Companies that implement networked video must recognize the exposures that are created and implement the appropriate measures to protect the data from hackers.
Quarterly tactic data on terrorist incidents from the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base.
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Discouraging Loiterers by Design
By Mike Fenton, CPP, PSP
Urban properties that face challenges from loiterers, such as the homeless, can use crime prevention through environmental design principles to solve the problem.
Secrets of a Successful Self-Assessment
By Kerrie L. Kavulic
Contractors that handle classified materials must self-assess to ensure that they meet government standards. These tips reveal how to get support from the staff being evaluated.
Industry News
By Ann Longmore-Etheridge
ASIS establishes two awards to honor the late Roy N. Bordes, and Frederick A. Coe, Jr., CPP, is profiled.
College Football's Crime Connection
By Laura Spadanuta
New research indicates that communities that host college football games experience more assaults on game day, especially if the home team loses.
Will Your Vote Count?
By Laura Spadanuta
Academic and state studies find that electronic voting machines are vulnerable to tampering.
Homeland Security Hits High Schools
By Laura Spadanuta
The Department of Homeland Security has sponsored a program that teaches high school students how to deal with fires as well as the science behind them.
Legal Report
By Teresa Anderson
Rulings on discrimination, retaliation, and mental health in the workplace; plus legislation on national security, courthouses, and whistleblowers.
The Art of Interviews
By Thea Bournazian
In any investigation, the only way to get the full picture is by knowing how to coax witnesses into sharing what they know.
The percentage of the world’s opium poppies grown in Afghanistan last year, according to the U.S. government’s International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Poppy production soared in the southern provinces, where Taliban-led insurgents use drug trafficking to finance their operations. Poppy cultivation is declining in poorer, but more secure, northern and central provinces.
By Brian A. Jackson et al; Reviewed by Paul D. Barnard, CPP, CISM
The United States and other nations continually deploy new tactics and techniques to combat terrorists and disrupt their operations. The enemy, however, has responded to counterterrorism efforts with their own countermeasures and counter- countermeasures.
By John W. Ellis; Reviewed by Terry V. Cochran, CPP
Using the more accurate concept, homicide bombing, this work is a superior foundation for security professionals who seek to prevent, or prepare to respond to, terrorist bombings.