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SALTO Systems's offline access control readers combine with Siemens' SiPass security management system
SALTO Systems's offline access control readers now integrate with Siemens' SiPass integrated security management system. The combined SALTO-Siemens solution offers customers the opportunity to control access to doors using SALTO’s range of powerful offline solutions together with Siemens’ online access control system SiPass integrated – all with......
W32 Stuxnet-B rootkit can install itself automatically from a USB memory stick onto a fully-patched PC
Sophos has detected a rootkit that can install itself automatically from a USB memory stick onto a fully-patched PC, even if the user has disabled the Windows AutoRun and AutoPlay feature. The W32/Stuxnet-B rootkit exploits a vulnerability in the way Windows handles .LNK shortcut files, that allows them to execute automatically if the USB stick ......
ASSA protects live-in students at Chaucer College in Canterbury
Home to over 100 young people, Chaucer College in Canterbury is a residential campus built in partnership with Shumei University, Tokyo. Opened in 1992, the College provides higher education courses for Japanese students, all of whom are studying English as part of a one-year placement. With its existing master key system’s patent out of date, ......
OnSSI IP-based video surveillance system expands with Mesa County Valley schools' recording needs
Mesa County Valley schools are located on 42 geographically independent sites. School District 51, Mesa County Valley, in Grand Junction, Colorado, first began using OnSSI's open-architecture, intelligent IP-based video surveillance software five years ago in a test system incorporating 25 cameras at a single middle school. Since then, the K-12......
IndigoVision's HD IP Cameras monitor the opening ceremony of New Zealand high school
Rangitoto College is a state co-educational high school based on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand. It is the country’s largest high school with over 3000 students. However, due to the size of the school they are unable to accommodate all of the students in the main hall at the same time. So an innovative solution was developed to use a High......
Top security tips for the summer holiday season
Top ten tips for IT and security managers to minimise risk during the holiday season: 1. Hackers don’t go on holiday - many frontline staff members are on holiday and resources are stretched, so the chance of a security breach not being detected is even higher than normal. Make sure you don’t take your eye off the ball when your workers are ......
Mobotix CCTV protects the oldest public museum in Scotland
Housed within four buildings on the main campus of the University in the west end of Glasgow, The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery has highly prized collections of archaeology, historical artefacts, cultural treasures and truly breathtaking works of art including several collections by James McNeill Whistler and the majority of the watercolours of ......
SelectaDNA Grease helps Lancashire school combat lead theft
Police in Rossendale, Lancashire, have joined forces with a local school in a high-tech bid to stop a spate of lead thefts from the premises. Officers are working with staff at Helmshore Primary School, Gregory Fold, and have protected the building with SelectaDNA Grease, a crime prevention solution that deters thieves and makes any stolen lead ......
Cody High School in Wyoming replaces analog video system with Axis network cameras
Cody High School in Wyoming has replaced its analog video system with Axis network cameras to improve the protection of students, secure community events and future-proof school security. The video captured by the school’s decade-old analog video cameras yielded too few details to be useful – especially at night when most incidents occur. The di......
Bradford Networks' Adaptive Network Security platform secures wireless access throughout University of Westminster campus
The University of Westminster has selected Bradford Networks' Adaptive Network Security™ (ANS) platform to secure wireless access throughout its campus. Khipu Networks completed this project, its 250th Bradford implementation in the UK. The University of Westminster selected Khipu for its secure wireless project as Khipu was the only company to......
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