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Security Technology - October 2024
The proliferation of data—and artificial intelligence tools to create or gather it—is changing how threat intelligence teams conduct their work.
Focus on Election Security and Civil Unrest
Under the wrong circumstances, riots can spring up from peaceful demonstrations. Security and crisis management leaders are aware that internal and external factors can exacerbate and accelerate violence, especially surrounding the 2024 U.S. elections.
Focus on Security Culture: Awareness, Training, & Behavior
Check in with security leaders and researchers into how leveraging cultural awareness and knowing your audience can improve security awareness training.

Industry News: Securing Finland’s Prisons with Demarcated Access Control
Idesco has been supplying Finland’s correctional sites with effective access control solutions for roughly 30 years.

ASIS News: Get the Most Out of Membership
With the calendar year coming to a close, it’s a good time to make sure you renew your ASIS membership! Find out how to check your membership status here.

Legal Report: Canadian Court Finds Border Searches of Electronic Devices Are Unconstitutional
Also in this month’s legal roundup, South Korea calls for greater climate change efforts, and a former CIA officer receives prison sentence for the sexual assault of dozens of women.

Certification Profile: Dimitar Atanasov, APP
Dimitar Atanasov, APP, is passionate about security because it provides an avenue for him to protect those around him.

ASIS News: Celebrating Our Wins and Looking Ahead
Don’t miss your opportunity to be a part of GSX 2025! The event will take place from 29 September to 1 October 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

How Influencing Culture is the Differentiator for Security Leaders
The art of human connection is foundational to a holistic security program that business leaders will embrace and consider invaluable to their business success.

Cómo Influir en la Cultura es el Diferenciador para los Líderes de Seguridad
El arte de la conexión humana es fundamental para un programa de seguridad integral que los líderes empresariales adoptarán y considerarán invaluable para el éxito de su negocio.

7 Ways to Educate Employees on New Security Technology and Foster Security Culture
Incorporating safety into your organizational culture requires a continuous dedication to educating your personnel on what is paramount to your operation.

Fast Facts: Is Your Security Training Based on Human Risk Management?
Applying a human risk management approach to security awareness, behavior, and culture can increase buy-in, improve long-term lesson retention, and boost workplace culture around security.

Is Your Company Culture Inhibiting Effective Workplace Safety Training?
Instead of relying on war stories, generic guidance, or compliance-centric training, organizations can leverage adult learning principles to ensure security training is more engaging and effective.

What Works? Culture-Informed Security Training Tips
Check in with security leaders and researchers into how leveraging cultural awareness and knowing your audience can improve security awareness training.

Mitigating Threats in a Politically Charged Landscape
Building a proactive plan to deal with threats, organizations can position themselves to respond swiftly and effectively, minimizing impacts on operations, employees, and assets.

In Polarized Environments, Attorneys and Judges Face a Multitude of Threats
Even in a democratic society, judicial environments and interactions can become volatile, strained, and polarizing. Sometimes, they also become violent and place attorneys and judges at risk.

2024 U.S. Elections Spark Concerns About Widespread Riots and Significant Business Disruption
Under the wrong circumstances, riots can spring up from peaceful demonstrations. Security and crisis management leaders are aware that internal and external factors can exacerbate and accelerate violence, especially surrounding the 2024 U.S. elections.

How Malicious Actors Carry Out Foreign Influence Attacks
Hostile foreign influence operations targeting democratic elections leverage various tactics and techniques.

Fast Facts: Who and What is at Risk in Politically Charged Environments?
It’s not just politicians in the crosshairs. Violent actors motivated by a polarized political landscape have cast a wider net, aiming at targets that normally lie outside the limelight.

Q&A: Analyze, Accept, and Adapt to Polling Place Security Risks
Schools, places of worship, and other soft target facilities often pull double duty as polling places during elections.

Best Practices for Minimizing OT Threats
It is important to identify the realistic threats to OT systems and the pathways those threats could exploit that will cause the greatest damage. This is where threat intelligence comes in.

Bend, Don’t Break.
Why Protecting Glass is of Utmost Importance in Building Perimeter Security

Countering the China Threat in the Year of the Dragon
Decluttering and operationalizing the information necessary for foreign threat analysis requires access to the latest tools, technologies, and best practices.

How AI May Change the Way Security Teams Use OSINT
Security practitioners have increasingly turned to monitoring Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) to detect and prevent attacks. Artificial intelligence, however, may be on the cusp of changing OSINT as a discipline.

Integrating Evolving Technology for Intelligence to Counter Modern Threats
Integrating traditional security intelligence tradecraft with newer techniques is essential for preventing and mitigating attacks that can now be executed using hybrid kinetic and non-kinetic tactics.

Fast Facts: What is Open-Source Intelligence?
Open-Source intelligence (OSINT) is one of the six intelligence disciplines used to gather intelligence. We take a look at what makes OSINT unique and why security practitioners are using it.

The Six Steps in the Intelligence Cycle
Intelligence is typically gathered by using a six-step Intelligence Cycle.

The Tempo Tempest Facing Emergency Management
The greatest emerging problem facing homeland security and emergency management professionals is not any single challenge but rather the speed of emerging challenges.
Security News
Trick or Treat: Europol Seized $98.3 Million in Fake or Substandard Food and Beverages
Europol's 2024 Operation OPSON, now in its thirteenth year, seized an estimated 22,000 tons of food and roughly 850,000 liters of beverages that were mostly alcoholic items. The seized goods had an estimated value of €91 million ($98.3 million).
74 Percent of U.S. Adults Worry 2024 Election Results Could Lead to Violence, Survey Finds
Three-quarters of U.S. adults surveyed by the American Psychological Association (APA) said the future of the nation was a significant source of stress in their lives—and it seems to be getting worse each election season.
One-Third of Healthcare Security Practitioners Are Unsatisfied with Existing Security Frameworks
Budget constraints are by far the most significant barrier healthcare security professionals face to implementing new technologies, cited by 74 percent of people surveyed for HID Global’s new report, Securing the Future of Healthcare: Insights into Security and Resilience Across the Organization.
Delta Air Lines Launches Lawsuit Against CrowdStrike Over July Outage
Delta has filed a lawsuit against CrowdStrike, claiming that the firm “forced untested and faulty updates to its customers,” according to the suit. The suit also claims that the computer crashes directly lead to more than $500 million in out-of-pocket losses, as well as damage to the airline’s reputation.
How the Biden Administration’s New National Security Memo on AI Affects the Private Sector
U.S. President Joe Biden issued a national security memorandum on Thursday, outlining his administration’s approach to harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to advance U.S. national security. It outlines key areas where work with the private sector is necessary.
DOJ Unseals Charges Against Four Iranians for Murder-for-Hire Plot Targeting U.S. Citizen
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment on Tuesday, charging members of an Iranian network for their alleged role in a murder-for-hire plot targeting an activist based in the United States.
Cuba Grapples With Power Outages and Hurricane Oscar
Millions of residents and tourists in Cuba have been grappling without electricity for two days, as well as contending with Hurricane Oscar making landfall over the weekend.
CISOs’ Profile Keeps Rising, But Does Attention Equal Sufficient Support?
Cybersecurity leaders' influence with C-suites and boards is growing alongside cyber budgets, but taking advantage of that spotlight requires increasing relationship management and communication skills.
Europol Announces Takedown of Gang Behind ATM Attacks
The individuals apprehended allegedly looted millions of euros and caused a similar amount of property damage from 2022 to 2024.
Defense Contractor RTX Agrees to $950 Million Fines to End Bribery and Fraud Allegations
Defense contractor RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies Corporation, agreed to pay more than $950 million to resolve allegations of foreign bribery and inflating federal contracts.
California Announces Retail Crime Crackdown Progress
California continues its crackdown on organized retail crime with 621 investigations statewide so far in 2024, leading to 1,123 arrests and $8.1 million worth of stolen goods recovered.
Chinese and North Korean Actions Underscore Region’s Volatility
Two Asian hotspots grew a little more tense over the last few days. On 14 October, China staged military drills designed to simulate an attack on Taiwan. On 15 October, North Korea detonated explosives on the North Korean side of the border with South Korea that destroyed roads connecting the two countries.
TD Bank Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Conspiracy and Will Pay More than $3 Billion in Fines for Violations of Bank Secrecy Act
TD Bank pled guilty and will pay more than $3.09 billion to resolve an investigation into violations of U.S. banking law and money laundering.
Hurricanes Milton and Helene: Flooding, Power Outages, Tornadoes, and Rumors
As hurricane season continues in the South, residents are grappling with back-to-back storms, tornadoes, power outages, flooding, and disinformation and misinformation efforts that may keep victims from receiving federal aid.
Mind the Gaps: Worsening Talent and Skills Shortages Continue to Plague Cybersecurity Industry
Despite rising cyber risks, the global active cyber workforce has stalled at 5.5 million people, leaving a gap in the current needed workforce of 4.8 million people.
Largest U.S. Water Utility Experiences Cyber Incident
American Water Works reported a cyber incident to the SEC. While the impact has been minimal so far, it underscores the vulnerability of the nation’s critical infrastructure to cyberattacks.
GAO: Socioeconomic Risk of Dirty Bomb Use Unevenly Informs U.S. Nuclear Agencies’ Security Approaches
A watchdog agency found that U.S. departments responsible for radiological security often share similar assessments of nuclear material threats and vulnerabilities, but they differ in their considerations around socioeconomic consequences, which affects their security activities.
Federal Jury Convicts Three Former Memphis Police Officers on Charges Related to Death of Tyre Nichols
A U.S. federal jury found three former Memphis Police Department officers guilty of witness tampering on Thursday in a case connected to the death of Tyre Nichols last January in Tennessee.
U.S. Homeland Security Said Threat of Domestic and Foreign Terrorism Remains High
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently released its 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment, providing a big-picture look at the threat landscape.
Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran: Where Is It All Headed?
Today in Security highlights a variety of viewpoints on the conflict from experts after Iran launched almost 200 missiles at Israel on 1 October.
Strange Security: Bulls Run Wild and a One Pound Weight Leads to a Felony
A selection of some of the strange or bizarre security-related news items our editors ran across in the month of September.