Security Management articles from July 2001

Security Management archives from July 2001

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2001... Zero Platitudes Regarding the matter of zero tolerance in the article "Knocking Out Opportunity" (March) by Craig Frank, CPP, the platitudes of zero tolerance and 100 percent prosecution have been around for at least the forty years I...

Will Portable Defibrillators Spark Liability Suits?
July 1, 2001... Airlines are on board, theme parks are giving it a whirl, and now hotels are finding a home for them--automatic external defibrillators (AEDs), portable electronic devices used to treat people in cardiac arrest. That's an encouraging trend, say...

USA Today.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... While not medically affected by these deadly maladies, horses are the latest casualties of foot-and-mouth and mad cow disease. According to USA Today, the rising cost of horse meat has triggered a rash of horse rustling. Law enforcement...

Coupon Information Corporation (CIC).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Print-at-home coupons over the Internet are one of the latest developments in promotions for manufacturers. But the Coupon Information Corporation (CIC) warns that if use of these coupons becomes an accepted practice, "the entire couponing...

Fraud-control arrangements.(in Australian government agencies)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A survey of fraud-control arrangements in Australian government agencies indicates that the most frequent internal fraud is inappropriate use of petty cash and other negotiable instruments, such as checks. In addition, more than one-quarter of...

A Truly Alarming Alarm.(Swedish company makes sonic disruption alarm)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Local audible burglar alarms are designed to rush and disorient intruders and attract the attention of witnesses. Especially in urban areas, however, car and other types of alarms are so commonplace that they have become white noise, ignored by...

Los Peligras.(National Institute on Drug Abuse has an online Spanish-language guide on drug abuse)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Los Peligras de (as Drogas Drug use transcends culture and language. Recognizing this fact, as well as the explosive growth of the Spanish-speaking population in the United States, the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug...

Are Robbers Getting Cagier?(violent robberies of casino cages growing cause for concern)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The lure of easy money in Las Vegas is irresistible to gamblers and criminals alike. But those hoping to skew the odds illegally in their favor have tended to do so with guile, rather than guns. Now some casino security directors say that they...

Information security.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... "The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist," Mark Twain once quipped, "is that the taxidermist leaves the skin." Whether the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is indeed that efficient at cleaning out its prey is debatable. But when...

Healthcare fraud.
July 1, 2001... Other U.S. government agencies take note: The Department of Justice (DOJ) has survived an audit by the GAO unscathed. How did it pull off the nearly impossible? By vastly improving its oversight of guidance on the False Claims Act, which...

School violence.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... By now, most security professionals are familiar with the March 5 shooting at Santana High School near San Diego, which killed two students and wounded thirteen other people. But many might not know that five other incidents of school-related...

Terrorism.(Statistical Data Included)
July 1, 2001... Since 1968, an average of 26 Americans have been killed per year by terrorism. In 1998, the year of the Columbine tragedy, 28 students died in American schools. While this statistic is not meant to minimize, or overemphasize either of these...

EAPs.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Of the interpretations of the classic Eagles song "Hotel California," one of the most persistent asserts that it is a metaphor for drug addiction. The Eagles probably had no idea how apt the setting was. As it turns out, hospitality businesses...

Art theft.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Someone's been fiddling with a 1727 Stradivarius violin. Swiped while its owner was in the hospital, the rare instrument has been missing for five years. More recently, a Thomas Sully portrait was taken from the Valentine Museum in Richmond,...

Guest System A Welcome Change.
July 1, 2001... The Northfield, Illinois, headquarters of Kraft Foods houses about 3,000 employees. The staff receives about 150 visitors a day, a number that has been steadily increasing due to business developments. In the summer of 2000, Kraft Foods'...

Heading in a New Direction.
July 1, 2001... CompUSA found that three heads are better than one when it changed from having one in-store security manager to having three nonsecurity managers handle those issues. Two years ago, corporate security at CompUSA decided to restructure its...

The Conqueror Worm.(Ramen aimed at Linux operating system)
July 1, 2001... New worms aimed at the Linux operating system have become more malicious of late, opening backdoors so that anyone can gain root access to the system. What noodle can wriggle its way into your network and morph into a feline that opens...

Card Cops Patrol the Net.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A "bad boy" database, regular e-mails about Internet scams, and a fraud museum are some of the resources available to merchants who belong to Card Caps, a business-to-business consortium with the goal of reducing Internet fraud. The site was...

Complaint center.(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... The United States and 12 countries have unveiled econsumer.gov, a new joint effort to gather and share e-commerce complaints across international borders, to be led by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This multilingual Web site provides an...

Attacks, vulnerabilities increase.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... More than 7,000 Internet-related security incidents were reported to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) in the first quarter of 2001, an increase of more than 60 percent over the number of incidents reported in the first quarter of last...

Monitoring workers.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... More than 46 percent of companies store and review employee e-mail messages, an increase of more than 8 percent from last year, according to a survey by the American Management Association. The survey also showed that 62.8 percent of the 1,627...

ZA Little Knowledge Can be Dangerous.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... "Knowledge," Samuel Johnson wrote, "is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." That second kind of knowledge was the focus of the "Annual Report to Congress on Foreign Economic Collection...

Defense Faces Cyber-Challenges.
July 1, 2001... A recent report by the General Accounting Office (GAO), "Information Security: Challenges to Improving DoD's Incident Response Capabilities," indicates that the Department of Defense has a long way to go in addressing the information security...

New Partnerships Against Cybercrime.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... By establishing its new Computer Crimes Center, South Carolina joins a small but growing number of jurisdictions where law enforcement is trying to mount a more coordinated fight against cybercrime. The partnership among the South Carolina Law...

Web Freedom Fighters.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... While democracies have nuanced debates about government regulation of the internet. other governments see the Web as a threat to their control over communications, according to media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders. Take Myanmar, for...

Businesses Buy Into Security.(Internet Security Alliance )
July 1, 2001... A government-funded research center and an industry trade alliance are joining forces to help companies get more timely warnings of Internet vulnerabilities. Their initiative is called the Internet Security Alliance (ISA). The...

High-Tech Holmes.(criminal investigation of computers)
July 1, 2001... EVERY CRIME HAS A CRIME SCENE THAT CAN BE scoured for clues. But sometimes the evidence being analyzed isn't a bloodstain, a footprint, or a carpet fiber. It is the bits and bytes of data hidden inside a computer. In those cases, criminal...

Beyond the Figurehead Facade.(the masquerade of Information Technology security)
July 1, 2001... TODAY'S BUSINESSES OPERATE amidst a perilous world of internal and external threats to information security. The question is how best to structure the IT security function to protect corporate interests. Should it be centralized or...

Access verification system.(CEIA's MetCard ID)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... CEIA of Twinsburg, Ohio, has introduced the MetCard ID, a high-security system for screening personnel entering and exiting critical buildings. The MetCard technology has been developed for simultaneous weapons detection and long-range reading...

Integrated security solution.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Cardkey PEGASYS 1500 from Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls is an access control, alarm monitoring, and video-imaging system designed for small to medium-size users. Based on Windows 2000, the system runs under the Microsoft Systems Data...

Digital video solutions.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... March Networks Corporation's Digital Video Solutions are advanced, networked video-management systems for remote monitoring and recording over IP networks. The digital video recorder product suite can be seamlessly integrated into existing CCTV...

Smoke detector cover.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Safety Technology International, Inc., of Waterford, Michigan, announces that its Smoke Detector Damage Stopper is now UL approved for use with Notifier FSP-751 smoke detectors. The polycarbonate cover was previously UL tested and approved for...

Personal telephone security.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Privarel is a personal telephone security unit manufactured by L-3 Communications Corporation of New York The unit encrypts voice communications to prevent eavesdropping, so users can keep their private conversations private. It is portable and...

PIR/microwave motion detector.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The DS8351 PIR/Microwave Motion Detector from Detection Systems of Fairport, New York eliminates stringent mounting-height requirements to offer a flexible mounting-height range without sacrificing the detector's pet immune feature. It uses a...

Workplace violence training.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Vance International, Inc., of Oakton, Virginia, has adapted its training seminar "Mitigating Workplace Violence" for the Internet. The instructive program takes participants step-by-step through the identification of workplace violence. The...

Payroll processing.
July 1, 2001... A workforce scheduling, billing, and Web-based payroll processing solution is available from Valiant. Available as a service bureau, ASP, or turnkey Internet solution, it is suitable for any size business, up to 10,000 employees. The...

Document shredder.
July 1, 2001... The Destroyit 5009 cross-cut from MBM Corporation of Charleston, South Carolina, ensures information security at the source. Once a document leaves its point of origin, the chances of its being read by a third party increase dramatically. With...

JUDICIAL DECISIONS.(lawsuit details)
July 1, 2001... E-mail privacy. In a recent ruling, a district court found that a company did not violate federal wiretapping laws when it read an employee's e-mail because company officials read the messages stored in a server. The wiretap statute can only be...

Medical privacy.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has announced that it will not challenge the medical privacy initiative implemented by former President Clinton. However, in an official press release, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson noted that the...

Money laundering.(report issued by the General Accounting Office)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A recent report issued by the General Accounting office (GAO) addressed a loophole in bank reporting requirements that could facilitate money laundering. In its report, the GAO notes that in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (a major financial...

FCRA.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A bill (H.R. 1543) introduced by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) would amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to allow employers to use third parties to conduct workplace investigations without informing the employee being investigated. Such...

School security.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Legislators have introduced six bills designed to enhance security and safety programs in public schools. One bill (H.R. introduced by Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-WA), would allow schools to use 100 percent of the funds allocated to them under...

Hospital security.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A bill (H.R. 1248) introduced by Rep. Martin Meehan (D-MA) would make it illegal to possess a firearm in a hospital zone. The bill makes exceptions for firearms held on private property not on the grounds of a hospital and those held by...

Computer security.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A bill (H. R. 1259) introduced by Rep. Constance Morella (R-MD) would allow the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to aid government agencies improving computer security. Under the bill, for example, MIST could provide...

Drug testing.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... California A new bill (A.B. 880) introduced in the California Assembly would require that all commercial truck drivers undergo periodic drug and alcohol testing. Positive test results would be given to the driver's employer and to the...

Business Fraud: Know It and Prevent It.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Business Fraud: Know It and Prevent It. By James A Blanco; published by Humanomics Publishing; available from www.amazon.com; 230 pages; $1795. The statistics tell only a fraction of the story: 1.4 million checks forged every day, $27.3...

Who Are You? The Encyclopedia of Personal Identification.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Who Are You? The Encyclopedia of Personal Identification. By Scott French; published by Intelligence Here, Inc, 530/926-1316 (phone), 530/918 9116 (fax); 340 pages; $4495. Who are you? Following the likes of George Berkeley and Pete...

Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science. Computers, and the Internet.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science. Computers, and the Internet. By Eoghan Casey; published by Academic Press, 407/345-3800 (phone), 800/321-5068 (toll-free phone), 800/874-6418 (fax); 279-page book with accompanying CD-ROM;...

How to Do Financial Asset Investigations: A Practical Guide for Private Investigators, Collections Personnel, and Asset Recovery Specialists, 2nd edition.(Review)
July 1, 2001... How to Do Financial Asset Investigations: A Practical Guide for Private Investigators, Collections Personnel, and Asset Recovery Specialists, 2nd edition. By Ronald L Mendell; published by Charles C. Thomas, 800/258-8980 (phone), 217/789-9130...

ID card printers.(from Ultra Electronics Card Systems)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... A new family of desktop color ID card printers is available from Ultra Electronics Card Systems of Redmond, Washington. The Rio single-sided printer and the Tango duplex printer lead the new Magicard Latin Collection printer family. Both...

Door controllers.(PAC Portico)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... PAC Portico of Monterey, California, has introduced two new multifunction door controllers that can operate as standalones, local or remote masters, or slave units. The 2100 controls four doors and the 1100 controls two doors; and with the...

Biometric access control.(Digital Monitoring Products)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Digital Monitoring Products, Inc., of Springfield, Missouri, has released the VP6200 V-Pass Biometric Reader, which offers one-touch fingerprint identification. To gain access, a user places a finger on the reader, which confirms or denies...

Access control software.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Continental Instruments, inc., a NAPCO Security Group Company headquartered in Amityville, New York, has introduced Card-Access 495 software, version 3.0. The new version controls from 1 to 1,024 doors with full audit trail reporting....

IT access control.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Arcot Systems, Inc., of Santa Clara, California, has introduced a new access control server. Designed for Internet-scale environments, the architecture enables more complex and sophisticated e-business applications without degradation of...

Walk-through detector.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Ion Track Instruments of Wilmington, Massachusetts, has developed a new walkthrough vapor and particle explosives- and narcotics-detection portal. The [EntryScan.sup.3] offers a rapid, nonintrusive scan for concealed contraband at airports,...

Card laminator.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The ImageCard HiFX laminator from Datacard Group of Minnetonka, Minnesota, applies polyester overlays to photo IDs and other plastic cards. Users have the option of applying a clear or holographic overlay in a single-pass operation. The...

Enterprise system.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... PAC Portico PRISM is a software solution that allows the integration of all security systems in one place. From PAC Portico of Monterey, California, the system is a 32-bit software application that organizes corporate subsystems into one...

Pocket-sized catalog.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The 2001 Video Surveillance Products Catalog from Toshiba Security Products of Irvine, California, offers technical information and product overviews in a convenient small size for installation professionals, dealers, and end users. The catalog...

Security knowledge management.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The OnGuard Plus Total Security Knowledge Management Solution from Lenel Systems International, Inc., of Pittsford, New York, combines the power of access control, alarm monitoring, asset management, ID card production, digital video,...

Catalog and price list.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Securitron Magnalock Corporation of Sparks, Nevada, has published its 2001 Product Catalog and Suggested Retail Price List. The 52-page color catalog offers detailed product information on the company's door control systems and components. For...

Multiplexer/recorders.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Philips DVR 9 and 16 Series Multiplexer/Recorders use digital technology to record 9 or 16 channels of video with more reliability and less maintenance. Manufactured by Philips Communication, Security & Imaging of Atlanta, they can...

Web-ready cameras.(from Samsung Opto-Electronics America Inc. - information on products)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Samsung Opto-Electronics America, Inc., of Secaucus, New Jersey, has introduced four easy-to-install cameras custom made for the Internet. Internet circuitry is built into the camera body; each has a 32-bit RISC CPU running its own Internet...

Speed dome camera.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The SCC-641 speed dome from Samsung Electronics of Grapevine, Texas, provides high-resolution imagery for clear pictures in adverse lighting conditions. Its "wide dynamic" technology offers processing in problem lighting conditions to virtually...

Variable focus lens.(Tamron USA Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The Tamron 1/3-inch 2.8-12mm F/1.4 Vari-Focal lens from Tamron USA, Inc., of Commack, New York, offers wide-angle to telephoto performance in a single lens. Aspherical Optical Technology eliminates image distortions and provides...

Digital video recorder.(Pelco)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Combining the functions of a recorder and multiplexer, the DX3000 Series Digital Video Recorder from Pelco of Clovis, California, provides high-resolution pictures without a PC. It has a built-in 30 or 60 GB hard disk for reliability and...

Web site.(InfoGraphic Systems)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... InfoGraphic Systems of Garden Grove, California, has created a new Web site for its customers. The site features more product information on the company's access control and badging software products. A comprehensive technical support section...

Portable x-ray system.(SCANNA MSC Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... SCANTRAK is a portable PC-based x-ray viewing system from SCANNA MSC Inc. of Baltimore. Working with existing portable x-ray generators such as INSPECTOR or SCANMAX, it is available in a portable notebook format with separate camera box and...

Remote video communication.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... BUZZ VC of Israel has introduced its line of remote secured monitoring solutions, already established in Europe and Asia, into the U.S. market. Its software and hardware lines offer control of a variety of CCTV systems such as PTZ cameras,...

Low-light color cameras.(Genwac, Inc)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Two new cameras from Genwac, Inc., a division of Watec Co., Ltd., of Orangeburg, New York, feature dual composite and S-video outputs, switchable gamma and AGC, adjustable shutter speed and backlight compensation, and automatic or manual white...

Remote monitoring.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Prism Video digital products from Dallas-based AXCESS allow remote monitoring of various buildings via the Internet or LAN/WAN. Digital video transmitters bring real-time, streaming video to any PC. Digital video recording provides instant...

Radar motion sensor.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Interlogix Security & Life Safety Group of Tualatin, Oregon, has introduced the Range-Controlled Radar Pet-Immune motion sensor, which uses radar technology for precise detection and elimination of false alarms. The radar uses time-of-flight...

Perimeter detection system.(from Integrated Design Ltd.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Integrated Design Ltd. of Middlesex, England, has introduced an active infrared perimeter detection system designed to minimize false alarms. The Rayonet 1000 uses neural networks to enhance its decision-making; it profiles size, shape, and...

Digital disk recorder.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Panasonic Security Systems Group of Secaucus, New Jersey, has introduced DVD-RAM archiving and playback modules for the company's WJ-DH500 hard-disk recording system. Modules, which can be purchased individually or in a set, are available in...

Web-based access control.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... C*CURE Central is a personnel and access control management system that permits Web browser access to a centralized database. The system, from Sensormatic Electronics Corporation of Boca Raton, Florida, allows users to centrally manage...

Classroom leverset.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The MARKS USA Survivor Series Life Safety Classroom Intruder ANSI/BHMA F110 Function Leverset with Clutch Design has been specifically designed for the classroom environment by MARKS U.S.A. of Amityville, New York. Like most classroom locks,...

High-security dome system.(Vicon Industries Inc.'s S2000-MSH camera housing)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... Vicon Industries, Inc., of Hauppauge, New York, has introduced a new impact-resistant maximum-security housing designed for the Surveyor2000 Camera Dome drive. Vicon's new S2000-MSH housing is made from heavy-gauge steel with a high-impact...

Biometric authentication.(biometric authentication software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... BioID America Inc. of Raleigh, North Carolina, has introduced new enterprise-level biometric authentication software, BiolD Enterprise 3.0. This multimodal authentication solution is designed to be integrated with existing security measures...

Travel security Web site.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... International travelers can find updated, customized, and personalized travel information using the new interactive Web site service created by International SOS Assistance, Inc., of Philadelphia. Corporate subscribers can learn the latest...

Fire detection products.(Onyx Series )(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 1, 2001... NOTIFIER of Northford, Connecticut, has introduced the Onyx Series of fire detection products to increase flexibility for integrated solutions. The series includes the 640 Fire Alarm Control Panel, ACPS Addressable Power Supply, XPIQ...

Panic switch.(Digital Monitoring Products Inc.)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Digital Monitoring Products, Inc., of Springfield, Missouri, has released a new wall-mount panic switch. The 3045 Panic Switch is activated when a user pulls the actuating lever. Mounted out of sight, but still within easy reach under desks or...

Improved safety switches.(Series 2000 STI Stopper Station push-button switches )(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Safety Technology International, Inc., of Waterford, Michigan, has improved its Series 2000 STI Stopper Station push-button switches by adding embossed lettering with no increase in price. The lettering is molded into the polycarbonate...

Smart card service.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Datacard Group of Minnetonka, Minnesota, has assembled a team of smart-card specialists to provide card issuers with security evaluation services. Datacard Consult p7, based in London, will serve major card issuers around the world. The team of...

American Bankers Association (ABA).(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... In an effort to foil identity theft and protect individual privacy, the American Bankers Association (ABA) has launched a training program for bank employees and their customers. The ABA Identity Theft Prevention Training Program teaches bank...

American Privacy Consultants.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... American Privacy Consultants conducts the training series, which is based on the hook "Privacy and Customer Information Security--An Employee Awareness Guide." The guide includes chapters on customer information security, identity theft,...