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Facial recognition software quickly compares one face with a lot of other faces to see if there is a potential match. That’s it. Cops do the same thing every day in a manual way, by knocking on doors with a photo, or having crime victims look through hundreds of mugshot photos; facial recognition just automates the process.

Access Control & Identification

The Truth about Law Enforcement’s Use of Facial Recognition Technology

Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

By Roger Rodriguez, Director of Business Development at Vigilant Solutions, a 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winner We all know that technology and automation make us more efficient...

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Facial recognition software quickly compares one face with a lot of other faces to see if there is a potential match. That’s it. Cops do the same thing every day in a manual way, by knocking on doors with a photo, or having crime victims look through hundreds of mugshot photos; facial recognition just automates the process.

The Truth about Law Enforcement’s Use of Facial Recognition...

Access Control & Identification Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

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The Veridium Authenticator App lets employees capture and authenticate using their biometrics – face, native fingerprint, and 4 Fingers TouchlessID – on their mobile devices, eliminating the need for passwords and tokens.

Veridium Eliminates Need for Passwords with New Biometric App

Access Control & Identification Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

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HHS Secretary Alex Azar

HHS Provides States Grant Awards to Combat Opioid Crisis...

Critical Infrastructure Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

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Government Security

Facial recognition software quickly compares one face with a lot of other faces to see if there is a potential match. That’s it. Cops do the same thing every day in a manual way, by knocking on doors with a photo, or having crime victims look through hundreds of mugshot photos; facial recognition just automates the process.

The Truth about Law Enforcement’s Use of Facial Recognition...

Access Control & Identification Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

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Crenshanda Williams, 44, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months probation after a jury found her guilty of hanging up on Texas residents attempting to call 911. (Courtesy of the Houston Police Department)

911 Operator who Hung Up on Emergency Calls Sentenced...

Communications Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

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HHS Secretary Alex Azar

HHS Provides States Grant Awards to Combat Opioid Crisis...

Critical Infrastructure Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

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IT Security

The Veridium Authenticator App lets employees capture and authenticate using their biometrics – face, native fingerprint, and 4 Fingers TouchlessID – on their mobile devices, eliminating the need for passwords and tokens.

Veridium Eliminates Need for Passwords with New Biometric App

Access Control & Identification Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

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Crenshanda Williams, 44, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months probation after a jury found her guilty of hanging up on Texas residents attempting to call 911. (Courtesy of the Houston Police Department)

911 Operator who Hung Up on Emergency Calls Sentenced...

Communications Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

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With RiskSense you're finally able to take full advantage of the data you're collecting with your existing security and IT tools and pinpoint to those cyber risks that have the biggest impact on your organization. You're finally able to minimize cyber risks, while increasing your situational awareness, i.e., "Senses".

RiskSense Competes in 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards

Corporate Facilities Tammy Waitt - April 19, 2018

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Port Security

This is Tammie Jo Shults from the early 1990s. As one of the first female fighter pilots in the U.S. military, Tammie Jo Shults, is no stranger to displaying 'nerves of steel." Cool, calm and deliberate, Shults brought her twin-engine Boeing 737 in for an emergency landing after the Southwest jet apparently blew an engine on a flight Tuesday from New York's LaGuardia airport to Dallas. Then she walked the aisles to check on each passenger personally, according to WPVI-TV. (Courtesy of Linda-Maloney, author of ‘Military Fly Moms’)

Southwest Emerg Landing Pilot a Pioneer with ‘Nerves of...

Aerospace Tammy Waitt - April 18, 2018

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The engine of a Southwest Airlines plane after an emergency landing at the Philadelphia airport, April 17, 2018. (Image courtesy of Joe Marcus, Twitter)

1 Dead, Southwest Engine Explodes, Forcing Emerg Landing (Multi-Video)

Airports/Aviation Tammy Waitt - April 17, 2018

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The Aquabotix SwarmDiver™ is smart, small and easily deployable. Multiple SwarmDivers can function simultaneously as a single coordinated entity, be easily controlled via one operator on the surface, and perform dives on command to collect valuable intelligence.

See Aquabotix Revolutionary SwarmDiver Micro USV/UUV in Action

Government Security Tammy Waitt - April 16, 2018

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