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ISC West Conference 2013: Peter Boriskin, ASSA ABLOY

Peter Boriskin, Director of Product Management for ASSA ABLOY'S Commerical Electronic Access Control Products, indicates that he would like to describe the features and benefits of the SARGENT SE...

ISC West Conference 2013: David Murphy, Zebra Technologies

Zebra’s extensive portfolio of barcode, receipt, card, kiosk and UHF RFID printers and supplies, as well as real-time location solutions, are used by 90% of the Fortune 500 and many federal, state...

ISC West Conference 2013: Pan Kamal, AlertEnterprise

Pan Kamal, VP of Marketing for Alert Enterprise, a security software company headquartered in Fremont, CA, explains in his opening remarks that he is going to describe Alert Enterprise’s award-...

Border Security Awards 2013: Ali Lebaschi, E-Seek Incorporated

E-Seek Inc, which designs and manufactures bar code readers for verifying drivers’ licenses, was platinum winner in GSN’s 2013 Border Security Awards in the category of “Best Identification Document...

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Steven Ringelberg, COO, Vanguard Integrity Professionals

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Brivo, Inc, John Szczygiel, Executive VP Sales and Marketing

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Jody Mack, Director Business Development, Vanguard Integrity Professionals

Jody Mack provides a thumbnail description of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, a Sponsor of the 2012 GSN Awards Program as well as a Winner in the 2012 IT security category of “Best Intrusion...

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Ken Ammon, Chief Strategist, Xceedium Corporation

Xceedium Corporation garnered its second GSN awards trophy for the entry of its Xsuite solution in the “Best Privileged Access Management” category of the 2012 Awards Program. Ken Ammon, Chief...

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: John D. Clark, Sr, President/CEO, The Whitestone Group

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists Sponsors: Chris Runde, VP Transportation and Government Solutions, Alert Enterprise

Alert Enterprise, a multiple award winner in GSN’s 2011 Awards Program, returned in 2012 to win the categories of “Best Platform for Identity Management” and “Best Platform for Physical and Logical...

IACP Conference, 2012: Kim Webley and Shannon Turner, FileOnQ

Kim Webley, founder of FileOnQ, says the company serves law enforcement by focusing on property and evidence management from the crime scene to the courtroom. He indicates that the company was...

ASIS 2012: Steve Moore, Marketing Director, Garrett Metal Detectors

Garrett Metal Detectors started in the hobby business in 1964, according to Steve Moore, but has been in security for 30 years and is now a major national and international supplier of walk-through...

ASIS 2012: Adam Hall, Ameristar Security Products

Ameristar Security Products produces perimeter protection fencing systems, along with a line of vehicular barriers that includes bollards, wedges and crash beams, according to Adam Hall. The recent...

ASIS 2012: Dr Bob Banerjee, Senior Director, Consultants and A&E Firms, Security Group, Nice

Dr. Banerjee points out that the typical command and control center of an airport, seaport, mass transit hub, utility or city center is a place with input from a number of different silos. The silos...

News

Quantum Secure appoints John Skowronski as vice president of global sales

Wed, 2013-01-30 01:07 PM

John Skowronski

Quantum Secure, a provider of enterprise software that manages and streamlines security identities, compliance and analytics across disparate physical security systems, has appointed John Skowronski...

Senate and House Republican leaders cautious on enforcement in new immigration push

Wed, 2013-01-30 09:07 AM

Sen. Marco Rubio

Key Republican Senate and House leaders have signaled caution in the push for an overhaul of immigration laws, citing the need for more border enforcement as reforms are crafted. A bi-partisan group...

President says time is now for immigration reform

Tue, 2013-01-29 04:39 PM

President Obama

President Obama said the nation is closer than it ever has been to reforming its flawed immigration policy and vowed to introduce legislation himself if emerging bi-partisan efforts on Capitol Hill...

Whitetail, Montana port entry officially closes

Mon, 2013-01-28 02:42 PM

Whitetail, MT

The Port of Whitetail, MT, permanently closed on Jan. 25 and U.S. Customs and Border Protection is working to direct traffic in the area to other nearby border crossings. Although the port was...

FBI proposes three gun control rules to strengthen instant background checks

Mon, 2013-01-28 01:44 PM

Obama signs 23 executive actions
related to gun control on Jan. 16

As President Obama’s 23 recent executive actions related to gun control begin to work their way through the federal bureaucracy, three specific proposed revisions to the National Instant Criminal...

Kiriakou sentenced to 30 months for CIA name leaks at Guantanamo

Mon, 2013-01-28 09:50 AM

John Kiriakou

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, who had portrayed himself as a whistle-blower on the agency’s use of waterboarding, but had also leaked the name of a covert agent to a journalist, was sentenced to...

Bi-partisan agreement reached on immigration reform

Mon, 2013-01-28 08:47 AM

Sens. Charles Schumer

Eight senators from both sides of the political aisle released their sweeping vision of comprehensive immigration reform on Jan. 28. The “Gang of Eight” group, composed of Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY...

Vendors shifting to ‘Security as a Service’ business models

Fri, 2013-01-25 01:05 PM

GSN likes to attend investor conferences in Manhattan -- where corporate CEO’s pitch their wares to the finance executives who can bankroll their growth plans -- to learn about the latest security-...

ICE has record year for re-entry prosecutions in south Texas

Fri, 2013-01-25 09:54 AM

ICE ERO

Fiscal 2012 was one for the record books for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in south Texas, with more than 2,000 convictions for illegally re-entering the U.S. after previous deportations....

Man charged with making fake Secret Service and Air Marshal credentials

Fri, 2013-01-25 08:28 AM

A New Mexico man was arrested for making counterfeit Secret Service and Federal Air Marshal credentials and planning to sell them. A federal grand jury in Albuquerque, NM, indicted Richard Stack, 70...

TSA agents help nab five murder suspects at San Jose, CA, airport

Thu, 2013-01-24 10:20 AM

Rodriguez, Chavez

Two transportation security officers (TSOs) at San Jose International Airport helped police capture five people who were suspected of a stabbing murder in the city as they apparently tried to board...

Milwaukee Hindu leader sentenced for religious worker visa fraud

Thu, 2013-01-24 09:54 AM

R-1 visa

A religious leader from India, who founded a local Hare Krishna temple in Milwaukee, WI, was sentenced to more than three years in prison in connection with a religious visa fraud scheme that...

Company News

IdentiSys acquires Capital Card Systems, a Maryland-based ID reseller

IdentiSys Inc., one of North America’s largest sales and service integrators of identification, card issuance, emergency response and access control security systems, announced on April 2 the acquisition of Capital Card Systems, Inc., which is located in Rockville, MD.

Applied DNA Sciences' smartDNA system approved for forensic use in Sweden

In what Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. said was the first country-wide implementation of its smartDNA anti-theft system, the Swedish National Police Board approved its use by to law enforcement in all counties in the country beginning this June.

NICE system deployed at CBP OAM

The Air and Marine Operations Center (AMOC), the operational and domain awareness center for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Air and Marine (OAM), has implemented a NICE Systems solutions to record and manage mission-critical voice communications used for investigations and debriefing at the facility.

The AMOC is located on the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, CA and is the operational and domain awareness center within the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Air and Marine.

GeckoSystems unveils SafePath technology for mobile robots and navigation systems

GeckoSystems said it is a leader in the emerging mobile robotics industry revolutionizing their development and used with "Mobile Robot Solutions for Safety, Security and Service."

TKH Security Solutions names Bob McCarthy managing director of its U. S. office

TKH Security Solutions announced on March 20 the appointment of Bob McCarthy as its new managing director of the TKH Security Solutions U.S. office, effective immediately. McCarthy is responsible for expanding the scope of TKH Security Solutions in the Americas. This includes increasing sales as well as positioning TKH Security Solutions as a leading supplier of complete and integrated access control, video surveillance, security management, intercom communications and intrusion detection systems.

Honeywell’s newest Vindicator earns USAF certification

Honeywell announced on March 22 that the U.S. Air Force has certified the company’s newest generation of Vindicator command, control and display equipment (CCDE) to protect critical assets at its bases across the globe.

The approval, the latest in a string of high-profile military certifications for the Vindicator technology, requires exhaustive qualification and operational testing and is successfully attained by only a handful of security technology vendors.

Quintron releases AccessNsite hosted and managed access control solution

Quintron Systems, of Santa Maria, CA, has recently announced AccessNsite, a multi-OS and database agnostic access control application for Quintron authorized central station security operation centers (CSSOC). The company claims that AccessNsite can alleviate the frequent challenges that dealers typically have when the time comes to install, configure and commission the software side of small, medium or large access control systems.

Netwatch opens first U.S. office

Ireland-based remote visual monitoring provider Netwatch opened its first U.S. offices in Boston on Feb. 22.

The company, headquartered in Carlow, Ireland, said it’s investing more than $4 million in its expansion into North America and will create 50 jobs over the next 18 months through the Netwatch USA office in Boston.

Commentary and Opinions

OPINION / Two years later, where are we?

By Jim Giermanski

In 2007, I wrote two articles on why 100 percent scanning was not doable. I laid out four fundamental reasons why 100 percent scanning would not work: its foreign acceptance, its limitation to seaports only, the non-existence of required technology, and the non-inclusion of land ports within the concept of critical infrastructure.

Two years later, where are we?

OPINION // Port security -- Protecting the perimeter of the government network.

Where is your network's perimeter? With today's prevalence of mobile devices, data security has no physical boundaries. At a time where an entire hard drive can be downloaded to a smart phone or thumb drive in a matter of minutes, firewalls and virtual private networks (VPNs) are no longer enough.

OPINION / Biometrics: A new 'look' at iris recognition technologies

The September 11, 2001 attacks spurred increased interest in the use of biometric technologies to improve the security of visa and immigration documentation and government-issued identification card programs. Unlike traditional identification methods, which require individuals to present an identification card, a personal identification number (PIN) or a password, biometric identifiers rely on unique biological information about an individual, which is much more difficult to falsify.

Iris recognition technology -- a form of biometric technology that uses pattern-recognition techniques and high-resolution images of an individual's iris -- generated significant initial interest because it is a highly accurate and less intrusive system for identification and verification than fingerprinting and other methods. Nearly 80 percent of the 1,000 U.S. residents surveyed for the Unisys Security Index, released in October 2009, said that they would be willing to use iris recognition technology. Widespread adoption remains elusive, particularly in the public sector, due to concerns about interoperability between various iris recognition technologies and a desire to avoid 'vendor lock-in,' or standardizing on a single vendor's solution.

OPINION / Semantic Web – Six improvements for open source intelligence

Massive volumes of information and data are readily available across the Internet. Potential sources of valuable intelligence are contained in an endless array of Web sites, online media outlets, blogs and social networking communities. At the same time, homeland security organizations manage internal databases and access external information sources. The difficulty of connecting the unstructured textual information collected from Internet resources with structured databases restricts the contribution of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to the overall investigation cycle.

Semantic Web offers a solution by establishing a standard for representing knowledge, such that there is a common language between computer processing and human intentions. An essential component of Semantic Web is ontology, which describes how concepts are represented in a certain knowledge domain. Using Semantic Web technology along with the appropriate ontology allows dissimilar information gathered from the Internet and stored in organizational databases to be mapped into a common semantic representation.

OPINION / Decision-making tools for disaster incident commands

Incident command occurs at the local level, and during any disaster incident that local emergency response officials manage, they need to be confident that an individual's most current qualifications are readily available in order to rapidly and accurately verify the credentials of on-scene personnel.

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GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Steven Ringelberg, COO, Vanguard Integrity Professionals

Vanguard Security Professionals has been a multiple Winner and Finalist in previous GSN Awards Programs and was named Winner in the 2012 category of “Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention Solution” and Finalist in the 2012 categories of “Best Identity Management Platform” and “Best Compliance/Vulnerability Assessment Solution.” Steven Ringelberg argues that new language is being used to describe the threat-scape, but many threats are the same as they have been for years.

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Brivo, Inc, John Szczygiel, Executive VP Sales and Marketing

John Szczygiel describes Brivo, Winner of the 2012 Award for “Best Integrated System for HSPD-12/FIPS 201 Compliance” for the second year in a row, as a cloud company that provides hosted subscriber services in the physical access control domain. The company’s “CloudPass” product has been established as a government community cloud, specifically for federal government agencies that want to take their physical access control and PAC into a cloud configuration. Brivo also offers a cloud transition service to clients that have on-premise servers and want to make the transition.

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Jody Mack, Director Business Development, Vanguard Integrity Professionals

Jody Mack provides a thumbnail description of Vanguard Integrity Professionals, a Sponsor of the 2012 GSN Awards Program as well as a Winner in the 2012 IT security category of “Best Intrusion Detection/Prevention Solution” and 2012 Finalist in the categories of “Best ID Management Platform” and “Best Compliance/Vulnerability Assessment Solution”, not to mention a multiple Winner and Finalist in prior GSN Awards Programs.

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: Ken Ammon, Chief Strategist, Xceedium Corporation

Xceedium Corporation garnered its second GSN awards trophy for the entry of its Xsuite solution in the “Best Privileged Access Management” category of the 2012 Awards Program. Ken Ammon, Chief Strategist for the company, describes how privileged access management has become increasingly important as physical and logical access have merged, and the government, through HSPD-12, has required that the PIV smart card, historically used for physical access now must be used for logical access as well.

GSN 2012 Award Winners/Finalists/Sponsors: John D. Clark, Sr, President/CEO, The Whitestone Group

John D. Clark, Sr. and the Whitestone Group, which he founded in 2000, returned to the GSN Awards Dinner in 2012 to pick up their second trophy in two years, this time for the “Best Facility Security/Force Protection Service.” The Whitestone Group’s A-list of clients includes NASA, DoD, USDA, VA, DHS, Social Security Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, Army, Air Force and the Department of Interior, which has just approved a new 5-year facility security contract for the Hoover Dam.

White Papers

Government facility visitor management solutions from ADT

This white paper highlights a successful pilot HSPD-12 compliant visitor management project undertaken by a U.S. federal government agency, which successfully meets the objectives of Federal Identity, Credential, andAccess Management (FICAM) Road map use case 4.9 for how agencies should perform credentialing and validation of visitors to federal facilities.

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Are Trade Shows Still Relevant?

There was a time when a trade show budget was never questioned. If your company had a product to launch,training to conduct, leads to generate or branding to imprint, the industry’s major trade show was the place to do it.

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Upcoming Events

Event Details	Dates of Event
SANS Austin 2013	May 19 - 24
DoD VA Healthcare Training Forum	May 20 - 23
Transport and Logistics of Hazardous Material	May 27 - 28
Southwest Microwave Seminar	May 28 - 28
Border Management Southwest Summit	May 29 - 31
Cyber Security Conference & Expo	May 30 - 30
Mobile Device Security Summit 2013	May 30 - Jun 6
Security Analytics Summit 2013	May 30 - Jun 6
Cyber Security Conference & Expo	May 30 - 30
Southwest Microwave Seminar	May 30 - 30
SANS Malaysia @ MCMC 2013	Jun 3 - 8
2013 SIA Government Summit	Jun 4 - 5
Southwest Microwave Seminar	Jun 4 - 4
NCT: CBRNe Israel, 4 - 6 June 2013, Tel Aviv	Jun 4 - 6
SEL Modern Solutions Power Systems Conference	Jun 5 - 7
Mission Command	Jun 10 - 12
Cyber Securty Brainstorm	Jun 11 - 11
EDGE Summit 2013	Jun 11 - 11
IPv6 Summit 2013	Jun 14 - 16
SANSFIRE 2013	Jun 15 - 22
Oak Ridge National Laboratory's 2nd Biosurveillance Symposium	Jun 17
Biodetection Technologies 2013	Jun 18 - 19
Southwest Microwave Seminar	Jun 18 - 18
Cyber Defense and Network Security Summit	Jun 24 - 26
Vanguard Security & Compliance 2013	Jun 24 - 27
SANS Canberra 2013	Jul 1 - 13
Border Management & Technologies Summit	Jul 2 - 5
SANS Rocky Mountain 2013	Jul 15 - 20
SANS Mumbai 2013	Jul 22 - 27
SANS San Francisco 2013	Jul 29 - Aug 3
SANS Boston 2013	Aug 5 - 10
Cyber Security for Government	Aug 12 - 14
SANS Thailand 2013	Aug 19 - 31
SANS Virginia Beach 2013	Aug 19 - 30
Maritime Security 2013 West	Aug 19 - 21
930gov: Strategic Buying at Year-End Showcase	Aug 21 - 21

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