Private Security Industry Falls Short
The ASIS conference in Dallas, Texas last month illustrated a new trend for security guard companies. Many of them diversify their service portfolio with technology offerings that may ultimately substitute…
Read MoreEquifarce
Of course the IRS needs to confirm that a given taxpayer is who they say they are. It’s step number one for all transactions. To that end, on the IRS…
Read MoreAn Investigator’s Best Friend
We think of canine officers as helping to fiercely chase down criminals on the loose and nose out illegal drugs and hidden bombs. But for a while now in the…
Read MoreIdentity Crisis Down Under
The issue of identity and allegiance is key to the kind of bad behavior we often write about. Security personnel need to know how to verify the identity of the…
Read MoreFear of Terrorism
Since as recently as January 2015, there have been dozens of terrorist attacks in Europe: in Germany, Denmark, Belgium, France, Turkey, the U.K., Sweden, Spain and most recently Finland. Hundreds…
Read MoreProne to Violence
On May 10th of this year, the FBI and the Homeland Security Department issued an eight-page bulletin entitled “White Supremacist Extremism Poses Persistent Threat with Lethal Violence”. The analysis pointed…
Read MoreThe Drone Police
Drones are prominently in the news this week. The U.S. Department of Defense has given military bases new guidelines allowing them to shoot down consumer drones trespassing on (above) military…
Read MoreDHS Reauthorization
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the Reauthorization of the Department of Homeland Security Act, bill HR 2825. The vote was 386 for and 41 against, with 32 democrats…
Read MorePassports
A passport is a critical travel document without which you are literally grounded. We might nowadays associate passports…
Read MoreTextalyzer
Perhaps you can relate: driving to work this morning on the highway a car in the lane next to me started to gradually slow down and then it was swerving…
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