Security Spotlight
- In its efforts to bolster campus safety, a large inner-city university is about to take a step that most institutions haven't: launching an online training program to teach students, faculty, and staff how to stay safe in an active shooter situation. Among the instructions: what to do if the student hears a gunshot in the building; what to do if a shooter comes into the classroom; what to do if somebody is injured....More
Campus Security News
- The Office of Continuing and Professional Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice received a $768,000 grant to develop an emergency management system. The award was issued by the United States Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. The new system is intended to be used across all campuses in the City University of New York (CUNY) system.More
- Millersville University in Millersville, PA recently implemented a new emergency notification system from Cooper Notification to expand its current practices that use a siren system.More
- Bank Street College of Education in New York City has selected the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to monitor for network attacks.More
- The University of Miami Center for Patient Safety is trying out technology to monitor how well staff members wash their hands. The "hand hygiene compliance" (HHC) pilot project uses small infrared radio frequency sensors in soap dispensers that read staff ID badges and monitor the location and timing of hand-washing activities.More
- The University of Rhode Island has implemented video management software from Verint Video Intelligence Solutions to support its security operations. More
- When Brice Bible was hired as Ohio University's new chief information officer two years ago, the institution's IT operations were "fairly disconnected and not as modern as one would hope," he said, and its student information system had recently suffered a security breach. More
- Earlham College in Richmond, IN has tripled its storage capacity by expanding its use of Nexenta Systems' unified storage. NexentaStor runs on ZFS, a Sun Microsystems open source high-capacity file system and logical volume manager that's also included in Sun's Solaris operating system.More
- Wren Solutions, a company that sells network video products, has added IP access control to its roster of security offerings. More
- The Black Hat security conference continues this week in Las Vegas, and Microsoft is once again rallying its industry allies, and even its competitors, to a common cause. More
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