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Focus on Security System Life-Cycle Management
True life-cycle management is a holistic framework for managing your security assets from end to end, not just the checking the health of individual devices.
Corrections Security
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has struggled to recruit and retain corrections officers for over a decade. Its ongoing staffing crisis is creating a variety of safety and security concerns for staff and incarcerated individuals alike.
When Researching Extremism, Women Face Outsized Risks
Publicly shared and promoted research into extremism shines a light on shadowy organizations and radicalization methods. But that spotlight can put researchers—especially female researchers—at risk.
How to Support Researchers and Analysts Who Are Targeted Online for Their Work
Extremism researchers require support from their peers and institutions to combat harassment and other online harm.
How Misogyny Can Lead to Extremism
Modern tools wielded by influencers, extremists, and others use misogyny to sway and recruit impressionable children and young men online. It’s why normalizing misogyny is so dangerous.
Fast Facts: 3 Ways Platforms Can Proactively Address Online Misogyny
Online misogyny can negatively impact everyone—men, women, boys, girls, regardless of their beliefs, orientations, or preferences. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue has identified how online platforms can confront it.
Why Reinvented Hardware Is the Foundation of Our Intelligent Security Future
The security industry is moving away from “install-and-forget” hardware toward high-performance, software-defined, AI-ready architecture that keeps pace with an explosion of unstructured data. Here’s how to prepare your organization to adapt.
ASIS News: Celebrating Our Members and Their Achievements
Advance your career with bonus content, special savings, scholarships, regional events, mentorships, and more.
A Cascading Crisis: U.S. Federal Prisons Grapple with Decades of Unsafe Understaffing
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has struggled to recruit and retain corrections officers for over a decade. Its ongoing staffing crisis is creating a variety of safety and security concerns for staff and incarcerated individuals alike.
A Small but Mighty Problem: Tracking Down Mini Cellphones in Prisons
Miniature cellphone use by incarcerated individuals poses a problem for correctional facilities. Here are a few tactics that prisons in Europe are using to detect and remove them.
Fast Facts: The Most Common Contraband in U.S. Federal Prisons
An analysis from the U.S. Sentencing Commission identified the top forms of contraband in federal prison facilities between 2019 and 2023.
Overlapping Factors Lead to Overcrowding, Safety Condition Challenges in European Prisons
A European organization for prison and correctional services identified overcrowding as one of the most persistent and systemic challenges prison administrators face.
Certification Profile: Rahul Gopal, CPP, PCI, PSP
Precision under pressure: ASIS connections and credentialing shaped one professional’s career.
Why Treat Barrier Removal as a Strategic Capital Investment
Accessibility upgrades may be required in some facilities, but they can also form a critical part of asset preservation and resilience strategies.
Reinventing Subcontractor Evaluation Beyond Pass/Fail
A subcontractor struggling with financial instability, poor safety practices, or quality issues can derail an entire project.
Rethinking Physical Security: Why Life-Cycle Management is Now Table Stakes
Life-cycle management gives teams a way to move forward with structure. It creates continuity across the full system life cycle, so information is not lost, decisions are easier to make, and performance is easier to measure.
IT Decision-Makers Put Physical Security Purchases Under the Microscope
IT was the department most frequently involved in physical security purchasing decisions (54 percent), followed by physical security (48 percent), Genetec found in a recent survey. IT professionals use this sway to examine vendors more closely.
Security News
For Violent Attackers, AI Chatbots Prove Dangerously Helpful
Researchers found that eight of the 10 leading chatbot platforms helped would-be attackers in more than half of responses, including providing guidance around weapon selection and targeting.
Security Personnel Stop Vehicle Attack at Michigan Synagogue as Threats to Jewish Institutions Rise
Security personnel at a Michigan synagogue shot and killed a man after he drove a vehicle that contained chemical agents into the building on Thursday.
Effects of War in Iran Spread Around the Globe
As the United States and Israel’s war against Iran approaches the two-week mark, the reach of the conflict continues to stretch worldwide.
Nation-States Use Compromised Surveillance Cameras for Targeting, Report Says
Scanning activity targeted cameras with known vulnerabilities—including some that have been patchable since 2017—to take over devices and gain on-the-ground surveillance on potential targets.
Three Arrested in Connection to Nightclub Bombing in Peru
Authorities have arrested three people suspected of involvement in the explosion at a nightclub in Trujillo, Peru, that left at least 33 people injured on 7 March.
Is Cybersecurity a Welcoming Career? 72 Percent of Female Cyber Practitioners Say Yes
Despite overall optimism about the state of cybersecurity careers, women in the industry are pursuing more upskilling and training around AI and technical skills to boost their next job prospects.
Legal Report: DOD Disavows Premier Partner, Anthropic
The U.S. Department of Defense designated Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security. Here’s what that could entail and how it could affect other government contractors.
Major Hub of Stolen Data and Phishing Operation Neutralized
It’s been a good week for people fighting cybercrime. LeakBase, a major hub of stolen credentials and other data, was taken offline by a worldwide, multijurisdictional action, and a Microsoft-led coalition took down large phishing platform Tycoon 2FA.
Organizations, Travelers Are Stuck Between Evacuation Orders and Limited Routes in Middle East
Despite government guidance to evacuate 14 Middle Eastern countries, many U.S. tourists, business travelers, and other citizens are stuck, with few flights out of the area and no clear instructions on how to exit.
Strait of Hormuz Closure: Impacts on Oil and Supply Chains
After the United States and Israel began major combat operations, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, which has far-reaching impacts on energy security and supply chains.
