GLG News by Airport Security Services Experts

Steve WolffPresidentWolff Consulting Services

Improving passenger screening without inconveniencing most travelers

February 17, 2010

Analysis of:Airport scanners stir fears over security lines | www.usatoday.com

Since 9-11 investment in checked bag screening has been ten times that for passenger checkpoint despite 6 checkpoint attacks & none via hold bags since PanAm 103.Effective passenger screening can be achieved with comparable investment levels.   However, the current approach of screening item-by-item will not work.  As terrorists’ primary aim has been to destroy aircraft, a new strategy that leverages work performed to date & that screens on a flight-basis is key to address today’s threat.

John PirontiPresidentIP Architects LLC

Security Technology Vendors, Too Little Too Late?

March 30, 2009

Analysis of:Cyber crime profits running into trillions of dollars | www.itnews.com.au

Information security technology vendors have been trying to catch up with the hacker community with little success in the last couple years.  Most of their tools are out of date the day that they are released for sophisticated attacks.  The hacker community has become more organized and focused on their goal to quietly make money through the use of malicious software and social engineering without advertising their capabilities.  The vendor community needs to change the fundamental ways the design and produce technology or at a minimum reset expectations on the value proposition of their capabilities if they are to continue to drive value and not become commoditized in enterprise information technology environments.

John PirontiPresidentIP Architects LLC

Business Continuance Becomes a Top Of Mind Issue

February 1, 2008

Analysis of:Internet failure hits two continents | www.cnn.com

Business continuance will now become a top of mind issue, especially in global outsourced solutions.

John PirontiPresidentIP Architects LLC

New Technology and Capability Bring New Security Challenges

November 14, 2007

Analysis of:Looming Online Security Threats in 2008 | www.businessweek.com

The implmentation of new technologies such as virtualization, social networking, cryptography, web 2.0 tools and services, and authentiation technologies bring new security challenges.  Data leakage is still top of mind with CISO and CIO. 

John PirontiPresidentIP Architects LLC

Symantec is Well Positioned

November 7, 2007

Analysis of:Symantec to Extend Its Leadership in Information-Centric Security | money.cnn.com

Symantec has recently made a key aquisition in Vontu which helps it transform from technology focus to a data focus for security.

John PirontiPresidentIP Architects LLC

Can Microsoft Create Industry Standards?

September 7, 2007

Analysis of:Microsoft Is Rebuffed by Standards Body | www.nytimes.com

Industry standards are meant to be universally accepted concepts, formats, structures, and/or capabilities which are commonly accepted amongst all users and vendors as the most appropriate way to do something. When a vendor like Microsoft attempts to create a standard the question that has to be asked is whether or not the community at large agrees with their point of view.

Steve WolffPresidentWolff Consulting Services

AS&E Technology - is it worth it?

September 3, 2007

Analysis of:Foolish Forecast: AS&E Fills Its Dance Card | www.fool.com

AS&E has heavily and successfully marketed its backscatter X-ray technology for several applications.  Backscatter X-ray has its strengths but also weaknesses - especially for large dense cargo containers. When properly applied, it can reveal certain concealed items, but are these limitations worth the cost.

Steve WolffPresidentWolff Consulting Services

UK and the Future of Airport Passenger Checkpoints

August 22, 2007

Analysis of:Welcome to London: Your Luggage Is Missing | online.wsj.com

No simple solution for improving the Passenger Screening Checkpoints at airports is likely. The UK Government is under pressure from airports and airlines to relax constraints currently in effect, even though the threat level remains high. The UK Government is testing (off-line) combinations of new technologies aimed at optimizing and replacing the current central search/ passenger checkpoint process within the next couple of years.

Steve WolffPresidentWolff Consulting Services

Consolidation: GE & Smiths; the joint Venture

February 9, 2007

Analysis of:G.E. Buying a British Aerospace Company | www.nytimes.com

Both GE and and Smiths Detection are leaders in complementary technologies that, when merged, could allow the formation of a company that can provide comprehensive solutions to various homeland security applications.  Challenges remain in forming and executing this JV and the time required will give competitors a chance to gain influence.

Steve WolffPresidentWolff Consulting Services

Using backscatter X-ray on passengers at airports

February 9, 2007

Analysis of:"Backscatter" X-Ray Screening Technology | www.epicwest.org

Current passenger screening techniques don't find explosives, only metallic objects.  New techniques are available to find explosives on people, but they are controversial for two reasons and haven't yet been deployed for screening passengers.  One is the issue of privacy, the other, at least for backscatter X-ray, is radiation exposure. 

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