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Video: TSA's top 10 most bizarre finds of 2019

A look at some of most unusual items found at airport security checkpoints last year

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday called for the TSA to quickly roll out technology designed to thwart terrorist attacks at transit hubs.

Schumer bumps heads with TSA over stalled bomb-tracking tech for NYC transit hubs

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Velodyne Lidar’s Velabit Sensor

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Video: A new way forward in drone detection, identification

The Meere Company demonstrated a wide range of ToF video surveillance cameras at CES 2020 performing functions like short-range object recognition and facial recognition as far as 14 meters away.

CES shows off security devices that intrigue

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Video: TSA's top 10 most bizarre finds of 2019

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Sunday called for the TSA to quickly roll out technology designed to thwart terrorist attacks at transit hubs.

Schumer bumps heads with TSA over stalled bomb-tracking tech for NYC transit hubs

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Velodyne Lidar’s Velabit Sensor

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Video: A new way forward in drone detection, identification

A legacy system shouldn’t be defined just by its age, but by the degree to which it has shortcomings in meeting the needs of the owning or leasing organization, including system cybersecurity. These shortcomings pose operational risks that should be assessed and communicated to high-level risk and finance decision-makers.

Real Words or Buzzwords?: Legacy

How you define 'legacy technology' may determine whether you get to update or replace critical systems

Public Transportation infrastructure faces a diverse threat environment that ranges from attacks against individuals by mentally unstable actors to cyber threats from common criminals or state actors - or state actors posing as common criminals.

Public transportation threat matrix evolves with geo-political climate

New security challenges face transportation sectors on both the physical and cyber fronts

Passive counter-drone systems typically leverage some form of RF scanning, radar, Lidar, video-based object recognition, and detection of drone connectivity suites.

Counter-Drone Tech

Security Business Dec. 2019 Cover Story: Active and passive drone defense technologies can provide integrators a path into a variety of vertical markets that are hungry for solutions

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Big Book Winter 2019

The Security Industry's Product Guide

Ray Coulombe is Founder and Managing Director of SecuritySpecifiers and the CONSULT Technical Security Symposium. Reach him at ray@SecuritySpecifiers.com, through LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/raycoulombe or follow him on Twitter, @RayCoulombe.

Tech Trends: Put Radar on Your Radar

Machine learning and AI are among the technologies helping to enhance the technology on the perimeter

The most common wireless connection methods use either 900MHz (lower frequency) or 2.4 GHz (higher frequency) signals. When comparing them, there are the key differences that must be considered before choosing one for a particular application.

Wireless Access Control Connection Conundrum

Which method is better: 900 MHz or 2.4 GHz?

A revived office building in London, 40 Lime Street, has installed an all-glass Crystal TQ revolving door from Boon Edam at the main entrance, in addition to two sets of the company's Speedlane Slide optical turnstiles for increased lobby security.

London's 40 Lime Street revives office building with Boon Edam revolving door and turnstiles

Investment company enhances entrance comfort and security with a Crystal TQ revolving door and Speedlane Slide optical turnstiles

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Second bidder emerges for Anixter

Bid from unnamed company follows increase in offer from private equity firm

New details about the man accused of sneaking onto the Logan International Airport tarmac and into a plane’s cargo hold were released Tuesday as the suspect missed his scheduled arraignment because he was in a mental health facility.

Man sneaks onto tarmac, enters plane's cargo hold at Boston airport

Suspect misses arraignment after being hospitalized at mental health facility

Although the FAA Reauthorization Act signed into law late last year gives the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to disable drones that pose a threat to buildings or other assets, the use of counter-drone technology is still limited to the federal government and military, leaving end-users and the vast majority of law enforcement agencies in a tough position. Even the limited authority given to DHS is now be called into question by lawmakers as recently released details on how the agency plans to mitigate the threat has raised concerns.

Federal, local use of counter-UAS solutions still up in the air

Despite rising threats, lawmakers have yet to settle issues surrounding the technology’s deployment

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Caught on Camera: Dedrone’s David Greenberg

SIW chats with counter-drone tech firm's VP of global sales at GSX 2019

A man was caught Friday trying to bring two sticks of explosives through security at Hancock International Airport, according to a spokeswoman for the Transportation Safety Administration.

TSA: Man tried to board flight at N.Y. airport with C-4 in luggage

Man also reported had a knife, empty machine gun clip in checked bag

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TB150 portable bollard system from Delta Scientific

lets law enforcement and other security providers block access to temporary venues where vehicles can be used as weapons

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Optex Redscan RLS-2020 series short-range laser scan detector

Provides accurate motion detection for indoor and outdoor security applications