• Louisville offers critical infrastructure course

    Three-day course is targeted toward security architects, security system designers, project managers and security directors, but does not grant credit toward a degree

  • Investigative Services Agencies may buy Intrepid Defense & Security Systems

    Negotiations are underway, as ISA tries to expand beyond corporate investigation and risk management into the homeland security market; Intrepid’s LifeVision3D —capable of providing 3D images of autombile undercarriages as easily as it can IEDs — would help ISA leap ahead

  • Universal Detection Technology offers HAZMAT planning DVD

    Known for its BSM-2000 spore detection system, UDT adds to its library of emergency planning resources

  • epcSolutions solves the tailgating problem

    Company’s Tetragate software combines video, iris scans, and RFID to prevent unauthorized entry by piggybackers; system counts the number of people near an entry point before and after card authorization; “any asset, one network” approach allows objects to be tagged to a person, thereby preventing theft

  • Garda purchases Securite et Protection Secpro

    Deal just the latest in major acquisitions for the Canadian firm and follows on purchase of Vance; Securite a major Quebec-based provider of guard services

  • Smiths Detection moves forward with Tunnel of Truth

    Scheduled for deployment at the 2012 London Olympics, the system incorporates a slew of automated measures to detect explosives and weapons; scheme resembles GE’s Checkpoint of the Future, including the use of the much-maligned puffer machines

  • ECSI wraps up SPR contract and signs a few more

    $8.5 million deal to protect Strategic Petroleum Reserve sites is almost complete; ECSI, a leader in energy infrastructure security, signs with liquid natural gas facilities in Texas and makes a classified agreement with one in South Korea

  • BT acquires Counterpane Internet Security

    IT security is a growing problem – and a growing business; BT has many corporate customers, and to offer these customers a more robust managed security service with enhanced auditing and reporting capabilities, it has just acquired a California IT security outsourcing specialist

  • The state of U.K. critical infrastructure is not good

    Looking for investment opportunities? Look no farther than the U.K. critical infrastructure; a just-published experts report highlights that many weaknesses that need to be addressed, the many problems that must be resolved

  • New business opportunities in radiation detection technologies

    The North Korea nuclear test, and the inexorable march of Iran toward acquiring nuclear weapons, increase the risks of nuclear weapon proliferation; there are thus many opportunities in developing new radiation detection technologies

  • Security officials worry about Google Earth

    Terrorists may use satellite images to identify targets and plan attacks, experts say; concern is global as Dutch, Russians, and others worry; democratizing Internet spreads access to high resolution photographs; rogue nations the big winners here

  • Attensity partners with IBM

    Companies, both leaders in managing unruly computer files, come together to improve the IBM Information Server; for Attensity, the deal is another success among many; for IBM, a way to attract customers interested in pulling relational information out of unstructured data

  • Terra Firma chooses ControlGuard’s endpoint security solution

    As the size of the mobile work force increases, with more and more employees carrying and using portable devices, the security risks a company faces increase apace; how does a corporation enjoy the benefits of greater efficiency and timeliness which mobility brings, without at the same time exposing itself to detrimental risks? The solution is endpoint security, and a leading international private equity firm has just selected an endpoint security solution from ControlGuard

  • Cory Lidle's death recalls similar historical events

    Small planes crash into buildings far more often than one would expect; episodes at the Empire State Building, and in Tampa and Milan, show danger