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Peter Cochrane's Blog: Airport security frustrations

Comment Written at Copenhagen Airport after a delightfully easy check-in and relaxed period in the airport lounge. A 45 minute wait on the approach road getting to the airport terminal, followed by a 20 minute wait to get to the front of the line at...

Tags: business travel, biometrics

[25 Sep 2006]

Savi Aviation Security: Airport, Air Cargo and Airline Security

whitepaper This white paper discusses the current challenges that exist with airport, air cargo and airline security and outlines the role that Savi Technology's solution can provide to ensure a more complete and effective solution.

Tags: security standards, airport, airline, cargo

[24 Feb 2004]

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]

Cisco Airport Security Solution

whitepaper In recent months, airports, airlines and governments have greatly increased their focus and investments in homeland security and, more specifically, airport security. Demands for security are placing unprecedented pressure on airport executives and...

Tags: network security, airport, airport security, cisco

[10 Apr 2008]

"I'll be back," disgruntled cyborg tells <strong>airport</strong> <strong>security</strong> bullies

"I'll be back," disgruntled cyborg tells airport security bullies

News Academic and cyborg Dr Steven Mann is seeking nearly $60,000 in reimbursement from a Canadian airport after he was lynched and strip searched by security personnel. He didn't experience any problems on the outward journey from Toronto to...

[15 Mar 2002]

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]

New Airport Security Law Will Impact Ports

whitepaper On November 19, the President signed the Airport and Transportation Security Act. Although the bill is mainly focused on making improvements to airport security, it establishes a new office within the Department of Transportation (DOT) to handle...

Tags: transportation security, transportation, airport, transportation security

[04 Jan 2005]

Strengthening Security Airport and Airline Security

whitepaper This paper describes the importance of identity management in bolstering airport security, making air travel safer and streamlining the flow of low-risk passengers at airports. It also presents the Novell identity management infrastructure a...

Tags: digital signatures, identity, identity management, airport

[24 Feb 2004]

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]

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]

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]

Aviation Security: Further Steps Needed to Strengthen the Security of Commercial Airport Perimeters and Access Controls

whitepaper The act also contained provisions directing TSA to take actions to improve the security of airport perimeters, access controls, and airport workers. In this report, GAO attempts to assess TSA's efforts to evaluate the security of airport perimeters...

Tags: border security, controls, airport, aviation

[21 Dec 2004]

A Biometric Identification System Ensures Airtight Security and Expedites Travel at Ben Gurion Airport (BGA)

whitepaper This document highlights the biometric identification system at Ben Gurion Airport (BGA). Needing to process increasing numbers of travelers, BGA faced the dilemma of maintaining high levels of security while also decreasing passenger wait times.

Tags: biometrics, risk, biometric, travelers

[02 Apr 2007]

Security, Service and Cost Reduction: A Paradigm Shift in Airport IT Applications Towards Low Cost and Maximum Security

whitepaper This is a complex task for airport business management. Unlike other commercial enterprises, airports are vulnerable sites in terms of security. And the vital need for precise and safe operations is often at odds with profitability or attempts to...

Tags: infrastructure management, optimize, airports, hosting

[05 Jun 2007]

Busy European Airport Tightens Security With a Novell Nsure Solution and Reduces Administration Time by 25 Percent

whitepaper For the Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, one of Europe's busiest airports, efficiency is a top priority. With several different sources of user identity information, the airport lacked an accurate source of user data for its 2,500 internal and external...

Tags: identity, novell, identity management, microsoft active directory

[26 Apr 2006]

Architecting for Security and Efficiency in the Airport

whitepaper One of Cisco's largest North American airport customers must support 28 million passengers, 50 passenger airlines, 67 freight carriers, and more than 100 freight forwarders and customs brokers at its international facility.

Tags: switching, cisco, passengers, north american

[18 Apr 2005]

Landing the Right Coverage on Homeland Security: VistaScape and Logan Airport

whitepaper The challenges before VistaScape Security Systems were finding a balance between providing information about the system, setting the media's expectations and striking the right balance between exposure for their client VistaScape and their high...

Tags: anti-hacking, media, balance, materials

[17 Feb 2005]

Near-Term Options for Improving Security at Los Angeles International Airport

whitepaper This study examines near-term options for reducing the terrorist threat to LAX. Although the study has considered many possible terrorist threats and responses, the study results presented here focus on actions that can be taken at LAX to reduce...

Tags: transportation security, vulnerabilities, actions, threat

[12 Dec 2004]

"How Orwellian can you get?" - RFID for air travellers

News A plan to tag air travellers with RFID chips to improve airport security by monitoring passengers as they kill time after check-in in airport coffee shops and departure lounges has been slammed by silicon.com readers as "another ill thought out...

Tags: optag, airport, rfid

[17 Oct 2006]

Air travellers to be RFID tagged?

News A new RFID tag has been designed and its inventors claim it could improve airport security by tracking passengers as they mingle in the departure lounge. Brennan said Optag has been designed to improve airport security, with the ability to track...

Tags: airports, tagging, airport security, airport

[13 Oct 2006]

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