Security & Privacy


Schuylkill Bell System Handles PA Duties Too

The chiming of campus bells has taken a high-tech turn at Pennsylvania State University's 70-acre Schuylkill campus.

UK University Hospital Manages Portable Data with Encrypted Drives

One university hospital has mandated the use of removable media from IronKey for staff and consultants who carry patient data with them. Based in California, IronKey sells encrypted USB drives that can be managed remotely by IT administrators through a Web-based application. If a device goes missing, IT can remotely disable it and wipe the data.



New Genetec Apps Bring Security Control to Mobile Devices

Genetec has released a mobile app that lets authorized users monitor and control aspects of their security systems.

Education Organization Adds e2Campus to Discount Buyer Program

An organization that aggregates the buying power of K-12 and higher education has added an emergency notification service to its member marketplace.

DataFetch Allows for Short-Distance Wireless ID Logging

A new one-button wireless scanner can scan and transmit barcode information from an ID card or driver's license back to a logging computer located up to 200 feet away.

Virginia Tech Renews Emergency Notification Service

Virginia Tech in Blacksburg has renewed its three-year contract for emergency notifications with Everbridge.

Higher Ed Tests Emergency System for Immediacy

A group of institutions across the country is trying out an emergency alert system that, according to the company that created it, is dramatically faster for reaching the campus community than traditional notification services.

Genetec Adds Intermittent Video Stream Recording

Genetec has just updated its software to enable security users to manage video archiving, adding a feature it calls "video trickling" to Omnicast, its video surveillance management software.

Web Application Firewall Targets XSRF Attacks

Mykonos Software has released an enhanced Mykonos Security Appliance, a next-generation Web application firewall (WAF) designed to protect Web sites from hackers, fraud, and theft.

Oracle Launches Platform-Neutral Database Firewall

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, Oracle debuted Oracle Database Firewall, a multi-platform data security tool that's designed to protect enterprise databases--DB2, SQL Server, Oracle's own Database 11g, and others--against internal and external attacks in real time.