What AI Engines Get Wrong About Real-World Physical Security Dilemmas AI engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok can deliver polished answers within seconds. But their advice is often too generic for real security decisions. We took 5 real-life dilemmas and had the AI engines tackle them: How to select a facial recognition system, how to reduce retail theft, how to choose a security company, how to improve airport perimeter security, and how to manage excessive video al

An attack that used to take a shift now lands inside the same hour, and the security team is still reading it across endpoint, firewall, identity, email and cloud tools that do not share a case. The detection exists. The repeatable response does not. That is the operational pressure on the floor at it-sa Expo & Congress in Nuremberg, 27-29 October 2026. The expo is the setting, not the event. Sophos is one of the companies on the floor. Illumio is another, in Hall 7, booth 7-

Flydubai flight FZ1073, Dubai to Tel Aviv, transmitted emergency and unlawful-interference codes, made a steep descent and diverted to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, after a reported fight in the cockpit. An unnamed passenger with no background in security or aviation neutralized the attacker with blows and fought him over the controls before another pilot reached the deck. Passengers also helped subdue him, and a doctor and a nurse on board gave first aid. The aircraft landed. The que

Two unmasked men bought tickets to Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts, smashed a display case with a hammer during opening hours on 27 August, and fled with Queen Nazli’s platinum Van Cleef & Arpels necklace. The piece is set with 673 diamonds totaling more than 200 carats and sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2015 for $4.3 million. Cameras recorded the attack. The suspects remain at large. One was reported to have been carrying a firearm. No one was injured. What daylight thefts ex

Most of the loss no longer happens on the road. Freight sits in a bay, a fake pickup clears the gate, or a carrier identity that was never checked takes the load. A SmartSense survey released on 24 September found 79 percent of U.S. loss and organized-retail-crime leads more worried than at any earlier point, with fake pickups, carrier impersonation and GPS interference now the leading tactics. A large share of the freight is gone before it moves. The First Theft Is the One N

Security teams hesitate to automate an emergency notification because most alarms are not real. The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services has put the false-alarm share of alarm calls at 94 to 98 percent. That number sits behind the operational choice: wait for a person to confirm, and lose seconds, or push the alert and flood a guard force and a 911 center with noise. For a gunshot, those seconds are the response window. Confirmation Happ

Operational technology (OT) has become one of the most critical areas of cyber risk management for enterprise security leaders. Manufacturing lines, power systems, transportation networks, healthcare infrastructure, energy operations, and other industrial environments rely on increasingly connected systems. That connectivity delivers operational advantages, but it also exposes OT environments that were not originally designed for today’s threat landscape. For CISOs, this pose

The Q2 2026 cargo theft numbers from Verisk CargoNet reveal a concerning shift: fewer reported thefts but dramatically higher losses. Incidents dropped 26% year over year, while estimated losses reached $304.6 million, more than double the $135.7 million recorded in Q2 2025. Among thefts with a reported commodity value, the average loss reached $564,009. A lower incident count can make the threat appear less serious. However, the value of the stolen goods suggests that cargo

A truck arrives with the right load number. The bill of lading matches. The driver knows the booking. The freight leaves. The theft is not discovered until the consignee reports a missing delivery a week later. That sequence, not GPS spoofing, is what is beating many yard and dock controls first. Jeff Ketelaars, co-founder of Security Guards Only and a security operator with more than 35 years in the field, said fraudulent collection still wins because it exploits the one ste

During the recent holidays, we traveled to visit my wife’s family in Romania, with a layover at Frankfurt Airport. While a transatlantic flight with a four-year-old can be challenging, for a security professional it was a fascinating journey. The amount of technology embedded in airports over the past few years is striking. Here are a few examples of how AI is being integrated into the most fundamental airport security tasks – watchlist alerting, sterile areas, baggage screen

As law enforcement agencies expand body-worn camera deployments, operational realities are shifting from simple video capture to resilient data management, interoperability, and post-incident automation. With high-volume footage, variable connectivity, and rising public transparency demands, system architecture increasingly determines whether evidence workflows remain reliable under stress. Modern deployments assume that connectivity will fail at critical moments. In distribu

Rising geopolitical fragmentation, persistent inflationary pressure, and continued volatility in global trade lanes are reshaping risk exposure across supply chains. High-value goods - particularly electronics, pharmaceuticals, and branded consumer products - are moving through longer, more complex networks, often with multiple handoffs across carriers, brokers, and facilities. At the same time, organized criminal networks are adapting, leveraging digital access, identity spo

Schools in the United States face the same challenge year after year: how to keep campuses safe without turning them into fortresses. From physical access controls to behavioral threat assessments, districts are juggling budget gaps, political scrutiny, and community pushback over the right mix of measures. Into this landscape, ASIS International has released a new ANSI-approved school security standard, billed as the first comprehensive framework for K-12 in the U.S. The sta

To compensate for false alerts, operators traditionally insert human verification into the alert workflow. However, holding a potential active shooter notification in a software queue while a dispatcher reviews the audio signature introduce...

Public venues and logistics facilities face a severe operational bottleneck at security checkpoints. Automated deterrence measures carry immediate costs when triggered incorrectly, while hesitation creates severe security gaps. According to...

The global video management systems VMS market is undergoing structural change. After years of consolidation around a relatively small group of dominant vendors, competitive differentiation is increasingly defined by openness, ecosystem breadth, cloud readiness and analytics integration. In this evolving landscape, long standing leaders are being reassessed as procurement priorities shift. Genetec built its reputation on unified security management. By combining IP video, acc

Security Guys News is pleased to announce that entries are now open for the Security Guys News Awards 2026, our year-end industry awards program recognizing outstanding achievements across physical security, surveillance, access control and security technology. The program is designed to identify the products, deployments, partnerships and operational initiatives that have made a measurable contribution to protecting people, property and critical infrastructure during 2026. E

The new school year in the United States has opened with grim numbers: 47 shootings on K–12 grounds so far in 2025. That reality is driving districts to look for security measures that move faster than traditional checkpoints but avoid turning campuses into fortress-like spaces. Toronto-based Xtract One is one of the firms stepping into that demand. Its screening systems are designed to let students walk through carrying laptops and backpacks while software sorts routine item

Violence in healthcare facilities is on the rise. The Bureau of Labor Statistics identifies hospitals as having the highest rate of workplace violence, and the American Hospital Association estimates the annual cost of related incidents exceeds $18 billion. With California now requiring hospitals to install weapons detection systems by 2027, regulatory pressure is accelerating adoption. Athena Security is positioning itself as a beneficiary of that trend. Co-founder and CTO C

ATLANTA — The last morning of GSX at the Georgia World Congress Center opens under a hard, sunny sky, with the high already heading toward the low 90s and the air outside thick before the doors even fully wake up. Inside the hall the temperature drops, but the smell does not: industrial carpet, cooling electronics, coffee gone slightly burnt, and the flat sweetness of booth graphics still off-gassing from Monday’s install. Honeywell is on the floor with LenelS2 OnGuard 8.4 ti