Recently added articles from Security Management:
New online this month at www.securitymanagement.com.(Beyond Print)
Sep 01, 2007 ... Arbitration An arbitration program put in place by a law firm was ruled unlawful by a federal appeals court because its conditions were too restrictive. Laptop Security Read about the staggering economic costs downtown Calgary experienced due to laptops ...
Civic minded or still crazy after all these years?(Editor's Note)(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2007; Harowitz, Sherry ... They say that paranoia is the state of seeing too many connections. That's what happened in the movie "A Beautiful Mind," where the character based on the Nobel Laureate John Nash has a wall covered with newspaper articles with circles and lines divining connections among stories where ...
Granting sanctuary to terrorists?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2007; Petraitis, Richard ... As a member of ASIS International, I am shocked at the complete contempt shown for the laws of the United States by the sanctuary city movement in which localities pass ordinances telling police not to inquire about a person's immigrant status or detail them solely on that basis. State ...
Benefits of outreach.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2007; Popp, Dave G. ... As a member of ASIS and having a fair number of colleagues involved in the security of the oil industry, I read your article concerning pipeline security ("Crude Oil and Corruption," June) with a great deal of interest. I am also a post-graduate research student at the University of ...
Educational options.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
Sep 01, 2007; Wrona, Philip ... The "Homeland Security" article titled "Q. What's Your Major? A. Homeland Security," caught my interest. Since 2002, the Center for Homeland Defense and Security (www.cdhs.us) located at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has conducted programs to assist current and ...
Correction.(Correction notice)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The June 2007 Certification Profile of Roger Pida mistakenly said that the Certified Fraud Specialist (CFS) credential that he holds was bestowed by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). The ACFE does not bestow the CFS credential. It awards the respected Certified Fraud ...
Are cities sapping immigration laws? Critics of sanctuary cities argue that such policies provide cover for terrorists. Law enforcement officials disagree.(Intelligence)
Sep 01, 2007; Spadanuta, Laura ... THE FEDERAL government struggles to find a consensus on immigration reform, a host of cities have passed ordinances or implemented policies ordering local police and other public employees not to ask about a person's immigration status. For example, the Houston Police ...
Suspicious activity reports' effectiveness is questioned.(Intelligence)
Sep 01, 2007 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THROUGH AN investigation dubbed "Operation Rainmaker," made public last year, federal investigators were able to crack a money laundering and drug trafficking operation that was allegedly laundering proceeds through the Black Market Peso Exchange; the case ...
Fingerprint advances could aid investigators.(Intelligence)
Sep 01, 2007 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FINDING FINGERPRINTS that criminals have left be hind--and obtaining identifying information from those prints--may be getting easier, based on two new studies. One study was conducted by a team led by David A. Russell of Norwich's University ...
The long road to secure infrastructure: new government plans to protect critical infrastructure lack substance despite a decade-long effort by federal officials and private-sector partners.(Homeland Security)
Sep 01, 2007; Straw, Joseph ... WITH LITTLE FANFARE, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced earlier this year the completion of 17 sector-specific plans (SSPs) amending last year's National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) Together the documents establish a risk-based approach to protecting the ...
Talk Trumps Tech in Silicon Valley.(Homeland Security)
Sep 01, 2007 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] IT STANDS TO REASON that California's Silicon Valley would lead the country in establishing a network of interoperable communications for first responders. And it does--but not for the technological reasons you might think. Santa Clara County ...
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Sep 01, 2007 ... The number of arrests made based on information gleaned from biometric exit devices. The devices are part of the US-VISIT program, which requires travelers from nations other than the United States to register when they ...
State perspective--Kansas interview with Maj. General Tod M. Bunting.(Homeland Security)(Interview)
Sep 01, 2007 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Q. What are your responsibilities? A. Kansas takes a regional approach to homeland security, with one homeland security coordinator assigned to each of seven regions. I deal with them on a regular basis. I also deal with other agencies that are ...
Working in the wild: if a laptop is stolen, encryption software keeps data hidden, while tracking software "phones home," making it easy to catch the crooks.(Case Study)
Sep 01, 2007; Anderson, Teresa ... BEFORE ACCOUNTING FIRM Grant Thornton's employees head into the field, they are issued a laptop. In the past, the laptops were equipped with a locating device that automatically reported back to the IT department at company headquarters as soon as an employee logged on to the machine ....
Tsunami warning: due to be completed by the end of 2008, a system of buoys will provide advance warning of a tsunami to countries that border India.(International)
Sep 01, 2007; Elliott, Robert ... SPURRED BY THE HAVOC wreaked by the tsunami that hit South Asia and Southeast Asia in December 2004, a system of sophisticated buoys is being stretched across the Indian Ocean to give the region's residents advance warning the next time a gigantic wave speeds towards their shores. ...
China's weapons buildup.(International)
Sep 01, 2007; Wiggins, Mick ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CHINA'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS stockpile is expected to grow over the next decade as new ballistic missile systems reach operational status and the country achieves sufficient weapon-grade fissile material to meet the immediate needs of its military nukes, the ...
14.(NUMBERS)
Sep 01, 2007 ... The number of European countries that have admitted to allowing the CIA to operate secret prisons or conduct extraordinary rendition in their countries, ...
Rendering assistance to aid workers.(International)
Sep 01, 2007; Harwood, Matt ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AID WORKERS, who render assistance to the most vulnerable populations in the least hospitable regions of the world, have long operated with protected status under international humanitarian law. Combatants, nevertheless, increasingly ignore this ...
Sizing up enterprise rights management.(Technofile)
Sep 01, 2007; Wagley, John ... AN INCIDENT several years ago in which a manager sold some of the company's intellectual property to a competitor, the executive search firm Sterling-Hoffman did some brainstorming on ways to fortify its data protection. The company, based in Mountain View, California, decided to go with a ...
ID theft rising.(QUICK BYTES)
Sep 01, 2007 ... About 15 million Americans fell victim to some form of identity theft in the 12 months ending in mid-2006, according to a Gartner survey, an increase of more than 50 percent since 2003. The average loss was about $3,260 in 2006, up from about $1,410 in 2005. The amount of money recovered ...
