SECURITY TODAY

New British Home Office guidelines to regulate private investigators from 2014 will see the responsibility for issuing licenses fall under the remit of the Security Industry Authority (SIA). A British Home Office statement announcing...

A trial of mini CCTV cameras is being carried out in Edinburgh in an attempt to crack down on hate crimes in the Scottish capital. The police are handing out the cameras, which are...

Intellicheck Mobilisa’s TWIC Reader Plus Models IM2610 and IM2620 have been approved by the Transportation Security Administration. “TSA has created a robust ID security system at port facilities by requiring the use of TWIC...

It looks like a little pocket sized cigar box, but it packs a mighty punch in the fight against terrorism. And now this nifty explosive detection kit, developed by the India's Defence Research &...

Almost 85% of the eateries in Pune have installed CCTV cameras as a safety measure that the police had asked them to follow after the serial low-intensity blasts on the Jangli Maharaj road last...

Some banks in the country are in discussion to introduce voice biometrics as an option for authenticating phone banking. For banks, the main attraction of voice authentication is that this does not require deployment...

The government will soon establish two separate regulatory agencies for coordinating all telecom security-related initiatives to shield India's telephone networks from possible cyber attacks, as per an internal communication in telecom department. The Telecom Commission,...

Bhim Sain Bassi, the new Police commissioner of Delhi, has his priorities clear - he wants to make the national capital safe for women. Bassi, who took over from outgoing chief Neeraj Kumar, said...

Four months after 12 hotels of Aerocity — a hospitality project near the Indira Gandhi International Airport that is awaiting clearance from the Ministry of Civil Aviation — submitted their security plans to the...

To raise its technological capability in the area of homeland security, the government is looking at setting up a centre for focused research on the latest electronic equipment, which can be indigenously manufactured. The...