Tag: verified response
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.
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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...