ASIS International: Announcing a new level of membership

As the world’s largest association for security management professionals, ASIS International is comprised of members who practice in hundreds of countries around the world, across numerous sectors and at every career stage. To better...

Palestinian Interior Ministry to regulate private security firms

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior in Ramallah has begun accepting licensing requests from potential security companies, and has launched a process to regulate existing ones. “The government’s decision to license private security companies is...

Tinder India begins trial of new security feature for women

The Indian edition of dating app Tinder is trialing a new feature which gives women an additional level of scrutiny and security before they allow men to start messaging conversations, with a view to...

India to put up an invisible, ‘smart’ wall on its border

India’s border security has received a major shot in the arm, with a state-of-the-art invisible electronic barrier system coming up on land, water, air and underground borders using infrared and a laser alarm wall...

Singapore’s Changi Airport to be completely automated with Face Scans, Bots and more

Singapore’s Changi Airport, which has been voted as the world's best for the past six years by Skytrax, is planning to build an entire terminal that employs automation. To enable this, the airport is...

After stations, railway hospitals to get CCTV cameras and Wi-Fi

Not just the railway stations and coaches, now the cleanliness and security at the railway hospitals will also be monitored through CCTV cameras and their premises will have wi-fi connections for better patient-care, Railway...

New bug leaves 800,000 Surveillance Cameras vulnerable to hacking

Tenable Research, a cybersecurity company and creators of the “world’s first Cyber Exposure platform,” have discovered two critical vulnerabilities that leave up 800,000 surveillance cameras open to attack. The vulnerabilities, dubbed ‘Peekaboo,’ were found...

New safety audit to map public spaces in Delhi, spot problems

The Delhi government has said that a pan-city safety audit – to find infrastructure problems in public spaces across the national capital – will be conducted over the next eight months. The audit will...

Airport security flies high at US$ 16Bn by 2024

The airport security market is predicted to grow at 7% CAGR from 2017 to 2024. According to a new research report by the market research and strategy consulting firm, Global Market Insights, Inc, the...

IBM created Facial Recognition Software with racial profiling options for NYPD

IBM secretly used video surveillance images collected by the New York Police Department (NYPD) to develop facial recognition software that can identify individuals based upon certain features, such as hair and skin color, The...