GSN_Magazine April Digital Edition

Government Security News 

APRIL 2017 DIGITAL EDITION 

RVSS deployed for protection across the southern U.S. border, with PureActiv as its central 

monitoring and video intelligence platform, receives Full Operating Capability from DHS’ 

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) – Page 8 

Also in this issue: 

For proactive security, Major General (res.) Aharon Zeevi Farkash, Founder and President of FST Biometrics, 

recommends building an aquarium– Page 6 

UTER Professor, Immigration Council question need for additional ICE and Border Patrol Agents, 

by Steve Bittenbender– Page 13

GSN April 2017 Digital Edition Table of Contents 

NEWS 

FEATURES 

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American-based Securiport’s intelligent immigration 

control aids in capture of two high-level ISIS terrorists 

at Senegal Airport 

G4S Security Integration achieves 

OHSAS 18001:2007 Certification 

For proactive security, says Israeli Major General (res.) Aharon Zeevi Farkash, 

Founder and President of FST biometrics, suggests building an aquarium 

RVSS achieves “Full Operating Capability” 

designation on Southern U.S. Border; 

CBP deployment features PureActive Geospatial C2 

and Video Analytics 

Pelco showcases latest technology innovations 

and strategic application solutions to Securika/MIPS 2017 

OnSSI integration with Jemez Technology improves 

perimeter protection surveillance effectiveness 

UTEP professor, Immigrant Council, question need for 

additional ICE and Border Security Patrol Agents, 

by Steve Bittenbender 

IRIS enters into global collaboration with TruTag 

in alliance that will create global market for the 

digitization of mission-critical smartcards and 

secure labels 

How to improve refugee vetting now – 

a 9/11 Commission border council perspective 

SPECIAL REPORT ON LAW ENFORCEMENT/PUBLIC SAFETY 

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San Francisco Department of Emergency Management 

selects NICE for 9-1-1 center grade 

Chicago considers ordinance requiring Panic Buttons 

for hotels 

Pro-Vision releases 1080p HD Video systems for law enforcement vehicles 

Taming the rising tide of digital evidence, 

by Linda Haelsen, NICE 

Kansas becomes first statewide deployment site 

of AT&T NextGen 911 Soltuion 

Rapid SOS secures $14M in investments to develop lifesaving 911 technology 

Cubic executive to discuss benefits of cloud hosting at transportation summit 

JW Fishers describes equipment now used to locate 

weapons and explosives 

Raytheon wins $375M contrast to modernize 

Air Force air and space operation centers 

Hikvision camera system to provide increased security for 

Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial 

SPECIAL REPORT ON CYBER THREATS & SOLUTIONS 

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Beyond Trust survey links breaches to aging federal infrastructure 

(ISC) 2 delivers cybersecurity workforce recommendations 

to White House Chief of Staff 

Imperva executive urges U.S. companies to evaluate pending 

EU cyber regulation 

Report: Municipal governments lack funding to reach high level of cybersecurity 

Cybersecurity executives ‘Wannacrypt’ ransomware attack a wake-up call 

for industry, government leaders

American-based Securiport’s intelligent 

immigration control aids in the capture of two 

high-level ISIS terrorists at Senegal airport 

April 18, 2017—According to several 

media reports, Securiport, a 

global leader in intelligent immigration 

controls and civil aviation 

security solutions, helped Senegalese 

authorities apprehend two 

high-ranking Daesh—most commonly 

referred to as ISIS—jihadists 

in the Senegal Airport. 

The suspects—of Moroccan descent—were 

traveling from Istanbul 

when they were flagged by Securiport’s 

global security system and 

arrested immediately. The names of 

the suspects have yet to be released, 

but they are the 36th terrorists to be 

captured by Senegalese authorities 

this year. 

In this globally connected world, 

ensuring strategic border security 

has become a high priority for European, 

Middle Eastern and African 

nations alike. Terrorists don’t 

respect international borders, so the 

need for implementing strong immigration 

control measures is imperative. 

As criminals and terrorists 

move across borders undetected, 

utilizing intelligent immigration 

control is a critical weapon in the 

fight against these new threats. 

And nowhere is there a greater 

need for border security than at 

airports. In 2016 Interpol flagged 

115,000 people attempting to use 

fraudulent passports and travel 

documents. That’s why countries 

typically ravaged by terrorists and 

criminals illegally crossing their 

borders are now relying on sophisticated 

airport security to assist them 

with their security. 

With this technology, and with 

the assistance of specially trained 

personnel, airports now have access 

to comprehensive biometric and 

passport screening technology in 

an integrated system, and real-time 

access to Interpol and similar international 

security-related databases. 

Securiport provides proprietary 

security solutions to governments 

in need. With state-of-the-art airport 

security, Securiport stems the 

flow of criminals and terrorists 

across borders by maximizing the 

usage of the most sophisticated 

predictive analytics tools, and big 

data, to keep airport passengers, 

and the world, safe. 

About Securiport 

Securiport LLC is a global leader 

in the design and implementation 

of civil aviation security, biometric 

screening, immigration control, 

and threat assessment systems. 

Headquartered in Washington, DC, 

USA, Securiport partners with governments 

from around the world. 

Securiport’s Civil Aviation and Immigration 

Security Services, a comprehensive 

security product that 

performs secure biometric recognition 

of travelers at immigration 

posts, provides proprietary systems 

for the identification of potential 

security risks, criminal activity, and 

disease prevention. Learn more at 

http://www.securiport.com. 

G4S Secure Integration achieves 

OHSAS 18001:2007 Certification 

Frank Cirone, G4S Secure 

Integration President 

Omaha, NE, May 1, 2017 – G4S Secure 

Integration’s corporate office in 

Omaha, NE has recently achieved 

registration to the Occupational 

Health and Safety Assessment Series 

(OHSAS) 18001:2007 specification. 

OHSAS is an internationally recognized 

standard for safety management 

systems; focusing 

on the management of 

risk, legal compliance 

and continuous improvement. 

G4S Secure Integration, 

part of G4S, is a 

leading systems integrator 

that brings innovative, 

flexible, and 

cost-efficient thinking 

to the design, construction, 

and maintenance of standalone 

or integrated communication 

networks and electronic security 

systems. Headquartered in Omaha, 

NE with sales and support nationwide, 

G4S Secure Integration provides 

customers with industry leading 

security solutions. 

Frank Cirone, G4S Secure Integration 

President, states, “by receiving 

this certification, it not only 

validates our commitment to a positive 

safety culture to employees, but 

to customers and business partners 

as well.” 

G4S Secure Integration partnered 

with Lloyd’s Register Quality 

Assurance (LRAQ) USA for the 

auditing and registration to the 

OHSAS 18001 standard. Lloyd’s 

Register Quality Assurance 

(LRQA) is the 

world’s leading provider 

of independent 

assessment services 

including certification, 

validation, verification 

and training 

across a broad spectrum 

of standards and 

schemes, with recognition 

from over 50 

accreditation bodies around the 

world. 

About G4S 

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G4S is the leading global, integrated 

security company, specializing in 

the provision of security services 

and solutions to customers. Our 

mission is to create material, sustainable 

value for our customers 

and shareholders by being the supply 

partner of choice in all our markets. 

G4S is quoted on the London 

Stock Exchange and has a secondary 

stock exchange listing in Copenhagen. 

G4S is active in around 

100 countries and has 600,000 employees. 

For more information on 

G4S, visit www.g4s.us. 

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For proactive security, build an aquarium 

Major General (res.) 

Aharon Zeevi Farkash, 

Founder and President 

of FST Biometrics 

This year there has been 

a significant increase in 

global terror. From Nice 

to Baghdad, Istanbul to 

Belgium and Tel Aviv, 

security agencies around the world 

are fully engaged in trying to prevent 

the next attack. In my extensive 

career in the Israel Defense Forces, 

and in particular within the intelligence 

community, I was constantly 

trying to create a “formula”, to look 

for that magic source of information 

that could help us prevent future attacks. 

And in that process, I learned two 

important truths: 

1. Such a solution does not exist. 

There is no one source of information 

that can help security forces 

prevent the next terror event. 

2. The next best thing is to build 

yourself an aquarium. 

Yes, that’s right. An aquarium. But, 

this aquarium isn’t filled with fish 

and a sunken plastic pirate ship. 

This is an aquarium of 

information, an ecosystem 

of sensors that combine 

to provide a clearer 

picture of the situations 

that security agencies 

must assess to prevent 

attacks from happening. 

This “intelligence 

aquarium” was filled 

with an array of sensors: signal intelligence, 

cyber intelligence, visual 

intelligence - not only from satellites- 

surveillance balloons, drones, 

special forces, human intelligence, 

interrogations and others. Any of 

these sources alone would do us 

no good; combined, they provided 

a clear picture of the security landscape. 

We fused all of this information, 

almost in real-time, into actionable 

intelligence for end-users (special 

forces, air force, any actor who 

could utilize the intelligence). This 

led me to understand the power of 

fusion. This real-time data fusion allows 

agencies to approach security 

with a preventative philosophy. We 

don’t want to look back at events after 

they happen, or learn lessons after 

another tragedy; we want to stop 

it before it happens. 

The power of fusion is the key to 

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effective preventative security. 

How Global Mega Trends Lead to 

the Demand for Convenient Security 

There are two mega trends in the 

world right now: 1) Urbanization 

and the rise of the megacities, which 

inevitably leads to rising crime rates, 

and 2) the need to prevent terrorism, 

which has become greater in 

the past year. With these two trends, 

increased security has become a necessity. 

But, security must also fit 

the pace of life. We do not want to 

live in a police state. 

Biometric technology provides an 

answer to this. If we can quickly and 

securely identify individuals before 

they enter a building – or prevent 

them from doing so – many security 

situations can be prevented before 

they take place. However, the lessons 

I learned from my intelligence 

experience apply to biometrics as 

well. Any sensor on its own – facial 

recognition, fingerprints, iris recognition, 

voice recognition – cannot 

provide the accuracy, speed, or the 

aesthetics needed for strong security 

that is also convenient for the 

public. 

Developing an effective biometric 

technology for secure access 

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RVSS achieves “Full Operating Capability” 

designation on southern U.S. Border 

CBP deployment features PureActiv Geospatial C2 and Video Analytics. 

PHOENIX, AZ – The recent designation 

by the U.S Department of 

Homeland Security’s Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) granted 

“Full Operating Capability” of 

General Dynamics’ Remote Video 

Surveillance Systems (RVSS) deployed 

for protection across the 

southern border of the United 

States. An important component 

of the RVSS system is PureTech 

Systems’ Geospatial Video Management 

System for Command 

and Control and the PureActiv® 

patented video analytics used for 

real-time automated long range 

detection, classification, and tracking 

in support of CBP’s mission 

along the U.S southern border. 

“Achieving this approval is a 

great accomplishment and we’re 

honored to be an instrumental part 

of the solution that is helping the 

great men and women of Customs 

and Border Protection protect 

our nation’s borders,” commented 

Larry Bowe, president and CEO of 

PureTech Systems. “Reaching this 

milestone was truly a team effort 

with all those involved.” 

General Dynamics, was awarded 

the contract to upgrade the RVSS 

capability along the southern U.S. 

border in July of 2013 with field 

deployments, including the Pure- 

Activ system, beginning in 2015. 

The RVSS system consists of a series 

of elevated towers and structures 

equipped with advanced 

electro-optical and infrared sensors 

enabled with video intelligence 

and advanced sensor control 

developed by PureTech Systems to 

provide persistent ground surveillance 

to border patrol agents. 

In their release, General Dynamics 

Information Technology’s IT 

Services and Solutions sector vice 

president and general manager, 

Dan Busby, quoted that, “Reaching 

a full operating capability designation 

is a testament to both the 

effectiveness of the RVSS solution 

and our continued partnership 

with CBP. The RVSS upgrade will 

continue to provide CBP and U.S. 

law enforcement personnel with 

the advanced technology necessary 

to secure our nation’s borders 

and increase agent safety through 

enhanced situational awareness.” 

Also quoted in the release was 

Ronald D. Vitiello, Chief of CBP’s 

U.S. Border Patrol, who said “The 

deployment of the Remote Video 

Surveillance System is important 

to the safety of our agents and to 

our mission. Successful partnerships 

like the one we have with the 

General Dynamics team, are necessary 

to efficiently and effectively 

secure the border.” 

The recent “Full Operating Capability” 

milestone was the culmination 

of two years of deployment 

and field testing at key locations 

across the southwest, including the 

Arizona sites of Nogales, Douglas, 

Naco and Ajo, as well as, the McAl- 

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len and Laredo locations in Texas. 

The RVSS Upgrade program has 

a potential 10-year performance 

period, during which the General 

Dynamics OneSource team, will 

manage the operation and maintenance 

at all sites. 

About PureTech Systems Inc. 

PureTech Systems Inc. is a manufacturer 

of wide-area perimeter 

surveillance software solutions including 

internally developed outdoor 

video analytics, multi-sensor 

integration and a map-based (real 

object size) command and control. 

PureTech Systems serves fortune 

1000 firms, petro-chemical, water 

and electric utilities, seaports, airports 

and federal, state and local 

governments. PureTech Systems, 

headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, 

delivers and supports installations 

throughout the world. To 

find out more about PureTech Systems 

Inc. visit our website at www. 

puretechsystems.com, follow us at 

@PureTechSystems or contact Eric 

Olson at 602-424-9842 or Eric.Olson@PureTechSystems.com.

Pelco showcases latest technology innovations and 

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MOSCOW, RUSSIA (March 7, 

2017) – Pelco by Schneider Electric, 

a global leader in surveillance and 

security products and technologies, 

will feature several of the company’s 

advanced security solutions at 

Securika/MIPS 2017, taking place 

at the Expocenter Fairgrounds in 

Moscow on March 21-14, 2017. 

Highlighted innovations on display 

include the powerful open 

platform VideoXpert Video Management 

Software (VMS) designed 

to control with confidence, a sneak 

peek of ExSite Enhanced Explosion 

Proof IP Cameras engineered 

to survive in the most challenging 

environments, and Sarix Enhanced 

IP Cameras that deliver the highest 

levels of low light performance 

when nothing but the best will do. 

“Security operations and procedures 

have become a core priority 

for businesses and organizations 

across every vertical market around 

the world as security professionals 

seek the most efficient and effective 

means to protect people, property 

and assets. This is especially pertinent 

for high-traffic public venues 

such as casinos and arenas,” said 

Diane Feliciano, VP, Global Marketing, 

Pelco by Schneider Electric. “At 

MIPS, attendees will 

witness firsthand how 

Pelco video surveillance 

and security solutions 

deliver higher levels of 

situational awareness, protection 

and even prevention 

when and where customers 

need it most.” 

In addition to highlighting 

system solutions with specific 

benefits for the casino and stadium 

markets, Pelco’s Securika/MIPS 

2017 display features strategic solutions 

for the oil and gas, city surveillance 

and hospitality vertical 

markets, and includes the following 

highlighted products: 

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ExSite Enhanced 

VideoXpert Video Management 

Software (VMS) dramatically improves 

the control of integrated surveillance 

and security solutions on 

a single platform, providing users 

with greater situational awareness 

so they can make more timely decisions 

and execute decisive action. 

VideoXpert’s open architecture enables 

third-party applications to 

be cost-effectively integrated for 

highly specialized applications in 

the hospitality, gaming and municipal 

surveillance markets. Recent 

enhancements 

to VideoXpert include: 

an enhanced 

user interface for 

improved centralized 

system management; 

incident management to 

easily and quickly correlate 

related video files; improved 

event management 

to customize event alerts with realtime 

visual notification; immersive 

viewing of 180°, 270° and 360° panoramic 

images from Pelco Optera 

Multi-Sensor Panoramic Cameras; 

and much more. 

Sarix Enhanced IP Cameras utilize 

Pelco’s exclusive SureVision 3.0 

low-light technology making Sarix 

imaging solutions ideal for hospitality 

and city surveillance, delivering 

quality images in as little as 0.05 lux 

with an incredible Wide Dynamic 

Range (WDR) of 130dB. Sarix Enhanced 

cameras are ONVIF Q compliant 

and are available in a wide 

selection of form factors for ease of 

integration into the hospitality and 

municipal surveillance markets, as 

well as many other mainstream applications. 

More on page 17

OnSSI integration with Jemez Technology improves 

perimeter surveillance effectiveness 

PEARL RIVER, NY (April 12, 

2017) – OnSSI’s partnering initiative 

with Jemez Technology makes 

perimeter video surveillance solutions 

employing AXIS cameras even 

more effective in protecting critical 

assets and infrastructure. The Ocularis 

5 VMS platform’s open architecture 

enables integration with the 

Jemez Eagle-i Edge® solution and 

AXIS cameras to 

deliver a complete 

end-to-end 

solution. 

“The integration 

of Ocularis with Jemez software 

is a best-in-class fit for security management 

tasked with securing widearea, 

long-range environments,” 

said Mulli Diamant, VP of International 

Business Development, 

OnSSI. “OnSSI’s ability to embrace 

technology innovations from other 

leading manufacturers is an important 

factor in our continued ability 

to deliver cutting-edge VMS solutions 

for professional security applications 

and beyond.” 

Jemez Technology, established 

by former engineers and scientists 

from the Los Alamos National Laboratory 

(LANL), provides advanced 

area and perimeter surveillance solutions 

for corporate and homeland 

security, with emphasis on critical 

asset and infrastructure protection. 

The company’s Eagle-i Edge 

on-camera analytics platform, specifically 

designed and optimized forAXIS 

camera networks, integrates 

with OnSSI solutions to significantly 

improve threat detection capability 

and lower operational costs. 

“The integration 

of our Eaglei 

Edge platform 

with Ocularis 

optimizes 

system efficiency 

and performance,” 

said Ted Turner, Director 

of Global Sales, Jemez Technology. 

“Now, end users have improved 

management of high risk surveillance 

data with capabilities that enhance 

agility and control.” 

Ocularis 5 offers a unique combination 

of enhanced features, recording 

versatility, robust data security, 

and overall stability that transcend 

conventional VMS solutions. Recent 

additions to the Ocularis 5 

platform include: an auto-updating 

feature like those available on most 

smartphones and tablets; Smart 

Camera Driver technology that 

provides out-of-the-box support 

for newly introduced cameras from 

industry-leading camera manufacturers; 

camera mapping via GPS 

on Ocularis Maps; and a new Mobile 

app that enables the streaming 

of live video from Android smartphones 

and devices to and from the 

Ocularis 5 VMS. 

Ocularis is offered in three models: 

Professional, designed for organizations 

operating multiple locations 

with small to 

mid-sized camera 

counts; Enterprise, built 

for a wide range of mid 

to large IT-centric organizations; 

and Ultimate, created for 

large organizations with extended 

command and control needs and 

recording server failover. 

For more information on OnSSI, 

call 845-732-7900, e-mail info@onssi.com 

or visit www.onssi.com. 

About OnSSI 

On-Net Surveillance Systems, Inc. 

(OnSSI) was founded in 2002 with 

the goal of developing comprehensive 

and intelligent IP video surveil- 


UTEP professor, Immigration Council question 

need for additional ICE and Border Patrol agents 

By Steve Bittenbender 

Editor, Government Security News 

On the same day a federal judge in 

California put a temporary halt on 

President Trump’s plan to withhold 

federal funds from sanctuary cities, 

a panel of immigration experts took 

aim at another aspect of Trump’s immigration 

and border control plan. 

The American Immigration 

Council held a teleconference Tuesday 

afternoon to discuss the Trump 

Administration’s plans to bolster 

the ranks of both Immigrations and 

Customs Enforcement and Border 

Patrol. The call came on the heels 

of a paper released by the Council 

from a University of Texas-El Paso 

professor who questioned the need 

for those additional agents. 

The most noted aspects of Trump’s 

immigration plan have been the 

proposed border wall between the 

United States and Mexico, the focus 

on limiting immigration from 

predominately Muslim nations and 

the emphasis on deporting undocumented 

aliens. However, the panel 

said Trump’s plan for more agents 

deserves greater scrutiny, especially 

since the number of undocumented 

aliens have dropped. 

A Pew Research Center report 

– also released on Tuesday – indicated 

there were about 11.3 million 

such individuals living in the United 

States last year. That’s nearly a million 

fewer than were here 10 years 

ago. 

In his paper and in the teleconference, 

Josiah McC. Heyman also 

expressed concerns about the risk 

of corruption within CBP 

and ICE as it expands 

its ranks. According to a 

New York Times report, 

CBP officers and Customs 

agents have taken more 

than $11 million in bribes 

from drug cartels and other 

criminals. 

“These two branches of 

the Department of Homeland Security 

(DHS) are poorly prepared 

to recruit, train, and supervise new 

personnel,” said Heyman, a professor 

of anthropology at UTEP and 

the director of the Center for Interamerican 

and Border Studies. “While 

the Border Patrol experienced some 

improvements in the aftermath of 

its last expansion, most recommendations 

for reform remain unimplemented.” 

In a memo to DHS officials two 

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Josiah McC. Heyman 

months ago, Homeland Security 

Secretary John Kelly said CBP did 

not have enough officers “to effectively 

detect, track, and apprehend 

all aliens illegally entering the United 

States.” While he called for the 

hiring to begin immediately, Kelly 

called on CBP to maintain consistency 

in training and standards 

when bringing the new agents on 

board. 

In fiscal year 2016, CBP 

had 19,828 agents and 

ICE had more than 20,000 

employees. Trump’s order 

calls for an additional 

5,000 CBP agents and 

10,000 more ICE staffers. 

Joshua Breisblatt, an 

analyst for the AIC, noted 

CBP, before Trump’s order, already 

authorized to have more than 

21,300 agents on staff. He added that 

Congress is currently considering 

Trump’s request for $300 million in 

funding to hire CBP and ICE agents 

this fiscal year, with more money requested 

for 2018. 

“These requests have come despite 

lower apprehension numbers at the 

border over the past few months,” 

Breisblatt said. 

More on page 42

IRIS enters into global collaboration with TruTag in 

alliance that will create global market for the digitization 

of mission-critical smartcards and secure labels 

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 May 2017 – 

IRIS Corporation Bhd (IRIS), a 

world leader in Trusted Identification 

(ID) will be partnering 

with leading U.S. authentication 

and digital security company, 

TruTag Technologies, 

Inc. to look into the potential 

for smartcard and secure label applications 

globally. 

TruTag has developed the world’s 

most advanced Optical Memory 

(iOM) device: a digital “cookie” 

that enables the digitization of the 

analogue world. TruTag’s iOM devices 

are dust-sized particles that 

can be embedded into the very fabric 

of a product without the need 

for packaging or labels. They are 

edible and covert, and can digitize a 

plethora of items for product intelligence, 

for effectively counteracting 

the US$1 trillion global problem of 

counterfeit and diverted products. 

IRIS Acting CEO Mr. Choong 

Choo Hock said the two parties 

would look at possible ways to work 

together to co-develop and offer a 

portfolio of smartcard and secure 

label products to customers in both 

the government and private sectors 

tant element of the corporate restructuring 

currently in process in 

IRIS, as it puts IRIS a few generations 

ahead of its peers in the secure 

and trusted ID business,” said Tan 

Sri Sharir. 

“The combined strengths and 

product portfolio of both companies 

will enable us to target practically 

every aspect of product authentication, 

including enhancing the safety 

and traceability of food an medicine, 

which is an 

issue of global 

importance.” 

said Dr. Hank 

Wuh, Founder 

and Chairman of 

TruTag Technologies. 

This collaboration 

with TruTag comes just 10 days 

after IRIS announced a partnership 

with Norway’s Zwipe, a company 

that offers biometric contactless 

payment cards and fingerprint authentication 

technology. 

tems integrator for eID, ePassport, 

border control, multiple credential 

identity management ecosystems, 

and payment systems for financial 

and transportation industries where 

authenticity, improved security, 

speed, accuracy and effectiveness 

are of paramount importance. IRIS’ 

innovative solutions, applications 

and devices have been deployed in 

over 30 countries across the globe, 

reaching far into Asia, the Middle 

East and Africa. 

Learn more at 

www.iris.com.my. 

around the world. 

“As the pioneer of ePassport and 

multi-application eID technology, 

IRIS has been in trusted ID for 

over 20 years, with clients in over 

30 countries, including the U.S., 

Canada, Italy, Norway and India. 

TruTag, on the other hand, is a leading 

U.S. authentication company, 

and the only company in the world 

with covert and ingestible (edible) 

optical memory microtags that can 

be applied to both consumables 

(pharmaceuticals, food and beverage) 

and secure documents. We are 

looking to provide multiple layers of 

security to secure labels and documents, 

including, but not limited to 

biometric smartcards and missioncritical 

labels such as airline baggage 

labels,” said Mr. Choong. 

“We are delighted to team up 

with IRIS Corporation as a pioneer 

and world leader in trusted 

Identification. The collaborative 

venture will look to 

providing secure documents 

and labels for various applications 

across different countries 

and industries, and we look forward 

About TruTag 

to working together with IRIS to 

Technologies, 

provide leading-edge authentication 

Inc. 

and data intelligence solutions 

TruTag Tech- 

to our customers with high levels 

nologies, Inc. is 

of security needs,” said Dr. Michael 

a leader in product authentication, 

Bartholomeusz, CEO of TruTag 

brand security and data intelligence 

Technologies. 

solutions. The TruTag® platform 

Federal Land Development Authority 

addresses the US$1 trillion global 

(“FELDA”), which holds a 

challenge of counterfeit, diverted 

21.33% stake in IRIS through Felda 

and adulterated products that impact 

the pharmaceutical, life scienc- 

Investment Corp. Sdn. Bhd. (“FIC”), 

is positive on the partnership between 

About IRIS Corporation Berhad 

es, food, electronics, industrial, and 

the two companies. Felda Founded in 1994, IRIS Corpora- 

consumer goods industries. TruTag 

chariman Tan Sri Sharir Samad said tion Berhad (ACE Market: IRIS) is iOMTM devices are edible, inert, 

the proposal will be discussed by a MSC-status technology innovator covert and can seamlessly integrate 

the boards of both FELDA and FIC and leading provider of solutions information into the very fabric of a 

to map out the potential markets and advancements for trusted identification 

product, independent of packaging 

and sectors to target. 

and payment. Since pio- 

and labels. TruTag can extend the In- 

“The expansion of IRIS’ product neering the world’s first electronic ternet of Things (IoT) to a plethora 

portfolio to include new, industrydefining 

passport in 1998, IRIS has set itself of new, non-web-connected objects 

technologies is an impor- apart as a dedicated end-to-end sys- 

and products, and are read using 

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handheld imagers programmed to 

authenticate a product’s provenance 

information. TruTag Technologies, 

Inc. has been recognized by the Edison 

Awards, Fast Company, R&D 

100, and was selected a Technology 

Pioneer by the World Economic Forum 

as one of the most influential 

technology companies in the world. 

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How to improve refugee vetting now – a 9/11 

Commission border counsel perspective 

Janice Kephart, former 

9/11 Commission 

border counsel 

and partner, IdSP 

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2017 / 

PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Janice 

Kephart, former 9/11 Commission 

border counsel and partner 

with Identity Strategy Partners, LLP 

(IdSP), today issues the following 

statement: 

“With or without President 

Trump’s March 6, 2017 Executive 

Order: Protecting the Nation from 

Foreign Terrorist Entry, refugee vetting 

can be instilled with greater 

confidence, enabling the reactivation 

of legitimate refugee resettlement. 

(Right now, all refugee applications 

are suspended by until at 

least July 2017). Improvements in 

current refugee vetting will require 

a language change to current law, 

identity enrollment taking place 

earlier in the process, and the implementation 

of a long-ignored 9/11 

Commission recommendation. But 

improvement is doable, and now. 

So why does the refugee population 

present a threat to national 

security? The reason is twofold: (1) 

intelligence for years has revealed 

a terrorist travel tactic of infiltrating 

refugee populations for eventual 

resettlement into Europe or the 

United States, and (2) by legal definition 

refugees are displaced persons 

with unknown identity. Even 

for those with an ID, establishing 

its authenticity or trusting its origin 

is difficult since by policy, no information 

is shared with the home 

country, so there is no country of 

origin against which to run checks 

as in a regular visa referral. Since 

the refugee demographic tends to 

be anonymous, it is more difficult to 

ensure a person is who they say they 

are, and then affiliate that identity 

with intelligence and other potentially 

significant financial or other 

data. In short, limited identity and 

intelligence information 

diminish confidence in 

recommendations about 

which refugees to accept 

for U.S. resettlement. 

The program responsible 

for vetting refugees 

seeking U.S. resettlement 

is the United States Refugee 

Admissions Program 

(USRAP). It is run jointly 

by the State Department, 

who receives referrals 

from the United Nations 

and conducts initial processing including 

a biographic name check, 

and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Service (USCIS), who conducts 

more in-depth interviews and 

collects biometrics from applicants. 

The program has been fine-tuned 

over many years. Yet the program 

requires vital improvements, and 

the recommendations below should 

be considered minimum baseline 

requirements. 

Congress must change law to 

enable U.S. access to refugee 

biometric data collected by the 

United Nations. 

Since 2013, the United Nations has 

a sophisticated biometric identity 

management system 

that collects 10 fingerprints, 

two irises, and 

face of every refugee, 

sometimes two to four 

years before a U.S. referral 

for initial biographic 

screening. Right now, 

due to an archaic law 

that prevents sharing of 

biometric information 

collected by a non-U.S. 

citizen, the U.S. has no 

access to this key identity 

information. The law needs to 

change to permit that biometric 

data be available for vetting against 

federal databases from designated 

international partners such as the 

United Nations. 

Refugees must be biometrically 

enrolled the first time they enter the 

U.S. system. 

State does not collect any biometrics 

from refugees, and thus only 

has the word of the refugee as to 

who they are, making the required 

biographic checks a potential goose 

chase. While USCIS does collect 

rolled prints and a face photo at the 

time of the interview, current vetting 

against some U.S. biometric 

holdings do not return results for 

up to 24 hours, after the interview 

is already over. If State collected 

the biometrics as part of their prescreening 

interviews conducted 

by their Resettlement Service staff, 

USCIS interviews would be better 

informed, and so would the final assessment. 

Implement the 9/11 Commission 

recommendation for a 

person-centric immigration system. 

State and USCIS use different case 

filing assignments for refugees. 

Policy does not require that State 

initiate a file number that USCIS 

recognizes or uses in the processing 

of the ultimate immigration benefit 

the refugee seeks. Thus, each applicant 

has two different file numbers, 

creating disconnect and potential 

for confusion and duplication. Yet 

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Law Enforcement/Public Safety 

San Francisco Department of Emergency Management 

selects NICE for 9-1-1 center upgrade 

HOBOKEN, NJ – April 18, 2017 – 

NICE (Nasdaq:NICE) announced 

today that the San Francisco Department 

of Emergency Management 

(SFDEM), a NICE customer 

since 2006, has once again selected 

NICE solutions for its 9-1-1 center 

upgrade. The SFDEM 9-1-1 center 

will be taking advantage 

of the full range of 

NICE Inform’s futureready 

applications and 

integrations to improve 

productivity and effectiveness 

across its entire 

operation, and ensure the 

highest levels of service 

for residents of the City 

and County of San Francisco, 

and large numbers 

of tourists who visit the 

area as well. 

“We’ve been working with NICE 

for about 10 years now and it has 

been a really good relationship,” 

said Mitch Sutton, CIO, San Francisco 

Department of Emergency 

Management. “We feel that NICE 

really ‘gets’ public safety and our requirements. 

In addition to meeting 

our needs today, the NICE Inform 

suite of solutions is well suited to 

our future requirements.” 

The SFDEM’s 9-1-1 call takers and 

dispatchers are a critical lifeline between 

the public and first responders. 

A staggering 3,474 calls come 

into the 9-1-1 center each day and 

that number is steadily growing. 

The SFDEM is aggressively recruiting 

telecommunicators to keep pace 

with the workload, while also looking 

for other ways to bolster telcommunicator 

efficiency and effectiveness. 

The SFDEM’s 9-1-1 call takers and 

dispatchers are a critical lifeline between 

the public and first responders. 

With 3,474 calls to the 9-1-1 

center daily, the SFDEM 9-1-1 center 

will use the full range of NICE 

Inform’s future-ready applications 

and integrations to improve productivity 

and effectiveness across 

its entire operation and ensure the 

highest levels of service (photo 

credit ©Michael Mustacchi) 

Boosting Efficiency 

and Quality Assurance 

“Our telecommunicators 

perform difficult 

and life-saving work 

every day,” said Sutton. 

“Here at the SF- 

DEM there has been 

a big push to process 

calls more efficiently 

to get first responders 

on scene faster. We’re 

also placing a heightened emphasis 

on quality assurance to ensure our 

telecommunicators are handling 

calls efficiently and according to 

protocols. NICE Inform is going to 

help us streamline our quality assurance 

process and meet our goals.” 

With NICE Inform Evaluator, the 

SFDEM will be able to expand its 

quality assurance program to sys- 

tematically review all call types and 

identify areas where call processing 

can be improved. NICE Inform 

Evaluator combines automated, 

rules-based QA call selection with 

a form builder for creating customized 

evaluation forms for call review 

and scoring. Results of evaluations 

are automatically tabulated and can 

be used to pinpoint coaching and 

training gaps, while also improving 

feedback and employee retention. 

With the addition of NICE screen 

recording, supervisors will be able 

to hear what was said and at the 

same time see what was happening 

on the telecommunicator’s screen as 

calls were processed. 

The SFDEM also expects to achieve 

efficiency gains in its records custodians 

unit. This unit processes close 

to 25,000 requests for 9-1-1 records 

annually for District Attorneys and 

other requestors. NICE Inform will 

streamline the fulfillment of these 

requests by making it easier to find, 

retrieve and share audio recordings. 

Introducing Next Generation 

Technologies 

Like most 9-1-1 centers, the SF- 

DEM is moving to next generation 

technologies. NICE’s direct, certified 

integration with West Corporation’s 

VIPER® Voice over IP solution 

means that the SFDEM can record 

its IP emergency communications 

with confidence. NICE Inform is 

also future-ready, so when the SF- 

DEM is ready to start accepting SMS 

9-1-1 texts, it will be able to leverage 

its investment in NICE Inform to 

record and manage voice, SMS 9-1- 

1 texts, and additional future multimedia 

in a unified system. 

“NICE values our long-standing 

relationship with the San Francisco 

Department of Emergency Management, 

and we’re honored that 

they continue to entrust NICE with 

their public safety needs,” said Chris 

Wooten, Executive Vice President, 

NICE. “NICE is committed to helping 

the SFDEM improve its efficiency 

and effectiveness to provide 

excellent emergency response to the 

citizens it serves, while also helping 

the SFDEM prepare for the future.” 

About the San Francisco Department 

of Emergency Management 

The San Francisco Department of 

Emergency Management (DEM) 

leads the City in planning, preparedness, 

communication, response, 

and recovery for daily emergencies, 

large scale citywide events, and major 

disasters. DEM is the vital link 

in emergency communication between 

the public and first responders, 

and provides key coordination 

and leadership to City departments, 

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stakeholders, residents, and visitors. 

The San Francisco Division of 

Emergency Communications’ 9-1- 

1 center serves a city and county of 

860,000 people and fields calls for 

police, fire and medical emergencies, 

as well as calls for nonemergency 

services. The center receives 

more than 1.2 million emergency 

and non-emergency calls per year. 

www.sfdem.org. 

About NICE 

NICE (Nasdaq:NICE) is the worldwide 

leading provider of both 

cloud and on-premises enterprise 

software solutions that empower 

organizations to make smarter decisions 

based on advanced analytics 

of structured and unstructured 

data. NICE helps organizations of 

all sizes deliver better customer service, 

ensure compliance, combat 

fraud and safeguard citizens. Over 

25,000 organizations in more than 

150 countries, including over 85 of 

the Fortune 100 companies, are using 

NICE solutions. www.nice.com.


Chicago considers ordinance requiring 

panic buttons for hotel staff 

BROOKFIELD, WI April 28, 2017 

RF Technologies (RFT) HELP 

ALERT® Panic Alert System for 

Hospitality was recently featured in 

a news story (WLS-TV, Chicago) 

highlighting the need to protect 

hospitality workers from violence 

and assault in the workplace. The 

story outlined an ordinance introduced 

on April 19, now under 

consideration by the Chicago City 

Council, which would require that 

certain staff in Chicago hotels be 

equipped with panic alert devices to 

protect them while they work. RFT’s 

Marina Willis, president, Pinpoint 

Technologies, was interviewed for 

the story. 

According to a Chicago Tribune 

report, the bill, sponsored by Alderman 

Michele Harris, 8th Ward, and 

backed by labor unions including 

Unite Here Local 1, would require 

that employees working alone in 

Chicago hotels be issued panic buttons 

(such as RFT’s HELP ALERT 

wireless pendant) that would enable 

them to warn security quickly 

if they encounter potentially dangerous 

situations in guests’ rooms. 

The ordinance would also require 

that hotels post sexual harassment 

and assault policies and promise no 

retaliation against workers who report 

encountering such treatment. 

Hotels that do not provide the panic 

alert buttons and adhere to other 

parts of the measure could be fined 

up to $500 per incident. 

“Has this prevented things from 

escalating? Absolutely,” says Willis, 

of RF Technologies. “We’ve had 

situations where we have 

had housekeepers go into 

a room, start cleaning, and 

someone comes out of the 

bathroom not wearing any 

clothes and blocks them 

from leaving the room.” Hotel 

workers are already wearing 

these devices in New 

York and Washington, D.C. Similar 

mandates and/or ordinances will 

soon be adopted in cities including 

Seattle, San Francisco, and areas 

in Southern California, where they 

are being requested with increased 

frequency by staff members and local 

unions representing hospitality 

workers. 

RFT is pleased to be a part of such 

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in hospitals, schools, colleges and 

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and hotels, with our HELP ALERT 

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For additional information on this 

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PRO-VISION releases 1080p HD video 

system for law enforcement vehicles 

BYRON CENTER, MI April 26, 

2017 PRO-VISION® Video Systems, 

the leader in mobile video technology 

and software for law enforcement, 

announced today the release 

of its new 1080p High-Definition 

In-Car Video System for police vehicles. 

The PRO-VISION® 

HD In-Car Video 

System is the only 

1080p True HD system 

capable of providing 

360 degree 

vehicle coverage, capturing highfidelity 

audio and video that’s more 

than twice the quality of 720p HD 

cameras on up to eight cameras. 

An interior camera provides 180 

degree door-to-door HD coverage 

of the rear seat area in any lighting 

condition, while a compact forwardfacing 

camera records the front of 

the vehicle without obstructing the 

view of the road like bulky cameras 

featured in other systems. 

Combining industry-leading features 

with a rugged Solid-State design, 

a 5-Year Warranty and a price 

over 50 percent less than other 

brands, the PRO-VISION® HD In- 

Car Video System is the most Reli- 

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video system available. 

About PRO-VISION ® 

Since 2003, PRO-VISION® has been 

engineering, manufacturing and 

installing Reliable, Simple, Affordable 

mobile video 

recording systems 

and software solutions 

for the school 

bus, transit, law enforcement 

and commercial 

markets. 

Specializing in back-up, dash-cam, 

in-car and body-worn video; PRO- 

VISION® products increase safety 

and reduce liability for thousands of 

organizations in nearly 50 countries 

around the globe. Recently recognized 

as a Deloitte Technology Fast 

500 company and by Inc. magazine 

as one of the fastest growing private 

companies in America for the sixth 

consecutive year, PRO-VISION® 

takes pride in offering the highest 

quality products backed by the absolute 

best customer and technical 

support. For more information, visit 

http://www.provisionusa.com.


Taming the rising tide of digital evidence 

By Linda Haelsen, NICE 

Crime solving in the 21st century 

hinges on digital evidence. Paper silos 

have been replaced by digital silos 

and these silos are growing faster 

than ever, creating a rising tide of 

digital evidence that’s increasingly 

challenging to collect, analyze and 

share. 

For police departments, this is 

creating a big problem. There’s so 

much data, coming from so many 

silos that it’s becoming increasingly 

difficult for investigators to ingest it, 

correlate it, and absorb the relevant 

facts of a case. 

Put another way, the growing variety 

and volume of digital evidence 

has outpaced the tools investigators 

have to collect, analyze and share it. 

While CCTV video has certainly 

taken off, the spectrum of digital 

evidence is far wider. Think of all 

of the abundantly available sources 

of digital evidence that address 

many of the questions investigators 

once labored to answer. There’s 

in-car video, interview recordings, 

crowd-sourced information (like 

citizen tips, photos, and videos), 

911 recordings, and information 

from other systems, like Automatic 

License Plate Recognition 

(ALPR), Computer Aided 

Dispatch (CAD), and Records 

Management Systems 

(RMS). There are also 

body-worn cameras, which 

are being adopted by police 

departments in growing 

numbers. 

With digital evidence 

growing exponentially and 

coming from more places, 

it’s clear that police departments 

need better tools so they can 

leverage all of the available digital 

evidence to improve case solvability 

and reduce crime rates. 

Collecting evidence: 

the conundrum 

Consider how investigators gather 

evidence and build cases today. 

They often have to log on to a dozen 

or more systems to collect evidence 

and then manually search for connections 

in cases, which wastes time 

and increases the likelihood that 

crucial evidence will be missed. 

Even though CCTV is now commonplace 

in investigations, collecting 

it is still incredibly time 

consuming. It’s not uncommon for 

a detective to physically drive to 

a crime scene to canvas for video 

cameras. The cameras can be hard to 

spot, especially in high rises where 

they’re not always visible. When 

video is located, the investigator 

then needs to download a copy and 

bring it back to the station. 

Despite the fact that citizens are 

readily willing to share it, departments 

also lack scalable solutions 

for crowdsourcing evidence. According 

to a recent Nielsen survey 

recently conducted by NICE, 95 

percent of Americans polled said 

they’d be willing to share pictures, 

videos, tips, or other evidence if 

they witnessed a crime or serious 

incident, providing they were given 

an easy means to do so. 

Still, too many police departments 

don’t provide an easy way for citizens 

to submit photos, video or tips. 

They don’t have the systems or the 

infrastructure to readily accept this 

evidence for everyday investigations, 

and especially for large-scale 

events. 

Investigators also waste incredible 

amounts of time emailing, phoning, 

filling out paperwork, even driving 

from place to place to manually 

collect digital evidence. All of 

this evidence is then painstakingly 

copied and saved on CDs, DVDs or 

USB drives, and added to paper case 

folders. 

How new digital investigation 

and evidence management 

technology can help 

New digital investigation and evidence 

management technology is 

now helping to break down these 

barriers by enabling police departments 

to seamlessly connect all of 

their digital silos through one application. 

The technology provides 

a one-stop shop for gathering evidence 

so investigators don’t have to 

waste time logging on to all of the 

individual systems to manually collect 

evidence to build their cases. 

In addition to simplifying access, 

the technology is able to search 

across all connected systems and 

recommend evidence that is potentially 

relevant to the case. 

Advanced content analytics make 

both structured and unstructured 

data sources searchable. This includes 

audio recordings, databases, 

narratives from CAD comments, 

incident reports, FI cards, reports, 

documents, and more. This means 

that investigators can uncover connections 

and generate new leads, 

which ultimately helps them solve 

cases faster. 

An investigator also has the ability 

to add key words to a search. 

Let’s say, for example, a witness in 

a homicide investigation said they 

saw a panel van with ‘Joe’s Plumbing’ 

marked on the side, fleeing the 

scene. By adding ‘Joe’s Plumbing’ 

to a key word search, all connected 

sources – from incident reports in 

the CAD system to tagged crime 

scene photos and witness statements 

– would be searched for those 

two key words. 

In addition to searching docu- 

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ments and databases, the technology 

can convert audio to text to 

make it searchable, so for example, 

911 calls and interview room recordings 

could be searched for the 

words ‘Joe’s Plumbing’ as well. All 

the investigator would need to do is 

review the suggested evidence, and 

select it to add it to a virtual case 

folder. 

Investigators can also initiate and 

track evidence requests using built 

in workflows, and receive automatic 

notifications when those requests 

are fulfilled. This makes it easier for 

an investigator to stay on top of active 

cases, while not losing track of 

evidence or leads. 

Furthermore, citizens can submit 

video, photos and tips through a secure 

public portal. Private businesses 

can also use the portal to register 

their CCTV cameras and provide 

contact details, making it easier for 

law enforcement agencies to crowdsource 

evidence. By geo-locating 

both city-owned and private CCTV 

cameras, the technology enables investigators 

to look at the area where 

a crime occurred and know where 

cameras are located, minimizing 

time spent canvassing for video. 

The technology is also cloudbased 

so it can scale to growing evidence 

storage requirements if there’s 

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Kansas becomes first statewide deployment 

site of AT&T NextGen 911 solution 

TOPEKA, KS, April 27, 2017 AT&T 

and the Kansas 9-1-1 Coordinating 

Council continue to improve the 

9-1-1 experience in the state. Kansas 

will be the first statewide deployment 

of AT&T ESInet. 

AT&T ESInet is a new NextGen 

9-1-1 solution that provides IPbased 

call routing services to emergency 

response centers. It will help 

Kansas boost 9-1-1 reliability, speed 

emergency responsiveness and improve 

disaster recovery. For Kansans, 

this means a faster, more reliable 

9-1-1 experience. 

This builds on Kansas’ previous 

investment to modernize its outdated 

public safety technology with a 

NextGen 9-1-1 hosted call handling 

solution from AT&T. 

“Updating our 9-1-1 infrastructure 

is key to keeping our 

people safe, and selecting AT&T 

was an obvious choice,” said Dick 

Heitschmidt, chairman of the Kansas 

9-1-1 Coordinating Council and 

Hutchinson chief of police. “AT&T 

provides our public safety community 

with a comprehensive NextGen 

9-1-1 solution, delivering the value, 

expertise and teamwork needed to 

create the current and future experiences 

our residents expect. It’s our 

goal to stay on the cutting edge of 

public safety, and AT&T ESInet will 

help to make that a reality.” 

With AT&T ESInet, Kansas will 

have more sophisticated capabilities 

to route calls based on the caller’s 

geographic location. Public Safety 

Answering Points (PSAPs) will also 

be able to manage and route advanced 

communications like text 

messaging to 9-1-1. In the future, 

Kansas PSAPs will be able to support 

pictures and videos sent via 

text message. This is crucial in today’s 

mobile environment where 

more than 70% of the calls made to 

9-1-1 come from a mobile device. 

“AT&T ESInet will help propel 

Kansas into the next generation of 

public safety. It’ll give Kansas emergency 

services an advanced network 

to better meet the needs of residents, 

first responders and 9-1-1 call takers 

today and tomorrow,” said Jon 

Wellinger, assistant vice president, 

AT&T Global Public Sector. 

Since AT&T ESInet is a highly 

secure and resilient nationwide 

service, it will give Kansas access 

to geographically diverse and redundant 

call processing locations 

throughout the country. 

This will let the state work with 

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• Maintain service during a natural 

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• Help save precious time by routing 

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• Automatically route calls to 

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Other benefits include access to: 

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with multiple layers of security 

– like firewalls and intrusion 

detection/prevention. This will 

help protect Kansas 9-1-1 infrastructure 

from cyber threats. 

• Industry standard components 

that will give the state backward 

compatibility with legacy 9-1-1 

systems and services. 

The capabilities that NextGen 9-1-1 

technologies will give to PSAPs and 

the public will become a necessity. 

Working with AT&T, Kansas is on 

track to move 75% of its PSAPs to 

NextGen 9-1-1 hosted call handling 

by the end of this year. 

“We’ve long supported Kansas 

public safety needs, and we are 

proud to continue our great relationship, 

helping Kansas on its mission 

to future-proof its 9-1-1 infrastructure,” 

said Wellinger. 

By making it easier to manage 

9-1-1 calls, AT&T ESInet will help 

Kansas public safety resources go 

further, so they can focus on what 

matters most: protecting people and 

saving lives. 

AT&T is a leader in first responder 

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For more information on how 

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RapidSOS secures $14M in investments to develop 

life-saving 911 technology 

NEW YORK, April 25, 2017 RapidSOS, 

an emergency technology 

start-up, today announced the closing 

of a $14 million Series A funding 

round led by Highland Capital 

Partners with participation from A3 

Ventures (the innovation subsidiary 

of AAA Northern California, Nevada 

& Utah), The Westly Group, 

Two Sigma Ventures, Motorola Solutions 

Venture Capital, Responder 

Ventures, and several notable individuals 

including three former FCC 

Chairmen (Tom Wheeler, Julius 

Genachowski, Dennis Patrick). 

Technology has dramatically 

changed our lives over the last 50 

years, except for when we need it 

most. Over 240 million 911 calls 

are made each year, all reliant on a 

voice connection with less data than 

was originally transmitted through 

the first trans-Atlantic cable in 1858. 

The FCC estimates that improved 

information flow to 911 and first 

responders could save over 10,000 

lives annually. 

“For the last 50 years – we’ve relied 

on a voice-only connection when 

our lives were on the line – whether 

from us or through a home security, 

medical alert, or roadside assistance 

call center,” said Dan Nova, Partner 

at Highland Capital Partners and 

RapidSOS Board Member. “Rapid- 

SOS’ technology eliminates the need 

for clunky third-party call centers – 

providing a transformative platform 

for safety, security, and wellness.” 

RapidSOS spent four years working 

closely with thousands of public 

safety officials across the United 

States to develop a universal data 

link into 911 and first responder 

networks. The result is a transformation 

from a voice-only system into a 

rich data link connecting millions 

of smartphones, wearables, connected 

cars, and home IoT products 

directly to 911 and first responders. 

Wearables powered by RapidSOS 

automatically detect health emergencies 

– transmitting rich data to 

responding ambulances. 

Connected cars provide key 

telematics data to 911 and responders. 

Connected homes linked through 

RapidSOS inform firefighters with 

real-time data including smoke 

density, temperature, and location 

of trapped occupants. 

“Over the past four years I’ve 

witnessed the incredible heroism 

of public safety officials who manage 

millions of emergencies with 

little more than a distraught caller’s 

voice,” said Michael Martin, CEO of 

RapidSOS. “I’m excited to be partnering 

with thought leaders across 

public safety, telecom, and technology 

to link any device with rich data 

directly to 911 and first responders.” 

“Working with RapidSOS brings 

a new dimension to our portfolio 

of integrated software solutions for 

the public safety command center,” 

said Eduardo Conrado, Executive 

Vice President, Strategy & Innovation 

Office, Motorola Solutions. 

“Our work together creates end-to- 

Michael Martin 

RapidSOS Founder 

Nick Horelik, PhD 

RapidSOS Founder 

end emergency data connectivity, 

enabling third-party data to flow 

through Motorola Solutions’ emergency 

response systems to personnel 

in the field. It provides critical 

information that can accelerate 

response times and improve outcomes.” 

“Having served as State Controller 

and CFO of California, I know 

firsthand that 911 centers face significant 

funding and technological 

challenges impacting lives,” said 

Steve Westly, Founder and Managing 

Partner at The Westly Group. 

“We are thrilled to work with the 

top engineers at RapidSOS to solve 

this global challenge.” 

RapidSOS’ technology platform, 

originally developed by Martin, 

Nick Horelik and a team of engineers 

out of MIT and Harvard University, 

provides a rich data link 

into any 911 dispatch system and a 

platform for advanced emergency 

analytics. “We’ve already seen how 

emergencies are often predictable 

and preventable,” said Horelik, RapidSOS 

CTO. “In the future, our users 

will get advanced warning about 

car accidents and potential medical 

emergencies before they occur.” 

“AAA is constantly looking for innovative 

ways to serve its 56 million 

members across the United States 

and Canada,” said Dillon McDonald, 

Managing Partner at A3 Ventures, 

the innovation subsidiary of 

AAA Northern California, Nevada 

& Utah. “We couldn’t have asked for 

a better company to be the first investment 

from the newly formed A3 

Ventures. It is only fitting that we are 

working with RapidSOS not only as 

an investor, but also as a partner to 

bring unprecedented safety, security, 

and wellness to millions of our 

members.” 

“I spent much of my career as 

Chairman of the FCC working to 

strengthen public safety and make 

improvements to our nation’s 911 

system,” said Tom Wheeler, Former 

Chairman of the FCC. “I am thrilled 

to have the opportunity to work directly 

with RapidSOS as they deploy 

their emergency platform to enhance 

the data available to 911 and 

first responder systems nationwide.” 

“We are humbled to be collaborating 

with such thought leaders across 

public safety and technology,” said 

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Martin. “Every day 650,000 emergency 

calls are placed across the 

United States, in partnership with 

the public safety community we are 

transforming the outcomes of millions 

of these emergencies.” 

About RapidSOS 

RapidSOS is an advanced emergency 

technology company. RapidSOS 

is developing technology to predict 

and preempt emergencies before 

they occur, dynamically warn 

people in harm’s way, and link data 

from any connected device directly 

to first responders in an emergency. 

The result is faster, more effective 

emergency response leading to a 

projected 2-10% reduction in mortality, 

6.9% reduction in healthcare 

treatment costs, and 20% reduction 

in property damage4. Formed 

in 2013 and backed by some of the 

world’s top technologists, RapidSOS 

was named “2016 Start-Up of the 

Year” by the Consumer Technology 

Association, a Top Innovation 

of 2015 by MIT News, and Top 3 

Innovative World Technologies by 

SXSW. Learn more at www.Rapid- 

SOS.com.

Cubic executive to discuss benefits of cloud 

hosting at transportation summit 

JW Fishers describes equipment now 

used to locate weapons and explosives 

SAN DIEGO April 27, 2017 Cubic 

Transportation Systems (CTS), 

a business unit of Cubic Corporation 

(NYSE:CUB), today announced 

Chris Bax, vice president of global 

ITS strategy, will participate 

in a panel discussion 

on the benefits of cloudbased 

technologies for traffic 

management systems 

at the ITS Heartland 2017 

Annual Meeting in Wichita, 

Kansas from May 1 – 3. 

Population growth is 

increasing the demands 

placed on roads and associated infrastructure 

around the world. Inevitably, 

pressure to expand and support 

transportation infrastructure growth 

is placed on the transit authorities 

that manage them. During the panel, 

Bax will cover “smart city” technology 

and how cloud hosting can be 

used to meet the needs of advanced 

traffic management solutions. He 

will highlight the benefits of cloudbased 

platforms, from integration 

capabilities to cost-effectiveness, resiliency 

and reliability. Additionally, 

Bax will address how cloud hosting 

is being applied, the long-term 

advantage and its ability to support 

Chris Bax 

smart cities. 

“Transportation infrastructure will 

constantly evolve in order to meet 

population growth,” said Bax. “It’s 

imperative for traffic management to 

be efficient now and in the 

future, as the only way we 

can maximize the lifetime 

performance of transport 

solutions is to rely on new 

technologies.” 

Bax will take part in the 

following panel session: 

Session 3A: Beyond the 

Signal – What’s New in Traffic Management 

and Operations 

Wednesday, May 3, 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. 

(local time); Riverview Ballroom, 

Hyatt Regency, Wichita, Kansas 

Moderator: Ron Hall, ITS Heartland, 

State Director, Kansas Department 

of Transportation (DOT); Panelists: 

Zach Hansen, SRF Consulting 

Group; Tom Hein, Kansas DOT; 

Brian Sovik, Data Transfer Solutions 

Follow Cubic Transportation Systems 

at @CubicTS or use the 

hashtags #THISisITS and #realITS 

to join the conversation. For updates 

or participation in the ITS Heartland 

conversation during the event, use 

the hashtag #ITSHeartland. 

About Cubic Corporation 

Cubic Corporation designs, integrates 

and operates systems, products 

and services focused in the 

transportation, defense training and 

secure communications markets. 

Cubic Transportation Systems is a 

leading integrator of payment and 

information technology and services 

to create intelligent travel solutions 

for transportation authorities and 

operators. Cubic Global Defense is 

a leading provider of live, virtual, 

constructive and game-based training 

solutions, special operations and 

intelligence for the U.S. and allied 

forces. Cubic Mission Solutions provides 

networked Command, Control, 

Communications, Computers, 

Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance 

(C4ISR) capabilities 

for defense, intelligence, security 

and commercial missions. For more 

information about Cubic, please visit 

the company’s website at www.cubic. 

com or on Twitter @CubicCorp. 

Before 1970 the widely accepted solution 

for disposal of old munitions, 

typically called unexploded ordnance 

(UXO), was to dump them 

into rivers, lakes and oceans. Today 

we know this creates a multitude of 

problems, the worst of which are 

pollution and the risk of an explosion. 

Many people have already 

lost their lives to these underwater 

booby traps. The uncertainties 

surrounding their precise location 

and degree of decomposition, 

makes attempting to recover these 

dangerous devices an even more 

difficult task. 

Several international organizations 

have been formed to address 

the problem of UXO on land 

and underwater, and a variety of 

tools and techniques are being 

employed to locate and remove 

them. One of the groups working 

the problem is the Japan Mine Action 

Service (JMAS), a non-profit 

engaged in humanitarian activities 

to create better and safer living 

conditions. Since its inception in 

2001, JMAS has implemented UXO 

clearance projects in a host of countries 

from Japan to Afghanistan. JW 

Fishers Pulse 12 boat-towed metal 

detector is assisting in these operations. 

The detector will locate both 

ferrous and nonferrous metals, an 

important feature as munitions 

can be made of a variety of metals 

including brass and steel. It’s large 

rectangular search coil can find 

metal buried up to 16 feet, and the 

Pulse 12 works equally well on land 

and in the water. With three detection 

heads attached to the master 

control console, an area up to 72 

feet wide can be swept in one pass; 

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saving time, fuel, and manpower. To 

inspect sites on land, the coil can be 

mounted on the front of an ATV or 

other vehicle allowing large areas to 

be swept quickly. This powerful machine 

is now helping a JMAS team 

uncover lethal UXO in Palau reports 

representative Terada Yasuo. 

Another organization using 

Fishers equipment in a similar operation 

is the Regional Centre for 

Underwater De-mining (RCUD) 

in Montenegro, which was part of 

the former Yugoslavia. A bloody 

civil war in the 1990’s left the 

country littered with unexploded 

ordnance and waterways unsafe to 

travel because of many scattered 

mines. After numerous fishermen 

and boaters were killed from these 

deadly devices, RCUD acquired a 

Fisher side scan to help locate the 

mines. The operation was a success. 

With the help of the sonar 

and trained divers, many explosives 

were found and removed 

from the country’s lakes and rivers. 

Today the sonar is being used for 

more peaceful purposes. RCUD is 

working in cooperation with RPM 

Nautical Foundation and the Center 

for Conservation and Archaeology

to locate historic shipwrecks and 

map other underwater sites of significance. 

Evgeniy Pozharsky is a Polish 

patriot. He has taken it upon himself 

to try and locate and remove 

as many UXO as possible from his 

native land. Using his Fisher Pulse 

10 metal detector with a detection 

range of over 2 meters, Evgeniy has 

searched lakes, rivers and fields all 

over the country. Through hard 

work and dogged determination he 

has been able to locate a and recover 

a significant number of WWII munitions 

from sites on land and underwater. 

Evgeniy has put his life on 

the line to ensure no one else will be 

killed or injured 

by these perilous 

weapons. 

Law enforcement 

agencies 

around the 

world are acquiring 

underwater 

metal detectors 

(UMD) 

to ensure their 

dive teams have the right equipment 

to effectively do their job. An 

essential tool for locating evidence 

disposed of in a waterway, metal detectors 

routinely assist public safety 

divers in finding weapons, shell casings, 

stolen objects, and explosive 

devices. UMD are so effective, and 

their use has become so widespread, 

that agencies 

training public 

safety divers 

are developing 

courses 

on how to best 

utilize these 

devices. Dive 

Rescue International 

in Colorado 

and Lifeguard 

Systems 

in New York 

offer courses 

in aquatic preparedness to ensure 

public safety dive teams respond 

effectively to water incident scenes. 

Their instructors combine knowledge 

with experience 

in the use 

of state of the 

equipment. The 

detectors both 

companies are 

using in their 

evidence recovery 

training 

are JW Fishers 

Pulse 8X. 

Goodhue County Sheriff ’s Office 

in Minnesota is employing this 

technology in their underwater 

search operations. Dive Team Leader 

Steve Sutton-Brown reports using 

Fishers new SAR-1 detector in a recent 

training exercise. “We’re regularly 

called on to search for evidence 

such as guns, knives, bullet casings, 

etc. We generally dive in visibility 

that is zero to one foot, which is one 

of the reasons we choose this machine. 

In this exercise we planted a 

pistol on the lake bottom. The diver 

was given only an approximate area 

of where the weapon might be, just 

as would happen in a real call out. 

Although visibility was almost zero, 

each diver was able to quickly located 

the weapon. The high intensity 

LED light bar was fairly easy to see 

and the vibration feature was appreciated 

by all. We really like that 

there are no exposed wires since we 

already have enough entanglement 

issues to deal with. The consensus 

is; the SAR-1 works awesome!” 

For more information on JW Fishers 

complete line of underwater 

search equipment go to www.jwfishers.com. 

Raytheon wins $375M contract to 

modernize Air Force air and space 

operations centers 

Dave Wajsgras 

HAMPTON, VA April 26, 2017 The 

U.S. Air Force Materiel Command 

has awarded Raytheon Company 

(NYSE: RTN) a contract with an initial 

value of up to $375 million over 

six years to sustain and modernize 

the Air and Space Operations 

Center Weapon System, 

or AOC WS. Under 

the contract, Raytheon will 

update the existing AOC WS 

baseline software and develop 

and deploy new software 

upgrades to improve air and 

space command and control 

operations. 

Air and Space Operations Centers 

provide a strategic capability for the 

U.S. Air Force with operators at 22 

global locations using the AOC WS 

to command and control aircraft 

through all of the Air Force’s critical 

missions. 

“Raytheon will use our unmatched 

cyber, automation and analytics expertise 

to modernize the Air Force’s 

weapons system, providing an advantage 

in everything from security to 

actionable insight in the digital battlespace,” 

said Dave Wajsgras, president 

of Raytheon Intelligence, Information 

and Services. 

“Raytheon’s innovative modernization 

through sustainment approach 

incrementally improves systems without 

interruption to critical missions,” 

said Todd Probert, vice president of 

Mission Support and Modernization 

at Raytheon IIS. “In addition, the use 

of software development best 

practices, such as Agile and 

DevOps, speeds up the delivery 

of these systems to the 

warfighter.” 

Raytheon is hiring for the 

new team based in Hampton, 

Virginia. Open positions include 

system architects, software 

developers, cyber engineers, IT 

help desk and more. 

About Raytheon 

Raytheon Company, with 2016 sales 

of $24 billion and 63,000 employees, 

is a technology and innovation leader 

specializing in defense, civil government 

and cybersecurity solutions. 

With a history of innovation spanning 

95 years, Raytheon provides state-ofthe-art 

electronics, mission systems 

integration, C5ITM products and 

services, sensing, effects, and mission 

support for customers in more than 

80 countries. Raytheon is headquartered 

in Waltham, Massachusetts. 

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For proactive security, 

build an aquarium 


requires us to build an aquarium 

again – a fusion of technologies that 

provide speed and accuracy, and are 

simple for the end-user. 

The most secure and convenient 

biometric technology identity verification 

must use ‘the power of fusion.’ 

By fusing face recognition, 

body behavior analytics – including 

height, gait and body type – and 

even voice recognition, we create a 

fusion that is highly accurate, and 

does not require a user to stop for 

identification. This fusion of sensors 

allows us to understand a person’s 

identity in real-time, with high accuracy 

and speed. 

Building this aquarium and utilizing 

a fusion of technologies for 

multimodal biometrics, we can 

make identification and secure access 

simple and secure. And most 

importantly, we can apply the power 

of fusion to prevent incidents before 

they happen.

Hikvision camera system to provide increased security 

for Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial 

CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA May 2, 

2017 A security system provided 

by Hikvision, the North American 

leader in innovative, award-winning 

video surveillance products and solutions, 

will help increase security at 

the iconic Holocaust Memorial in 

Miami Beach, Fla. 

Founded 27 years ago by a group 

of community leaders, Holocaust 

survivors and the children of survivors, 

the Memorial is sited on two 

acres and features a series of openair 

rooms. Volunteers, including 

Holocaust survivors, lead tours of 

the Memorial’s exhibits and participate 

in other educational programs 

open to the public. 

The Memorial hosts more than 

130,000 visitors every year, including 

thousands of schoolchildren 

and people from around the world. 

Professionals and volunteers work 

to educate visitors about the time 

before and during the Holocaust. 

The Memorial also provides a place 

for people to reflect and explore 

how they feel about what they are 

seeing, to think about their role as 

citizens and their relationship with 

other people, and to discuss anti- 

Semitism and intolerance. 

Security is challenging in any 

open-air venue, and the Memorial’s 

previous analog security system was 

”extremely outdated,” according to 

Brenda Moxley, director of community 

security for the Greater Miami 

Jewish Federation. 

Moxley is the retired FBI Assistant 

Special Agent in Charge, Miami Division, 

whose background includes 

counter-terrorism. Hired by Federation 

to provide security consultation 

to 120 Jewish organizations 

in the Miami-Dade area, Moxley is 

working to improve critical security 

infrastructure, crisis management 

and education. 

The Hikvision security camera 

system will provide much needed 

security improvements at the memorial 

and enable Moxley to implement 

a coordinated and integrated 

security plan. 

Jeffrey He, president of Hikvision 

USA Inc., and Hikvision Canada 

Inc., said Hikvision is pleased to 

work with Moxley and the Greater 

Miami Jewish Federation. He noted 

that China has an important historic 

connection with the Jewish 

people. “Shanghai, a city one hour 

away from Hikvision headquarters 

in Hangzhou, China provided a safe 

haven for Jewish refugees during 

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the Holocaust,” He said. More than 

25,000 Jews came to Shanghai between 

the years 1937 and 1941. 

“Safeguarding people and protecting 

property is why Hikvision is in 

the security business,” He added. 

About Hikvision 

Hikvision is the world’s leading supplier 

of video surveillance solutions. 

Featuring the industry’s strongest 

R&D workforce, Hikvision designs, 

develops, and manufactures standard- 

and high-definition cameras, 

including a variety of IP cameras, 

analog cameras, and cameras featuring 

the latest in high-definition 

analog technology. Hikvision’s 

product suite also includes digital 

video servers, hybrid and standalone 

DVRs, NVRs, and other elements 

of sophisticated security systems 

for both indoor and outdoor 

use. 

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Cyber Threats & Solutions 

BeyondTrust survey links breaches to 

aging federal infrastructure 

Federal Government loses $637 Million to Breaches annually 

PHOENIX, AZ – May 3, 2017 – BeyondTrust, 

the leading cyber-security 

company dedicated to preventing 

privilege misuse and stopping unauthorized 

access, today unveiled the 

results of its Federal Cyber-Security 

Threat Survey Report 2017. Based 

on a comprehensive survey of senior 

Federal IT professionals, the study 

exposes an aging Federal computing 

infrastructure which has led to an environment 

with an alarmingly high 

risk of breaches. 

105 senior IT professionals working 

for federal agencies were asked about 

their computing infrastructure, security, 

breaches and IT modernization. 

A summary of the findings is included 

below. 

Federal IT managers concerned 

about antiquated infrastructure. 

An overwhelming majority of Federal 

IT managers (81 percent) say aging 

IT infrastructures have a somewhat 

to extremely large impact on their 

cyber-security risk. Further, three of 

five (61 percent) say aging infrastructure 

is a roadblock to achieving federal 

cyber-security mandate compliance. 

We found ample examples of aging 

infrastructure in our survey. For 

example, a surprising 47 percent of 

Federal agencies still use Windows 

XP, driving a third of respondents (35 

percent) to report that this kind of aging 

infrastructure had a somewhat to 

large impact on their ability to affect 

vulnerability patching. 

The impacts of aging federal infrastructure 

don’t stop there … 

• Three of four say aging infrastructure 

is a somewhat to extremely large 

risk to their ability to achieve their 

mission. 

• The biggest impacts include inefficiency, 

increased cyber risk and problems 

with compliance. 

• Specific to cyber-security, the top 

impacts of an aging infrastructure are 

difficulty with patching, password 

management and privileged account 

management (PAM). 

• Respondents cite aging infrastructure 

as the top roadblock in the way 

of achieving federal cyber-security 

mandates 

Aging Infrastructure Leads to 

Breaches 

Aging infrastructure is not just a 

problem in theory; aging infrastructure 

makes federal systems more vulnerable 

to attack, which has led to an 

environment that could be rife for 

breaches. 

• 42 percent have experienced a 

data breach within the past 6 months. 

• A staggering one in eight has experienced 

a data breach within the 

past 30 days. 

• Put another way, the typical federal 

IT system experiences one breach 

every 347 days. 

• Respondents report that the 

typical data breach costs more than 

$91,000. 

• The total cost due for data breaches 

is $637 million every year. 

• The most frequently reported 

costs include loss of productivity, 

loss of reputation and pure monetary 

damages. 

Privileged Account Management: 

Gap Between Theory and Practice 

We asked respondents what tools 

were most important to them in 

terms of securing their information 

environment. Here they ranked privileged 

access management and vulnerability 

patching as most important. 

This is significant as these technolo- 

gies restrict user privileges and close 

off security weaknesses in systems. 

Yet, despite understanding the importance 

of such measures, most 

(56 percent) use alternate solutions 

to manage privileged passwords and 

nearly two-thirds (63 percent) report 

less than fully mature vulnerability 

remediation programs. In fact, 6 percent 

have NO remediation plan, and 

another 14 percent do only the bare 

minimum required by compliance 

mandates. 

What IT Can Do Mitigate 

the Security Risk of 

Aging Federal Infrastructure 

The BeyondTrust 2017 US federal 

government study points to four best 

practices that any agency can implement. 

• Manage privileged credentials 

with greater discipline, eliminate 

administrator rights and enforce 

least privilege 

Thirty percent of respondents believe 

that insider threats pose a significant 

threat and 35 percent believe 

their users have more privileges than 

are required. To mitigate insider 

threats and the exploitation of privileges, 

adopt a least privilege model 

by removing admin rights from users 

and storing all privileged credentials 

in a secure safe. Known escalation attacks 

have been around for years and 

are still being used. These attacks require 

local administrator rights. It’s 

not just about insiders. Enforcing 

least privilege prevents lateral movement 

within an organization if a 

breach does occur. 

• Isolate Legacy Systems to reduce 

attack surfaces 

Modernization of federal IT infrastructure 

is a priority for most survey 

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respondents, but realistically this will 

not happen quickly. These aging systems 

have known risks. Reduce the 

attack surface by isolating legacy systems. 

Segment these systems to force 

all traffic through a proxy to reduce 

attack vectors. Deploy an automated 

password and session management 

solution that provides secure access 

control, auditing, alerting and recording 

for any privileged account. This 

will provide segmented access to critical 

systems, manage passwords, and 

monitor when tasks and operations 

are committed to a managed system. 

• Improve the maturity of vulnerability 

management through automated 

patching 

Even in today’s sophisticated threat 

landscape, the majority of attacks target 

known vulnerabilities that can be 

easily patched. Effective patch management 

goes a long way in reducing 

a network’s overall attack surface. To 

be truly effective, patch management 

requires intelligent prioritization and 

broad coverage for common business 

applications. To improve the efficiency 

and effectiveness of an agency 

patch process deploy a solution 

that provides integrated, automated 

patching. Implementing a solution 

that delivers analytics and trending 

across the threat lifecycle for multidimensional 

reports on assets, vulnerabilities, 

attacks and remediation 

allows prioritized patch management 

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(ISC)² delivers cybersecurity workforce 

recommendations to White House Chief of Staff 

Imperva executive urges U.S. companies 

to evaluate pending EU cyber regulation 

ALEXANDRIA, VA, April 19, 2017 

– (ISC)2® today announced a set of 

recommendations for the Trump 

Administration to consider as it approaches 

its 100th day in office. The 

recommendations were delivered 

to White House Chief of Staff and 

others on President Trump’s team in 

order to urge prioritization of workforce 

development within the pending 

cybersecurity executive order 

and beyond. 

During a December 2016 gathering 

sponsored by the (ISC)2 U.S. 

Government Advisory Council 

(USGAC), participants, including 

former Federal Chief Information 

Security Officer (CISO) Gregory 

Touhill and federal agency CISOs 

and executives, discussed transition 

planning from the cybersecurity 

workforce perspective. The following 

is an abridged list of areas that 

(ISC)2 has since identified as critical 

for the new administration to 

address. An expanded list can be 

viewed in today’s (ISC)2 blog post. 

– Time Is of The Essence. The 

widespread and damaging effects of 

cyber threats are revealed on a daily 

basis. At the same time, 

the demand for skilled 

cybersecurity workers is 

rapidly increasing. 

– Consider the Progress 

Already Made. Cybersecurity 

is a bi-partisan issue. Critical 

work has been done over the last 

eight years to advance the cybersecurity 

workforce. 

– Harden the Workforce. Everyone 

must learn cybersecurity. We 

have to break the commodity focus 

of simply buying technology and 

stopping there, without focusing on 

training all users. 

– Incentivize Hiring and Retention. 

In today’s world, a sense of 

mission doesn’t always override 

good pay — incentives work. 

– Prioritize Investment in Acquisition, 

Legal and Human Resources 

(HR) Personnel. Acquisition, legal 

and HR professionals are essential 

players within the federal cybersecurity 

ecosystem. 

– Prevent Getting Lost in Translation. 

The government needs effective 

communicators who can 

translate technical risk to business 

leaders. 

– Civil Service Reform. The civil 

service system is broken and does 

not meet the government’s needs. 

– Compliance Does Not Equal Security. 

Embrace Risk Management. 

In the government’s quest for cyber 

resiliency, a risk management perspective 

will be essential. 

– A Standard Cyber Workforce 

Lexicon. Once finalized, the NICE 

Cybersecurity Workforce Framework 

should provide an excellent resource 

for workforce development. 

“In a recent congressional hearing, 

(ISC)2 had the opportunity to 

present these recommendations in 

an effort to advocate for our members 

and the broader cybersecurity 

profession during the presidential 

transition and beyond,” said Dan 

Waddell, (ISC)² managing director, 

North America Region. “Significant 

progress has been made over the 

past decade to advance the federal 


REDWOOD SHORES, CA April 

27, 2017 Imperva, Inc. (NASDAQ: 

IMPV), committed to protecting 

business-critical data and applications 

in the cloud and on-premises, 

today announced the results of a 

survey on the current state of company 

preparedness for the European 

General Data Protection Regulation 

(GDPR). The survey of 170 security 

professionals was taken at RSA 

2017, the world’s largest security 

conference. 

GDPR protects the privacy of European 

citizens and applies to all 

businesses that hold and process 

personal data collected in the European 

Union, regardless of their industry 

or location. It becomes effective 

on May 25, 2018. Organizations 

are focusing on GDPR compliance 

because fines for certain violations 

may be up to the greater of €20 million 

or four percent of total worldwide 

annual turnover. Companies 

with significant revenue could face 

billions of dollars in fines. 

According to the survey, 51 percent 

of respondents said GDPR 

would impact their companies, 

nearly a third of the respondents 

didn’t see the GDPR regulations 

impacting them, while 11 percent 

were unsure if GDPR would impact 

their companies and 5 percent 

were not familiar with 

GDPR. 

The survey also showed 

an overall lack of urgency 

among the IT professionals 

surveyed with 43 percent 

of respondents indicating 

that they are evaluating or 

implementing change in preparation 

for GDPR, 29 percent indicating 

that they were not preparing, 

and another 28 percent signifying 

that they were unaware of specific 

preparations. 

“U.S. companies should be evaluating 

the impact GDPR will have on 

their data practices, given the major 

fines for non-compliance,” said 

Terry Ray, chief product strategist at 

Imperva. 

“Companies need to begin the 

GDPR legwork now by documenting 

how personal data is collected 

and processed in their organizations. 

From what we’ve seen in 

working with our clients on GDPR 

readiness, the projects are complex 

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Terry Ray 

and involve multiple teams, technologies 

and systems.” 

In asking survey respondents 

about who is driving GDPR 

compliance in their organization, 

49 percent of survey 

respondents cited their organization’s 

legal department, 

while 8 percent said 

the IT department is managing 

the process. 

Imperva provides data 

discovery and classification tools, 

user access controls, data masking, 

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Survey Methodology 

Conducted Feb. 13-17, at RSA 

Conference 2017, the trade show 

with the largest concentration of security 

professionals, the in-person 

survey is based on responses from 

170 attendees including IT professionals, 

managers and executives 

from the U.S. (77 percent), EMEA 

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Report: Municipal governments lack funding to 

reach high level of cybersecurity 

WASHINGTON May 2, 2017 The 

inability to pay competitive salaries, 

insufficient cybersecurity staff, and 

a general lack of funds present serious 

barriers to local governments 

achieving the highest levels of cybersecurity, 

according to a survey of 

local government chief information 

officers conducted by ICMA, the International 

City/County 

Management Association, 

in partnership with 

the University of Maryland 

Baltimore County. 

The goal of the Cybersecurity 

2016 Survey was 

to better understand current 

local government 

cybersecurity practices and their related 

issues, including what capacities 

cities and counties possess, what 

kind of barriers they face, and what 

type of support they have to implement 

cybersecurity programs. 

Despite nearly a third (32 percent) 

of respondents reporting an increase 

in cyber attacks to their local 

government information during the 

past 12 months, 58 percent indicated 

that the inability to pay competitive 

salaries prohibited them from 

achieving high levels of cybersecurity. 

Fifty-three percent cited an insufficient 

number of cybersecurity 

staff as the primary obstacle, and 52 

percent said it was a general lack of 

funds. 

The public sector pays considerably 

less than the private sector 

“Because the costs to restore compromised 

data are staggering, local governments must 

understand what resources they need to 

achieve their cybersecurity objectives and 

ensure the safety of their data.” 

for cybersecurity expertise, which 

places further pressure on U.S. local 

governments to find ways to 

fund compensation in this explosive 

industry. Currently, this booming 

field has zero unemployment and 

one million unfilled jobs, and experts 

estimate that the shortfall will 

reach 1.5 million by 2019. 

When asked to rank the top three 

things most needed to ensure the 

highest level of cybersecurity for 

their local government, respondents 

cited greater funding as number 

one, better cybersecurity policies as 

number two, and greater cybersecurity 

awareness among local government 

employees as number three in 

importance. 

“As local governments become 

increasingly reliant on technology 

and the Internet, they must 

also become increasingly 

diligent about the security 

they provide for the data 

and information they collect 

and manage,” said ICMA 

Executive Director Marc 

Ott. “Because the costs to restore 

compromised data are 

staggering, local governments must 

understand what resources they 

need to achieve their cybersecurity 

objectives and ensure the safety of 

their data. The results of the ICMA- 

UMBC Cybersecurity 2016 Survey 

can help local leaders identify and 

evaluate critical resource shortages.” 

Other highlights of the ICMA/ 

UMBC cybersecurity survey results 

include: 

Only 1 percent of responding lo- 

cal governments 

have a stand-alone 

cybersecurity department 

or unit. 

Primary responsibility 

for cybersecurity is most 

often located within the IT department. 

Roughly 62 percent of responding 

jurisdictions have developed a 

formal policy governing the use of 

personally-owned devices by governmental 

officials and employees. 

Nearly 70 percent of responding 

local governments have not developed 

a formal, written cybersecurity 

risk management plan, but nearly 

41 percent conduct an annual risk 

assessment and an additional 16 

percent take stock of their risk at 

least every two years. 

The Cybersecurity 2016 Survey 

was mailed (with an online option) 

to the chief information officers of 

3,423 U.S. municipalities and counties 

with populations of 25,000 or 

greater. Responses were received 

from 411 local governments for a 

response rate of 12 percent. 

Review the complete results of 

the survey at: http://icma.org/cybersecurity2016surveyresults. 

About ICMA 

ICMA, the International City/ 

County Management Association, 

advances professional local government 

worldwide through leadership, 

management, innovation, and ethics. 

ICMA is second only to the federal 

government in the collection, 

analysis, and dissemination of data 

focused on issues related to local 

government management. Through 

expansive partnerships with local 

governments, federal agencies, nonprofits, 

and philanthropic funders, 

the organization gathers information 

on topics such as sustainability, 

health care, aging communities, 

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Introduction 

In 2016, the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), in partnership with the University of Maryland, 

Baltimore County (UMBC), conducted a survey to be ter understand local government cybersecurity practices. The 

results of this survey provide insights into the cybersecurity issues faced by U.S. local governments, including wha their 

capacities are, what kind of ba riers they face, and wha type of suppor they have to implement cybersecurity programs. 

Methodology 

The survey was sent on paper via postal mail to the chief information o ficers of 3,423 U.S. local governments with 

populations of 25,000 or greater. An online submission option was also made available to survey recipients. 

Responses were received from 411 of the governments surveyed, yielding a response rate of 12%. Cities were 

ove represented among respondents while counties were underrepresented. Similarly, higher percentage of responses 

received from larger communities compared to sma ler communities. Further, jurisdictions in the Mountain region of the 

U.S. were ove represented, while jurisdictions in the Mid-Atlantic and East South-Central regions were 

unde represented. The following report reflects trends among the unweighted survey responses, and should only be 

considered to be representative of the responding governments. Weighting should be applied to achieve representation 

of the broader survey population. 

Cybersecurity 2016 Survey 

Summary Report of Survey Results 

Cybersecurity 2016 Survey 

Number Surveyed Number Responding Response Rate 

Total 3423 411 12.0% 

Population Size 

Over 1,000,000 42 11 26.2% 

500,000 - 1,000,000 98 20 20.4% 

250,000 - 499,999 168 26 15.5% 

100,000 - 249,999 532 63 11.8% 

50,000 - 99,999 939 108 11.5% 

25,000 - 49,999 1644 183 11.1% 

Geographic Division 

New England 183 23 12.6% 

Mid-Atlantic 391 23 5.9% 

East North-Central 782 94 12.0% 

West North-Central 266 26 9.8% 

South Atlantic 541 79 14.6% 

East South-Central 253 20 7.9% 

West South-Central 354 41 11.6% 

Mountain 220 48 21.8% 

Pacific Coast 433 57 13.2% 

Type of Government 

Municipalities 1893 267 14.1% 

Counties 1530 144 9.4% 

economic development, homeland 

security, alternative service delivery, 

as well as performance measurement 

and management data on a 

variety of local government services—all 

of which support related 

training, education, and technical 

assistance. 

About the University of Maryland 

Baltimore County 

UMBC is a dynamic public research 

university integrating teaching, research, 

and service to benefit the 

citizens of Maryland. As an Honors 

University, the campus offers academically 

talented students a strong 

undergraduate liberal arts foundation 

that prepares them for graduate 

and professional study, entry into 

the workforce, and community service 

and leadership. UMBC emphasizes 

science, engineering, information 

technology, human services 

and public policy at the graduate 

level. UMBC contributes to the economic 

development of the State and 

the region through entrepreneurial 

initiatives, workforce training, K-16 

partnerships, and technology commercialization 

in collaboration with 

public agencies and the corporate 

community. UMBC is dedicated to 

cultural and ethnic diversity, social 

responsibility and lifelong learning.


Cybersecurity executives ‘Wannacrypt’ ransomware 

attack a wake-up call for industry, government leaders 

By Steve Bittenbender 

Editor, Government Security News 

The ransomware attack that plagued 

the globe on Friday must serve as a 

“wake-up call” to both industry and 

government leaders that the time for 

urgent action is now. That’s how one 

of Microsoft’s top executives reacted 

to the “WannaCrypt” attack that 

targeted computer systems in various 

industries worldwide, including 

healthcare and government systems. 

“WannaCrypt,” also dubbed 

“WannaCry,” was a ransomware attack 

that paralyzed hospitals in Great 

Britain and even FedEx in the United 

States, although the attack seemed 

to focus mainly on Russian servers 

based on information provided from 

Kapersky Labs. A ransomware attack 

is where a hacker encrypts files and 

threatens to destroy the data if the 

ransom – in the case of “WannaCrypt,” 

it was at least $300 in Bitcoin 

– is not paid within a certain time. 

In a Sunday blog post on Microsoft’s 

Web site, company President 

and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith 

said the hackers used material stolen 

from the National Security Agency 

Brad Smith 

to perpetrate the attack. The NSA 

breach had been previously reported, 

and, in March, Microsoft released 

a patch to its users to protect 

them from an attack. While some users 

updated their systems, others did 

not, and they were the ones scrambling 

on Friday. 

The ransomware attack 

“demonstrates the degree to 

which cybersecurity has become 

a shared responsibility 

between tech companies 

and customers,” Smith said. 

“The fact that so many computers 

remained vulnerable 

two months after the release 

of a patch illustrates this aspect. As 

cybercriminals become more sophisticated, 

there is simply no way 

for customers to protect themselves 

against threats unless they update 

their systems. Otherwise they’re literally 

fighting the problems of the 

present with tools from the past.” 

Dan Matthews, a sales engineer 

with Lastline, said network managers 

had another option to prevent the 

attack if they were not able to get the 

patch installed in time. 

He, like other experts, said the ransomware 

attack served as an important 

reminder of being proactive in 

managing cybersecurity risks. 

“In practice things are often more 

complicated and there are legitimate 

reasons for needing more time to 

implement a patch,” Matthews said. 

“Organizations who are unable to 

deploy Microsoft’s (or other 

software vendors’) critical 

patches in a timely manner 

can instead implement advanced 

email and network 

protections that are capable 

of detecting ransomware 

and preventing the delivery 

of these payloads to unpatched 

computers.” 

Ofer Israeli, CEO and founder of 

Illusive Networks, said he expects 

hackers will continue to use the stolen 

NSA material for other attacks. 

“In this case, we are seeing an opportunistic 

ransomware operation, 

but we can expect the exploit is already 

being used for surgical targeted 

attacks, the outcome of which will 

only be revealed in a few months, 

due to the time it takes to execute 

a sophisticated targeted attack,” he 

said. 

Brian Lord, OBE, managing director 

for British-based PGI Cyber, said 

the attacks were “always inevitable.” 

Lord also echoed Smith’s comments 

on this being a wake-up call. 

“While organizations are distracted 

by high profile dramatized threats, 

such as Russian election hacking, 

they are neglecting basic cyber hygiene 

measures which can prevent 

the mass effectiveness of mass ransomware 

attacks like this,” said Lord, 

the former director of deputy director 

for intelligence and cyber operations 

for Britain’s Government Communications 

Headquarters. 

Smith added that it’s time government 

leaders readdress their 

cybersecurity policies, as attacks 

like “WannaCrypt” are becoming 

an emerging problem this year. He 

equated the NSA losing its coding to 

the military having a few Tomahawk 

missiles taken. 

“This is one reason we called in 

February for a new ‘Digital Geneva 

Convention’ to govern these issues, 

including a new requirement for 

governments to report vulnerabilities 

to vendors, rather than stockpile, 

sell, or exploit them,” Smith said. 

“And it’s why we’ve pledged our support 

for defending every customer 

everywhere in the face of cyberattacks, 

regardless of their nationality.” 

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UTEP professor, Immigration 

Council question need for 

additional ICE and Border Patrol 

agents 


Heyman said the additional staffing 

would increase the DHS budget 

by more than $3.14 billion the 

administration gets its 15,000 new 

agents. In his report, he believes 

that money could be better spent 

elsewhere within DHS. 

For example, he noted that U.S. 

immigration courts are currently 

understaffed. There are 300 judges 

now, about 75 short of what’s currently 

budgeted. These judges oversee 

more than a half-million cases 

and the average time for a case to be 

resolved is more than 670 days. In 

order to alleviate the backlog within 

six years, Heyman said the government 

would need more than 500 

judges. 

Heyman also noted that CBP’s Office 

of Field Operations is not slated 

to receive any additional agents, 

even though the office is responsible 

for inspecting trade and travel at 

ports of entry. He noted an internal 

DHS study showing that one additional 

OFO agent would boost by 

the national economy by millions 

because the agent would help reduce 

the amount of time needed to 

inspect cargo containers. 

While additional OFO agents also 

run the same risk of corruption as 

Taming the rising tide of 

digital evidence 


an investigation involving large 

amounts of crowdsourced data. 

Analyzing evidence: 

putting the pieces together 

Collecting digital evidence is just the 

beginning. Today, crime recreations 

can be very complex thanks in large 

part to all of the different sources 

of digital evidence, which could include 

hours of video footage from 

different CCTV cameras, audio recordings, 

body-worn footage, interview 

room recordings and so on. At 

some point, digital evidence has to 

be sorted and put into context based 

on time sequence and location. An 

investigator can spend grueling 

hours manually sifting through evidence 

and trying to make sense of it. 

Another problem investigators 

need to contend with is the large 

range of video and audio formats, 

their colleagues along the border, 

“attention to ports of entry represents 

an important policy alternative 

to repeating the misplaced pattern 

of Border Patrol and border 

wall expansion,” Heyman said. 

codecs and proprietary players. An 

investigator might obtain a copy of 

a CCTV video and bring it back to 

the station, only to realize it can’t be 

played back without a proprietary 

player or codec. A forensic technician 

could spend days trying to locate 

the needed codec. 

Digital investigation and evidence 

management technology solves this 

problem by automatically creating a 

working copy of the video that can 

be played on any standard PC, tablet 

or smartphone browser (while 

retaining the original). Investigators 

can easily visualize the sequence 

of events from multiple angles, for 

example by combining video from 

different CCTV cameras in chronological 

sequence, along with bodyworn 

camera video, in-car video, 

and 911 and radio recordings. 

Visualization tools enable the investigator 

to assemble and visualize 

these media files in meaningful 

ways, for example on maps or timelines. 

Sharing evidence: the hard way 

or the easy way 

After digital evidence is collected 

and analyzed, investigators then 

need to package it up for the prosecution. 

This is where the process 

gets even more labor intensive and 

time consuming. Today, all of the 

different pieces of digital evidence 

– interview recordings, audio recordings, 

photographs, in-car video, 

documents, etc. – are typically 

copied onto CDs, DVDs, or thumb 

drives and hand delivered to the DA. 

With new digital investigation and 

evidence management technology, 

evidence can now be securely shared 

electronically. This means investigators 

can spend less time copying and 

transporting evidence, and focus 

more of their time and attention on 

solving cases. A built in audit trail 

even tracks chain of custody to ensure 

the integrity and admissibility 

of digital evidence for court. 

Crime-solving in the 21st century: 

taming the rising tide of digital 

evidence 

Police departments everywhere are 

investing in digital policing initiatives 

to better safeguard the public, 

and this is having an unintended 

consequence. As paper silos are replaced 

by digital silos it’s creating a 

rising tide of digital evidence that 

needs to be collected, analyzed and 

shared. Digital investigation and evidence 

management technology can 

help police departments tame this 

rising tide of digital evidence and 

improve case solvability, while also 

saving time, money and taxpayer 

dollars. 

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Imperva executive urges U.S. 

companies to evaluate pending EU 

cyber regulation 


(13 percent) and other regions (11 

percent). To view the full survey results, 

visit bit.ly/2p5kYkS. 

About Imperva 

Imperva® (NASDAQ: IMPV) is a 

leading provider of cyber security 

solutions that protect businesscritical 

data and applications. The 

company’s SecureSphere, Counter- 

Breach, Incapsula and Camouflage 

product lines enable organizations 

to discover assets and risks, protect 

information wherever it lives – in 

the cloud and on-premises – and 

comply with regulations. The Imperva 

Defense Center, a research 

team comprised of some of the 

world’s leading experts in data and 

application security, continually enhances 

Imperva products with upto-the-minute 

threat intelligence, 

and publishes reports that provide 

insight and guidance on the latest 

threats and how to mitigate them. 

Imperva is headquartered in Redwood 

Shores, California. Learn 

more: www.imperva.com, our blog 

or on Twitter.

BeyondTrust survey links breaches 

to aging federal infrastructure 


based or risk profile. 

• Unite threat intelligence from 

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Since the asset risk-to-user privilege 

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vector, deploy solutions that correlate 

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to gain a more complete picture 

of risks, gaining 

needed prioritization 

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impactful risks. For 

example, advanced 

persistent threats 

(APTs) can be analyzed 

against privileged 

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“The federal government is moving 

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said Kevin Hickey, President 

and CEO at BeyondTrust. “But that 

takes time, and in the meantime, federal 

systems face a real risk. These are 

simple steps IT can take today to help 

mitigate that risk.” 

Federal Cyber-Security 

Threat Survey Report 

For more information on the 2017 US 

Federal Government Security Survey, 

please visit: https://beyondtrust.com/ 

aging-fed-it-risky. 

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(ISC)² delivers cybersecurity 

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building future cybersecurity policy 

— including the pending executive 

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