Walmart Hires Off-Duty Officers to Protect Stores Across El Paso, Texas

November 14, 2019

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Walmart has been hiring off-duty officers across El Paso, Texas to improve its security.

Off-Duty Firefighter Prevents Potential Active Shooter at a Walmart in Springfield, MO

August 9, 2019

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The Springfield Police Department says it responded to a call of an active shooter at the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Missouri.

We Need to Focus More on Right of Boom

Charles B. McKenna

March 26, 2019

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In government parlance, Boom is the detonation of an explosive device, initially used in speaking of a nuclear bomb. Those steeped in disaster preparedness and response now speak in terms of “left of boom” and “right of boom.” Left of boom is the planning and preparation that goes into ensuring that a device never detonates and right of boom deals with responding to a disaster, generally the man-made type. Much of what organizations do is to address left of boom.

Georgia School Considering Keeping Police Rifles in School Office

September 5, 2013

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A school system in northern Georgia is considering a proposal that would allow district police to store rifles in school offices in case they’re needed to defend students in a school shooting, Fox News reports.

Security News -- Contract Guards

Bill Widens Opportunities for Police Security Contracts

July 2, 2012

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A new bill allows the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department and the Sacramento Police Department to bid on security contracts, especially for outfits supporting national security.

Detroit Police Department Aims to Prioritize 911 Calls

March 7, 2012

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The Detroit Police Department strives to direct emergency services more efficiently with prioritized 911 calls and their "virtual precinct" plan.

This presentation will show you the benefits of using high resolution cameras to monitor large venues. This will enable cost savings from reduced camera count. Various intelligent features and functions will be discussed that allow for ease of monitoring and searching videos as well as bandwidth reduction.

Chad Schermerhorn, Security Expert at Brivo, will discuss how your physical security stack should be an operational asset. It should be based on the strongest, and most-up-to-date smart security that can protect you today and adapt for unexpected threats that may come.

Security Magazine

2020 June

This month in Security magazine, we highlight COVID-19 and infosec's response. How has the sudden shift to remote work changed the roles of CISOs and security teams? Also this month, we profile Justin Dolly, CSO at Sauce Labs, his view on infosec and building security teams. In addition, security experts discuss continuous monitoring, radicalism, quantum technology, endpoint security and more.

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