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ISC West Named One Of The Fastest Growing Tradeshows For Sixth Straight Year

August 15, 2008

ISC West has been recognized by leading tradeshow magazine, Tradeshow Week, as a “2008 Tradeshow Week Fastest 50” winner for the past six consecutive years.


Italian Port Installs Scalable IP Video Surveillance Management Software

August 14, 2008

Italian Port Installs Scalable IP Video Surveillance Management Software

The Italian port of San Giorgio di Nogaro has installed IP video surveillance management software from Milestone Systems with License Plate Recognition to help manage busy shipping and transit traffic, security of goods and people safety.


Megapixel Cameras Improve Monitoring At College World Series

August 14, 2008

Every June, close to 300,000 fans make their way to Omaha, Nebraska for one of the high points of college sports -- The College World Series. The top 8 teams in Division 1 Men’s collegiate baseball can command more than 23,000 fans at game time, filling Omaha's Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium to maximum capacity. Since 2007, safety and security of the games has been managed using megapixel camera technology from Arecont Vision.


Report: Enterprises Increasingly Targeted Through Malicious Web Content, Blended Security Attacks

August 14, 2008

Secure Computing Corp. recently published the company’s Q2 Internet Threat Report containing data and analysis from the Secure Computing research team.


Oklahoma Casino To Deploy Petabyte Storage System For IP Video Surveillance Project

August 13, 2008

Oklahoma Casino To Deploy Petabyte Storage System For IP Video Surveillance Project

Pivot3 Inc. and Connections IT of Tulsa, Okla. recently announced that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation has chosen the Pivot3 High-Definition Storage system for an IP video surveillance project installed and planned by Connections IT.


Underwater Anti-Terrorism Technology To Patrol San Francisco Bay

August 13, 2008

Coda Octopus Group Inc. recently announced the company’s Underwater Inspection System (UIS), developed in cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard, has been purchased by the Sheriff’s Office of Contra Costa County in California.


Radioisotope Identification Devices Protecting Beijing Olympics

August 13, 2008

ICx Technologies, a developer of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications, recently announced that it has won $2.5 million in contracts to supply identiFINDERs to the Government of China for use at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.


Thirteen Higher Education Institutions Receive Grants To Plan, Prepare for Campus Emergencies

August 12, 2008

Thirteen Higher Education Institutions Receive Grants To Plan, Prepare for Campus Emergencies

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings recently announced the award of $5.2 million for 13 new grants to colleges and universities to develop and implement emergency management plans for preventing and responding to campus violence and natural disasters in order to ensure the safety of the entire campus community.


Fidelis Security Systems Wins Frost & Sullivan 2008 Growth Excellence Of The Year Award in Infrastructure Protection

August 12, 2008

Fidelis Security Systems, a producer of data leakage prevention (DLP) solutions recently announced that Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, has named the Fidelis Extrusion Prevention System, Fidelis XPS, winner of the 2008 Growth Excellence of the Year Award in Infrastructure Protection.


Anthrax/Bio-Chem Attacks Rare, Records Show

August 12, 2008

The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States are among the few on record, says the director of the world's most comprehensive unclassified terror database, which is headquartered at the University of Maryland.


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