Built from the ground up for emergency communications centers, the NICE Inform Intelligence Center puts powerful real-time analytical tools and metrics within reach of 911 center managers, making it easy to identify, understand, and address the factors that drive operational performance and contribute to success. NICE Investigate can totally transform how your department manages investigations and digital evidence, saving you time and money, improving case solvability, and much more.

NICE Inform & NICE Investigate Win Honors for 4th Consecutive Year

NICE has announced the company has been recognized with two 'ASTORS' Awards for NICE Inform and NICE Investigate, in the 2019 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program. Sponsored by American Security Today, the 'ASTORS'...

Secure Software Development: Challenges and Considerations

Guest OpEd by Gilad David Maayan With advances in technology consumers are increasingly relying on applications and devices to perform daily tasks. These technologies have become essential to our lives and sometimes...
For over 2 years, Chicago Police Organized Crime Units have been going digitally undercover posing as criminals to buy illegal guns & drugs sold on Facebook. Today they released the latest results of Operation FaceBOOKED as 53 people have been arrested. (Courtesy of CPD)

CPD Infiltrated Secret Online Groups in Operation FaceBOOKED (Video)

December 3, 2019 – In Breaking News – CNN Chicago Police said Tuesday that 53 people are in custody as part of "Operation FaceBOOKED," a two-year operation to infiltrate secret groups selling...
The 'ASTORS' Award Winning SEEKERe from DetectaChem represents cutting edge technology in hand-held explosive and drug detection equipment.

SEEKERe Explosive Detector Excels in DoD Venue Security Evaluation

We live in a world that is in flux. Power struggles, civil unrest, and a desire for radicals to do harm to the enemy and the innocent as well, dominate our...
AR Police Officer Carr (at left), was 'ambushed and executed' as he sat in his patrol vehicle outside the Fayetteville Police Department on Saturday. Huntsville Officer Billy Clardy was killed while working a drug investigation Friday afternoon. Clardy is survived by a wife and five children. He is also the son of fallen officer Billy Fred Clardy Jr. who was killed in the line of duty with the Huntsville Police Department on May 3, 1978.

Heroes Down: AR Officer ‘Ambushed & Executed’ AL Officer 6th to Die in 2019

December 8, 2019 – In Breaking News – Fox News A police officer in Arkansas was shot and killed as he sat in his patrol vehicle outside his police station Saturday night before the suspected shooter was gunned down by responding...
Friday's shooting by a Saudi pilot who was in the United States for navy training left three people dead and eight injured at Naval Air Station Pensacola in FL, coming two days after a sailor shot two civilians dead at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii before killing himself (Courtesy of YouTube.)

2 Active Shooters Prompt Questions about Military Ban on Firearms

December 6, 2019 – In Breaking News – NBC News Two mass shootings at U.S. military installations in one week, including one in which the perpetrator was a foreign national, have prompted...

Behavior & Physical Environment: You Can’t Fix One Without the Other

Guest OpEd By Doug Haines, Owner, Haines Security Solutions A couple of months ago, I was watching a news report about a kid who was bullied, beaten and died from the injuries inflicted on him...
Ransomware is one of five major trends predicted to dominate cyber security next year, some are threat oriented while others are inward looking and focus on defensive measures.

5 Trends Will Dominate Cybersecurity in 2020, by Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala

Willy Sutton (an American bank robber listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, who stole an estimated $2 million over the course of his forty-year robbery career,) famously said...
Brinqa Cyber Risk Services were built for security; transforming security, context and threat data into knowledge-driven insights that empower organizations to own their cyber risk.

Brinqa Wins for Best Cyber Security Risk Mgmt Solution in 2019 ‘ASTORS’

The enterprise technology infrastructure has undergone significant changes in the last few years which has driven by the push for digital transformation; and the emergence and rapid adoption of new infrastructure technologies...
The Personalized Protective Biosystem (PPB) ensemble DARPA is developing aims to be lightweight, unlike current suits which are bulky and cumbersome (as pictured above), and designed with smart materials inspired by shark’s skin to provide 100% protection for soldiers against biological attacks or deadly agents should they come in contact with the skin, airway or eyes of warfighters. (Courtesy of DARPA)

DARPA Wants PPB Suits to Protect Warfighters Against ChemBio Attacks

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s research arm which was recognized with an Award for Excellence in Homeland Security the 2018 'ASTORS' Awards Program, has laid out a 60-day...