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Pickersgill-Kaye Ltd will present its locks at the Security & Policing Exhibition
posted on 24/01/2012

Pickersgill-Kaye Ltd will introduce its portfolio of high security and custodial locking products at the Home Office's 2012 Security & Policing Exhibition in Farnborough, at the end of January. Pickersgill-Kaye will be demonstrating the design quality and manufacturing strength of its renowned range of Custodial Class 1 cell locks, Pass Locks and High Security Multipoint Locks (MPL). Also on show will be a range of high security slide bar and claw gate locks for perimeter security applications and the industry standard Kaye-Rota padlock. The Class 1 Cell Lock is made from a single billet of high quality solid steel and fits all standard cell doors. Tested against 300,000 door and handle operation cycles, the cell door locks are considered to be the best on the market. Also on display will be Pickersgill-Kaye's Class 2 Pass Lock and Auto slam Pass Lock. Heavy duty with double sided key operation, they have unique functionality coupled with a robust reliability ideal for high securit... [more]

Digital Bond and Tenable Network Security collaborate on continuous critical infrastructure protection
posted on 20/01/2012

Digital Bond and Tenable Network Security released new SCADA plugins for both Tenable’s Nessus and Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS), at the S4 Conference. These plugins will identify insecure PLC configurations that would allow an attacker to take control of a critical infrastructure such as the electric grid, an oil pipeline, a chemical manufacturing plant or water treatment plant. Tenable’s Passive Vulnerability Scanner plugins allow a control system network to be monitored continuously without any interaction or impact to the network. The PVS not only identifies these PLC vulnerabilities, it also discovers a wide variety of systems which speak common SCADA protocols such as ICCP, MODBUS and DNP3. There are seven new Tenable SCADA plugins for the GE D20, Schneider Modicon Quantum and SEL 2032 SCADA PLCs or controllers. These are the devices that communicate with sensors and actuators and tell valves to open, breakers to trip or control some form of a physical process. An atta... [more]

Human Recognition Systems and Olive Group partner to increase the pace of biometric adoption for the Middle East and position them for market leadership
posted on 13/01/2012

A strategic partnership between Human Recognition Systems (HRS), the UK’s independent leader in biometric solutions, and the Olive Group for the Middle East and North African regions has been agreed. The agreement will see HRS leverage the extensive presence of Olive Group, a leader in integrated risk mitigation solutions within the Middle East, a market with huge potential for biometrics. Olive Group will have the ability to extend its current offerings to its clients with biometric solutions already developed, proven and trusted by HRS clients from critical infrastructure, aviation and government sectors. Olive Group will sell the complete HRS solution range from identity record assurance, site security, passenger flow, to mobile identity management. In addition Olive Group will have access to HRS consultancy expertise and a development team specialising in biometric technology. Neil Norman, Human Recognition Systems’ Chief Executive, said “We see huge opportunity for the expansi... [more]

VoiceVault Advanced Wireless Microphone Now Available With Digital Ally’s DVM-500Plus In-Car Video System
posted on 05/01/2012

Digital Ally, Inc., which develops, manufactures and sells advanced law enforcement video systems, LIDAR speed guns and fleet event recorders, announced that all new orders of the DVM-500Plus In-Car Video System will now include the VoiceVault™ Advanced Wireless Microphone at no additional cost to the customer. Previously only available with the DVM-750 In-Car Video System, the VoiceVault offers the same extended range, voice optimization and noise filtering, and fully digital audio transmission with true frequency hopping technology as the previous DVM-500Plus system’s mic. However, it also offers the industry-first feature of recording up to two hours of audio evidence onto On-Board Solid State Memory when the mic is out of range or the signal to the in-car video system is interrupted. The VoiceVault also records its own metadata to later link with recordings from the in-car video system for the same incidents when loaded into Digital Ally’s VideoManager software. For more informati... [more]

Confident Technologies gives its 2012 Authentication Predictions
posted on 22/12/2011

As we quickly approach the end of the year, here are some Confident Technologies’ top 5 authentication predications for 2012. They include authentication trends that we think will emerge next year, as well as some predictions about some specific attacks that could happen next year. 1. BYOMD (bring your own mobile device) will spell big trouble for businesses in terms of data loss in 2012. Employees and contractors are increasingly bringing their personal smartphones and tablets to work and using the devices for a blend of personal and business related activities. 2012 will bring even more of this and we’ll see a few high-profile incidents of enterprise data loss resulting from allowing employees to connect their personal mobile devices to the company network without proper security protocols in place. The end result will be more businesses enforcing stricter authentication and security policies, particularly in regards to what information can be accessed, used and stored on mobile dev... [more]

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