Security Management articles from February 2004

Security Management archives from February 2004

Bullish on risk management.(Mad cow diseases)(Editorial)
February 1, 2004... As this issue goes to press, the beef industry is facing the ramifications of a single incident of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease. The incident raises important questions about risk management for all...

Sharing security costs.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... In response to the question online regarding homeland security funding levels, as an employee with the Transportation Security Administration, I think continued funding is important, and we have to get those who are benefiting from this service...

Good role model.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
February 1, 2004... The cover piece by Richard Lagg, CPP, and Marene Allison, "Fielding a Protection Plan" (November), concerning one company's experience with event security management, offered an outstanding overview of large-scale-event security planning and...

Did you know that?(News and Trends)
February 1, 2004... A cross-departmental government effort has yielded a CD-ROM on bomb threat response for schools. The disk guides law enforcement and school administrators through planning and response, providing implementation resources explaining how to apply...

Did you know that?(News and Trends)(General Accounting Office)(Sarbanes-Oxley Act)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... When the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in 2002, Congress asked the General Accounting Office to evaluate whether mandatory audit firm rotation (limiting how long a public accounting firm can audit a specific company's statements) would be a...

Did you know that?(News and Trends)(electronic container seals)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... The U.S. Department of Transportation has announced the results of a study on electronic container seals, or e-seals. Overall, the study found that such seals have great promise but must be supported by an international standard that sets out...

Image is everything in stopping crime.(News and Trends)(Closed circuit television imaging equipment)
February 1, 2004... The potential for CCTV systems to help banks and other businesses catch criminals red-handed often goes unrealized, replaced by a reality in which the image is so blurry that neither red hands nor identifiable faces can be made out. Frustrated...

Food security made alimentary.(News and Trends)(mad cow disease)(Newcastle Disease)
February 1, 2004... In late 2002, an outbreak of the highly virulent Exotic Newcastle Disease afflicted chickens in California and other western states. Within a year, three million chickens had been slaughtered to curb the disease. Probably the only reason that...

Mapping risks.(News and Trends)(Control Risk Group's global security and political risk survey, RiskMap 2004)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... How will the Bush Doctrine of preemptive military engagement affect U.S. businesses and their security posture? What does Australia's new interventionism in the South Pacific mean for terrorism in the region? How are recent corruption cases...

Fiery debate rages over guidelines.(News and Trends)(premises security and system integration installations)
February 1, 2004... The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has critics inflamed over a pair of draft guidelines for premises security and system integration installations. Some security professionals say that the documents get too specific. Others laud...

Home on the page.(News and Trends)(terrorism)
February 1, 2004... Homeland security dominates the agendas of many security managers, perhaps rightly so. But the risk landscape--even issues that might qualify as homeland-security related--extends much more broadly than that. For example, issues such as drug...

Oh, Canada!(Certified protection professional certification)(Security services companies)(Advertisement)
February 1, 2004... Earlier this year, Kevin Bennett, the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Vice President of Group 4 Falck Canada Ltd., didn't like the feedback he was receiving from his clients. A lot of them were saying that "All security companies are alike,"...

Satisfying tenants' security tastes.(Working Wise)(security system)
February 1, 2004... The old Gimbels department store at Sixth Avenue and Smithfield Street in downtown Pittsburgh sat vacant from 1986, when Gimbels closed, until 1999, when McKnight Development Partners bought it and began the process of transforming it into an...

Training your team: whether it's the battlefield, the basketball court, or the business world, training is the key to a winning team.(Leading Edge)
February 1, 2004... Whether the action is on the battlefield or the basketball court, you can be certain that the winning team owes its success in large measure to extensive training. Recognizing the importance of training to any team's performance, the Cincinnati...

Liscouski cites milestones, offers industry options.(Tech Talk)(Robert Liscouski)(National Cyber Security Division)
February 1, 2004... Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge recently characterized the cyber networks that connect everything from electricity grids to financial transactions as a "vast electronic nervous system [that] operates much of our nation's...

Computer bugs top security worries.(survey reports)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Computer viruses and worms are the greatest security risks facing the business world, according to a new international survey by The Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey of 178 executives at more than 30 worldwide locations showed that over...

Quick bytes.(spam statistics)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Spam stats. The percentage of total e-mail identified as spam increased from 40 percent in November 2002 to 56 percent a year later, according to antispam technology company Brightmail. The statistics break down spam into 10 categories, such...

Quick bytes.(Spies in the machine)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Spies in the machine. "Spyware," nearly invisible applications that install themselves on computers (usually arriving piggybacked on legitimate software downloads), can observe and track user Web surfing. They can also create new...

Quick bytes.(Networking for security)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Networking for security. While it might seem obvious that homeland security can be augmented with better information collection, sharing, and analysis among government agencies and between the public and private sectors, the way to achieve such...

Survey apportions software liability.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... A survey by British digital-risk management company mi2g concludes that the majority of corporate and home users believe that software liability issues are complex and therefore "it would be incorrect to apportion blame to a sole manufacturer...

Summit: a step toward cybersecurity.(Tech Talk)(National Cyber Security Summit)
February 1, 2004... The President's National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace was released in September 2002 to some grumbling that its reliance on guidelines, rather than government mandates, rendered it toothless. To help encourage the private sector to voluntarily...

Fighting online sex crimes.(Tech Talk)
February 1, 2004... Investigating and prosecuting Internet sex crimes against children is challenging, but these cases "are not posing insurmountable difficulties for law enforcement," according to a recent report by the National Center for Missing & Exploited...

The road to rage: workplace violence grows out of escalating patterns of aggressive behavior that managers must be trained to recognize and stop.(Workplace Violence)(Cover Story)
February 1, 2004... Incidents of workplace violence accounted for 15 percent of all work-related fatal occupational injuries in 2002, and according to the Department of Labor, violent acts continue to rank among the top three causes of workplace fatalities for all...

The importance of being earnest: new laws hold top executives directly responsible for making an earnest effort to prevent fraud and ensure that financial disclosures are complete and accurate.(Financial Services)(Sarbanes-Oxley Act)
February 1, 2004... The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed in the wake of Enron and other scandals, seeks to reduce the likelihood of fraud by making public company CEOs and CFOs directly accountable for their organizations' internal controls and financial disclosures....

Warding off evil spirits: in the real world, the laws of trespass are clear; but the laws as applied to electronic trespassing are less certain.
February 1, 2004... A security manager is informed that an unauthorized user is crawling the company Web site, "scraping" corporate information and using it to make money. Security wants it stopped, but how? The company Web site is open to the world. Anybody with...

When the front lines are local: several initiatives for training private security to adapt to new homeland security threats are underway. In Ohio, the University of Findlay offers one such model.(Homeland Security)
February 1, 2004... It was Friday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. in the autumn of 2003 when two Middle-Eastern-looking men, later identified as Mohammed and Omar, attempted to pass the front desk of a sprawling Jewish Community Center (JCC) in the Midwest. The...

U.S. judicial decisions.(Legal Reporter)(Freeman v. Busch case)(John Doe v. GTE Corporation case)
February 1, 2004... Cyberspace law. In a recent appellate decision, a case against an Internet service provider (ISP) was dismissed because, although a client of the ISP was involved in illegal activity over the Internet, the ISP did not participate in or profit...

Elsewhere in the courts ...(Americans with Disabilities Act)(Brenda Brown v. City of Tucson)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... ADA. An appellate court has ruled that an investigation into police officer Brenda Brown's handling of a case and her subsequent termination did not violate Brown's rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). However, the court...

Elsewhere in the courts ...(New York Court of Appeal on workplace accidents)(Robert Striegel v. Hillcrest Heights Development Corporation)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Safe working conditions. A New York court ruled that a contracting company is liable for injuries suffered by a worker while he was installing roof shingles on a new house. The court found that in the absence of any safety devices such as roof...

Elsewhere in the courts ...(New Mexico appeals court's rule on defamation)(Robert Hagebak v. Anita Stone)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Defamation. A New Mexico appeals court has ruled that a company in the state does not have automatic immunity from defamation when the defamation occurs within the confines of corporate communication. Instead, the court ruled that each case...

U.S. regulatory issues.(Legal Reporter)(Aviation security and Border protection)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Aviation security. According to a recent report by the General Accounting Office (GAO), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented numerous initiatives to enhance aviation security but has failed to collect information on...

U.S. congressional legislation.(Legal Reporter)(bills discussion)
February 1, 2004... First responders. Two bills (S. 930 and H.R. 3266), introduced by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Rep. Christopher Cox (R-CA) respectively, would provide funds and training to first responders. S. 930 would establish a government program charged...

U.S. state legislation.(Legal Reporter)(A new law in Idaho on defamation)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Idaho Defamation. A new law in Idaho (formerly H.B. 269) protects those who report potentially dangerous events in schools from liability. Under the law, anyone who reported that a specific person has made a threat to commit violence on...

Front Desk Security and Safety: An On-the-Job Guide to Handling Emergencies, Threats, and Unexpected Situations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Front Desk Security and Safety: An On-the-Job Guide to Handling Emergencies, Threats, and Unexpected Situations. By Betty A. Kildow; published by the American Management Association, www.amanet.org (Web); 123 pages; $15.95. While there is...

Al-Qaeda: Casting A Shadow of Terror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Al-Qaeda: Casting A Shadow of Terror. By Jason Burke; published by I.B. Tauris; available from www.amazon.com; 304 pages; $17.47 (on amazon.com). Over the past several years, the name al-Qaeda has burned itself into Western consciousness...

Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Threat Assessment: A Risk Management Approach. By James T. Turner, Ph.D., and Michael G. Gelles, Psy.D.; published by the Haworth Press. 800/429-6784 (phone), www.haworthpress.com (Web); 182 pages; $24.95. One of the most notorious terms in...

PDA Security: Incorporating Handhelds Into the Enterprise.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... PDA Security: Incorporating Handhelds Into the Enterprise. By David Melnick, Mark Dinman, and Alexander Muratov; published by McGraw-Hill, 877/833-5524 (phone), books.mcgraw-hill.com (Web); 378 pages; $39.95. Most security managers wouldn't...

Toxic Warfare.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Toxic Warfare. By Theodore Karasik; published by RAND, www.rand.org (Web); 52 pages; $16 in paperback, free online. Toxic weapons incorporate inexpensive and easily attained chemicals and industrial waste into potentially lethal weapons....

Information Assurance: Managing Organizational IT Security Risks.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Information Assurance: Managing Organizational IT Security Risks. By Joseph G. Boyce and Dan W. Jennings; published by Butter-worth-Heinemann; 800/545-2522 (phone), www.bh.com (Web); 261 pages; $44.95. Among the most difficult of corporate...

Silent Universal Signals for School Safety.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Silent Universal Signals for School Safety. By Robert Dent and Alan Morris; published by Constable Group, Inc., 541/383-1966 (fax), www.survival-spanish.com (Web); 2-hour videotape; $149. Signals have been systematically deployed for...

ASIS events.(Calendar)
February 1, 2004... ASIS EVENTS FEBRUARY 2-4 Disaster Management, San Francisco, CA 6-7 CPP Review, Atlanta, GA 6-7 PSP Review, Atlanta, GA 6-7 PCI Review, Atlanta, GA 9-13 Physical Security: Intro, Los Angeles, CA...

Industry events.(Calendar)
February 1, 2004... INDUSTRY EVENTS FEBRUARY 2 Security Industry Association's Corporate Roundtable; Miami, FL; 703/683-0334; www.CorporateSecurityRoundtable.com MARCH 9-10 PSA and NSCA Combined Expo; Las Vegas, NV;...

Business news.(Industry Focus)
February 1, 2004... A new online directory from the U.S. Department of Justice is designed to help crime victims find assistance quickly and easily. It enables people to locate national and international assistance services and helps service providers make...

ASIS board of directors.(American Society for Industrial Security)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... PRESIDENT Shirley A. Pierini, CPP Ameriquest Capital Corporation Orange, California VICE PRESIDENT Daniel J. Consalvo, CPP State Farm Insurance Companies Bloomington, Illinois SECRETARY Steve D. Chupa, CPP ...

ASIS guidelines update.(ASIS International)
February 1, 2004... To ensure that draft guidelines benefit from the participation of all interested parties, ASIS International will be regularly providing the status of draft guideline projects so that members and others can review the drafts and provide...

Is true homeland security achievable? A landmark book contends that today's homeland security is crippled by bureaucracy, wasteful spending, ignorance, and myopia. Is there an answer?(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Every decade or so, a book comes out that fundamentally changes the way we look at an issue. Examples include Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, and Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed; these books are timeless in their...