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Cisco Airport Security Solution

whitepaper Demands for security are placing unprecedented pressure on airport executives and personnel to identify cost-effective solutions that optimize technologies and offer more services to a greater number of people.

Tags: network security, airport, airport security, cisco

[10 Apr 2008]

Fuzzy logic tech project to help the elderly

News Z is for Zurich Airport These sensors can monitor people's movements, capture sleep patterns or measure pulse and respiration, meaning they can identify medical emergencies or diagnose health problems.

Tags: intelligence, care, research, computers

[03 Jan 2008]

Can biometrics secure the public's data?

Comment Z is for Zurich Airport These traits are used to identify people by certain characteristics that are either physiological - such as faces, fingerprints, irises, veins and DNA - or behavioural - such as voices, signatures and keystrokes.silicon.com...

Tags: law, biometrics, fingerprint reader, facial recognition

[23 Nov 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]

Birmingham Airport launches biometric security

News Birmingham Airport has launched a security system based on biometric technology. Travellers who sign up to the scheme will be able to walk up to an automated barrier in the airport, look into a camera and, if the system recognises them, enter the UK.

Tags: airports, passport, biometrics, airport

[06 Feb 2007]

Police crackdown to see drivers fingerprinted

Police crackdown to see drivers fingerprinted

News Z is for Zurich Airport When a suspect vehicle is stopped, police need to identify the driver and at the moment 60 per cent of drivers stopped do not give their true identity. N is for Network security

Tags: drivers, fingerprint, police

[22 Nov 2006]

The Weekly Round-Up: 20.10.06

Round-Up And speaking of security there are plans afoot to improve airport security with some nifty technology - implanting RFID chips into the brains of all airline passengers. OK, the tracking tags won't actually be implanted into the brain, or any part...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[20 Oct 2006]

Wi-fi hijack risk for Macs

News The Mac maker released security updates to repair the problems, which together affect the AirPort wireless driver in Mac OS X 10 Panther version 10.3.9 and Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.7, according to Apple's security alert.

Tags: flaws, wi-fi hijack, flaw, patch

[22 Sep 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Flight frustrations

Comment Written in my home office and despatched to silicon.com from Stansted Airport amid a sea of confused and tired humanity via a commercial wi-fi service These can be identified with ease and afforded extra attention from the point they book a ticket...

Tags: business travel

[22 Aug 2006]

The A to Z of biometrics

The A to Z of biometrics

News They're at the heart of the government's ID cards plans and are already being used in airport security systems. Z is for Zurich Airport Zurich Airport Z is for Zurich Airport Z is for Zurich Airport Z is for Zurich Airport

Tags: biometrics

[20 Jul 2006]

Airport iris-scanning system makes slow progress

News Project Iris (Iris Recognition Immigration System) uses iris-scanning technology to identify frequent travellers and speed up their journey through immigration. The rollout of an iris scan-based security system for air passengers has been pushed...

Tags: biometrics

[15 Feb 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: RFID and flight security

Comment The flight from Amsterdam to London Stansted is only 30 minutes long; there are signs and announcements enough to warn people about smoking all over the airport and the aircraft. The flight crew is pretty sure he boarded at the back, so they start...

Tags: rfid

[01 Dec 2005]

Security Takes a First-Class Seat at London City Airport: IBM and Daon Solution Enhances Employee Access, Passenger Safety

whitepaper The initial approach for London City Airport to dealing with security and safety concerns was to identify and address key security issues, including staffing, cost control efficiency and the application of technology.

Tags: security applications, city, airport, led

[22 Sep 2004]

German <strong>airport</strong> begins biometric checking

German airport begins biometric checking

News The iris systems - seven of which have been installed at the airport - will then identify the passenger's iris and match that information with the passport data captured by a scanner. A test of an iris-scanning system has begun at the Frankfurt...

[16 Feb 2004]

Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Who goes there?

Comment All the data about us is available somewhere, the problem is it isn't available at the airport. I am still ready and willing to accept the implanted chip technology that will allow me to walk into any airport anywhere and gain immediate access to...

[24 Oct 2002]

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