To ensure a safe environment for patients, visitors, and medical staff, hospitals have to consider security in both the design and operation of the emergency room.
A security specialist explains how organizations operating in volatile regions can counter terrorist attacks based on his experience in Kirkuk, Iraq. (Online Exclusive)
The percentage drop in apprehensions at the southern border for the first quarter of 2008. According to testimony by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the reduction is a trend (apprehensions dropped 20 percent overall in 2007 from the previous year) and indicates that fewer immigrants are attempting to enter the country illegally.
Interview with Kerry Pettingill, director of the Oklahoma Office of Homeland Security.
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Insider Theft, Fires, and Vandals Top List of Museum Concerns
By Susan Mandel
Museums should address insider threats.
How to Cultivate a Safety Culture
By Marcus Perdue
The message that safety is a priority must be pervasive, and the safety culture concept must be reinforced through practices and an incentive system.
Simple Steps to Data Protection
By Gary Palgon
A company must protect personally identifiable information it holds. These policies are key.
Benefits of a Master Plan
By Teresa Anderson
Learn how one university developed a security master plan to help it meet the evolving needs of new facilities.
Preventing Wrongful Deportation
By Laura Spadanuta
The case of a mentally impaired person who was deported despite being a citizen has raised questions about the government's deportation procedures.
Is Private Industry a TSA Scapegoat?
By Laura Spadanuta
Government blames private industry for the lack of new security technology while private industry blames government for not encouraging the development of new technology.
Legal Report
By Teresa Anderson
Rulings on discrimination, drug testing, and arbitration; plus legislation on border security, intellectual property, and identity theft.
Industry News
By Ann Longmore-Etheridge
ASIS puts its updated directory online, the Society issues a reprint of its security careers booklet, and David Horsburgh, CPP, PCI, PSP, is profiled.
Facilitating Creative Thinking
By Michael Stroberger, CPP
Sometimes it pays to start with a blank slate and rethink what the best solution to security problems might be.
There’s a wide gap between the IT security skills that companies seek and those that candidates have, according to a survey by the Computing Technology Industry Association.
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that law enforcement agencies cannot spy on a suspect's computer, cell phone, PDA, or MP3 player except in a few carefully defined cases.
The United States and Germany will share access to databases with personal data, including fingerprints and DNA information, of people suspected of terrorist activity.
One might assume by the title that Zen and the Art of Information Security is another cheesy motivational book. Nothing could be further from the truth.