The security week: Lifesaving, biometrics and Bench Tests

It’s the end of another security week, and we’re bursting at the seams with newsy goodness. Let’s explore a little further, shall we?
Heading up the list are the Pilgrims officers who saved a contractor’s life. Damn fine work, sirs! Hopefully they receive some kind of bonus..
Also! Here is our good old pal the Access Control [...]

Fingerprints and market leadership

Good Monday! I’m back in the office after last week’s Security Excellence Awards shindig hootenanny extravaganza. In case you missed it, here’s the full list of winners, here’s a gallery with them in it, and here’s another gallery of images from the event.
In today’s security news awesomeness we have not just a video, and not [...]

Biometrics, knife crime, and an editor’s view

Wednesday! That’s the day of the week it is. No surprises there then, I’d imagine. And it’s no surprise at all that I4S is chock-full of security news wonderfulness. Here’s some. Look!
We’ve got Stewart Hefferman opining on those twin thingos, banking and biometrics. He thinks they should hang out together more.
There’s also this award-winning video [...]

Can security managers stop terrorism?

Today’s spectacular missive filled with security newsology – this very thing here! – leads with an article that asks: Can UK security managers really hope to do anything to stop terrorists? Written by Alan Cain, it’s a thought-provoking and detailed piece.
We’ve also got a story about Paxton providing access control software for unknown football club [...]

The ‘face time’ edition

Tuesday greetings to you, security fans. We’ve got a number of news stories to point out to you. So let’s not delay, eh?
First up we’ve got Honeywell, who have launched a cost-effective two-door version of its NetAXS access panel. Cheap entry!
And Stewart Hefferman, previously quoted in many TSSI stories, has jumped ship to biometrics folks [...]

Counter-terror re-match – and biometrics

Feel free to gorge yourself on today’s feast of gourmet security news. It’s factual, and nutritious. That’s info4security for you.
First up, it’s Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and the counter-terror plan that almost no one is calling ‘Contest 2‘. The re-match?
Then there are British Standards – not the ones about queuing, and customer service, but the [...]

Opinion, successful CCTV, and silver linings

Security Installer editor Alan Hyder takes out his opinionoscope today and surveys the arid landscape for signs of security excitement, in his SI Editor’s View. And guess what? He finds some! This is very good and interesting news.
Also today, a re-deployable CCTV solution in Carlisle is helping to curb the antisocial tendencies of some members [...]

The BBC on biometrics

The BBC’s ‘Click’ programme has been running a series of features on biometric security.
You can read the two parts of its online articles here and here – and if you’re in the UK (and possibly elsewhere?) you can watch the episode with the second part of the feature in it online as well.
Thanks to IFSEC [...]

Open houses, fines and diamonds

News galore on I4S today. Alan Hyder brings us a report direct from last week’s Next Generation CCTV conference, where Sony’s Simon Nash assured the audience that the Onvif network video standards forum would be ‘truly open’ to all.
And Securiplan has copped a fairly sizable fine for using unlicensed employees – £95,000, plus £550,000 in [...]

Facial recognition and readers’ faves

An armada of high interest security news battleships set sail from I4S towers over the internet’s choppy waves this weekend and today. Its ultimate destination – your grateful computer or other internet enabled device. Ahoy!
First up is the news of HSBC using facial recognition biometrics to improve security at its data centres. And definitely not [...]