Security Spotlight
- A small Arizona district will be bringing in expertise to help put the finishing touches on school safety plans and training. An Oregon district will be hiring a part-time person to coordinate emergency planning. A sizable Florida district will be adding GPS and biometric identification systems to its rural school buses and compensating school leaders to complete emergency management training and update their schools' plans. All of these projects were made possible through a grant program called REMS, administered by the Department of Education.More
School Security News & Issues
- High schoolers attending the University of California, Davis-hosted MathFest 2009 evening will be hearing from a cryptologic mathematician with the National Security Agency. David Perry will give a public talk about the history of codes and code-breaking and especially the "unbreakable" Enigma code machine used by Germany in World War II.More
- Roselle Borough Public Schools in New Jersey will be implementing a safety and security management portal developed by Viyya Technologies and sold by its education division, Virtual Ed Link.More
- IntegraScan, which provides criminal background checks, has announced a new program to supply any volunteer in the United States with a free background check.More
- Blackboard has launched a service for student identity verification, powered by technology from Acxiom, a company that specializes in interactive marketing and risk mitigation services.More
- Agnitum has released versions of its security software, Outpost Pro, to protect computers running Windows 7 Release Candidate even before the new operating system is released to the general public.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
- The Northwest Regional Education Service District, an agency that works with 20 school districts in Oregon, is moving staff safety training online.More
- Wren Solutions, a company that sells network video products, has added IP access control to its roster of security offerings. More
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