SECURITY TODAY

A fire safety audit by the Department of Fire and Rescue Services in Kerala has revealed major lapses in the fire safety mechanism in nearly 147 industrial units at the Cochin Special Economic Zone...

Senior staff from global financial services firm KPMG have projected that biometrics will play a larger role in authentication in 2016. David Ferbrache, Technical Director at KPMG, in the group’s cyber security practice, wrote...

A recent study has indicated that societies with a network of CCTV cameras witness a decrease in the crime rate. The survey was done by security solution provider Zicom in 100 housing societies. As...

Matrix, a leading telecom and security solutions company from India, will be participating at the Intersec 2016 show in Dubai later this month. Matrix will be showcasing in-house engineered, enterprise grade, security solutions encompassing...

Assa Abloy has signed agreements to acquire Papaiz, a leading lock company and Udinese, a leading manufacturer of hardware for sliding doors and windows in Brazil. The acquisitions will significantly increase the Group’s footprint...

PwC India and NIIT University (NU) have entered into a strategic partnership to create a trained talent pool of cyber security professionals in India. Experts from the two companies have co-created a two-year work-integrated...

Morpho has launched SecureIdentity, a new digital identity service for British citizens and residents. Morpho is one of the new providers to support the expansion of online services offered through the UK government’s new...

Twenty hypersensitive Indian airports lack counter-terrorist contingency plans covering their approach roads and it is "quite scary" that eight of them are also not covered by CISF, a Parliamentary panel has said, stressing the...

New York City will soon start spending millions of public dollars a year to provide unarmed security personnel at private and religious schools. The City Council voted 41 to 4 to spend $19.8 million...

The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) will recommend setting up of emergency fire stations on the Mumbai-Pune highway (NH-4), Mumbai-Pune Expressway and Mumbai-Goa highway (NH-66). The move comes due to the increase in...