In the month between the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas and the Nov. 5 mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Gallup found that 51% of Americans prefer the government pass new gun laws rather than focus only on enforcing the current laws more strictly.
Managing the security of your multiple locations can be time consuming as you are constantly juggling a million tasks at once. Whether it’s re-issuing forgotten access credentials or deploying IT resources to maintain your security systems, there’s never enough time in the day. Brivo has collected a list of tips, from their own customers, to make the transition to cloud access control more manageable for you.
The majority of entrepreneurs (47%) are most worried about cybersecurity breaches leading into 2018.
For the first time in recent years, credit card fraud -- which remains the highest fraud type for online retailers -- has dropped from 59 percent of total fraud found in the 2016 holiday week to 42 percent of total fraud found in 2017 the holiday week.
Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, Vice Ranking Member on the House Committee on Homeland Security, announced the Surface Transportation and Public Area Security Act of 2017.
A new report from NTT Security reveals that approximately 25% of insider threats are hostile with the remaining 75% due to accidental or negligent activity.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered a far-ranging review of the FBI database used to check the backgrounds of prospective gun buyers.
The Information Security Forum (ISF) has announced the organization's outlook for the top five global security threats that businesses will face in 2018.
Security awareness isn’t just education, communications and training. It is cultural change and a movement that requires buy in from the top down and the bottom up.
Sexual assaults, a life-altering concussion, shattered faces, fractured bones, and brain injury are some of the workplace violence injuries sustained by Ontario health care staff.
Analysts from the nonprofit research organization CNA, working with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and researchers from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, have released new research on the impact of body-worn cameras (BWCs).
IT and telecommunications outages; cyber attacks; and loss of skilled employees are the top three causes of supply chain disruption, according to the Business Continuity Institute (BCI)’s ninth annual Supply Chain Resilience Report.
American voters overwhelmingly support background checks for those looking to buy guns, according to a new national Quinnipiac University Poll.
The 89117 zip code in Las Vegas holds the most registered hobbyist drone users in the country.
Small island states are among the countries most impacted by extreme weather events worldwide, according to a Global Climate Risk Index.
Staff in the Tennessee House of Representatives are being required to take a class on how to survive an active shooter incident.
Fifty-seven million customers’ and drivers’ personal data was stolen from Uber Technologies Inc in an October 2016 attack. Uber reports that no Social Security numbers, credit card information, trip location details or other data were taken.
A group of senators unveiled legislation to improve background-checks for gun sales to address mass shootings.
ADT announces the acquisition of the cybersecurity company DATASHIELD.
At this year’s Security 500 conference, keynote speaker Dr. Park Dietz, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Founder and President of the Threat Assessment Group, Inc., discussed how individuals get to the point where they commit extreme crimes and violence.
Lawsuits filed on behalf of 14 Las Vegas shooting victims, including some who were shot or injured trying to escape.
Early results of a UNLV study reveal that almost 18 percent of Las Vegas residents who weren’t at the Route 91 Harvest Festival when the mass shooting occurred are at risk of developing symptoms of PTSD.
Organized retail crime is continuing to grow, with 67 percent of retailers surveyed reporting an increase in the past year, according to the 13th annual ORC study by the National Retail Federation.
Armed and unarmed guards will be placed on shuttle buses at Texas Christian University (TCU) after one shuttle bus driver opened fire on another on campus.
Some families from the Sandy Hook, CT school shooting are in court to hold the gun maker accountable.
Women have made inroads into the top leadership positions in corporate America. Today, 26 women are serving as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies (5.2%), and 5.4% are serving as CEOs of Fortune 1000 companies.
A new report reveals that businesses across industries are experiencing more sophisticated fraud attempts across multiple customer-not-present channels.
A new study reveals there is a lot retailers can do to boost future revenue by more effectively managing online purchase returns and fraud detection processes.
A team of researchers at the University of Eastern Finland say voice biometrics are vulnerable to spoofing attacks.
The number of terrorism-related deaths fell for a second year in 2016, even though more countries in the West were affected as tactics shifted to lone-wolf attacks.
Florida Christian School (FCS), a small private school in Miami, Florida, is selling bulletproof panels for kids' backpacks.
Legal issues may throw sand in the wheels of penetration testing machine. Luckily, all of them are solvable.
The Ipsos MORI Global Business Resilience Trends Watch 2018 survey reveals that the perception of risk remains elevated and while organizations are increasingly implementing prevention and mitigation measures there are still opportunities for improvement as major strategic aspects are being missed.
A new Google study reveals how accounts get hacked, taken over, or hijacked.
A new study by Kaspersky Lab reveals that before the age of 16, most young women in the U.S., Europe and Israel have already decided against a career in cybersecurity.
The demand for cybersecurity professionals remains strong across the United States, according to new data from CyberSeek™.
U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (IL-05), introduced legislation requiring the Attorney General to conduct a study and provide a report to Congress on possible links between mass shooters and a history of domestic violence.
While there was plenty of security solutions and products discussed at this year's Axis Connect and Converge Conference, the keynotes, panels and breakout sessions frequently featured one major theme: Do you know what your end customer needs?
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is proposing legislation to tighten data security laws and expand protections.
The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and independent industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) revealed trending data finding that the cybersecurity skills shortage is worsening and becoming a rapidly widening business problem.
A Foodservice Training Portal study of 200 independent indicated only 16 of 200 locations polled were using any form of active shooter training with their full staff roster.
DHS is offering the Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment, a multiplayer, scalable, online platform that trains responders -- single agencies or across agencies, jurisdictions or disciplines -- for a coordinated response to active shooter incidents.
A West Michigan police chief is looking to arm his citizens with knowledge about what to do in an active shooter situation.
In a newly released report, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that while DHS has established a process for sharing cyber threat information between the Federal government and the private sector, improvements are still needed.
The average business employee must keep track of 191 passwords, according to a report from LastPass.
Churches and Places of Worship welcome people in with open doors, but that could be the window of opportunity that leaves them vulnerable to someone with bad intentions.
A new law allows Pennsylvania schools to conduct security drills to prepare for violent threats.
A new from the Canadian government suggests harassment in the workplace is not only a widespread problem in Canada, but it too often goes unreported or isn’t handled properly.
An Iowa State University study has found when bar and nightclub owners increase security, they can help reduce crime for a neighborhood.
For years we’ve talked about the dearth of skilled cybersecurity professionals which ISACA reports is now estimated to reach two million by 2019. Encouraging more individuals to pursue technical and engineering degrees can help address the shortage. But we can also expand the talent pool by thinking more broadly about cybersecurity and what it takes to be an expert.
When it comes to the cybersecurity talent shortage, an already troublesome situation is getting worse: The shortage is expected to grow to 1.8 million employees by 2022, which is 20 percent greater than a forecast from 2015, according to the 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study.
Twenty-two percent of Americans say a conventional crime was committed against their household in the previous 12 months, the lowest proportion since 2001.
