airport security
RSS airport securityInteroperable Identity Credentials for the Air Transport Industry
White Paper One area of security that has received considerable attention is the deployment of an interoperable Identification (ID) credential system that would provide identity assurance, electronic identity verification, and... [12 Nov 2009]
TSA Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP) NPRM
White Paper In addition, the proposal would require approximately 320 airports designated by the Department of Transportation (DOT) as "Reliever" airports and airports that regularly serve scheduled or public charter operations in large aircraft to... [11 Nov 2009]
Want to run iPhone apps on Windows phones?
News When working in an airport that could prevent you from taking a notebook computer or even a Wyse mobile thin client, and that's something we'd be fine with," said McNaught. Operating applications in a virtual machine on... [03 Sep 2009]
Broward County Sheriff's Office Improves Billing Processes for Thousands of Detail Assignments
White Paper Broward County Sheriff's Department (BSO), the nation's largest county law enforcement agency, employs more than 6,000 law enforcement, fire, paramedic, and emergency workers serving Broward County as a whole and, on a contract basis, 14... [01 Sep 2009]
Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo Los Alamos National Laboratory designed MagViz to help make the separate airport security screening of containers of liquids unnecessary. Before they became household names, technologies like ATMs,... [21 Aug 2009]
Photos: UK's ID card revealed
Photo Airport workers at Manchester and London City airports will be able to volunteer for the cards from later this year and ID cards will be made available to the rest of the UK public from 2012. The Home Office claims that... [30 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 24.07.09
Round-Up The plan had been to make the cards compulsory but following a rather embarrassing climbdown the cards for airport staff are now voluntary. Meanwhile, the policy train-wreck that is the ID cards scheme got even more... [24 Jul 2009]
Inbox: ID cards U-turn: The end is nigh?
Comment Non aircrew airport workers, airside or landside, should be thoroughly vetted and be required to have high-tech identity cards. Mr Goodman - airside workers already have extremely strict vetting procedures in place and... [06 Jul 2009]
Air France Improves On-Wing Maintenance Support
White Paper Because of rapid expansion at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport and increasingly stringent security protocol, Air France Industries is looking to unique building designs and specialty IT systems to... [01 May 2009]
Airline gets first NFC boarding
News Passengers will need to swipe their device over NFC readers once again when going through security at the airport and just before boarding. As part of a pilot that will run until the end of October this... [20 Apr 2009]
How Orlando Sanford International Airport Deployed an Innovative WAVEPowered IP Crash Phone System
White Paper VoiceInterop, whose crash phone technology is powered by WAVE unified communications software from industry leader Twisted Pair Solutions, provides voice and video interoperability solutions for homeland security,... [01 Apr 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Beware the new phishers
Comment Compiled in San Francisco Airport having observed a young man 'cruising' computer screens in the gate area. During the past 12 months or so I have become increasingly aware of people 'cruising' airport... [01 Mar 2009]
IronPort Ensures Safe Email Travel for One of the World's Largest Airport Authorities
White Paper Like many organizations, French airport group Aeroports de Paris is facing a massive amount of incoming spam. More than just an anti-spam tool, the solution had to act as a true, reliable and robust SMTP email gateway -... [21 Feb 2009]
Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them
News In response to silicon.com's FoI request, the IPS said that readers will become more widely available as the cards are rolled out to the UK population, starting with airport workers and volunteers later this year. [04 Feb 2009]
Optimized Airport Security Infrastructure System (OASIS)
White Paper Using Washington Dulles International Airport as a case study, this study examines the security measures being implemented in the airport and designs a methodology that will result in... [02 Feb 2009]
