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News Poll: AI, cyberattacks at the forefront of threats in 2025

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News Poll: AI, cyberattacks at the forefront of threats in 2025

December 10, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor

YARMOUTH, Maine — AI and cyberattacks have dominated headlines for the past few years, and the trend looks to continue into 2025, according to the results of the latest SSN News Poll.  The vote for the most significant security threat in 2025 was split between cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure and AI-driven phishing and social engineering, with both garnering 41.18% of votes. The remaining votes went to insider threats and employee negligence, and supply chain vulnerabilities.  “(An)...

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud security, phishing, Security Systems News (SSN), social engineering, supply chain, verified response


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Monitoring

Municipality ponders private security officer response to all alarms

December 15, 2010Daniel Gelinas

SHAWNEE, Kan.—Police officials here were putting together a proposal for the Shawnee City Council's vote that would have required monitoring companies in the municipality to verify all alarms via a private security officer before dispatching alarms to the police. It's a very restrictive form of verified response that could have had huge implications for the security industry had it gone through, officials said. “The meeting with the Shawnee City Council, city manager and law enforcement...

Bob Scales, Kansas City Burglar and Fire Alarm Association, KCBFAA, Keith Bowman, Lt. Jodi Andrews, Metro Security, private response, Ron Walters, Safeguard KC, Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC), Shawnee Kansas, verified response


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