Counter Terror

Threats from terrorist organisations and belligerent states are numerous. They range from terrorist attacks, like we have seen in Paris, through offensive operations similar...

Seaports customs and security professionals might sometimes miss contraband attempts, including radiological materials. The problem was hightened during a US congressional hearing, when officials...

Geo-fencing technologies that use the global positioning system (GPS) or radio frequency identification (RFID) to define geographical boundaries have various applications. Now they are...

Two decades ago, late at night in one of the neighborhoods of the Palestinian cities in the west bank - an operation to capture...

  An emotion reading technology might soon be used by police after a Russian firm recently created a tool that can identify people in a...

After years of designing, checking and testing, Elbit’s subsidiary Elsec has completed the development of the Xact sight, a brand new weapon sight that...

By Col. (res.) Dr. Shaul Shay Yemen is on the verge of becoming a failed state. The interim Yemeni government is struggling to fight terrorist...

Israel Defense Forces’ Electronic Warfare (EW) soldiers and officers are deployed along the nation’s borders. Among their missions: monitoring radical terrorist organizations in Syria,...

Kaspersky Lab discovers the ancestor of Stuxnet and Flame – powerful threat actor with an absolute dominance in terms of cyber-tools and techniques. For several...

The India-Pakistan border is one of the most dangerous and volatile stretches of land in the world. More than half of India’s 1,000,000 and...

In the near future, the cyber industry will have to cope with a wider array of cyber threats and challenges resulting from the vulnerabilities...

Data found on social media can be used for a variety of missions including psychological operations, intelligence gathering etc. “It’s vital for information about...

This report covers the period of April - June 2014, the report covers two main subjects: cyber-terrorism (offensive, defensive, and the media, and the main topics...

ISIS is the most prominent and most successful terror organization that exists today. Apart from its cruelty, its most prominent ability is the way...

ChemImage Sensor Systems (CISS) develops innovative chemical imaging sensors that address the landscape of drugs, chemical, biological and explosive (CBE) threats. The company has...

The first ALERT Truck Mobile Surveillance System, a collaborative border surveillance platform has been delivered. A key technology included in the platform designed and...

The U.S Homeland Security Department needs to improve its research and development process so that it can better address gaps in its framework to...

A new terror alert smartphone app will be released worldwide later this month, providing users one place where they can obtain relevant real-time information...

Video analytics can be used for various purposes - motion detection for security, facial recognition & license plate reading, people counting for retail stores...

Heathrow Airport security has been on high alert amid reports of a new type of terrorist threat to aviation: explosives concealed in breast implants. The...

The unmanned air systems (UAS) in the Israeli airforce (IAF) Palmachim airbase are playing a major role in the effort to suppress the rocket...

Announcements by the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) show progress at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), an independent authority...