-
TSA finds most railroad security measures inadequate
$7 million study finds advanced explosives and screening methods suffer high false positive rates; yet traditional methods such as X-rays and canines suffer from poor economies of scale; study may upset congressional plans to boost railroad security spending
-
-
RAND lists thirty-nine options for mall security
Shopping centers seen as a tempting terrorist target; RAND recommends vehicle barriers, bag and coat searches, and information campaigns; implementing procedures claimed to reduce risk 95 percent
-
-
The virtue of security syndication // by Ilan Meller
In addition to doing everything they can to make themselves more secure, individual organizations may enhance their security by forming a security syndicate with other organizations for the purpose of sharing security-related information; with more organizationas sharing more terror-related “dots,” it may be possible to connect these dots more effectively to form a larger, clearer threat picture
-
-
MIT students invent wall crawling device
Intended for first responders, the Atlas Powered Rope Ascender uses the capstan effect to pull a firefighter carrying one hundred pounds of equipment up a thirty-story building in thirty seconds; students have already sold units to Army and look to commercialize
-
-
Vista fails to make the antivirus grade
Virus Bulletin puts Microsoft’s LiveOneCare to the test; it fails, along with antivirus software from McAfee and GDATA; criticism mounts about Vista’s ability to handle the WildList
-
-
Immunity offers a portable hacking device for penetration testing
Nokia 770 tablet device is intended for companies to conduct their own white hat operations; tester turns on the $3,600 device, sticks it in his pocket, and waits to see whether his local wireless network is exploitable
-
-
Defense Information Systems Agency budgets $959 million for IT security
As DoD prepares to sign a cybersecurity pact with NATO, DISA tries to get its own house in order; $819 million for operations and maintenance and $140 million for procurements; plans to improve defense of SIPRNET, develop a risk management system
-
-
DoD and NATA to sign cybersecurity pact
National Cyber Response Coordination Group sees a great benefit to dealing with a single NATO cybersecurity agency, rather than working bilateralluy with twenty-six nations; Eastern European hackers a major concern
-
-
Javelin finds ID theft on the decline
Survey finds a 12 percent drop in the overall cost of ID theft nationwide; 500,000 fewer victims; teenagers a growing target due to social networking and music sites
-
-
DHS offers infrastructure protection course
It is one thing for a committee of experts to write lengthy and detailed plans on how to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure, and it is another thing to have these plans implemented effectively by thousands of government and private sector organizations; DHS offers a Web-based course which will help the relevant people to do so
-
-
Private sector responsible for infrastructure protection planning
The U.S. government has a role to play in contingency planning for protecting critical infrastructure; security experts and government officials agree, though, that businesses should be self-sufficient when it comes to coping with emergencies; “The government is not going to save you,” said a former DHS official
-
-
Uniform European critical infrastructure protection policy a step closer
It is not easy to fashion a coherent and unfirom critical infrastructure protection policy for an organization with more than a dozen sovereign nation states; the EU is moving a step closer to achieving this goal
-
-
Network security: A practical approach by Ilan Meller
Location-based and time-based measures breach physical and logical security of organizational networks
-
-
Procera new data intrcepting solution meets CALEA new requirement
What with the firestorm over the NSA domestic eavesdroping campaign, broadband providers have a 14 May deadline to allow law enforcement agencies to intercept and capture suspicious data transmission without compromising the privacy of innocent cstomers; a California company comes up with a solution
-
-
Marines in Iraq demand LE System's laser-based crowd control system
Dazzler creates a wall of blinding green light that forces drivers away from senstive areas; while the brass favor a B.E. Meyers-produced device, the troops on the ground prefer LE; safety officials put their foot down
-
The long view
A Turning Point: U.S. Recognizes Agriculture as a Domain of Defense
The US has legitimized the role of food supply in national defense. It has recognized that in a world of rupture, a nation that cannot feed itself cannot defend itself. A new policy effectively ends the era of agriculture functioning solely as a commercial sector.
The US Doesn’t Need to Generate as Much New Electricity as You Think
Load shifting and improving energy efficiency could reduce the need for new power plants, but utilities often profit more from building than saving power.