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Public Safety WatchAuthor: PublicSafetyWatch blog - (about)Date: Feb 5 2010 - 11:25am
Public Safety WatchAuthor: PublicSafetyWatch blog - (about)Date: Feb 3 2010 - 8:36pm
Public Safety WatchAuthor: PublicSafetyWatch blog - (about)Date: Feb 2 2010 - 12:52pm
Public Safety WatchAuthor: PublicSafetyWatch blog - (about)Date: Jan 28 2010 - 11:10pm
The Security CheckAuthor: Geoff Kohl - (about)Date: Jan 27 2010 - 2:22pm
Public Safety WatchAuthor: PublicSafetyWatch blog - (about)Date: Jan 27 2010 - 2:18pm
Public Safety WatchAuthor: PublicSafetyWatch blog - (about)Date: Jan 25 2010 - 2:06pm
Integrator InsightsAuthor: Deborah L. O'Mara - (about)Date: Jan 22 2010 - 1:23am
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- 2010 (22)
- February (3)
- January (19)
- DoD Report Endorses Mass Notification Systems
- My favorite criminal video
- Near-Abduction of School Girl Prompts Security Questions
- Sharing Video from Surveillance Cameras Makes Sense
- BICSI Winter Conference
- Guerilla marketing of monitoring and dealer programs
- The false-alarm-prone perimeter security system at New York area airports
- Thieves employ new credit card skimmer
- ATM phishing with the FBI
- Church Crime Presents A Growing Problem For Police And The Community
- Last Chance!
- 1982 Tylenol Product Tampering Murders Revisited
- NFPA examines Bangkok nightclub fire
- A municipal surveillance monitoring fail in Phuket
- Grants for Schools to Improve Emergency Management Plans
- What do family values have to do with TSA leadership?
- New Year—New Design!
- Why public-private security partnerships must exist!
- Public Employees Face Increased Threat of Workplace Violence
- 2009 (192)
- December (14)
- Emergency Notification Systems Catching on with Cities
- DHS Urges Police To Drop Codes in Favor of Plain English
- Photos from 2009 CAA Winter Convention
- Reciprocal Membership between the ASC (UK) and IAPSC
- Fed Report on School Crime
- This camera has 158 lenses
- Possibly the security industry's first music video?
- Prepare Before Submitting a Grant Request
- Virginia Tech Massacre Update
- Guns on Campus: The Never Ending Story
- Home alarm system scam artists
- White House Party Crashers
- Perimeter security goes green
- Create Background Check Standards for People Working with Children
- November (13)
- Sex Offenders Pose A Growing Problem
- Smart phones and the security industry
- First Alert Soars
- The 2008 National Retail Security Survey - Final Report
- Classroom Bullying on the Rise
- Black Friday - Lessons Learned
- Smith & Wesson targets GE dealers
- Municipal Water Districts Face CFATS Mandate
- Emergency plans help hospitals cope with H1N1
- Does growth in cloud computing lead to an even bigger security risk?
- Doing the right thing at Richmond High
- Safety Tips for School Events
- How Britney Spears relates to airport security discretion
- October (24)
- High Honors
- Richmond Rape Requires Quick But Planned Action
- Security tweet up at ISC East 2009
- Serious security flaws at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
- Safe Passages for Students
- University CSO loses his life in line of duty
- Texas security company vs. pirates
- November 11th seminar addresses Illinois PERC Law and Regulations
- Anixter Launches IP Cabling Life Cycle Program
- U.S. Senate votes to extend CFATS
- Governor of California signs bill tightening regulations on state’s sex offenders
- Will video analytics become a commodity?
- More News on CFATS
- Outdoor 802.11n has arrived
- CFATS -- Breaking News
- ESA creates video RMR 'wiki'
- Tracking Safety
- Beating the Drum--Slowly
- SD&I November and December Product Showcase
- 2009-10 School Year off to Rough Start
- Very cool electro-mech door access hack with an iPhone
- Airport security main concern for Brazil
- Laser defense for commercial jets
- Transportation Security – Keep Passengers Happy and Safe
- September (17)
- What the recent terrorist arrest teach us about public safety
- Cameras Help Bring People Back Downtown
- Security is Good Business
- Deborah's ASIS Top 10
- Day 1 at ASIS
- Your Connection to ASIS
- The First 30 Minutes of an Emergency
- The Truth about Analytics
- Wireless Beamforming is so cool
- WPA cracks start to open
- Schools turn to Twitter during campus emergencies?
- Baltimore says no to putting bar's cam on its city network
- Internal Theft and the Small Retail Business Owner
- More on Keeping Sex Offenders Off Campus
- Female shoplifters targeting security guards, retail staff?
- Technology—Gaining Ground in Schools
- City Cameras Help Battle Graffiti and Vandalism
- August (27)
- Keep an eye on bus stops
- When Retailers Shouldn't "Catch" Shoplifters
- Beware of celebrities
- History revisited and history in the making
- Communication Can Help Control H1N1 Flu Outbreaks
- Tradesmen Wanted!
- Got new products? SD&I wants to show them!
- Good reads on school violence prevention
- The Army's 2.3 gigapixel surveillance camera goal
- Frisky Business
- Unfortunate worksite accident leaves young boy dead
- Some thoughts on Public Surveillance RFPs
- More on Analog vs. Digital
- New memory chips could change surveillance landscape
- Check it Out!
- European piracy?
- Do people really want open systems?
- Campus Lockdowns -- How and Why, Part 2
- Secondary airport checkpoints-what are they really based on?
- Now That's Progress!
- Gigabit wireless backhaul for IP video
- Campus Lockdowns -- How and Why
- Miranda Warnings vs. Retailers
- Counterfeit money and a bad economy
- Proactive vs. Reactive Loss Prevention
- Creating a Campus Visitor Management Plan
- Hacked ATMs in Vegas?
- July (13)
- How IP Physical Security Helps in Economic Downturns
- Hacking smart cards at San Fran's parking meters
- Botnets go mobile?
- The reality of false alarms in your customers' eyes
- TSA's test lab
- Security toys
- Could IODEF be a model for physec interoperability?
- Public Surveillance: Choosing the Right Camera
- Info on port security grants
- School Security -- ACT Before It's Too Late
- Poll: ASIS Security Conference?
- More on Municipal Security
- Sexual Predators Love Summer Too
- June (15)
- Keeping Drinking Water Safe
- Deploying Wireless Mesh - How it all comes together
- Avoiding Litigation
- Keep the Action in the Game
- Getting security sales pros to work with installers
- More on UTSA’s Wireless Camera System
- One More Redundancy
- SBT—All the Right Moves
- Skateboarding and security
- Surveillance cameras play an important role in port security
- Parking Lot Security
- Better City Management with Security Cameras
- The Kevin Rose Twitter alarm monitoring concept
- Video monitoring nails criminals
- Poll Results on Arming Students
- May (16)
- UT San Antonio Goes Wireless
- Is Campus Security Making the Grade?
- Redundancy in an Emergency
- SD&I magazine is on its Way to Your Mailbox
- City Camera Law Works
- Deciding Ethical Dilemmas - The Three Principles
- Flu: Emergency Information
- Product Tampering Response
- Flu: Emergency Information
- SBInet gets rolling again?
- Tradeshow organizers get serious about swine flu
- Norbain on for IFSEC, but not for 2009
- Planning a Wireless Security Network
- See you at ESX!
- Swine flu screening with cameras
- International Association of Professional Security Consultants (IAPSC) 25th Annual Conference
- April (21)
- Grant money to fund school security improvements
- Morning security notes
- Wireless Technology Drives Public Cameras
- An odd home security monitoring concept
- Free Money!
- Cities Getting Double Duty from Camera Systems
- Security at the Port of Rotterdam
- Columbine -- 10 Years Later, Lessons Learned
- BMW X5 Security Plus SUV withstands AK-47 attacks
- Let's Talk Trash
- Surviving Tough Times
- Proving the value of residential video surveillance
- Keeping Dangerous Chemicals Safe
- News and notes from ISC West 2009
- Remembering a Chicago Hero Richard Scheidt
- Hollywood gets keen on security guards
- Do We Need More Guns On College Campuses?
- Keys to a Successful Public Camera System
- Tech notes from Day 1 of ISC West 2009
- What is a Distributed Surveillance Environment?
- 100Gbps Ethernet - Seriously I can't wait
- March (11)
- Open architecture key to public cameras
- City Security Camera Update
- iPhone biometric security ideas
- CVS on the Hotseat
- Columbine Copycats
- Selecting the Right Integrator
- Expect the Worst -- Plan
- The goals of PublicSafetyWatch
- Welcome to the new PublicSafetyWatch blog!
- "World's biggest diamond heist"
- Dumb criminal steals surveillance cameras
- February (15)
- Taking TWIC to the extreme
- What happened to the basic principles of locking?
- More On Product Tampering
- Search this
- Dumb security: Covert camera costs city $2.75M
- iPhone app for casino cheats
- Driving Under the Influence…of too much technology?
- "Wireless-ify" any IP Camera
- In the Land of IP–with Milestone
- Ed Bonifas on the well-run alarm company
- Hacker clones U.S. passport cards
- The 1,474-megapixel inauguration image
- Flashmobs
- Surveillance cams film U.S. Airways crash landing
- Check Your Medicine - Before You Buy It
- January (6)
- 2008 (120)
- December (7)
- November (12)
- Time for Football
- What's What? Basic Network Hardware Components
- Ready, Set, Go!
- Satellite pic of hijacked Saudi tanker
- Are You Telling the Truth?
- Good luck, Peter!
- Secure Your Holiday Profits - Don’t get taken during the giving season
- PANs, LANs, MANs, WANs?
- Hot camera, only it’s not for security
- Things you can get on eBay: MI-6 Secrets
- Welcome to The Command Line
- JVC’s Anderson Meets Giuliani
- October (6)
- September (13)
- Loss Prevention Staff Stealing at Nordstrom’s
- Securing franchises
- Where analytics can go
- Dumbest security tradeshow giveaway ever?
- More ASIS 2008 show notes
- Illegal immigrants and security
- ASIS 2008 kickoff event
- ASIS 2008 - pre-show photos
- Dallas Passes New Convience Store Security Law
- Security for secret recipes
- NBC report on organized retail crime
- Aspirin equals headaches for safety departments
- Fishing around in a roomful of sharks…
- August (7)
- July (7)
- June (8)
- May (13)
- More on network video uptime
- Video sniffing
- Amazing security technology of the week
- So - The Bank Says Your Deposit is Missing?
- IFSEC in photos: Day 3
- IFSEC in photos: Day 2
- IFSEC in photos: Day 1
- PSA-TEC 2008
- We Don’t Sell Cigarettes Anymore - Followup
- Profiteers versus public safety
- NBFAA Day on Capitol Hill
- Right Brain - Left Brain
- The White House Blackberries
- April (10)
- The airport security screener game
- Even more security blogs
- Simplifying your proposal and estimating process
- Living and learning
- Cameras in the Workplace
- RMR in residential video surveillance
- ISC West 2008 photos: Day 3
- Even more pics from ISC West ‘08
- Yeah, the product is cool, but will it sell?
- A few ISC West ‘08 pics
- March (14)
- The skeptic
- Safety slugs in hospitals
- Police Post Photos of Shoplifting Suspects
- An interesting take on false alarms
- Shocker bracelet for aviation security
- ASIS Seeking Public Comment on Preemployment Background Screening
- Hannaford Update
- DARPA’s robot toy
- Hannaford was PCI-Compliant During Data Breach
- Data Breach - Hannaford reports data breach involving 4.2 million accounts
- Loss Prevention vs. the Merchant
- Two new healthcare security concerns
- Hacking access control cards
- NRF to Shoppers: Be Aware of Health and Beauty Products Found on Auction Websites
- February (16)
- Virtual standstill for border security
- Catching the “Trainâ€
- The “Lighter Side†of Shoplifting
- TASER’s oddball accessory
- Shoplifters - Paying Civil Demand
- Chuck Norris on why school shootings happen
- We Don’t Sell Cigarettes Anymore
- IACSP Conference - Washington DC
- You’d Better Believe
- Hiring a “Warm Bodyâ€
- Securing Social Security cards?
- Lost laptop = $54 million?
- I’m getting the picture
- A day at MIPS 2008 in Puerto Rico
- Getting a “free lunch�
- TSA’s complaint blog
- January (7)
- 2007 (59)
- December (7)
- November (3)
- October (5)
- September (5)
- August (4)
- July (4)
- June (5)
- May (6)
- April (8)
- March (3)
- February (3)
- January (6)
- 2006 (39)
- December (2)
- November (7)
- October (4)
- September (4)
- August (11)
- July (1)
- May (2)
- April (8)
- Video Surveillance at Home
- Not So Intelligent CCTV: Part 1
- Dallas Passes New Convience Store Security Law
- Cameras in the Workplace
- ISC East 2007 Photo Report

