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Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas

News Z is for Zurich Airport Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. N is for Network security The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.silicon...

Tags: biometrics, immigration, border, fingerprint

[14 Jan 2008]

PM: Parliament to decide ID cards fate

News Z is for Zurich Airport N is for Network security Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. Brown replied: "Because there has to be a vote of Parliament.

Tags: cards, identity, commitment, documents

[10 Jan 2008]

Vancouver International Airport: Building an Integrated Network

whitepaper Vancouver International Airport with Cisco and TELUS, implements a fully integrated IP network to include redundancy, security and integrity from day one.

Tags: infrastructure management

[07 Jan 2008]

Manchester Airport uses BI to back baggage rule change

News Manchester Airport is using business intelligence (BI) software to help manage passenger flows through security after becoming one of the first UK airports to once again allow people to take more than one item of hand baggage on flights.

Tags: department for transport, airports, business intelligence, bi

[07 Jan 2008]

US plane security turns on batteries

News Recently, the National Transportation Safety Board could not rule out the possibility lithium batteries started a fire in a plane at the Philadelphia National Airport last year, according to the Associated Press.

Tags: plane, security, battery, installed

[04 Jan 2008]

Fuzzy logic tech project to help the elderly

News Z is for Zurich Airport N is for Network security Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. Leicester's De Montfort University (DMU) and the University of Missouri are linking up in a £45,000 six...

Tags: intelligence, care, research, computers

[03 Jan 2008]

Millions of L-driver details "gone missing"

News Z is for Zurich Airport Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. N is for Network security In a speech to Parliament yesterday, transport minister Ruth Kelly said the details had been lost by a...

Tags: dva, data, driver, hmrc

[18 Dec 2007]

Monarch soars with Google search tech

Case Study The airline saw a significant increase in email queries following its introduction of online check-in earlier in the year and the tightening up of airport security last summer. Monarch Airlines has recently started to use Google's Custom Search...

Tags: google, web services, airport, search

[03 Dec 2007]

Can biometrics secure the public's data?

Comment Z is for Zurich Airport Addleshaw Goddard's Paul Bentham says biometrics may be hailed as the ultimate security measure - but the technology is not without hazards. N is for Network security Integration with security systems is a key one, where a...

Tags: law, biometrics, fingerprint reader, facial recognition

[23 Nov 2007]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Blind security

Comment The fortunate truth is the vast majority of people on this planet are good and well intentioned and airport security systems are not 100 per cent overt. Weary and disoriented, having already passed through all the US security checks eight hours...

Tags: security, risk, airport, cochrane

[12 Nov 2007]

Lost laptops ground UK business travellers

News Wi-fi at the airport Those travelling from major London airports are the most unlucky, with more than 400 laptops and 2,500 other mobile devices lost annually, according to a survey by information security company SafeNet.

Tags: laptop, business traveller, airport, mobile devices

[06 Nov 2007]

Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...

Comment The McD's at the top of the Champs-Élysées has been doing this for years and is very useful if you are waiting for the airport bus. What about hash generating private keys, which would allow forgery and threaten the security infranstructure...

Tags: bt, wi-fi, fon

[11 Oct 2007]

UK passports face massive price hike

News Z is for Zurich Airport Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about biometric security. N is for Network security The UK switched to ePassports in 2006 to comply with the US Visa Waiver Programme.

Tags: public accounts committee, id cards, epassports

[10 Oct 2007]

Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick

News Gatwick airport is the latest UK airport to trial biometric fingerprinting technology to boost immigration security. The BioDev pilot has been running in the airport's North Terminal since 18 September and is due to end in April next year.

Tags: security, visas, home office, gatwick

[09 Oct 2007]

Editor's Blog: Tear up that boarding pass...

Comment I'm hoping there aren't lots of prematurely torn up boarding passes at that airport. While that will be most Britons who travel - hedging my bets again here - by its nature an airport serves an international public, most of whom won't have had such...

Tags: airport, atlarge, frequent flyer

[08 Oct 2007]

Major European Airport Maintains Operational Efficiency - Security Solution Makes It Easy

whitepaper To keep the e-mail flying smoothly despite increasing threats from viruses and spam, the airport is deploying Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server throughout the enterprise. The airport expects the same high level of protection and...

Tags: application servers, forefront, forefront security, viruses

[28 Sep 2007]

Intelligent Video Surveillance in Crowds

whitepaper This functionality has applications in public safety, traffic monitoring, and airport security. Organizations today face new and more insidious threats than they ever have in the past. To protect personnel and infrastructure alike requires a level...

Tags: anti-hacking, video, personnel, vision

[27 Jul 2007]

Biometric airport security flies high with passengers

News The use of biometrics to speed passage through airport security is gaining popular support. Z is for Zurich Airport Iris scanning isn't the only UK airport biometric tech to get off the ground. But some sided with the 37 per cent of the silicon.com...

Tags: fingerprint, iris scan, iris, misense

[27 Jun 2007]

Finjan Delivers Top-Flight Web Security to Munich Airport

whitepaper Finjan's proactive Vital Security Web Appliance blocked all of the attack scenarios created by Munich Airport in the evaluation phase. The "Franz-Josef-Strauss-Airport" in Munich is the second largest airport in Germany.

Tags: security applications, phase, evaluation, proactive

[22 Jun 2007]

Biometric airport security gets thumbs-up

News Air travellers have backed biometric security checks after a four-month trial of the passenger screening technology at London's Heathrow airport. Z is for Zurich Airport Click on the links below to find out everything you'll need to know about...

Tags: biometric, heathrow, misense

[20 Jun 2007]

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