SECURITY TODAY

Metro systems that travel underground in the United States may be unprepared for smoke or fire emergencies, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman has said. The board wants a nationwide audit of transit systems,...

Fourteen post-graduate and 111 undergraduate probationary police personnel of the Karnataka State Industrial Security Force (KSISF) participated in a parade at the CAR Parade Grounds recently. Overall, 192 probationers, with educational backgrounds like PUC...

Japan's Canon Inc said it plans to buy security camera maker Axis AB for about 23.6 billion Swedish crowns ($2.83 billion) to expand into the surveillance products market amid weak sales of its cameras....

The Union Home Ministry has decided to launch a web portal 'MySecurity.in' that will be a platform for innovation in the field of security related web applications. Any individual, company, student, non-governmental organisation among...

Panasonic Corporation of North America has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire all shares of Houston, Texas-based Video Insight Inc., a developer of video management software, as part of its...

Cidco officials said they have received a good response for their CCTV surveillance project in Navi Mumbai, with as many as five companies participating in the pre-qualification round. Firms such as L&T, Wipro and...

The world market for audio and video door phones was estimated to be worth $2.3 billion in 2014, an increase of $100 million from 2013, according to a new report from IHS. The audio...

The Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) effort to instill discipline in corporators is not bearing fruits as the biometric system — installed to monitor their attendance and punctuality in general body meetings — has been...

Kuwait is planning to install surveillance cameras throughout the country to increase security and fight crime. Interior minister Sheikh Mohammed Al Khalid has proposed a motion to legislate for the introduction of CCTV cameras...

An iris recognition system is going to be used to identify pensioners for their pension payments in Andhra Pradesh. This new system will replace the thumbprint identification system currently in place in the Krishna...