terrorism
RSS terrorismCovert surveillance must be reserved for serious crimes, says government
News Ripa (the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act) granted public authorities the power to use surveillance to investigate crimes such as terrorism - but councils have attracted criticism for using them to detect petty... [05 Nov 2009]
Tripwire Helps Meet FFIEC Requirements
White Paper Today, with the passage of legislation such as the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and the subsequent GLBA Security rule that took affect in 2001, information security and technology risk management are subjects upon which the board... [05 Oct 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Can tech end bloody wars?
Comment Throughout my life I have seen warfare mutate from the World War II model to terrorism, the threat of weapons of mass destruction and cyber attacks. Compiled on the M6 driving to Birmingham, edited later in my hotel, and... [28 Aug 2009]
Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector
White Paper And the threat of international terrorism is forcing greater contingency duties on the emergency services. Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where tax receipts... [25 Aug 2009]
Preparing for Natural Disaster: What Public Safety Leaders Are Saying Today? and How Available Communication Technologies Can Address Their Concerns
White Paper In a recent survey of public safety leaders, concern about readiness for natural disaster ranked above other worries such as crime and terrorism. The odds are simply too high that disaster will strike within jurisdiction. [15 Aug 2009]
£24m: The cost of tracking your emails and phone calls
News Home Office policing and security minister, David Hanson, told Parliament last week that millions are now being spent to fund ISPs', telcos' and mobile operators' retention of communications data under the European Data Retention... [13 Jul 2009]
Labour politician joins calls to scrap ID cards
News Shadow home secretary Chris Grayling poured scorn on the idea that a voluntary card would be any use in combating crime and terrorism. The government has defended itself against fresh calls to drop its troubled ID cards... [07 Jul 2009]
ID cards: 'A project nobody wants and the nation can't afford'
News The Liberal Democrat shadow home secretary, Chris Huhne, said that the "expensive and intrusive plans should be ditched now" with the money being spent on something that could actually fight crime and terrorism such as... [01 Jul 2009]
A New Supply Chain
White Paper But contrary to what many think, the driving force behind these changes is not only the threat of terrorism: the driving force behind the changes the industry is experiencing is the ever-increasing ability of importers... [27 Jun 2009]
MTCSC Google Search Appliance Deployment
White Paper The network spans multiple countries and continents which are all interlinked in the global war on terrorism. MTCSC specializes in applying integrated logistics support, enterprise solution development, engineering,... [22 Jun 2009]
Integrating VPN and IDS: An Approach to Networks Security
White Paper The Internet and recent global cyber terrorism have fundamentally changed the way organizations approach security. Recent worm and virus incidents such as Code Red, Nimda, and the Slammer worm have heightened security... [11 Jun 2009]
Obama: 'We are underprepared for cyber attack'
News The department will gather and focus all our efforts to face the challenge of cyber terrorism," President Bush said when signing the 500-or-so-page bill into law in November 2002. The still-to-be-named co-ordinator will... [01 Jun 2009]
Tech workers ignite Indian elections
Comment He is concerned about issues such as price rises, terrorism and the lack of infrastructure. Vandana Prasad, a 29-year-old team leader at the Bangalore-based outsourcing arm of HP, recently got herself a voter ID card. [21 Apr 2009]
Capture, Retain, and Analyze CDRs and IPDRs With Maximum Efficiency and Performance
White Paper Wireline, wireless, and internet service providers must not only collect and store billions of CDRs and other event records, but they must also be able to run complex queries to identify and extract specific records to meet the intense... [02 Apr 2009]
Facebook slams gov't snooping plans
News Kelly added that the government suggestions were also impractical from a technical point of view, and may be self-defeating for counter-terrorism efforts. Social-networking site Facebook has criticised government... [25 Mar 2009]
