical Security. Aberdeen found that with the
An envoy from Qatar grabbed a surreptitious smoke in a jetliner's bathroom and then joked about lighting his shoe on fire, sparking a bomb scare and the scrambling of military
A passenger attempted to light an explosive device but was subdued by a federal air marshal aboard an airliner flying from Washington to Denver on Wednesday night, said an NBC
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the formation of the local, state, tribal, and federal Preparedness Task Force—a council of experts charged with assessing the state
To demonstrate the level of industry’s understanding and adoption of enterprise security risk management (ESRM), the CSO Roundtable of ASIS International, a membership group of the senior-most executives from the
Sixty-seven percent of Americans stay away from Mexico because of the country’s climate of violence, according to survey results published in capital daily El Universal. The study, “Reasons for
The European Commission is seeking the right for its citizens to sue in American courts if they believe that airline passenger data transmitted to the United States has been misused
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