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"Crime to be reduced by Effective Environmental Design"- ACPO presents Secured by Design.
posted on 24/05/2012
Secured by Design is the brain child from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) that seeks to reduce crime through effective environmental design. The scheme also calls for the installation of security products that meet police-approved standards. Manufacturers and installers whose products have been certified by an accredited testing body to the specified standards. The SBD logo is the only symbol that guarantees national Police app... [more]
Low Cost High Technology Perimeter Protection Launched by Optex
posted on 23/05/2012
Optex, the leader in detector manufacturing, has included to its range of trustworthy perimeter detection technologies with the launch of the Fiber SenSys® FD322 – an affordable, high performance, effective fibre optic fence detector system for challenging outdoor environments. Ideally suited to large industrial, retail and commercial premises where reliability is key, the advanced fibre-optic sensing is unaffected by harsh external conditio... [more]
'Passports are not secure,' claim 32% consumers
posted on 22/05/2012
Ingenia Technology, leaders in anti-counterfeit technology solutions, has revealed new research that reflects a worrying lack of faith from consumers in the security of personal and identification documents and is calling on document producers to continue to embrace new technologies to help protect consumers’ identities. The full report tells the findings available to download here. The survey of over 2,000 adults, conducted in the UK to look at ... [more]
At Security Document World 2012, Access IS will present single action e-passport reader and miniature image-processing engines for travel and ID document processing.
posted on 17/05/2012
Access IS will be revealing its latest range of compact, cost-effective and reliable security document readers at Security Document World (SDW) 2012, as well as full page e-passport readers and keyboards with passport reading capability, visitors to the Access IS stand - D15 - will be shown a new high performance-passport reader. The OCR601 quickly and accurately verifies the machine readable zone (MRZ) and enables the data in an e-passport's chi... [more]
Insider Threats at Children's Hospital detected by Veriphyr
posted on 17/05/2012
Veriphyr, is a pioneer in provison of identity and access intelligence (IAI. It announced that it has donated to its patient privacy breach detection service to Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in partnership with Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMNH). The Veriphyr service protects patients’ personal health information (PHI) by detecting inappropriate access by hospital employees and other insiders. Veriphyr applies “big data” analy... [more]
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