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June 20th, 2008

Getting control over desktop PCs is fast becoming a major strategic objective of CIOs and IT departments. There is no doubt that a fully‐controlled PC is easier to manage and therefore much less expensive, but there are actually several factors that are forcing companies to do away with overly lenient policies and strengthen their management capabilities of their Windows infrastructure:

• Compliance objectives require better information about and auditing of end‐user PCs, as well as
tighter policy enforcement.
• Malware is evolving and now taking advantage of downloadable software and online social
communities to gain access to PCs
• Helpdesk calls are expensive, and the majority of them are preventable

If your organization is subject to federal regulations related to IT security, then locking down workstations is probably going to be a big priority. After all, nobody wants to go to prison just because workstations were not properly secured.

June 16th, 2008

The ICx™ Technologies Fido® is an extremely sensitive, portable explosives detector. It is comparable in performance to trained bombsniffing dogs – the gold standard by which trace chemical vapor sensors are detected. The sensor has been widely deployed among U.S. and Allied forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, where it is making a positive contribution in the fight against improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the greatest threat currently facing our troops.

June 6th, 2008

In the late summer of 2005, the City of New Orleans experienced an event of extreme proportions. The effect of Hurricane Katrina on the City was catastrophic and long-lasting. When the center of Katrina passed east of New Orleans on August 29, 2005, winds were in the Category 2 range, and tidal surges were equivalent to a Category 3 hurricane. Though the most severe portion of Katrina missed the city, the storm surge caused more than 50 breaches in drainage canal levees and also in navigational canal levees and precipitated the worst engineering disaster in US history.

May 20th, 2008

Parking areas, parks, and other outdoor venues support local quality of life by enabling public access for gatherings, shopping, sightseeing and other legitimate activities. Local governments, businesses and groups seek to encourage legitimate open area use by keeping them safe.
But the perceived fear of crime in open areas including car theft and burglary, assault, crowd insurrection, rape, and robbery presents an ongoing and serious security challenge for governments and businesses.

May 14th, 2008

The unrelenting terrorism threat to the commercial aviation industry is one of the most visible security challenges to authorities worldwide, today. Since the early 1970’s, there have been consistent terrorist attacks on airlines and the traveling public around the world. In the U.S., these attacks frequently took the form of airliner hijacking; internationally, incidents included hijackings and attacks on the airport terminals and passengers themselves, attacks on airliners in the taxiway or at the gate, and even buses transporting airline personnel. The reaction to this ongoing, evolving threat over the years has varied, depending on whether the incident was in the U.S. or abroad. In the U.S., the focus of security has been principally on checkpoint screening technology, procedure and management. Abroad, security forces focus both on checkpoint screening and on the passengers themselves. In either case, whether it is a small regional airport or London ’s Heathrow Airport, the effect for passengers feels the same: a formidable “iron curtain” of guards and security procedures stifling any notion of traveler convenience.

April 23rd, 2008

ICx Technologies has a long history of supporting a wide range of perimeter and border security installations. Our tower, sensor and software solutions are deployed by many border security forces, and provide flexibility to accommodate an array of new and legacy sensors and communications equipment. These solutions are utilized daily with proven results. ICx solutions are mobile and rapidly deployable with seamless networking capability to support the common operation picture. They are available now.

April 17th, 2008

Worldwide Port and Maritime operations and their associated facilities and infrastructure collectively represent one of the single greatest unaddressed challenges to the security of nations and the global economy today. The reason that ports and shipping activity are so difficult to secure lies primarily in their topography. Ports are typically large, asymmetrical activities dispersed over hundreds of acres of land and water so that they can simultaneously accommodate ship, truck and rail traffic, petroleum product/liquid offload, storage or piping, and container storage. The movement of freight, cargo (solid or liquid),and transport through a port is generally on a “queuing ” system, meaning that any delay snarls all operations. Whether or not delays are related to security, security generally falls by the wayside in the interest of time management or convenience.

This White Paper thoroughly explores this fascinating and complex subject. Detailed text and illustrative color photos are included.

November 15th, 2007

Information Assurance (IA) secures IP infrastructure and protects radio network assets ensuring operational continuity.

According to current risk management and security thinking, an Information Assurance (IA) program can ensure the security and reseliency of the IP infrastructure that supports Land Mobile Radio (LMR) operations. For federal agencies, Department of Defense (DoD) enterprises, and stste, county or city governments that need secure and compliant networks, Information Assurance offers the following benefits:

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