The Password is Biometrics

By JACQUELINE EMIGH

Fingerprint verification allows Los Angeles facility to do away with multiple log-ins....

How Can We Protect Our Critical Infrastructure From Cyber-Attack?

By PAUL ROTHMAN

Computer networks everywhere were under attack. The Sapphire (or Slammer) Worm was spreading throughout the Internet like wildfire, doubling in size every...

Roadblocks To Disaster

By CORRINA STELLITANO

Stopping weapons disguised as vehicles requires varied approaches -- and available technology stands ready to do the job....

City of Edmonton Upgrades Access Control

May 1, 2003

15 years ago city officials in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, Canada, wanted an electronic access control system that could help protect dozens of...

Faces In The Crowd

Michael Fickes

In a test conducted for the Virginia Beach Police Department during the summer of 2002, facial recognition software found and matched faces in a crowd...

TECHNOLOGY EXPOSING TROUBLE

By Michael Fickes

Suppose a man hid a gun made of composite plastic in his suit coat and walked through a security portal at the front door of a courthouse. Today, the...

Twelve Steps To Assessing Vulnerability

Feb 1, 2003

Tom Allen, vice president of security systems for Johnson Controls Inc., Controls Group, Milwaukee, manages a subsidiary focused on large design-build...

Meeting Security Needs Of Leased Public Buildings

Paul Rothman

Securing a government building can become more complicated if someone else owns the building, and a government agency is leasing the space. Our biggest...

SMARTER VIDEO SYSTEMS

by MICHAEL FICKES

In the 1995 attack on the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh parked a truck in front of the building and walked away. After the explosion,...

U.S. Congress Pioneers Audio Search Technology

Jacqueline Emigh

The U.S. House of Representatives is one of the earliest adopters of emerging technology aimed at searching through reams of audio and video with instantaneous...

On Duty In Lakewood, Colo.

Michael Fickes

The Lakewood, Colo., Police Department uses private security officers to protect the integrity of crime scenes and to guard prisoners during hospital...

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