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RAE sensors used at Vancouver Olympics
RAE Systems Inc has announced its wireless atmospheric gas and radiation detection systems helped keep thousands of attendees safe and secure at recent major sporting events including the Super Bowl and the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Channel Islands select Infoterra for electricity protection
Channel Islands Electricity Grid (CIEG), a joint venture between Guernsey Electricity and Jersey Electricity, has become the first organisation to deploy Infoterra's AssetMonitor, and will use it to protect the two 90,000 volt submarine cables that supply power and fibre optic communications from France to Jersey and onwards to Guernsey
CPNI publishes Protecting Against Terrorism document
The UK government's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure has published for the first time the third edition of the Protecting Against Terrorism document - an overview of protective security measures for organisations
Flood protection of public buildings
J&S Franklin Limited, manufacturers of the DefenCell Force Protection System has launched its Profile300
Raytheon demos tracker app for iPhone
Raytheon will demo for the first time to the civil communications market their new One Force Tracker iPhone application at this week's IWCE
Dutch resist US extradition request
A court in the Netherlands has delayed a ruling on the extradition challenge of Mohamud Said Omar
US crisis center stalls
Four years after the US Congress told the Homeland Security Department and other federal agencies to form an interagency center for crisis communications, the project is "in the early stages of development," has delays and a lack of clear direction, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office
Who's protecting Australia's borders?
Organised crime. People smuggling. Drug importation. Who's protecting Australia's borders? Building on the highly successful inaugural event of 2009, the 2nd Annual Border Security Conference will be convened on the 29th and 30th April 2010 at the RACV Club, Melbourne, Victoria
NATO must adapt or lose US interest
US think tank, CFR, warns the US will lose interest in NATO unless the organisation accepts a global role to confront the twenty-first-century threats of terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to both states and nonstate actors, and cyberwarfare
UK business lost in a cloud
The Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), the new industry association formed to promote trust within cloud computing by introducing a code of practice, voices concern that UK businesses are confused about cloud computing.
Hands up: mobile finger printing
Police officers across the UK will soon be able to check an individual's identity at the roadside within two minutes, following the introduction of a new mobile fingerprinting device later this year
China changes weather to combat drought
China will step up weather modification in key regions to help relieve drought and increase food production, according to the director of the China Meteorological Administration
Storms lash UAE
Thousands of residents and businesses stand to lose millions of dollars due to the damage caused by deadly storms and floods in the UAE, insurers told UAE newspaper Maktoob News on Wednesday
Air traffic control: child's play
The US FAA is looking into reports of a child directing air traffic at New York's JFK airport
Wallix opens UK office
Paris-based, WALLIX, a specialist in IT security solutions for identity and access management (IAM), has opened an office in Reading
Winston S. Churchill dies
The President of the United Kingdom National Defence Association (UKNDA), Winston S. Churchill, has died after a two-year battle with cancer
Congrego: social networking for people in a disaster
Surrey-based systems integrator LAN2LAN has introduced Congrego, which takes a social networking approach to community care and disaster recovery
Cloud Security Challenge
The Global Security Challenge (GSC), providers of the leading international competition for security innovators, has announced the launch of the Cloud Security Challenge
Trade body for perimeter security
The PSSA is the new trade association for companies involved in the supply of equipment and services designed to provide the highest levels of physical protection for sites and their perimeters from terrorist or criminal attack that involves the use of extreme force or explosives
Cyveillance: cyber crime more sophisticted
Cyveillance, a world leader in cyber intelligence, today announced that online criminals are garnering greater success with increased technical sophistication affecting a wider range of industries
