Difficult to ensure airport sec15 Mar 2017 12:35
More mentions for Digital Barrier today & a mention from their partners at Axis comms..
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“Aviation is highly regulated. Therefore, funding, accreditation, standardization, and the time it takes to gain approval are all major challenges in today's environment,” Gramer said. “As suppliers to the industry it’s important we work with bodies such as the TSA to ensure the most effective technologies are highlighted and that best practices are quickly shared. After all, our aviation system is highly interconnected and we are only ever as secure as our least secure airport.”
Speaking of major factors that should be considered in this vertical Gramer added that flexibility of existing security technologies and processes to adapt to the new threats is key.
“Another factor to consider is where the security perimeter begins and how easy it is for existing measures to be rehearsed against,” Gramer said. “For example, ‘lone wolf’ attacks are a growing threat to domestic security and the ‘insider threat’ has proven to be one of the vulnerable areas of airport operations since most employees entering an airport are not screened the same way passengers are screened.”
Patrik Anderson, Director of Business Development for Transportation at Axis Communications gave similar comments.
“Airports are complex operations, involving multiple stakeholders, massive passenger flows and operational coordination to make flights land and depart on time,” Anderson said. “The major challenge area for security at airports lies in effective people verification. To look for terrorists, theft on the premises, wanted passengers to ensure secure access control between clean and unclean areas. To be able to identify potential threats or seek for individuals in the huge passenger volume and still be able to route passengers through this process in a quick and efficient manner is a challenge. The balance between effective operations, enabling non-aeronautical income (from retail concessions) and still be able to maintain security is of priority to any commercial passenger airport”
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