Government Security News August Digital Edition

Government Security News 

AUGUST 2016 DIGITAL EDITION 

Smart-mapping leader Esri releases robust collection of Web maps that forecast 

data into vivid stream-flow throughout the continental U.S. – Page 4 

Also in this issue: 

GSN Airport, Seaport, Border Security Awards Program: Telos Corp wins “Best Biometric Identification/ 

Authentication” – Page 12 

HID Global releases mid-year update in secure identity trends – Page 24 

Forescout describes security challenges in handling both Republican and Democratic National 

Conventions – Page 28 

3M’s Peter Smallridge discusses EU/US border security practices and need for improvement in border 

security management – Page 39

GSN August 2016 Digital 

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Smart-mapping leader Esri releases robust 

collection of Web maps that forecast data into 

vivid stream-flow throughout the continental U.S. 

IntraLogic Solutions to announce first ever 

National Common Operating Picture (COP) platform for first 

responders allowing immediate 9-1-1 notification 

Senators Grassley/Leahy, press federal investigators on breach of 

Democratic National Committee 

Cypherpath, Quali partnership provides portable containerized 

infrastructures that support virtual sand boxes and cyber ranges 

GSN Airport, Seaport, Border Security Awards Program: Telos Corp 

wins “Best Biometric Identification/Authentication” 

Cellebrite introduces UFED Touch2 platform for 

standalone mobile Forensic solutions 

Controp’s airborne EO/IR Surveillance 

Camera payload protects Olympic games 

ECN acquires MIR3, extends SaaS-based unified critical 

communications platform to enterprise clients 

Climate Change – This is what it’s going to look 

like! A dispatch from Baton Rouge from 

George Lane, GSN Columnist 

Convy on Net-Centric Security – Securing the Internet of Things 

HID Global releases mid-year update on top trends for secure identity 

Forescout describes security challenges of handling both Republication 

and Democratic National Conventions 

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Edition Table of Contents 

FEATURES 

SPECIAL REPORT: Border Security/Immigration 

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Why the Department of Homeland Security should 

also end private prison contracts 

Donald Trump’s shortsighted immigration plans 

won’t secure the homeland 

Government sued for withholding records on 

immigration raids 

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Court order release of graphic photos of Arizona 

Border Patrol detection facilities 

3M’s new ALPR software extends reach, 

delivers real-time actionable intelligence 

DevMynd obtains strategic investment 

from Motorola Solutions 

Albuquerque police fight violence with 

intelligence-led policing 

SPECIAL REPORT: Access Control/Biometric ID 

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3M’s Peter Smallridge discusses EU/US border 

security practices and need for improvement in 

border security management 

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LBsecure promotes best-of-class granular 

and layered security solutions for its clients 

within SAP 

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New Esri Maps NOAA’s National Model forecast 

data into vivid pictures of U.S. river flows 

REDLANDS, CA—August 25, 2016 

—Smart-mapping leader Esri today 

released a beautiful, robust new 

collection of Web maps that forecast 

NOAA stream-flow data throughout 

the continental U.S. 

Esri’s multiscale visualization 

of the National Water 

Model enables forecast water 

flows in real time at high 

resolution. The maps weave 

together NOAA’s recently released 

water model data and 

Esri ArcGIS functionality to 

provide interactive views of current 

and future water-system behaviors. 

Esri maps the flow of water along 

2.7 million stream segments in the 

U.S. river network. These data-rich 

maps improve NOAA’s ability to 

meet the needs of emergency responders, 

reservoir operators, ecosystem 

professionals, and floodplain 

managers by providing detailed information 

that can anticipate flood 

and drought conditions. National 

Weather Service data populates the 

interactive maps with hourly updates 

and forecasts up to 10 days. 

“In collaboration with our academic 

partners, the Esri team supported 

the development process 

leading up to the launch of the National 

Water Model,” said Edward 

Clark, director of geointelligence at 

NOAA. “We share a common vision 

for the value that high-resolution 

water prediction brings to the nation.” 

Esri’s new maps enable users to 

access large amounts of complex 

data quickly and easily. Although 

10-day, mid-range forecasts contain 

more than 200 million records and 

short-term forecasts require hourly 

data refresh, Esri maps automatically 

integrate and synthesize NOAA 

data so that users have the real-time 

information they need at the click of 

a button. 

“These attractive, accessible maps 

are part of our commitment to improve 

water awareness—a commitment 

we made at the White House 

Water Summit earlier this year,” said 

Esri President Jack Dangermond. 

“ArcGIS provides a visually engaging 

way to communicate complex 

scientific information simply so that 

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anyone can understand it.” 

Esri plans to continue its investment 

in water prediction and analysis 

by releasing an open-source 

toolkit later this year that will enable 

ArcGIS users to analyze 

data and create custom maps 

from water model records. 

About Esri 

Since 1969, Esri has been 

giving customers around the 

world the power to think 

and plan geographically. The 

market leader in GIS technology, 

Esri software is used in more than 

300,000 organizations worldwide 

including each of the 200 largest 

cities in the United States, most 

national governments, more than 

two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, 

and more than 7,000 colleges 

and universities. Esri applications, 

running on more than one million 

desktops and thousands of Web 

and enterprise servers, provide the 

backbone for the world’s mapping 

and spatial analysis. Esri is the only 

vendor that provides complete 

technical solutions for desktop, mobile, 

server, and Internet platforms. 

Visit us at esri.com/news.

IntraLogic Solutions to announce first ever National 

Common Operating Picture (COP) platform for first 

responders allowing immediate 9-1-1 notification 

As recently reported by Government 

Security News, Intralogic Solutions, 

Inc. a leading global school security, 

and government developer and integrator, 

and Rave Mobile Safety, a 

respected creator of innovative public 

safety and communication software 

have announced a partnership 

to develop an integrated service offering 

that will benefit both schools 

and first responders during crisis 

situations, including ones involving 

active shooters. 

According to the partners, the new 

solution combines Rave’s Panic Button 

application and 9-1-1 data delivery 

capabilities with robust video 

surveillance, interactive rich digital 

floor plans, One Button Lockdown 

and access control technology. The 

combined solution will allow 

first responders full access 

to critical information 

about a situation from any 

location, including while 

en route via a secure, mobile 

broadband connection. 

In an August 10 interview 

with Intralogic CEO Lee 

Mandel, GSN learned that the integrated 

technologies offer a unique 

Lee Mandel, 

Intralogic CEO 

technological breakthrough experience 

that no other company is presently 

offering. Rather than the traditional 

9-1-1 process to call police, 

the new, integrated technology 

can send critical information 

within milliseconds 

to a 9-1-1 call center. 

“When someone hits the 

panic button in a school, 

the 9-1-1 center is immediately 

activated giving 

operators full command 

and control to help find the shooter 

while the first responders are still in 

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View the video 

transit. They can then remotely open 

the doors and guide the responders 

to exactly where the shooter is,” said 

Mandel. “No one else on a national 

level is offering this comprehensive 

solution. Additionally the panic button 

can initiate a lockdown which 

will, locks all the doors automatically, 

flash strobe lights, send text 

messages to parents, teachers, and 

students, and take over all computer 

screens while playing a pre-recorded 

message over the P.A. system.” 

Mandel indicated that the technology 

is a first of its kind agnos-

tic platform that allows integration 

from any manufacturer. IntraLogic 

considers this an advanced PSIM 

solutions. 

Mandel and his company have 

been getting a lot of attention from 

major companies in the field who 

understand that clients have never 

been able to customize in this manner, 

“with one common operating 

picture.” 

Founded by Mandel in 2004, IntraLogic 

focused mainly on software 

development in its early years, 

working for a lot of businesses on 

Long Island, NY and other nearby 

states. The turning point, said Mandel, 

was when the company got on 

its first government contract which 

enables any government agency to 

purchase products from pre-bid, 

published lists. Currently, the company 

serves over 160 School Districts 

nationally including 49 of 

the 57 districts in Nassau County, 

30 in Suffolk County and over 80 

throughout Upstate New York, New 

Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, and 

across the United States. 

IntraLogic’s overall list of clients 

include schools, townships, municipalities, 

as well as a contract with the 

MTA Long Island Railroad, which 

buys its Cameras, Fire Alarms, Burglar 

Alarms and Command Centers. 

On the private side, the company 

works with some very well 

known National Retail chains with 

hundreds of locations throughout 

the U.S. and overseas. 

As impressive as these entrepreneurial 

accomplishments may 

seem, Mandel made it clear to GSN 

that another major breakthrough is 

going to be announced in early September, 

although he is not at liberty 

to announce who this major client is 

– except to assure us that the pending 

client is a very significant organization. 

“We’ve been working with our clients 

as an integrator, manufacturer, 

and software developer. Our goal is 

to offer a one stop shop for our clients 

and partners.” 

“With our new Common Operating 

Picture we can now take all 

school districts, malls, schools, hospitals, 

municipalities, villages and 

other critical assets and tie them to 

a centralized platform. We can go 

to any government agency around 

the world and create this without 

replacing their existing technology. 

It’s the first of its kind agnostic 

platform that allows us to integrate 

technology from any manufacturer.” 

Along with many readers, GSN is 

eager to learn more about this exciting 

new platform, and how it will 

enhance technology and security 

around the globe! 

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Senators Grassley, Leahy press federal investigators on 

breach of Democratic National Committee 

VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION 

The Honorable Loretta Lynch 

Attorney General 

U.S. Department of Justice 

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 

Washington, DC 20530 

The Honorable James B. Comey, Jr. 

Director 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 

Washington, DC 20535 

Dear Attorney General Lynch and 

Director Comey: 

We are writing in regard to the recent 

cyberattacks on American political 

organizations. Yesterday the 

FBI confirmed that it is investigating 

the recent hack of the Democratic 

National Committee (DNC). We are 

writing to request more specific information 

about the efforts that the 

National Cyber Investigative Joint 

Task Force (NCIJTF) and other elements 

of the FBI and Justice Department 

are undertaking in order 

to counter these types of attacks and 

bring the perpetrators to justice. 

On June 14, 2016, the Washington 

Post reported that Russian government 

hackers had successfully penetrated 

the computer network of the 

Democratic National Committee, 

gaining access to DNC databases 

and email. [1] According to the article, 

DNC officials noticed unusual 

network activity and hired Crowd- 

Strike, a cybersecurity firm, to investigate. 

The firm identified two 

separate groups of hackers who had 

penetrated the DNC network, both 

of which it determined were working 

for the Russian government. Immediately 

after the Washington Post 

report, a purported hacker calling 

himself “Guccifer 2.0” claimed responsibility 

for the hack, and further 

claimed to be a lone Romanian 

hacker. [2] The Russian government 

also denied its involvement. [3] However, 

evidence appears to undermine 

the Romanian hacker’s claim of responsibility 

and instead suggests 

the Russian government’s involvement. 

[4] The hackers subsequently 

publicly released what appears to be 

the DNC’s opposition research on 

Donald Trump in June. [5] Last week, 

WikiLeaks released roughly 20,000 

of the hacked DNC emails that the 

hackers had provided to it. [6] 

It is not unusual for a nation’s intelligence 

services to obtain sensitive 

information from other nations’ 

political entities. Not only 

has James Clapper, the Director of 

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Senator Grassley 

Senator Leahy 

National Intelligence, stated that the 

government has indications of cyberattacks 

on the 2016 presidential 

campaigns, the government has also 

reported that foreign hackers targeted 

the networks of the Romney 

and Obama campaigns in 2012, and 

that Chinese hackers compromised 

the networks of the Obama and Mc- 

Cain campaigns in 2008. [7] 

However, when a foreign intelligence 

service not only spies on 

American political organizations, 

which is bad enough, but then selectively 

publishes the obtained 

information in what appear to be 

attempts to affect our democratic 

process, it is substantially more troubling. 

The integrity of the democratic 

process is essential to the social 

contract on which our republic is 

formed. If foreign intelligence agencies 

are attempting to undermine

that process, the U.S. government 

should treat such efforts even more 

seriously than standard espionage. 

These types of cyberattacks are significant 

and pernicious crimes. Our 

government must do all that it can 

to stop such attacks and to seek justice 

for the attacks that have already 

occurred. 

We were pleased to see that the 

FBI has stated that it is investigating 

this situation. We are writing to 

request more information on this 

cyberattack in particular and more 

information in general on how the 

Justice Department, FBI, and NCI- 

JTF attempt to prevent and punish 

these types of cyberattacks. Accordingly, 

please respond to the following 

by August 9, 2016: 

1. When did the Department of Justice, 

FBI, and NCIJTF first learn 

of the DNC hack? Was the government 

aware of the intrusion 

prior to the media reporting it? 

2. Has the FBI deployed its Cyber 

Action Team to determine who 

hacked the DNC? 

3. Has the FBI determined whether 

the Russian government, or any 

other foreign government, was 

involved in the hack? 

4. In general, what actions, if any, do 

the Justice Department, FBI, and 

NCIJTF take to prevent cyberattacks 

on non-governmental political 

organizations in the U.S., 

such as campaigns and political 

parties? Does the government 

consult or otherwise communicate 

with the organizations to 

inform them of potential threats, 

relay best practices, or inform 

them of detected cyber intrusions? 

5. Does the Justice Department believe 

that existing statutes provide 

an adequate basis for addressing 

hacking crimes of this nature, in 

which foreign governments hack 

seemingly in order to affect our 

electoral processes? 

In addition to the questions listed 

above, we also request that the Justice 

Department, FBI, and/or NCI- 

JTF arrange a briefing on these issues 

for Committee staff by August 

16, 2016. If possible, we also request 

that the briefing include a staff tour 

of NCIJTF’s facilities. Thank you 

for your attention to this important 

matter. If you have any questions, 

please contact Patrick Davis of the 

Committee Staff at (202) 224-5225 

or [redacted]. 

Sincerely, 

Charles E. Grassley 

Chairman 

Senate Committee on the Judiciary 

Patrick Leahy 

Ranking Member 

Senate Committee on the Judiciary 

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cc: The Honorable Donald Freese 

Director National Cyber 

Investigative Joint Task Force 

cc: The Honorable John P. Carlin 

Assistant Attorney General 

National Security Division 

Department of Justice 

cc: The Honorable James C. Trainor, Jr. 

Assistant Director 

Cyber Division 

Federal Bureau of Investigation 

[1] Ellen Nakashima, Russian Government Hackers 

Penetrated DNC, Stole Opposition Research On 

Trump,The Washington Post, June 14, 2016. 

[2] Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, ‘Guccifer 2.0’ Is 

Likely A Russian Government Attempt To Cover Up 

Their Own Hack, Motherboard, June 16, 2016. 

[3] Andrew Roth, Russia Denies DNC Hack And Says 

Maybe Someone ‘Forgot The Password,’ The Washington 

Post, June 15, 2016. 

[4] E.g., Dmitri Alperovitch, Bears In The Midst: 

Intrusion Into The Democratic National Committee, 

CrowdStrike, June 15, 2016; Lorenzo Franceshi- 

Bicchierai, We Spoke to DNC Hacker ‘Guccifer 2.0,’ 

Motherboard, June 21, 2016; Eli Lake, Cybersecurity 

Experts Say Russia Hacked The Democrats, Bloomberg, 

July 25, 2016; Thomas Rid, All Signs Point To 

Russia Being Behind The DNC Hack, Motherboard, 

July 25, 2016; Evan Perez, Russians Suspected Of 

Hacking Democratic National Committee Emails, 

CNN, July 25, 2016. 

[5] Caitlin Yilek, Stolen DNC Files On Trump Leaked, 

The Hill, June 15, 2016. 

[6] Andrea Peterson, Wikileaks Post Nearly 20,000 

Hacked DNC Emails Online, The Washington Post, 

July 22, 2016. 

[7] Ellen Nakashima, National Intelligence Director: 

Hackers Have Targeted 2016 Presidential Campaigns, 

The Washington Post, May 18, 2016.

Cypherpath, Quali partnership provides portable 

containerized infrastructures that support virtual 

sandboxes and cyber ranges 

SANTA CLARA, CA, Aug. 23, 2016 

– Quali, the leading Cloud Sandbox 

software platform for DevOps 

automation, and Cypherpath, the 

leader in on-demand containerized 

infrastructure solutions, today 

announced the integration of 

the Cypherpath Virtual Container 

Platform (VCP) with the Quali 

CloudShell solution. Through this 

partnership, joint customers are 

using on-demand containerized 

infrastructures to create and manage 

cyber ranges and private cloud 

sandboxes. Through full infrastructure 

and IT environment virtualization, 

customers are saving millions 

of dollars in costs associated with 

creating, delivering and managing 

the full stack of physical compute, 

network and storage resources in 

highly secure containers. 

A cyber range, or cloud sandbox, 

gives enterprises the ability to rapidly 

reconfigure IT environments 

for use by individuals and teams 

to conduct offensive and defensive 

cyber-mission rehearsal training, 

tool-specific training, software 

evaluation, and configuration testing. 

Most organizations lack the 

budget and manpower resources 

required to deploy large scale, nonproduction 

cyber environments 

using existing enterprise tools and 

many solutions available to them 

do not include the ability to rapidly 

change, add, modify and control the 

environments. 

By leveraging the partnership, 

value added reseller (VAR) TSI was 

able to provide ManTech International 

Corporation the technology 

needed to give DISA a fully virtualized 

lab infrastructure, complete 

with integrated virtual sandboxing 

and cyber range capabilities. With 

this full stack, DISA is able to use 

the lab to develop, test and run infrastructure 

in private clouds or 

bare-metal servers without requiring 

the agency to adopt proprietary 

tools, saving both time and money. 

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“DISA is responsible for supporting 

a critical element of our national 

defense strategy, which is the sharing 

of information between joint 

warfighters, national leaders, and 

other mission and coalition partners,” 

said Ernest McCaleb, Man- 

Tech technical director and DISA 

Cyber Security Range chief architect. 

“This fast, simple and cost effective 

solution provides us with the 

ability to fulfill our mission without 

sacrificing performance or security, 

and deliver the Multiprotocol Label 

Switching stack at a fraction of the 

cost.” 

Through this partnership, joint 

customers can: 

• Use on-demand infrastructure 

to support private cloud sandboxes 

in mission ready cyber ranges 

• Define, deploy and manage fully 

containerized IT infrastructure ondemand 

while providing the agility 

to share and collaborate between 

nodes, networks, bare-metal servers 

and private clouds 

• Significantly reduce investment 

in new physical data center resources 

and technologies by virtualizing 

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Winners’ Portraits: GSN 2016 Airport, Seaport, Border Security Awa 

Telos Corporation: 

2016 Winner, Best Biometric 

Identification/Authentication Solution 

By Chuck Brooks, 2016 Lead Judge 

It was an honor to judge the recent 

GSN 2016 Airport, Seaport, Border 

Security Awards Program and 

review a wide array of exceptional 

security technology submissions. 

I’m very pleased to be discussing 

the Telos winning entry with Renate 

Neely, Marketing Director of Telos 

Corporation, and Dawn E. Lucini, 

Director of Aviation Security, Telos 

Identity Management Solutions. 

I have been aware of the important 

work of Telos Corporation dating 

back to the years when I covered 

national security issues working 

for the late Senator Arlen Specter 

on The Hill. As the digital world 

has involved operationally over the 

past decade, so has the vulnerability 

of maintaining security for people, 

systems and information. 

Brooks: In the defense, homeland, 

and intel communities Telos is 

highly regarded for the generic category 

of “secure communications” 

and we know that your solution is 

advanced, efficient and certainly 

has the confidence of some of the 

most important government agencies 

in the security arena. Can you 

elaborate on your background in 

government and some of the communications 

areas, including mobility, 

where Telos has contributed 

solutions? 

Renate Neely: Thank you, Chuck, 

for your kind words about Telos 

Corporation. We do indeed have a 

long history of supporting federal 

government clients with solutions 

for secure communications, as well 

as cyber security, secure mobility, 

and identity management. But if I 

may, I’d like to focus our remarks 

today not on Telos Corporation, 

but on Telos Identity Management 

Solutions LLC (Telos ID). It is this 

subsidiary rather than the parent 

Telos Corporation that is the star 

of the GSN 2016 Airport, Seaport, 

Border Security award for the Best 

Biometric Identification or Authentication 

Solution. 

Telos ID’s original claim to fame 

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Renate Neely, 

Marketing Director 

Dawn E. Lucini, 

Director of 

Aviation Security 

is its long history of supporting the 

Defense Manpower Data Center’s 

(DMDC) Common Access Card 

(CAC) program to provide DoD 

personnel with identity-based access 

to secure resources, including 

communications systems, as well as 

physical access to secure areas. This 

has been the springboard for innovative 

developments in the areas 

of identity vetting and continuous 

threat assessment. 

Brooks: We are living in an era of 

large and widespread information 

security breaches. Everyone is vulnerable 

and networks, including 

those of government agencies (i.e. 

OPM) are immune to cyber-attacks. 

Risk management has become an 

operational requirement for executive 

management. What does Telos 

do in the area of risk assessments

ds Program 

for networks both in the federal and 

commercial spaces? 

Renate Neely: Telos Corporation 

protects government and commercial 

enterprises with solutions and 

services for the full cyber security 

lifecycle. Our offerings include independent 

counsel for information 

security requirements, cyber security 

consulting services, and enterprise 

solutions for IT risk management 

and continuous compliance. 

But again, let’s focus on Telos ID, 

which addresses the operational 

requirements of risk management 

as well, focusing primarily on the 

insider threat. An example is the 

company’s IDVetting service, which 

provides governments, schools, 

medical professionals, and commercial 

organizations with a complete 

fingerprint background checking 

solution. These customers use 

IDVetting services to submit biographic 

and biometric information 

from employees, candidates, and 

contractors to the FBI for criminal 

history records checks, helping to 

secure their business environment, 

reduce risk and cost, and comply 

with federal, state, and local laws regarding 

required checks for specific 

industries and roles. 

Brooks: The recent terrorist attacks 

against airport targets demonstrate 

the need for enhanced security measures, 

including screening of airport 

staff, and background checks and 

badging operations. The trend is for 

better authentication and biometric 

layering to mitigate threats. Can you 

take this opportunity to highlight 

the current application and futures 

uses of Telos ID for transportation 

security? 

Can you provide more detail about 

your award winning Telos ID Designated 

Aviation Channeling service 

(DAC)? What are the engineering 

and performance differentiators for 

the aviation industry? Can you also 

list Telos ID current applications 

and some of your key customers as 

well as future offerings? 

Dawn Lucini: Airports, airlines, and 

related services are required to vet 

the security backgrounds of job applicants 

and employees who have 

access to secure areas. Telos ID is 

one of only three organizations authorized 

by the TSA to be a designated 

aviation channeler (DAC), 

meaning it is certified to collect and 

send fingerprints and enrollment information 

to TSA for security threat 

assessments and criminal history 

record checks. Telos ID’s DAC service 

was the first of these third party 

channeling services to be approved 

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for operation by the TSA, and has 

continued to win the vast majority 

of DAC business since its inception. 

Telos ID DAC is a modular, Webbased 

offering that lets airports and 

air carriers select which services 

they need. The solution can be customized 

to specific business processes 

and provide custom reporting 

and information exports. The 

Telos ID DAC platform can integrate 

with other workforce systems 

to meet additional badging, physical 

security and personnel administrative 

needs. Telos ID tailors the secure 

Web portal, allowing security 

and badging offices to perform multiple 

functions on one platform. 

Telos ID DAC is deployed at more 

than 50 airports and airlines across 

the U.S. – including BWI Thurgood 

Marshall and DFW Dallas/Fort 

Worth. Here is the full list of current 

clients: https://www.telos.com/ 

identity-management/aviationchanneling/customers/ 

Vetting the backgrounds of airport 

and related personnel is essential to 

understanding and mitigating the 

risk of bad actors gaining access to 

secure areas. But doing this vetting 

on a periodic basis may allow something 

to slip through the cracks, a 

piece of information that just might 

help avoid disaster. To that end, the 

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Cellebrite introduces UFED Touch2 platform 

for standalone mobile forensic solutions 

PETAH TIKVA, ISRAEL, July 19, 

2016 – Cellebrite, a leader in digital 

forensic extraction, decoding and 

analysis solutions, today unveiled 

UFED Touch2, the latest addition 

to the company’s industry-leading 

UFED Series family of mobile forensic 

solutions. With enhanced speed, 

usability, and portability, UFED 

Touch2 is a comprehensive mobile 

forensic solution that allows law enforcement, 

military, and intelligence 

agencies to extract evidentiary data 

in a forensically sound manner. The 

Touch2 can extract mobile device 

content up to three times faster than 

the UFED Touch, enabling investigators 

and examiners to accelerate 

investigations. 

“Many of our customers prefer a 

purpose-built device for extracting 

and viewing digital evidence regardless 

of location,” said Yossi Carmil, 

Global Co-CEO, Cellebrite. “The 

UFED Touch2 delivers the performance, 

reliability and usability required 

to allow customers to meet 

their mission in the lab or field, 

while simplifying the procurement 

process by eliminating the need to 

buy separate hardware.” 

With its intuitive GUI and easyto-use 

touch screen, UFED Touch2 

enables physical, file system and 

logical extractions of data and passwords, 

including deleted data, from 

the widest range of mobile devices. 

UFED Touch2 is available in both 

standard and ruggedized editions, 

running Logical or Ultimate (logical, 

file system and physical extraction) 

configurations and comes with 

a suite of supporting software applications, 

peripherals and accessories. 

UFED Touch2 delivers a range 

of enhanced capabilities designed 

to increase performance, usability, 

and portability. Key performance 

enhancements designed to reduce 

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extraction time include: 

• 5x faster CPU than the UFED 

Touch 

• DDR3 memory 

• Large and fast hard drive 

(SSD 128GB) 

• USB 3.1 phase 1 axillaries 

(Up to 5Mbps) 

In addition, the UFED Touch2 includes 

a number of features that 

simplify usage and increase flexibility: 

• High-resolution (1024), 

capacitive multi-touch display 

with intuitive GUI 

• Built-in multi-SIM Reader 

• Mini Display Port 

• Customized Windows 10 

Finally, the Touch2 delivers new capabilities 

to allow for improved portability: 

• WiFi b\g\n\ac (up to 350 Mbps) 

• All-inclusive field-ready 

operational kit – smaller, lighter 

connector tips, and external 

hard drive 

• Long-lasting battery 

Cellebrite will continue to support 

its customers using UFED Touch. 

Any future announcement regarding 

the end of support for the Touch 

platform will be made 18 months in

advance to allow users to effectively 

plan for the transition. Customers 

that purchased a UFED Touch in 

2016 will receive attractive offers to 

trade in their device for a Touch2. 

Customers that purchased a UFED 

Touch after June 15, 2016 will be 

able to trade in their device for a 

UFED Touch2 at no cost. 

About Cellebrite 

Every day around the world digital 

data is impacting investigations. 

Making it intelligent and actionable 

is what Cellebrite does best. A pioneer 

of mobile data forensics since 

1999 with a passion for technology 

innovation, Cellebrite is uniquely 

positioned to address the rapidly 

evolving needs of its diverse customer 

base to access, unify and defend 

digital evidence of all kinds. 

Together, our powerful UFED solutions 

deliver the only complete, endto-end 

Digital Forensics Platform 

on the market. Our track record 

remains unchallenged. Our results? 

Proven and well documented. With 

more than 40,000 UFED licenses 

deployed globally in 100 countries, 

we allow law enforcement, intelligence 

services, border patrols, special 

forces, military and the private 

sector to achieve their missions 

quickly and effectively. 

Cellebrite is a wholly-owned subsidiary 

of the Sun Corporation, a 

listed Japanese company (6736/JQ) 

Controp’s airborne EO/IR 

Surveillance Camera payload 

protects Rio Olympic games 

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HOD HASHARON, ISRAEL, 17 

August 2016 – CONTROP Precision 

Technologies Ltd. – a company 

specializing in the field of electrooptics 

(EO) and 

infrared (IR) 

cameras for defense 

and homeland 

security solutions 

– is proud 

to announce the 

use of CON- 

TROP’s SHAPO 

Airborne 

EO/IR surveillance 

payload for 

the protection 

of 2016 Summer 

Olympics in Rio 

de Janeiro, Brazil. 

The SHAPO 

is installed on 

board the ADB- 

150 Aerostat that supports the Brazilian 

Air Force security mission 

and is deployed above the Olympics 

area. 

The ADB-150 aerostat carrying 

CONTROP’s SHAPO EO/IR surveillance 

payload was launched August 

9th, 2016, by Airship do Brasil, 

a company of Bertolini’s Holdings, 

in cooperation with the Brazilian 

Air Force, in order to provide 24/7 

surveillance, 

monitoring and 

public security 

of the Olympics 

area. 

Prior to the 

start of the Rio 

Olympics 2016, 

the system was 

deployed as part 

of a surveillance 

operation with 

Air Force University 

(UNIFA) 

security systems 

at Afonsos Air 

Force Base in Rio 

de Janeiro for the 

protection of the 

training center for athletes competing 

in the current Olympics events. 

The CONTROP SHAPO is a gyrostabilized 

3-gimbal camera payload, 

which was designed for surveillance 

and observation on a variety of airborne 

platforms including aerostats,

helicopters, fixed wing aircraft and 

unmanned air vehicles. The compact 

SHAPO camera payload includes 

a high sensitivity color Day 

Camera and a Thermal Imaging 

Camera with a Continuous Optical 

Zoom Lens. 

The SHAPO 

can also include 

an optional 

Laser 

Range Finder 

and/or 

Laser Pointer 

as well as 

an optional 

Mission 

Management 

Moving 

Map 

System. 

M a r i t i m e 

and Land versions 

of the SHA- 

PO, for installation 

on patrol boats, vessels 

and observation vehicles, are available 

as well. 

The SHAPO is used worldwide 

for a variety of long-range surveillance 

and observation applications 

including Law Enforcement, Search 

& Rescue, Homeland Security and 

Defense. CONTROP’s airborne 

payloads are installed on a variety 

of airships and aerostats worldwide, 

in order to provide public security 

and safety. 

About CONTROP 

Precision Technologies Ltd. 

CONTROP specializes in the development 

and production of Electro-Optical 

and Precision Motion 

Control Systems. 

The company’s 

specialists have 

over 35 years of 

experience in 

EO / IR products 

for Surveillance, 

Defense and 

Homeland Security. 

CONTROP’s 

main product 

lines include: Automatic 

passive 

Intruder Detection 

Systems for 

airport perimeter 

surveillance, coastal 

surveillance, port and 

harbor security, border 

surveillance, the security of sensitive 

sites and ground troop security; 

High performance Stabilized 

Observation Payloads used for day 

and night surveillance on board 

UAVs, small UAVs and aerostats/ 

balloons, helicopters, light aircraft, 

maritime patrol boats and ground 

vehicles; Thermal Imaging Cameras 

with high performance continuous 

Zoom Lens and state-of-the-art 

image enhancement features, and 

more. CONTROP’s products are in 

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daily operational use in many of the 

most critical surveillance, homeland 

security and defense programs 

worldwide. 

For more information on CONTROP, 

please visit the company’s website: 

www.controp.com 

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The 2016 Government Security News Awards Program, featuring 

many new categories in Cybersecurity, Physical Security, Government 

Agency Innovations and Mobile Technologies will open for entries on 

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In good news for Winners and Finalists, GSN will be reinstating its 

annual Homeland Security Awards Dinner in Washington, DC in 

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participants in the GSN awards programs will recall that previous 

GSN Awards Dinners have featured top government, military leaders 

and respected television commentators such as 4-Star General 

Barry McCaffrey (Ret); Fran Townsend, Homeland Security Advisor to 

George W. Bush, James Kallstrom, Assistant Director of the FBI and 

Admiral Thad Allen (Ret), Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard 

who came out of retirement twice to serve his county, first in 

Hurricane Katrina and later in the BP Oil Spill. 

The cost of an entry for vendors is $300 per entry, but there is no 

charge for government agencies or departments. All Winners 

and Finalists receive Awards Emblems, and all Winners receive a 

handsome, gold-trimmed plaque describing their winning entries. 

All Winners and Finalists will also be invited to participate in the 2016 

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ECN acquires MIR3, extends SaaS-based 

unified critical communications platform to 

enterprise clients 

ORMOND BEACH, FL, Aug. 1, 

2016 /PRNewswire/ – Emergency 

Communications Network (ECN) 

has acquired MIR3, a global Software 

as a Service (SaaS) provider of 

intelligent communications to business 

and government clients. The 

combination of ECN’s critical communications 

platform and MIR3’s 

growing enterprise platform brings 

together two highly complementary 

companies, creating an organization 

uniquely qualified to meet the 

fast growing demand for software 

communications solutions. Financial 

terms of the transaction were 

not disclosed. 

MIR3 provides its clients with 

advanced, reliable, and flexible 

software solutions that facilitate 

multi-channel communication and 

collaboration at scale, with use cases 

designed to address the growing 

complexity of the messaging landscape 

and ever increasing challenges 

faced by enterprises today. Clients 

depend on MIR3’s software for daily 

business operations, including crisis 

management, IT service management, 

corporate communications, 

customer relations, supply chain 

management, and event management. 

MIR3’s clients include leading 

organizations in the government, financial 

services, technology, healthcare, 

energy, and consumer product 

segments. 

“The acquisition of MIR3 accelerates 

ECN’s vision to be a leader 

in the unified critical communications 

space serving a broad range of 

clients and applications. 

This transaction creates 

an opportunity for ECN 

to greatly scale our footprint 

in the adjacent enterprise 

market, as well 

as introduce ECN’s Cloud 

Platform as a Service 

(CPaaS) offering, which 

can enable enterprises to 

enrich software applications 

with multi-channel and realtime 

communication functions. We 

are excited to welcome MIR3’s clients 

and partners to the ECN family, 

and we look forward to continuing 

to enhance the MIR3 products,” 

said David DiGiacomo, President 

and CEO of ECN. 

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David DiGiacomo, 

President and CEO 

As a result of this transaction, 

Amir Moussavian is stepping down 

from his positions as CEO and 

Chairman in order to pursue new 

opportunities. “I am thrilled to have 

played a role in the success of MIR3, 

and could not be more proud of my 

colleagues, as their hard work has 

allowed us to maintain the position 

as a leader in the industry. With the 

additional resources of ECN, MIR3 

will continue to provide 

the exceptional level of 

service its Intelligent Notification 

and TelAlert 

clients have grown to expect,” 

said Mr. Moussavian. 

Ann Pickren, President 

of MIR3 said, “Joining 

forces with ECN establishes 

an industry leader 

in the unified critical communications 

market, paving the way for 

continued innovation and development 

to address critical business 

needs. We are excited for this opportunity 

and will continue to provide 

our clients with unparalleled 

service.”

ECN is a portfolio company of 

Veritas Capital, a private equity 

firm active in the communications 

space. Veritas Capital is committed 

to supporting ECN in building a fast 

growing, global leader in intelligent 

communications and CPaaS markets. 

About ECN 

ECN is a leading national provider 

in the SaaS-based unified critical 

communications market. ECN 

has pioneered high-speed notification 

services capable of reaching 

millions of people in minutes 

through its CodeRED solution 

for government clients and has applied 

its mission critical capabilities 

to commercial, healthcare and 

other end markets. The company’s 

cloud-based software communications 

platform provides seamless 

and easy-to-deploy solutions for 

the exchange of critical information 

among organizations, their people, 

devices and external entities with 

use cases designed to save lives, enhance 

revenue and reduce costs. In 

addition, ECN will empower clients 

to embed solutions directly into existing 

software applications to offer 

a richer suite of communications. 

ECN is based in Ormond Beach, FL 

with additional offices in Minneapolis, 

MN. More information can 

be found on the company’s website at 

www.ecnetwork.com. 

About MIR3 

MIR3 provides intelligent notification 

and response software for business 

operations. It offers Intelligent 

Notification, a critical notification 

solution for business continuity 

and disaster recovery, as well as for 

various business operations, such 

as information technology alerting, 

business continuity, or emergency 

notification. In addition, it offers 

TelAlert, a two-way notification 

system that helps users to simplify 

the administration of their network 

management, help desk, and financial 

processing systems by automatically 

launching alerts to personnel. 

The company deploys its solution in 

SaaS, on-premise, and hybrid formats. 

MIR3 is based in San Diego, 

CA with additional offices in London, 

UK, and Dubai, UAE. More information 

can be found on the company’s 

website at www.mir3.com. 

About Veritas Capital 

Veritas Capital is a leading private 

equity firm that invests in companies 

that provide critical products 

and services, primarily technology 

or technology-enabled solutions, 

to government and commercial 

clients worldwide including those 

operating in aerospace & defense, 

healthcare, technology, national security, 

communications, energy and 

education. Veritas Capital seeks to 

create value by strategically transforming 

the companies in which it 

invests through organic and inorganic 

means. For more information 

on Veritas Capital and its current 

and past investments, visit www.veritascapital.com. 

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(ECN)

Climate Change – This is what it’s going to look like! 

A dispatch from Baton Rouge from George Lane, 

GSN Columnist 

Thu, 2016-08-18 03:00 AM 

My son was evacuated Saturday 

night by boat in Lafayette, Louisiana. 

The National Weather Service 

(NWS) said this was a one in 500 

years flood; however, there have 

been 8 one in 500 year floods in this 

year alone, including one in Louisiana 

in March. This is what climate 

change will look in Louisiana. Here 

is why the disastrous flooding occurred; 

1.) “Inland Tropical Depression”: 

Flooding in Louisiana was fueled 

by a system somewhat similar to an 

inland tropical depression. Parts of 

Louisiana saw more rain than some 

U.S. cities have seen in the last few 

years combined. Deep, tropical 

moisture in combination with low 

pressure near the earth’s surface and 

aloft were the main ingredients that 

fueled the serious flooding in Louisiana. 

Simultaneously the Jet stream 

dipped into North Louisiana, providing 

a blocking force that kept the 

tropical storm over South Louisiana. 

On Friday morning, NOAA’s 

Weather Prediction Center said: 

“The best description of this system 

is that of an inland sheared tropical 

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depression.” 

The rainfall it 

produced was 

very similar 

to what one 

would expect 

from a 

George Lane 

slow-moving tropical depression or 

storm since rainfall potential is related 

to the forward speed of those 

types of systems. A weather forecast 

discussion from the National 

Weather Service in New Orleans 

Friday morning said that the moisture 

content in the atmosphere was 

higher than what has been observed 

there during some tropical cyclones. 

It was an all-time record for the area. 

When that much moisture is 

available in the atmosphere, thunderstorms 

can produce excessive 

rainfall of several inches in a single 

hour, leading to astronomical totals 

over time. While no one likely forecast 

24+ inches of rain in southeast 

Louisiana, this is the type of thing 

that can happen on a very localized 

scale in situations like this one. 

2.) River Records Shattered by 4 to 

6+ Feet: At least 8 river gauges have 

set new record highs in southeast

Louisiana, exceeding the previous 

record by several feet in some cases. 

The most extreme of those was 

in Magnolia, Louisiana, where the 

Amite River crested at 58.56 feet. 

This topped the old record at that 

location by more than six feet set on 

April 23, 1977. The Amite River in 

Denham Springs hit 4.7 feet above 

its previous record set in 1983 on 

Sunday morning. Records there 

date back to at least 1921, making 

this an impressive feat. These areas 

were already saturated with rain, 

and could not absorb water, allowing 

water to accumulate. 

3.) More Rain Fell Than Los Angeles 

Has Seen in More Than 3 Years: 

Since the start of 2012, Los Angeles 

has seen a total of 29.18 inches 

of rain. In just a few days, Watson, 

Louisiana, picked up two inches 

more than that amount with 31.39 

inches of rain during the event. 

4.) Second 24+ Inch Rain Event 

in Louisiana This Year: This is the 

second time in a matter of months 

that Louisiana has seen more than 

24 inches of rain from a single event. 

Almost 27 inches of rain fell southsoutheast 

of Monroe, Louisiana, on 

March 8-11, 2016. The official airport 

reporting station in Monroe 

picked up 20.66 inches of rain. Record 

flooding was observed on five 

river gauges in parts of the state, 

also topping the previous records by 

several feet. 

The potential for heavy rain and 

flooding will continue the next few 

days as the tropical moisture expands 

northward from the Gulf 

Coast and interacts with a stalled 

frontal boundary. Additional locally 

heavy rain will impact parts 

of the Gulf Coast, including southeast 

Texas and Louisiana, though 

amounts will not be nearly as heavy 

as seen the last few days. FYI. 

George Lane, a resident of Baton 

Rouge, Louisiana, has 25 years of 

experience in the development of 

chemical security systems, conducting 

research as a NASA Fellow at the 

Stennis Space Center and as a NASA 

Fellow. Lane was air quality SME for 

the University of California at Berkeley 

Center for Catastrophe Risk Management 

during the BP Oil Spill. He 

is currently Chemical Security SME 

for the Naval Post Graduate School 

Maritime Interdiction in the Center 

for Network Innovation and Experimentation. 

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Convy on Net-Centric Security 

Securing the Internet of Things 

By John Convy, Convy Associates, Washington, DC 

Most people in technology know 

that the Internet of Things (IoT) is 

the vast network of physical objects 

and devices, vehicles, and buildings 

that have been embedded with 

electronics, software sensors, and 

network connectivity. This enables 

them to collect, exchange, and share 

data with each other and with big, 

analytic tools. It’s the 

digital offspring of 

the Internet, and it is 

growing up quickly. 

Connectivity is a 

fundamental part of 

our world, making 

our stuff “smarter.” 

In fact, its growth has been exponential. 

According to Markets and 

Marketing, Investments made in 

the Internet of Things are expected 

to increase from $6.89 billion per 

year in 2015 to $28 billion in 2020. 

Things we use every day – lighting, 

cars, healthcare, parking meters, 

and even our home appliances have 

become smarter and more connected. 

At a recent Security Industry Association 

Conference, I asked three 

prominent thought leaders to address 

the emerging questions concerning 

the Internet of Things and 

its vulnerability to attack. 

Chris Cressy, who leads Federal 

IoT Solutions at Cisco, emphasized 

the expanding value of the IoT. “IoT 

is transforming businesses and business 

processes, in the public sector. 

Integration and interoperability 

are fundamental needs that IoT 

“Customers should seek out vendors that 

are designing network security into their 

products, and are based on well-recognized 

standards, such as the NIST certification.” 

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can address. Integration increases 

operational efficiency. Traditional 

approaches to system security are 

called air gap – keeping systems isolated 

– but that does not work with 

IoT. You have to connect systems to 

get value. When you connect them, 

you do introduce vulnerability, but 

you can do continuous real-time 

monitoring of those systems. 

Cressy also outlined some key 

components for IoT system architecture 

for security. “At the bottom 

layer is basic IT security, essentially 

network segmentation with firewalls, 

VPNs, 

and VLANs. 

The second 

element is encryption, and lastly, we 

implement more advanced capabilities, 

such as real-time monitoring 

and real-time threat detection. Just 

as IoT is a phased implementation, 

so is IoT security.” 

Jeff Hill, an Enterprise 

Solutions 

Specialist at Spectra 

Logic, provided insight 

on another consequence 

of so much 

connectivity – the 

need for secure data 

storage. “The IoT is driving massive 

video growth because of automation 

and monitoring, and that video 

requires secured storage. Storage is 

becoming a much larger piece of 

the overall infrastructure because of 

the tools that we are able to leverage 

with storage, such as analytics. 

We are expecting that by 2019, 3.4 

Zeta Bytes of data will be transmitted 

over networks in an entire year, 

and security is one area where we 

are seeing tremendous growth,” he 

said. 

Hill believes that the best way to

store data is with hybrid clouds, 

which offer more flexibility in security 

and ownership in a concept he 

calls, “genetic diversity.” The other 

types of clouds are private clouds in 

which you own the hardware and 

control the security with a high-security 

protocol – and public clouds, 

which are extremely efficient for accessing 

information, but provide no 

benefits of ownership. 

“When considering best practices 

for IoT data, it’s important to 

plan infrastructure with a growth 

mindset. Genetic diversity represents 

scalable technology and tiered 

storage. A great example would be 

Facebook, because of the volume of 

their data – millions of videos and 

photos. They’ve found that it’s important 

not just to have it on local 

storage that can be accessed quickly, 

but they’ve diversified the tiers of 

storage and the kinds of storage they 

have, to ensure against all types of 

threats.” 

Hill also explained that enterpriseclass 

storage solutions are becoming 

increasingly more affordable, which 

makes securing data in the government 

sector much more cost-effective 

than not. 

Matt Bretoi, VP of Security Sales 

at Flir Systems, weighed in on how 

the convergence of cyber security, 

network security, and physical security 

are creating new challenges. 

“Security manufacturers have a dichotomous 

responsibility to protect 

the network from the security system 

and anything that migrates into 

it, and to protect the security system 

from the network,” he suggested. 

So what can manufacturers do to 

help customers protect their assets? 

“Customers should seek out vendors 

that are designing network security 

into their products, and are 

based on well-recognized standards, 

such as the NIST certification. This 

is a cyber security framework that 

ensures that any sensitive information 

such as user data is encrypted, 

and that users are able to identify 

third-party components. This reduces 

known vulnerabilities. All 

communications between the edge 

devices, such as cameras or access 

control card readers, should include 

proper encryption, such as Transport 

Layered Security. Minimally, 

SSL encryption should be used,” 

Bretoi said. 

Bretoi also explained that combining 

this strategy with robust 

authentication, such as two-factor 

authentication, creates a very powerful 

one-two punch. It is notable 

that NIST certification covers security 

audits for the equipment and 

penetration testing. He believes this 

is critical, and that collaboration 

and communication are essential 

when integrating physical and cyber 

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security. 

“Implementing these tools should 

be part of a system’s coding DNA, 

as a manufacturer’s first line of defense. 

The second front is deployment. 

It’s imperative that integration 

technicians – those people actually 

installing the system – understand 

cybersecurity, and employ best 

practices in implementation and 

maintenance,” Bretoi added. “End 

users should avail themselves of all 

training tools provided to them, so 

that vulnerabilities can be quickly 

identified and mitigated.” 

The opinions of these three experts 

were eye opening, and validated 

that the Internet of Things is fostering 

significant changes. It is not 

only transforming the way we live 

and work, but it is transforming the 

way we think about and implement 

strong security measures. 

John Convy and Convy Associates 

provide strategic alliance, A&E consultant, 

technology ecosystem, and 

lead generation programs to monetize 

relationships and accelerate demand 

for leading security industry 

manufacturers. John is the Founder 

and Managing Director of the Open 

Standards Security Alliance and the 

IP Security Academy, and a speaker 

at many global industry events. 

Email: John@ConvyAssociates.com

HID Global provides mid-year update on top 

trends for secure identity 

News Highlights: 

• Mobility and a better user experience 

continue to be the market’s 

top focus areas for the year. 

• Adding wearables to the device 

ecosystem has elevated awareness 

around the use of trusted digital 

identities across increasingly connected 

environments. 

• The need for privacy protection, 

improved mobile security, and 

trust in all transactions has intensified 

with growing interaction 

between the identities of things 

and people. 

AUSTIN, TX, July 14, 2016 – HID 

Global®, a worldwide leader in secure 

identity solutions, today released a 

mid-year update to its top 2016 security 

trends, based on customer insights 

into key market developments 

across enterprise, healthcare, banking 

and government markets. In the 

first six months of the year, the company 

noted continued forward movement 

in market adoption of mobile 

solutions and interest in the Internet 

of Things, as customers place more 

value on seamless environments that 

require trusted digital identities with 

heightened security and privacy protection. 

“Customers are increasingly investing 

in solutions that give them the 

flexibility to incorporate new and 

better capabilities that deliver a more 

satisfying connected experience for 

their users,” said Stefan Widing, HID 

Global President and CEO. “As we 

move through the middle of the year, 

we are experiencing a dramatic increase 

in customer demand for mobility, 

a better user experience, and 

connected environments. We have 

also forged new partnerships with 

major industry players who have the 

same vision to create an extraordinary 

user experience and we look forward 

to unveiling more about these 

partnerships as deployments progress 

throughout the year.” 

Following are HID Global’s midyear 

updates to the trends that the 

company forecasted in January: 

Trend #1: “Mobilizing” security will 

make it more pervasive and personalized: 

a new, more secure identity 

lifestyle will be built around the convenience 

of ever-present mobile devices. 

Computer and network logon, 

driver licenses and other applications 

will more seamlessly join physical 

security functions on phones, tablets 

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and laptops. Wearables will be the 

next step, and phones will also work 

with RFID tags to add security and 

trust to the IoT for proof-of-presence 

applications. 

Mid-year update: Demand for mobile 

solutions continues to grow, along with 

an increasing focus on security issues. 

Multiple studies revealed fears about 

mobile security, countered by growing 

demand in for the benefits of online 

and mobile functionality. The definition 

of mobility is also expanding to 

encompass the broader idea of “on-thego” 

convenience and efficiency, where 

smartphones can be used as both a credential 

and a general-purpose reader 

for new use cases. In a recent deployment 

at the CityPoint building in London, 

security guards are able use their 

smartphones as NFC readers; with a 

tap of their phone to RFID tags, guards 

can check keys in and out and prove 

presence at shift checkpoints. 

Trend #2: Security will move to a 

much greater focus on the user experience: 

This will help close the gap 

between planning and compliance, 

while ensuring that security adapts 

to rather than defines end-user habits 

and lifestyles. Old ways of authenti- 

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cating will be replaced by more satisfying 

alternatives. 

Mid-year update: Customers continue 

to want an easier, more trustworthy 

way to use digital identities to access 

on-the-go services and applications. 

Studies repeatedly highlighted the importance 

of the user experience -- the 

Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific study 

ranked it among the top two most important 

drivers for deploying mobile 

access control over the next three years. 

Biometrics continued to emerge as an 

effective solution for bringing 

together security and convenience 

together -- this approach 

is now used at four of 

Brazil’s top five financial institutions 

to simplify an estimated 

two billion trusted ATM 

transactions annually. 

Trend #3: Secure, connected 

identities will fuel safety and innovation 

in how we work, shop and play: 

The industry will enter its next new 

chapter of connected identities, employing 

multi-layered security strategies 

that also include biometrics in 

order to bind these identities to their 

legitimate owners. 

Mid-year update: An explosion 

of trusted digital identities began ushering 

in new innovation opportunities 

during the first half of the year. This 

trend is being fueled by a growing interest 

in wearables and use of sensors 

for IoT-based solutions aimed at new 

use cases for employee productivity, asset 

tracking, energy management and 

employee safety. These developments 

serve as critical points of unification 

for trusted identities that make digital 

interactions more personal, contextual 

and valuable, and will pave the way 

for innovations like building occupant 

apps for the smart facility that enhance 

the user experience. During 2016, financial 

institutions made some of 

the most visible advances on the trust 

front, adopting a multi-layered approach 

to addressing potential mobile 

banking challenges at both the front 

end (consumer devices) and the back 

end (banking systems that recognize 

and facilitate legitimate user requests 

through mobile devices). 

Trend #4: There will be more attention 

on privacy in an increasingly connected 

and mobile-first world: Identity 

will expand beyond people and 

their personal identity to the identity 

of objects and their authenticity, accentuating 

the need to protect personal 

information across increasingly 

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interconnected devices, services and 

applications. 

Mid-year update: Gartner forecasts 

that 5.5 million new “things” are getting 

connected every day in 2016, increasing 

the need for embedded security 

and privacy technology across the 

payments, transportation, industrial, 

consumer and healthcare markets. 

In the earlier CityPoint example, this 

“Security of Things” goal is achieved 

by adding trust to RFID tags and to 

their interactions with mobile devices. 

Biometrics also continues to 

play a pivotal role in privacy 

protection for an increasingly 

connected world, and solutions 

became available in early 2016 

that include intelligent encryption-enabled 

and tamper-resistant 

fingerprint devices to more 

effectively address these challenges. 

Trend #5: Security policies and best 

practices will become as important 

as technology advances: The industry 

will sharpen its focus on not only 

what to deploy, but how – from the 

first U.S. mobile driver licenses to 

unified credential management systems 

that enable organizations to 

more holistically address both facility 

and information security. Rather 

than focus exclusively on preventing 

breaches, the industry will also adopt 

best practices for controlling what 

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Forescout describes security challenges 

of handling both Republican and Democratic 

National Conventions 

By Katherine Gronberg, 

VP Government Affairs 

Inside RNC/DNC Convention 

Networks - Cybersecurity Challenges 

ForeScout had the honor of providing 

information security support 

for the Republican National Convention 

(RNC) and the Democratic 

National Convention (DNC). These 

were challenging environments 

as the networks were created and 

configured in a short time-span, 

they were more “IP-enabled” than 

any conventions in history and, of 

course, they were extremely high 

profile. But the lessons learned in 

Cleveland and Philadelphia are relevant 

to almost any complex network, 

including large commercial 

and government networks. It helped 

us to think about the conventions’ 

networks in terms of buckets. 

Segmentation, Segmentation, 

Segmentation… 

Probably the biggest challenge in securing 

events like the conventions is 

that there are SO MANY ad hoc networks 

being created all the time. It’s 

an unavoidable requirement for the 

event to be successful. This happens 

in the commercial and government 

worlds too, although to a lesser extent. 

You have to divide your network 

up in to three high-level buckets. 

We called them The Wild West, 

Mission Control, and The Vault. If 

at all possible, these networks need 

to be completely isolated from each 

other. The key to success in the convention 

environments was to focus 

on controlling access to the most 

sensitive networks, while still ensuring 

that the less sensitive networks 

remained operational. 

The Wild West 

These days, people attending events 

like the conventions expect access to 

reliable free WiFi. Public access to 

WiFi enhances their experience and 

makes for a more successful and 

impactful event. However, “Secure 

free WiFi” is an oxymoron. When 

people connect to a public WiFi 

network, their traffic is often visible 

to other people on the network and 

they run a greater risk of having their 

device infected with malware. There 

are steps that can be taken to make 

users more secure, such as requiring 

WPA2 encryption and attempting 

to isolate users from each other, but 

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these efforts 

are only partially 

effective 

at best. In an 

environment 

like this, user 

education is 

necessary: 

instructing Katherine Gronberg 

users as to 

which network is the “Official” free 

WiFi network, and also advising users 

to not conduct sensitive business 

on public WiFi without establishing 

a VPN tunnel first. Above all else, 

the public free WiFi should NEVER 

have a connection back to Mission 

Control or The Vault. We developed 

specific policies that looked for 

cross-bucket communication and 

remediated any discovered anomalies. 

Mission Control 

Mission Control is the network for 

“official” business. These networks 

often include things like staff systems, 

kiosks, point-of-sale devices, 

VOIP phones, cameras, and many 

other mission-critical functions. In 

such a dynamic and transient network 

environment characterized by

so many wired and wireless 

network access points, 

unauthorized network access 

should be expected 

and planned for. Controlling 

access as much as possible 

by using passwords 

and other authentication 

protocols is critical. But 

the real key is continuous 

monitoring of the networks to 

look for unwanted behaviors (devices 

scanning your network, transmitting 

large amounts of data, or 

changing their profiles unexpectedly). 

Establishing a baseline of 

a known good state BEFORE the 

event begins is critical to identifying 

something that’s not supposed to be 

there. For all of the devices found, 

policies must be written that stipulate 

how a device must be handled 

depending on how it behaves. We 

started this process early on for the 

conventions and continually refined 

our baseline throughout the events. 

In addition to establishing a baseline, 

penetration testing, or “pentesting,” 

is highly encouraged. This 

will allow you to anticipate the 

methods that attackers may use to 

gain access to your network. Reconfiguring 

the network can mitigate 

some attacks. Others can be 

caught through Continuous Monitoring 

policies, but you first need to 

know what to look for. This is where 

a skilled pen tester comes in very 

handy. ForeScout did not pen test 

the conventions ourselves, however, 

we worked extensively with trusted 

White Hat resources to develop policies 

to catch malicious behavior that 

can indicate network intrusions. 

The Vault 

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The best advice for securing the 

most sensitive assets in an organization 

is: “Don’t connect it to the Internet!” 

If, for some reason, Internet 

connectivity is required, give these 

systems their own dedicated and 

highly monitored internet connection. 

Something as important as a 

teleprompter should be completely 

disconnected. A broadcast system 

is another example of something 

that deserves an isolated internet 

connection. If the only thing that is 

ever present on that connection is a 

broadcast system, network anomalies 

should be easy to detect. Leading 

up to the conventions, there was 

a lot of speculation around the potential 

hacking of teleprompters or 

broadcast systems, but in actuality, 

they were never connected to the 

convention networks. Physical security 

is also used to protect 

these assets – in this case, 

physical security was provided 

by Secret Service agents 

manning doors backstage. At 

a corporate datacenter, physical 

security is provided by 

things like guards and retinal 

scanners. At the end of the 

day, for your most critical assets, 

disconnect them from the network 

and rely on robust physical 

security. 

Katherine Gronberg is Vice President 

for Government Affairs at ForeScout 

Technologies. Prior to joining ForeScout, 

she was a professor at Georgetown 

University, teaching classes in 

cybersecurity and business-government 

relations. Katherine also founded 

and ran her own consulting firm, 

Gronberg Consulting, L.L.C., which 

represented top U.S. technology firms 

on their government relations strategies. 

Prior to this, Katherine worked 

for Morhard & Associates, L.L.C. 

Katherine began her Washington career 

in 2000 as a staff member on the 

Senate Appropriations Committee 

handling annual appropriations for 

a range of federal agencies. Katherine 

holds a Bachelor’s degree from Yale 

University, an MBA from the University 

of Virginia’s Darden School of 

Business, and is a former Fulbright 

Scholar.

Border Security/Immigration 

Why the Department of Homeland Security 

should also end private prison contracts 

By Walter Ewing, 

American Immigration Coucil 

For two years, women and children 

from Honduras, El Salvador, 

and Guatemala have been fleeing to 

the United States to escape the extreme 

violence of gangs which control 

large swaths of territory within 

their home countries. And for two 

years the Obama Administration 

has responded to this humanitarian 

crisis by locking up the women 

and children seeking protection 

and then deporting them back to 

the countries where their lives may 

be in danger. In defiance of its obligations 

under international law, 

the Administration is 

Photo: Neil Conway 

trying to deter future Central 

American asylum 

seekers by coming down 

hard on current Central 

American asylum seekers. 

During that first “surge” 

of refugees two years ago, the 

Administration knew exactly what 

it needed to get a handle on the crisis: 

a bigger and better prison for 

women and children. And so, according 

to the Washington Post, the 

Administration handed a $1 billion, 

four-year contract to Corrections 

Corporation of America (CCA) to 

build a “massive detention facility 

for women and children seeking 

asylum.” In the sweetest of sweetheart 

deals, CCA “gets the money 

regardless of how many people are 

detained at the facility.” 

The facility in question 

is the South Texas Family 

Residential Center in Dilley, 

Texas. According to the 

Post: 

“In 2015, the first full year 

in which the South Texas 

Family Residential Center 

was operating, CCA—which 

operates 74 facilities—made 

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14 percent of its revenue 

from that one center 

while recording record 

profit. CCA declined to 

specify the costs of operating 

the center.” 

The Administration’s heavyhanded 

approach to the social turmoil 

currently engulfing Honduras, 

El Salvador, and Guatemala may 

mean big money for private contractors, 

but it’s not going to be an 

effective deterrent to women who 

are running for their lives or the 

lives of their children. If you or your 

child face murder, rape, or forced 

induction into a gang if you stay, as 

opposed to a slim chance of asylum 

if you head to the United States, 

then common sense dictates you 

head to the United States. 

Moreover, even looked at from a 

purely financial standpoint, CCA 

isn’t running a very cost-effective 

prison. The Post writes that: 

“When 2,400 people are detained, 

the government spends 

what amounts to $285 per day, per 

person, according to a Post calculation. 

When the facility is half-full, 

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Donald Trump’s shortsighted immigration plans 

won’t secure the homeland 

By Walter Ewing 

As any serious national security expert 

will tell you, trying to find a potential 

terrorist by treating all immigrants 

or Muslims as security risks 

is far too vague to be effective. Accurate 

intelligence and effective information-sharing 

across agencies 

is the key to national security—not 

profiling. Yet in a bombastic August 

15 speech, Republican presidential 

nominee Donald Trump offered up 

blatantly bigoted and utterly pointless 

proposals on national security 

including ideas like instituting an 

“ideological screening test” and “extreme 

vetting” to determine which 

would-be immigrants to the United 

States (especially Muslims) harbor 

“any hostile attitude towards our 

country or its principles.” 

Leaving aside Trump’s nativist 

histrionics, it would be a serious 

mistake to embrace policies that 

conflate immigration enforcement 

and counter-terrorism efforts, implying 

that immigration enforcement 

is a way to catch terrorists. In 

reality, immigration enforcement is 

not designed to catch terrorists; it is 

meant to catch people who violate 

immigration laws. Immigration-enforcement 

mechanisms might snare 

a terrorist if supplied with specific 

intelligence gleaned from counterterrorist 

operations, but immigration 

enforcement by itself is very 

unlikely to stumble upon and actually 

identify a terrorist. Without the 

right information in the right hands, 

even the most efficiently constructed 

immigration-enforcement and 

border-control mechanisms are not 

going to catch a terrorist. 

This is precisely why the 9/11 

Commission did not recommend 

that we adopt ethnic or religious 

profiling to help prevent another 

terrorist attack in the United States. 

Identifying threats actually depends 

on the development of “actionable 

intelligence” which identifies 

a specific threat, and then sharing 

that information with immigration 

and border-enforcement personnel. 

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Photo: Gage Skidmore 

This approach is a little more subtle 

than profiling millions of people, 

which actually undermines intelligence 

gathering by alienating ethnic 

and religious communities and the 

countries from which they come. A 

group of people who feel themselves 

to be under government attack is 

not likely to share information with 

(and report tips to) the same government 

which is attacking them. 

Nor are the governments of their 

home countries as likely to partner 

with the United States in counterterrorism 

operations. 

In evaluating the typically outlandish 

ideas thrown around by 

Trump, we should never forget that, 

shortly after 9/11, the federal government 

created the National Security 

Entry-Exit Registration System 

(NSEERS). Under NSEERS, 83,000 

men from Muslim and Arab coun- 

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Government sued for withholding records 

on immigration raids 

By Tory Johnson 

The Department of 

Homeland Security 

(DHS) is continuing 

to defend the controversial 

“Operation 

Border Guardian” 

program that 

took more than 100 Central American 

women and children from their 

homes in two days of immigration 

raids last January. According to a lawsuit 

filed this week by the Southern 

Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the 

law firm Alston & Bird, the government 

has failed to release records related 

to the program under the Freedom 

of Information Act (FOIA). 

The complaint argues that DHS 

and its component agency Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 

violated public records law by failing 

to substantively respond to a January 

7 FOIA request seeking information 

related to the raids DHS conducted 

January 2 and January 3 in North 

Carolina, Georgia, and Texas. They 

are seeking records and information 

about how and why ICE went after 

the 121 individuals swept up in the 

raids. 

The widely-publicized round-ups 

raised concerns about constitutional 

and due process violations. 

146 members 

of Congress 

and more than 150 

organizations condemned 

the government’s 

actions, 

and local governments 

voiced their 

concerns about the damage to trust 

between communities and law enforcement. 

Lisa Graybill, SPLC deputy legal 

director, said that “there are serious 

questions about whether ICE agents’ 

conduct during these raids violated 

the Constitution. We cannot allow 

ICE, the nation’s largest law enforcement 

agency, to avoid accountability 

and violate federal law by withholding 

these records.” 

The complaint alleges, for example, 

that ICE agents conducting the enforcement 

operations used deceptive 

tactics to enter homes. In some cases, 

according to the complaint: 

“ICE agents… stat[ed] that they 

were police officers looking for a 

criminal suspect and show[ed] residents 

a photo of an African-American 

man. In other instances, ICE 

agents allegedly stated that they were 

only taking the immigrants into custody 

for a short time to examine the 

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women’s electronic ankle shackles.” 

Moreover, “when asked for copies 

of warrants or orders to enter a home, 

ICE agents ignored the requests, 

threatened residents, or ordered them 

to ‘be quiet,’” according to the complaint. 

The families targeted by the raids 

actually had conditional permission 

to be in the United States. According 

to SPLC, they “had complied with orders 

of supervision provided by ICE, 

which permitted them to remain in 

the United States subject to certain 

conditions.” Yet the women and children 

were detained and most were 

subsequently deported. Only 12 families 

had their deportations halted, 

with the help of attorneys from the 

Dilley Pro Bono Project. 

ICE refuses to comment on pending 

litigation. The agency has 20 days 

and a 10-day extension to decide and 

notify SPLC whether or not it will 

comply with the request. 

Hopefully the government will act 

within that timeframe to release these 

important documents. As the complaint 

states, the public has a right to 

this information and the government 

a responsibility to be accountable for 

its actions. 

Photo: Julio Cesar

Court orders release of graphic photos of 

Arizona Border Patrol detention facilities 

WASHINGTON D.C. August 18, 

2016 - Today, groups made public 

damning evidence, including expert 

testimony and video stills illustrating 

the deplorable and unconstitutional 

conditions detained individuals 

are subjected to in Border 

Patrol custody in 

the agency’s Tucson 

Sector. The 

court rejected Border 

Patrol’s effort 

to conceal evidence 

of inhumane and 

abusive detention 

practices from the 

public. Accepting 

the position of the 

Plaintiffs and the 

Arizona Republic, 

which intervened to 

argue for the release 

of the materials, the 

court recognized that access to court 

proceedings and to basic information 

about governmental practices 

are fundamental First Amendment 

rights. 

The video stills and expert testimony 

released today reveal that Border 

Patrol holds individuals—among 

them traumatized asylum seekers 

and mothers with infants and small 

children—for days at a time in cold, 

overcrowded, and dirty cells that are 

designed to detain people for only 

a few hours. Graphic photographs 

show detainees packed head-to-foot 

Tucson facility: men wrapped in Mylar sheets on concrete floors and benches near 

trash & toilets 

in filthy, overcrowded rooms. One 

image captures a mother changing 

an infant’s diaper on a trash-strewn 

concrete floor. 

Also among the unsealed documents 

is testimony from an expert 

for the Plaintiffs who wrote that, 

in his 35 years of experience work- 

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ing in correctional facilities, he had 

“never been in one that treats those 

confined in a manner that the CBP 

treats detainees.” 

Among other conclusions about 

the poor treatment of individuals 

detained in Border Patrol facilities, 

he said that “[t]he 

absence of medical 

screening upon 

arrival is unthinkable,” 

and that he 

had never before 

witnessed an attempt 

to “cram” so 

many people into so 

little space, without 

beds and bedding. 

He concluded, “[t] 

he CBP [is] housing 

people in conditions 

that are unnecessarily 

harsh, dangerous 

and contrary to accepted industry 

practices and standards.” 

“Every step the Government has 

taken in response to this lawsuit has 

been designed to delay this suit and 

hide the conditions present at these 

facilities,” said Louise Stoupe of 

Morrison & Foerster. “The Govern-


ment should be using the resources 

they are wasting in court to provide 

basic human necessities to those in 

its custody.” 

“Migrants detained in the Tucson 

sector have long suffered horrific 

conditions,” said Dan Pochoda, 

senior counsel for the ACLU of 

Arizona. “It is unconscionable that 

the federal government continues 

to detain people including infants 

in this manner. The Border Patrol 

continues to operate in violation of 

U.S. and international law as well 

as its own standards without being 

held accountable for these egregious 

abuses.” 

“These photos show the harm 

people suffer in these facilities, from 

having to sleep on the floor for days 

to needing to huddle together just to 

stay warm,” said Travis Silva, attorney 

with the Lawyers’ Committee 

for Civil Rights of the San Francisco 

Bay Area. “These conditions should 

not exist in a facility operated by the 

United States government.” 

“The images unsealed by the court 

leave no room to debate the fact 

that thousands of immigrants are 

subjected to inhumane and unconstitutional 

conditions by the Border 

Patrol,” said Nora Preciado, staff attorney 

with the National Immigration 

Law Center. “We urgently need 

meaningful and lasting reforms that 

put an end to these abuses, hold the 

agency accountable, and ensure that 

people are treated with dignity.” 

“Mothers should not be forced to 

change their babies’ diapers on cold 

concrete floors or warm them with 

flimsy aluminum sheets. Border 

Patrol’s treatment of men, women 

and children in its custody is simply 

inexcusable,” said Mary Kenney, 

senior staff attorney for the American 

Immigration Council. “We are 

seeking immediate relief from the 

deplorable detention conditions in 

CBP holding facilities for the thousands 

of individuals who are or will 

be held there while this case progresses.” 

In December, attorneys representing 

the Plaintiff class of detained 

immigrants sought a preliminary 

injunction to stop Border Patrol’s 

unconstitutional detention practices 

while the case is being litigated. The 

injunction is based on compelling 

evidence of inhumane conditions 

in Tucson facilities—much of which 

was disclosed after the Court sanctioned 

Border Patrol for destroying 

video recordings from these facilities 

and failing to turn over other 

relevant documentation. 

Jane Doe, et al. v. Johnson, et al. 

was filed in the U.S. District Court 

for the District of Arizona. Attorneys 

on the case include Harold J. 

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McElhinny, Colette Reiner Mayer, 

Louise C. Stoupe, Kevin M. Coles, 

Pieter S. de Ganon, and Elizabeth 

Balassone of Morrison & Foerster 

LLP; Nora Preciado, Linton Joaquin, 

and Karen C. Tumlin of the 

National Immigration Law Center; 

Mary Kenney, and Melissa Crow of 

the American Immigration Council; 

Travis Silva of the Lawyers’ 

Committee for Civil Rights of the 

San Francisco Bay Area; and Kathy 

Brody, Brenda Muñoz Furnish, and 

Dan Pochoda of ACLU of Arizona. 

For additional links see: 

• Challenging Unconstitutions 

Conditions in CBP Short Term 

Detention Facilities (Litigation 

Page) 

• Photo Exhibits of CBP Short- 

Term Detention Conditions 

• Declaration by Joe Goldenson, 

M.D., Medical Conditions Expert 

• Declaration by Eldon Vail, 

Prison Conditions Expert 

• Declaration by Robert W. Powitz, 

Sanitation Expert 

• Detained Beyond the Limit: 

Prolonged Confinement by U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection 

along the Southwest Border (Special 

Report, August 2016)

3M’s new ALPR software extends reach, delivers 

real-time actionable intelligence 

ST. PAUL‚ Minn. – (August 4‚ 2016) 

– In order to create and maintain 

safe communities, law enforcement 

agencies are increasingly relying on 

technology. A new tool for officers 

is now available; 3M is proud to introduce 

3M Plate Alert Analytical 

ALPR Software, a next-generation 

ALPR software which uses data fusion 

analytics and proactive alerts to 

provide more answers and the confidence 

to act. 

Designed to be fast, powerful and 

intuitive, 3M Plate Alert Software 

allows officers to take action, faster. 

Collaborating with Human Factors 

Scientists to ensure the software 

can be learned quickly and used 

efficiently, Plate Alert Software features 

the latest user-centered design 

methods to optimize interfaces and 

usability. This makes it easier to set 

up, search, get alerts and find leads. 

3M also partnered with law enforcement 

agencies to offer the most 

in-demand features. The result is an 

ALPR software that is powerful and 

easy to use, so officers spend less 

time clicking and more time following 

up on leads. 

Going beyond typical ALPR 

software, which notifies users 

when a plate read matches a watch 

list, 3M’s Plate Alert Software features 

pattern management alerts. 

Designed to proactively provide 

relevant information and actionable 

insights in near real-time, pattern 

alerts ensure almost all of the work 

is done before an officer even looks 

at the data. Notifications are sent 

when the system detects activity 

matching a pre-defined pattern that 

may suggest illicit activity. 

“Plate Alert Software uncovers 

relevant connections and provides 

a clear view of how seemingly unrelated 

people, places, things and 

events are connected, and how they 

impact each other,” said Seth Stores, 

global business manager at 3M. “By 

providing a more complete, informative 

and accurate picture, officers 

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can spot patterns faster and take 

action to keep their communities 

safe.” 

3M Plate Alert Analytical ALPR 

Software is the first ALPR software 

powered by data fusion analytics. 

Plate Alert Software can compile 

ALPR data with data from various 

sources, such as 911 calls, pawn 

data, police reports, motor vehicle 

data and more. It can then almost 

instantly find connections between 

data points to deliver solid, meaningful 

leads. By linking and simultaneously 

evaluating numerous common 

characteristics across multiple 

data sources, Plate Alert Software 

can uncover unexpected relationships 

and associations. This means 

law enforcements agencies can get 

new answers and leads from their 

data. Using sophisticated secondorder 

analysis, data fusion analytics 

deliver more actionable intelligence 

than conventional ALPR software, 

which rely on first-order analysis. 

Plate Alert Software also has increased 

data privacy measures. 

Mandatory controls ensure data is 

only accessed for legitimate purposes 

by customer chosen individu- 

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DevMynd obtains strategic investment from 

Motorola Solutions 

CHICAGO, IL, Aug. 18, 2016 – 

DevMynd, a leading-edge digital 

innovation consulting firm, announced 

today that it received 

Series A funding from Motorola 

Solutions Venture Capital. 

JC Grubbs, CEO, DevMynd, 

said the investment opens new 

collaborative opportunities that 

include the wave of innovation occurring 

in public safety and commercial 

communications. 

“We couldn’t be happier to be working 

with a partner that has such a rich 

tradition of solving problems that 

have a meaningful impact on people 

in critical situations,” Grubbs said. 

“Those are the types of challenges 

that we like to work on at DevMynd 

– things that really give us purpose. 

“Our experience in human-centered 

user research, user experience 

and service design will help Motorola 

Solutions and its customers develop 

products and apps that solve nextgeneration 

challenges,” he added. 

“And, we’re excited about opportunities 

to apply software engineering 

expertise to mobile, web and device 

needs that will result in robust, enterprise-grade 

solutions.” 

Paul Steinberg, chief technology officer, 

Motorola Solutions, said, “Both 

of our organizations look forward to 

working together on several fronts. 

DevMynd is an excellent example of 

our support of and collaboration with 

the entrepreneurial community in 

Chicago. 

“The adoption of broadband technology 

is driving innovation in public 

safety and commercial communications,” 

he added. “We know that 

tailored software and services will 

be required to deliver solutions and 

capabilities to our customers. We’re 

pursuing technological advances 

such as interoperable mobile applications 

for mission-critical communications 

and collaboration, enhanced 

situational awareness, real-time rich 

messaging, data analytics, and artificial 

intelligence. All of these are on 

the immediate horizon and we are 

looking for DevMynd to help us get 

these capabilities to our customers.” 

The strategic investment will allow 

DevMynd to expand its team, 

add new capabilities and enter new 

markets. It also will support access 

to strong strategy, design and custom 

software development services for 

Motorola Solutions and its customers. 

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About DevMynd 

DevMynd is an innovation firm in 

Chicago and San Francisco with 

practice areas in digital strategy, 

human-centered design, UI/UX, 

and custom mobile and web application 

development. The firm’s 

mission is to help its clients use 

technology to solve meaningful 

problems that have a profound 

impact on life, society and business. 

They serve clients ranging from startups 

to Fortune 100 firms that are investing 

in design, digital transformation 

and innovation. Learn more at 

https://www.devmynd.com. 

About Motorola Solutions 

Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) creates 

innovative, mission-critical communication 

solutions and services 

that help public safety and commercial 

customers build safer cities and 

thriving communities. For ongoing 

news, http://www.motorolasolutions. 

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Albuquerque police fight violence with 

intelligence-led policing 

The state of New Mexico has long 

held the dubious honor of high placement 

on the FBI National Crime Data 

Report. In 2014, the state was ranked 

the #2 most dangerous state in the 

Union. The city of Albuquerque has 

suffered a particularly high rate of 

violent crimes, with the number of 

murders in the city almost doubling 

between 2009-2013. 

Among the problems contributing 

to the high crime rate in Albuquerque 

is a proliferation of gangs. The 

Stop Albuquerque Gangs Task Force 

maintains an online list of known 

violent groups in the city. At the time 

of this writing, more than 100 gangs 

were listed on the website. The Albuquerque 

Police Department (APD) 

is not one of exceptional size, and 

has historically struggled to provide 

enough officers to effectively combat 

the problem. 

The APD is not the first and will not 

be the last police department to face 

this dilemma. Criminals have become 

more numerous, craftier, and are 

quick to take advantage of new technologies. 

Reactive police action, the 

traditional model of law enforcement 

in which police respond to crimes as 

they happen, has been steadily losing 

ground in the war against crime. 

Instead, more and more police departments, 

the APD included, are 

turning to a new paradigm known as 

intelligence-led policing. The core of 

this law enforcement model is “Work 

smarter, not harder.” In an intelligence-led 

police department, officers 

collect and analyze data using a variety 

of technologies and techniques. 

The data is used to decide where police 

resources should be committed to 

have the greatest effect. Intelligence 

officers are tasked with identifying 

repeat offenders and high risk areas, 

so that a department’s limited human 

resources can be utilized most efficiently. 

Intelligence-led 

policing is a revelation 

within the law 

enforcement community. 

In a study 

conducted by the 

non-profit Police 

Executive Research 

Forum (PERF), 54% 

of responding agencies 

reported that 

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they planned to increase the use of 

the practice within the near future. 

According to Wikipedia, intelligenceled 

policing has also found widespread 

adoption in Canada, Mexico, 

the UK, and New Zealand. 

A subset of intelligence-led policing 

is the burgeoning field of predictive 

policing. Intelligence officers within a 

department use collected data to construct 

heat maps and other models in 

an effort to predict where crimes are 

likely to occur, days or even weeks before 

they do. 

The heat map incorporates a vast 

amount of data about criminal activity 

over an area, allowing officers to 

visually identify the locations where 

crimes most densely concentrated. 

This technique allows “boots on the 

ground” to be sent where they can 

have the greatest positive effect, without 

wasting time patrolling quiet, 

low-risk areas. By patrolling the most 

crime-dense areas of Albuquerque, 

the APD is able to benefit the entire 

city by targeting the root causes of 

criminal activity. 

In Albuquerque, predictive policing 

requires the high volume collection of 

data about gang members and other 

likely criminal elements. The APD 

has successfully leveraged technology 

to accomplish this task in several 

ways. 

In 2013, the APD opened the Re-

al-Time Crime Center (RTCC). The 

RTCC is a locus of crime prevention 

technology, staffed with trained operators 

who monitor a network of static 

cameras around the city that today 

exceeds 1,000 units. RTCC personnel 

also monitor pawn shops for stolen 

goods and distribute a daily newscast 

to APD officers. They are largely responsible 

for the creation of the heat 

maps APD higher-ups use to intelligently 

assign police. The RTCC has 

proven effective, and is the recipient 

of an award from the International 

Association of Law Enforcement 

Planners. 

In its efforts to further develop the 

effectiveness of the RTCC and the 

APD as a whole, in 2014 the City of Albuquerque 

decided to invest in more 

advanced technology for its network 

of surveillance cameras. The selection 

criteria for the cameras prioritized 

flexibility and return on investment, 

meaning the cameras would have to 

cover more ground than the comparatively 

basic static-mounted cameras 

that comprised the original network. 

The new cameras would also necessarily 

be compatible with the existing 

systems at the RTCC, with a minimum 

of equipment retooling, software 

redevelopment, and operator 

retraining. After evaluating and testing 

camera solutions from a number 

of manufacturers across the United 

States, the APD settled on the Mobile 

Surveillance Unit (MSU) from 

ECAMSECURE. 

The MSU is essentially a freestanding 

camera tower. Each unit is portable 

enough to be towed by police 

vehicles, and can power and support 

a number of cameras with varying 

configurations. ECAMSECURE custom-designed 

and constructed several 

MSUs that incorporated a variety 

of pan / tilt / zoom (PTZ) cameras 

and fixed-angle HD cameras with a 

speaker feature to alert crowds to disperse. 

The portable nature of the MSUs 

has made them a perfect fit for Albuquerque’s 

push towards intelligenceled 

policing. The APD can now assign 

MSUs to heavy crime areas just as it 

does human officers. The imposing 

structures, bristling with cameras, 

have proven an effective deterrent for 

crime. 

By moving the MSUs from location 

to location, the APD keep criminals 

guessing as to whether or not they 

are under surveillance. The cameras 

have proven a boon for law-abiding 

citizens. News coverage reports that 

residents often feel safer and more 

protected with the cameras present. 

After moving an MSU out of a neighborhood, 

the APD typically fields requests 

and petitions for the cameras 

to return. 

Since the MSUs are a custombuilt 

solution tailored to each client, 

ECAMSECURE was able to ensure 

that they would be seamlessly compatible 

with the existing equipment 

and software at the RTCC. By sourcing 

compatible hardware and modifying 

software where needed, the 

MSU deployed in Albuquerque can 

be accessed by RTCC operators using 

largely the same interface and software 

they have already used for years. 

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ECAMSECURE technicians accompanied 

the initial deployment of 

MSUs to Albuquerque to train RTCC 

operators in their use, and support 

personnel have remained on-call to 

the APD 24/7. The APD leadership 

has praised ECAMSECURE for its 

dedication to service and support, 

especially the fast response time and 

willingness to resolve any issue, problem, 

or concern. 

The Mobile Surveillance Units have 

proven to be an excellent fit for the 

APD, and an order for additional 

units is already underway. ECAMSE- 

CURE is making several design upgrades 

and improvements for the next 

shipment of MSUs. The new units will 

include license plate capture, as well 

as other refinements. The existing run 

already deployed in Albuquerque will 

also be upgraded to match the new 

units. 

The crime rate in Albuquerque is 

today still high, but dropping through 

the efforts of the APD, the RTCC, and 

ECAMSECURE. Using the MSUs, the 

RTCC is able to alert APD officers of 

crimes in progress, as well as in suspicious 

activity or congregations that 

may erupt into violence. Using the 

two-way audio features, RTCC operators 

can even resolve some situations 

on their own, by broadcasting to 

would-be criminals that the police are 

on their way. 

The partnership is expected to continue, 

helping the APD leverage the 

latest technologies to safeguard the 

law-abiding residents of the city.

Access Control/Biometric ID 

Peter Smallridge, 3M Traffic Safety and Security Manager, 

discusses E.U. border security management, trends, new 

3M products and similarity to U.S. practices 

By Adrian Courtenay 

In a wide-ranging discussion that 

covered successful border security 

initiatives, new directions and 

needs for improvement in border 

security management in the European 

Union, including comparisons 

with U.S. practices, Peter Smallridge 

outlined the pros and cons of 

passport readers, biometrics, facial 

recognition, passwords with 

chips on them, automated border 

control, kiosks, mobile transport 

and the treatment of refugees. 

By necessity, the discussion also 

focused on the many ways to enter 

a country, from airports and 

seaports to automobiles, trains and 

private planes – not to mention the 

question of what happens to people 

after they have arrived in a country. 

“Many companies around the 

world are talking about exit,” said 

Smallridge. “They come in, we don’t 

know if they went home. Is he or she 

still here? We have no information 

whatsoever. That’s the big concern. 

In an ideal world, you want reporting 

of people coming in through any 

mobile transport – and recording of 

the exit. This is a megatrend.” 

“Across the world, border agencies 

are trying to get smarter,” he 

pointed out. “We focus on airports 

and mainly on people arriving 

through the airport. But in the E.U. 

we’ve found in some cities that only 

50% of the people enter via airports. 

Many cross land borders to go to 

work each day. Some come through 

seaports, some through civil airports. 

And you can leave by different 

routes or border agencies.” 

In response to security incidents 

or terrorism, Smallridge pointed 

out, a second reality in border security, 

that governments can be 

pressed for cash. Governments 

think this is where they can save 

some money. And unfortunately 

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this happens at the same time they 

want to replicate their installations 

into different locations. 

The solution that is taking place 

is that there is a big move toward 

Automated Border Control (ABC). 

It could be kiosks, gates or barriers 

– sometimes called – gates. 

Sometimes these are for everybody, 

sometimes they’re for people who 

register, as in the Global Entry 

System. This is about processing 

people in a self-service way. “It’s 

the least we can do with resident 

nationals or people from friendly 

countries who probably are not a 

risk – if you can get them to use 

the machines. Depending on the 

situation, some numbers of officers 

may have to be deployed in some 

venues.” 

But deploying officers can also 

create a major challenge – a technical 

one, because an officer from 

one post who then goes to another 

post to operate a different type of 

machinery may not know how to 

do it. This can be problematic, for 

instance, if the officer has to handle 

a finger print reader that he is not

Access Control/Biometric ID 

familiar with and neither is the traveler, 

it can call delays. 

There are lots of technical issues 

like these that 3M is considering, 

said Smallridge. “For example, if 

there’s a chip on the passport and it 

takes several seconds to open, and 

the user is used to seeing chips in 

a supermarket, he or she may need 

help in order to be processed. Our 

objective here is to make the systems 

easier to use, more intuitive, so 

that we can use them without having 

to think.” 

Automated Border Control is also 

being considered in the E.U. for sea 

borders. People arriving by ship 

may be coming off a car and may 

come to a barrier system where they 

are processed by password and fingerprint. 

Or they may have to get 

out of the vehicle, go into a building, 

or you drive next to a barrier of 

some sort. 

In the case of trains, an officer 

may have to walk through a with 

some kind of mobile device processing 

people as they go through. But 

often, because the train is going to 

arrive soon at the next station, and 

people are going to get off, there are 

more complications. 

Alongside all of that, there is the 

subject of biometrics. Typically, finger 

prints have been the most accurate 

and reliable system. They can 

also benefit law enforcement agencies, 

when they catch criminals or 

when they find evidence left behind, 

since the law enforcement officers 

do not typically have Iris processing. 

Finger prints have been the 

main biometric used for authentication. 

But that is changing, says 

Smallridge. “In order to process 

these people properly and to avoid 

queues, agencies are looking to use 

more than one type if biometric, 

because it takes too long to find 

the fingerprint. Thus we’re going 

to have to more than one biometric, 

because it takes too long to find 

the fingerprint. Thus many agencies 

around the world are now talking 

about ‘face and finger.’ If I select two 

of them on the way in, I can use anyone 

of them on the way out. It might 

be easier to face the people without 

stopping them.” 

The need for two means of processing 

has also created interest in 

iris usage, when neither face or finger 

are a good idea, such as where 

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it’s difficult to lean across a vehicle 

where someone is sitting next to the 

window, to finger print somebody, 

or when it is too dark to see their 

faces It also may be too dark to see 

their faces. 

Summing up on the logistical 

challenges, if you tighten up on the 

system, how do you avoid lines? If 

you’re going to the U.S., you don’t 

want to wait two hours to be processed. 

That’s why there’s so much 

effort being put into effect to make 

things smarter, and that’s why prebooking 

is getting more uses. When 

you book American Airlines, for example, 

they ask you for your passport 

during the booking process, 

and the information is supplied to 

the country of arrival, which will 

either use it to interview you when 

you arrive or possibly tell the airport 

not to board you. 

“We’re going to see more of these 

types of systems,” says Smallridge. 

“When I come to the United States, 

I get an ESTA, which is a kind of 

visa. The U.K. is a visa waiver country, 

where you buy a twelve month 

visa that costs something like $15. 

The ESTA determines validity of the 

entry to the country. In some countries, 

you have to go to the airport, 

where you provide ten fingerprints 

and probably will be asked a few 

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Continued from page 10 

their underlying IT infrastructure 

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“Through this partnership, our 

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“The modern enterprise needs to 

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ranges are a great tool to simulate 

real-world attack scenarios in a controlled 

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Koriat, CEO, Quali. “Quali cloud 

sandboxes help organizations build 

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and test advanced threats. We’re excited 

to partner with Cypherpath to 

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Why the Department of Homeland 

Security should also end private 

prison contracts 


as it has been in recent months, the 

government would spend $570. On 

some days when the facility is nearly 

empty, as it was for a period in 

January, the government would be 

paying multiples more.” 

Why would the government give 

a handout like this to a private company? 

Perhaps it stems from the fact 

that CCA “has on its payroll a slew 

of former senior government officials,” 

who are—presumably—very 

well connected. Regardless of how 

CCA procured such a bargain, the 

real bottom line is that a civilized 

nation does not put asylum seekers 

behind bars and then try as hard as 

possible to deport them back to the 

deadly situations they are fleeing. 

The Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS), which bears the 

responsibility for immigration detention, 

would be wise to follow 

the lead the Department of Justice, 

which just announced it is no longer 

going to use private prisons.

Donald Trump’s shortsighted 

immigration plans won’t secure the 

homeland 


tries stepped forward 

and registered with 

the federal government, 

resulting in 

13,000 deportations. 

However, no one who registered under 

NSEERS was ever charged with 

a crime related to terrorism. The 

“special registration” requirement 

ended in December 2003, while 

NSEERS as a whole was scrapped in 

April 2011. What Trump is proposing 

is NSEERS on a massive scale. 

It is important to keep in mind 

that “security” is about more than 

just keeping out those who would 

threaten our national security. It 

is also about creating and maintaining 

a vibrant economy and dynamic 

society that attract people 

from around the world. It is about 

establishing our global credibility 

as a society in which the rule of law 

and fundamental human rights are 

highly valued and respected. And it 

is about not undermining U.S. relationships 

with the allies needed to 

effectively combat international terrorists. 

If we move too far away from 

these goals, building a locked-down 

nation in which fear runs rampant 

and productivity and creativity are 

starved, then what exactly are we attempting 

to “secure”? 

3M’s new ALPR software extends 

reach, delivers real-time actionable 

intelligence 


als, and audit reports provide a full 

view of system activity to identify 

any potential misuse of sensitive or 

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“From parking lots and highways 

to ports and borders, we are 

committed to protecting law enforcement 

officials and their communities,” 

said Stores. “Plate Alert 

Software is the newest innovation to 

support those who take the oath to 

protect and serve.” 

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With $30 billion in sales, our 90,000 

employees connect with customers 

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Peter Smallridge, 3M Traffic Safety 

and Security Manager, discusses 

E.U. border security 


questions. 

Another major trend is Interoperability 

of Systems. In the U.S. there 

are different fingerprint systems 

which are called “AFIS” systems. 

These are fingerprint identify systems. 

Some are for border, a second 

group is for dealing with criminals, 

and the third group is use by the 

military. This system is not available 

in Europe, since a big objective 

in Europe is to separate systems so 

that citizens’ private affairs cannot 

be misused by politicians. 

Smallbridge adds that “The terrorist 

incidents in the last few months 

have proved the weakness of that 

concept”. 

He concludes the interview with a 

number of observations of the U.S. 

differences in practices from those 

of the European Union, and lists a 

number of objectives and initiatives 

that 3M is working with, pointing

out that 3M is one of the big three in 

this area – 3M, BEC and Morpho/ 

Safron. As a company generating 

upwards of $30-billion in revenues, 

3M definitely has the wherewithal 

to research and produce topnotch 

solutions and take a long view. 

In the U.S., identification systems 

are operated by Customs and Border 

Protection, and with the purchase 

some years ago of Cogent Systems, 

the CBP biometric matching 

system contains about 200 million 

people in its database; the criminal 

database is handled by the FBI and 

the military databases are handled 

by the Department of Defense. 

3M is working now on Mission 

Critical systems, the AFIS system 

and is modernizing capabilities for 

multiple biometric matching. 3M 

has also been working on facial 

recognition, voice recognition, mobile 

readers for such applications 

as walking through trains or entire 

cities, and further document reader 

improvement to enable processing 

of people who don’t speak English. 

“Learning our customers’ problems 

is the best way to solve the 

problems,” says Smallbridge. “It’s 

the kind of things we worry about. 

Can we see it? How? Do we need to 

acquire? That would be our scope. 

We’re a big company with many divisions. 

We share information inhouse 

with other divisions. Usability 

is very important to us. 

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