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APT Security Systems helps design a new street scheme for the Arndale Centre in Luton
Luton is currently undergoing a major regeneration programme: along with improvements to the station area, enhanced links from residential communities into the retail districts, improvements to the aesthetics of public areas and walkways, Luton will also see changes to its central retail district, at the heart of which is the Arndale Centre. APT......
CCTV surveillance in public spaces needs to become smarter and deliver the intended service to the community
It is clear that video surveillance plays a key role in fighting crime and protecting public spaces. However, its role can be improved and better management will ensure the cameras capture quality footage of incidents that can be used to identify and apprehend offenders. CCTV regulation is also among the many issues that the Coalition Government ha......
Imperva's data security suite helps enterprises protect not only web applications and databases but file systems as well
According to research firm IDC, 80 percent of all business data is file data, which will continue to grow at 60 percent annually. At the same time, many government and private industry mandates require companies to track and monitor access to sensitive data regardless of where it resides. Imperva has announced a File Security product line, the l......
BAE Systems is helping SMBs accelerate their own technologies is delivering significant advances in face and iris recognition
A technology demonstrator has been developed, which integrates face and iris recognition into one prototype platform that can recognise subjects when they are on the move. BAE Systems' investment in helping highly innovative SMBs accelerate their own technologies is delivering significant advances in face and iris recognition that could benefit nat......
ThruVision Systems's TS4 compact security body scanner can detect metallic and non-metallic threat objects concealed on still or moving subjects
A spin out from the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), ThruVision Systems’ unique passive security imaging technology can detect explosives, liquids, narcotics, weapons, plastics and ceramics hidden under clothing and can image both metallic and non-metallic threat objects concealed on still or moving subjects, without revealing......
IndigoVision's system monitors 30 different departments around the city of Calgary
Calgary is the largest city in the Province of Alberta and the fourth largest Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) in Canada. Unlike most cities, the municipality manages all aspects of the City with over 700 sites spread across 5,000 Km2. IndigoVision’s IP Video technology is at the heart of a ground breaking ‘Data Warehousing’ and surveillance syste......
Bold Gemini software pulls together Runnymede's disparate security applications into a single management platform
While a number of town centre CCTV monitoring schemes have in the past sought to avoid going outside their core surveillance brief, there is a growing long term trend now, for revenue generation and maximum value leverage, toward the integrated monitoring centre. Revenue generation for the public sector control room is always a hot topic but never......
The use of wireless networks leaves information at greater risk for interception
According to the Ponemon Institute’s Global 2009 Annual Study on Cost of a Data Breach, 32 percent of all data breach cases in the study involved lost or stolen laptop computers or other mobile data-bearing devices. While the average organizational cost of a data breach was US $3.4 million, all countries in the study reported noticeably higher data......
Secure remote access will indirectly help to reduce pollution
Continued lapses in network security are holding back more activities being conducted online, poor security leads to distrust and this stifles adoption of technological change. If cyber security is better designed it will increase user certainty and it will result in greater use of the internet and better accumulation of skills by users and foster ......
2020 Vision Systems designs and supplies the CCTV system for the new Tyne Tunnel
2020 Vision Systems has started work on its contract to design and supply the CCTV system for the new Tyne Tunnel, in a contract worth over £350,000. 2020 Vision is now responsible for designing, supplying and installing the integrated CCTV network ahead of the opening of the new Tyne Tunnel. The system, which is essential for safeguarding more ......
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