The BILCO Company of Connecticut manufactures The Barracuda, a budget-friendly and quickly installed intruder defense system that has been purchased by school districts, businesses, churches, military bases and other groups throughout the country to provide an extra layer of protection against intruders.

Illinois Senate Votes to Allow Barricades in School Classrooms

The Illinois state Senate passed a bill in early April that will allow schools to add barricades to classroom doors, making it the fourth state in the Midwest to allow barricades,...
Integrated Biometrics FBI-certified fingerprint sensors play an important role in border and immigration control around the world as fixed, standalone implementations and when integrated into mobile or multimodal systems (tablets, kiosks, etc.).

CBP Selects IB’s Kojak Fingerprint Scanners to Process Border Entries

Integrated Biometrics, has been selected by the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to purchase the company’s Kojak livescan 10-fingerprint scanner for deployment to more than 5000 workstations within the United...
Using biometric eGates, which will recognize international travelers by their face, the platform will allow them to board their aircraft in seconds, matching the live faces with previously enrolled and stored images, with no need for them to present either passports or boarding passes at the gate. (Courtesy of Vision-Box)

JFK Airport T1 & Vision-Box to Roll Out Facial Recognition Boarding

New York’s John F. Kennedy (JFK) Airport Terminal One Group and Vision-Box are modernizing passenger processing have signed a cooperation agreement roll out one of the largest biometric boarding airport platforms...
Man reported as suspicious person by UCF Police. (Courtesy of University of Central Florida Police Department)

What IS a Suspicious Person or a Suspicious Package?

Guest Editorial By Joseph Pangaro, CPM Ever since the events of September 11, 2001 and the seemingly endless horrors of school and workplace shootings we have been more vigilant than ever before. We...

DHS S&T to Host Cutting-Edge Biometric Technology Systems

Balancing speed and security at checkpoints, like airports, is essential to ensuring safe, reliable travel. Many of these checkpoints are increasingly using biometric technology to improve speed and reliability, and while recent...
The SOS is the most cost-effective way for emergency responders to access a gated home, business, or public facility without stopping or leaving their vehicle to enter a code or to use a key.

SOS Launches New Lifesaving Emergency Gate Access Systems

Hot on the heels of securing the company's Second Platinum Award for Best Fire & Safety System in the 2018 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program , Siren-Operated Sensor, or SOS, is...
LifeWay chose Automatic Systems’ SlimLane EPR optical turnstiles for the lobby and its ParkPlus smart parking barrier gates for the parking garage. LifeWay’s existing access control system was incorporated into the Automatic Systems’ networkable security optical turnstiles, allowing for a streamlined, ultra-reliable access control process.

LifeWay Christian Resources Upgrade Access Control for Nashville HQ

LifeWay Christian Resources, one of the world's largest providers of Christian resources, recently constructed a new building to house its Nashville, TN headquarters (HQ), with the objective of reducing square footage...
Replace badging as an access point identification method by leveraging facial recognition, 3D sensing and artificial intelligence to enable highly secure and frictionless entry into physical locations.

Alcatraz AI’s Facial Authentication Competes in 2019 ‘ASTORS’ Awards

Alcatraz AI is pleased to announce their facial recognition platform has been nominated to compete in the 2019 'ASTORS' Homeland Security Awards Program from AST. Alcatraz AI (artificial intelligence) uses 3D sensing...
The TSA told the Examiner that illegal migrants are allowed to fly using the Notice To Appear document they are given by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) when they apply for asylum, which stipulates that the person must attend a court hearing for their claim, which can take as long as three or five years to schedule. The USCIS, however, indicated to the Examiner that its documents do not permit individuals to travel on airplanes. (Courtesy of TSA)

TSA Allows Newly-Arrived Illegals to Fly WITHOUT Proper ID (Multi-Video)

June 7, 2019 – In Breaking News – Washington Examiner The federal agency tasked with overseeing security at transportation hubs has been violating its own policy by allowing migrants who have been...

Iris ID & Telaeris Launch Mobile Identity Authentication Solution

Iris ID, a leading global provider of iris recognition technology, and a 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Winner, are now offering its award-winning multimode iCAM M300 handheld biometric platform with gateless access control,...