Archives: June, 2008

For security officers who weren’t able to attend the Security Industry Association’s 2008 Government Summit June 9-11 in Washington, Government Security provides a lengthy dispatch on what occurred there. Plenty. There was a presentation of trends in the fiscal 2009 Homeland Security appropriations bill (unchanged priorities), and others on hospital security, airport identity credentialing, and […]

Here’s a news story from SecurityInfoWatch’s Security forum that indicates why it’s not a good idea for security guards to sit in their cars. This happened in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., up the Hudson River from New York City. A gas station was robbed of more than $3,000 while its security guard sat in his car […]

Bruce Schneier has an item on his June 15 Crypto-Gram about “The War on Photography” that makes a good point about how to think about security threats. Since 9/11, he notes, people have become aroused about photographers as security threats. “Photographers have been harassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome.” Folks […]

Credit Government Security News (GSN) with pointing out what can be gleaned from an “obscure” source of information like the Federal Register. GSN strings together three aviation-related postings in the Register into what might become new Homeland Security initiatives in aviation security, complete with funding. “Assembling a mosaic” GSN calls its technique for close reading […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has posted a revised manual on securing materials at electronic crime scenes – computers and other electronic devices that may be involved in suspected criminal activity. We note this because, obviously, the security of electronic systems is part of a facility’s overall security. And electronic systems can be especially challenging […]

Considering an important new building, one that needs to be secure from its opening day? Work with the building contractor and specifiers – the engineers and architects – around security aims from the start. That’s the advice from Access Control & Security Systems on building security into the plans for a new building. Access Control […]