The Special Task Force (STF) of Uttar Pradesh Police has been conferred with the prestigious FICCI Smart Policing Award 2021, at the annual conference on homeland security that was held at FICCI in New Delhi. STF, UP police won this Special Jury Award in a highly competitive field which received more than 192 entries from…
The International Council for Industrial Security and Safety Management (ICISSM) is a security and safety professionals’ forum that works towards creating an open platform for security and safety professionals to share their knowledge and expertise. With the membership of more than seven thousand working security and safety professionals from all over the world, it has…
Hikvision recently launched its new DeepinView bullet network cameras with TandemVu technology, expanding the reach of TandemVu technology from PTZ units to bullet-styled models. As their name implies, the new TandemVu-enabled bullet cameras are also able to monitor large scenes and close-up details simultaneously, maintaining both ‘viewpoints’ for improved situational awareness and security capability. Distinguishing…
A new way of imaging concealed objects, devised by a researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and his colleagues, might take all the fun out of hide-andseek, but could also help save lives. Imaging scenes that lie outside an observer’s direct line of sight could greatly enhance search and rescue missions,…
Tenable®, the Cyber Exposure Management company, recently announced it has achieved the Application Security distinction in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency for its cloud-native vulnerability management solution. This designation recognizes that Tenable has demonstrated and successfully met AWS’s technical and quality requirements for providing customers with a deep level of software expertise in…
Every day, advertisements for medicines invade the Internet, posted on social media networks or other websites. However, behind this slick marketing often lies fraudulent products that threaten consumers’ health instead of healing them. The global trade in illicit pharmaceuticals is a vast and lucrative crime area – valued at US$ 4.4 billion – which attracts…
By Colonel B S Nagial (Retd) The concepts of soft and vulnerable targets, hard targets, and crowded public places have recently come into daily use in the counter-terrorism platform. These concepts are not included in any international legal framework. Soft and vulnerable targets such as sports complexes, shopping sites, schools and education institutions, and transportation…
National security is the bedrock of a sovereign state’s stability and development. For India, a country with a vast population and a rich tapestry of diversity, achieving a robust national security culture is not only paramount, but a strategic necessity and an existential imperative. A nation characterized by its vast diversity in culture, religion, caste,…
Hikvision announced that its network camera product series, DS-2CD5, DS-2CD7 and PTZ version 1.1 (nearly a hundred product models), have achieved the Certificate of Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (abbreviated as Common Criteria or CC) with assurance type EAL3 augmented with ALC_FLR.2 (EAL3+). The Common Criteria certification is mainly applicable to evaluating security…
Waste management and recycling have long since become an important industry. According to forecasts, the waste and recycling industry will grow worldwide in the medium term. In Germany, for example, waste management sales are expected to rise from 40.8 billion euros (2020) to 42.5 billion by 2025*. A wide variety of materials, bulk materials, hazardous…