TSA Pre✓™ Pilot to Expand to Busiest U.S. Airports
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S. Pistole today announced the expansion of TSA Pre✓™, a passenger pre-screening initiative, to some of the busiest airports across the country following the program’s success at seven pilot locations.
Continue Reading →TAL Global Leading Edge InfoSec Presentations at RSA Conference 2012
Mr. Johnathan Tal, TAL Global’s President and CEO, and the company’s General Counsel and Managing Director, Information Security, Mr. Larry Dietz will both lead Peer2Peer Sessions at the upcoming RSA Conference 2012, February 27 to March 2 the Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
Continue Reading →TAL Global – Season’s Greeting
Erroll Southers, TAL Global’s Managing Director for Counter-Terrorism and Infrastructure Protection was the keynote speaker at the 8th European-American Sheriff’s Advisory Council (EASAC) and European Consular Corps event.
Continue Reading →New Book: “Security and Game Theory”
TAL Global Managing Director’s chapter, “LAX Terror Target: the History, the Reason, the Countermeasure” describes the pilot project leading to the innovative research transition program known as ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring Over Routes).
Continue Reading →Larry Dietz on IT Security: Shady Rat Revisited
In August we published a commentary on Project Shady Rat, a research project orchestrated by McAfee (now part of Intel). We recently attended a meeting of the Silicon Valley Information Security Association, hosted by McAfee and where the features speaker was Vincent Weather, Sr VP of Engineering & McAfee Labs who previously was a senior research with Symantec.
Vincent had some interesting things to say which I would like to pass along.
A Decade Later: A Call for TSA Reform
On November 16th, 2001, the Joint Majority Staff of the 112th Congress published a report titled: “A Decade Later: A Call for TSA Reform”.
Continue Reading →Richard Clarke: “Cyber Weaknesses Should Deter U.S. from Waging War”
Former top Presidential adviser, Richard Clarke, said the United States’ economic system is vulnerable to a retaliatory cyberattack should the United States attack a country such as Iran or North Korea.
Continue Reading →From “See Something, Say Something” to Community Resilience
TAL Global lauds the TSA’s recent decision to encourage hotel guests to be vigilant and to report suspicious activity that may be linked to terror threats.
Continue Reading →Recent News & Posting:
- Concerns Over Cargo Terror Continue
- Montana airport gets rare TSA concession: Private screeners
- Al-Qaida in decline, but threats to US multiply
- Hackers attack U.S. railways
- Forbes: Cyber Threat to Power Grid Puts Utility Investors at Risk
- Securosis.com: How Regular Folks See Online Safety, and What It Says about Us