Joel Thacker, fire safety and security professional, has been named the new Executive Director of the Indiana Department of Homeland Security.

Mike McPherson, experienced law enforcement and security veteran, has been named Senior Vice President of Security Operations at ReliaQuest.

A new Kroll report shows how organizations deal with the rising costs associated with investigating allegations of serious misconduct. 

Security is faced with increased assaults, more virtual data and remote investigations. With those challenges come privacy issues.

The "Digital Markets: Wildlife Trafficking Hidden in Plain Sight" report from the International Fund for Animal Welfare identified over 1,100 advertisements for illegal wildlife trade and analyzed trends in the demand for and online sale of endangered species.

Tigran Gambaryan and Matthew Price, two former special agents at the Internal Revenue Service, join the audit and investigations team at the cryptocurrency firm Binance and work to ensure cybersecurity in crypto transactions.

A report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) details how federal agencies currently use, and plan to expand their use of, facial recognition systems. 

The Star of Hope Mission serves Houston’s homeless communities with help for their immediate crisis needs and with longer term life-changing recovery programs. The organization needed to install a security system at the Women and Family Development Center that would allow them to provide a safe environment in which their clients could recover.

The use of thermal imaging cameras (TICs) in assault cases is a relatively new concept for first responding officers and investigators, and can be a helpful tool at the enterprise level.

A new study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), University of Birmingham, University of Greenwich and University of New South Wales has found that the use of interactive rotating images could help to reduce errors in facial recognition scenarios such as border control, police investigations and passport processing and CCTV or video surveillance recognition and investigations.