SECURITY TODAY

At the click of a mouse, the Indian Navy will be able to track the movement of ships and fishing boats plying in the waters all along India’s 7,500-km-long coastline. It has set up...

ABB, Bosch, and Cisco plan to establish an international joint venture that will develop and operate an open software platform for smart home devices and applications. A shareholder agreement to this effect was signed...

Kolkata police will soon buy some state-of-the-art surveillance devices to tackle law and order problems and terror threats. While the force has already placed orders for five live-view cameras to directly feed live footage...

HID Global has earned the 2014 Frost & Sullivan Global New Product Innovation Leadership Award for consumer authentication in online financial services.  The award recognised the superior qualities of HID Global’s Activ ID Threat...

Cybercriminals are targeting the expanding network of internet-connected devices like smartphones and CCTV cameras, security solution firm Symantec has said. While mobile devices will continue to attract cybercriminals, Symantec anticipated that commoditised 'plug and...

Distrust of police has made private security a big business in Latin America, where a majority of police forces are deemed incompetent or corrupt — or both. An army of nearly 4 million private...

While the Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL) is concerned about the illegal structures around the city airport and has filed a PIL in the Bombay High Court, a security audit by Airports Authority of...

Restrictions may have to be imposed on household CCTV cameras after a surge of complaints about spying neighbours. Tony Porter, the UK Government’s surveillance camera commissioner, said he will issue new guidance about the...

The Peshawar terror attack has sharply brought the focus on security of schools with all states being asked to beef up security measures, but the larger worry is that police simply do not have...

The Delhi government has granted licenses to 571 private security agencies this year while 58 applications were rejected and 321 applications are pending due to non-submission of no-objection certificates from the authorities concerned. "The...