Q: How do you envisage security technology better responding to future threats rather than those of yesteryear?


Clive Beattie, CEO, ThruVision Systems:


Terrorists today are well prepared and well financed, nimble, innovative and ruthless whereas those charged with protecting our safety face challenges – regulations are slow to change, new technologies slow to be adopted. Financial constraints have led to a focus on yesterday’s technologies and operations, deploying known technologies at known checkpoints, allowing “hostile reconnaissance” to find ways through or around these checkpoints. We have ceded the advantage to those intent on causing harm. New technologies must look to reclaim this advantage, putting the terrorist on the back foot whilst gaining public acceptance. ThruVision Systems seeks to do this by designing solutions that are safe and non-intrusive but facilitate integrated, covert and mobile operation across


multiple layers of security. Governments and security operators must support such new technologies and approaches, ensuring they are brought into use quickly and thereby continue to evolve, proactively not reactively countering the future threats we will face.


Don Zimmerman, Vice President, Innovative Concepts International:


The latest developments in security technology have taken a proactive approach to the new threats in the world. In the past, old-fashioned reactive responses to threats garnered more publicity as they attempted to solve a known issue; however the fact remained that the implementation did not occur until it was forced into place by a significant event. As future threats increase and security remains essential to maintaining the open borders that have been created throughout the world, the need to implement proactive cost effective technology will continue to be of increasing importance. Any technology that can also incorporate sustainable designs and green products will continue to have added significance.


Q: How can the the current airport security checkpoint be improved upon in terms of passenger facilitation, detection capability and security best practice?


Sidney Chau, Executive Director, Aviation Security Company Ltd. (AVSECO):


Chris Grey, Managing Director, Quadratica UK Ltd.:


Overall, the current airport security check point lacks the flair for defence in depth (Deter, Detect, Delay and Response) and is conducted in isolation. To be more effective the security process needs to be integrated with intelligence analysis of personal data collected during the


course of ticket purchase. This process, in conjunction with the methods of “profiling” and “Behaviour Pattern Recognition”, will enable security staff to identify high-risk passengers from normal passengers. Low-risk passengers requiring minimal security checks could be fast-tracked leaving security resources available to concentrate on passengers who pose a more realistic threat to aircraft/ airport security and improving the whole security process for the majority of passengers who pose no real threat. In order to enhance the efficiency of screeners at check points, in terms of both security standards and passenger facilitation, a number of factors need to be considered. They include whether there is sufficient space at checkpoints; the processes; the system and technology used in support of the security process; as well as a host of human factors and management skills that should be applied to motivate the security personnel.


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Airport Security is only as good as the personnel who implement it. This means that each and every member of staff who interact with passengers and/or are responsible in any way for their security must be well motivated. The best way to achieve this is to recognise them


as professionals who are well trained and rewarded appropriately for the role they undertake. Organisations need therefore to undertake two simple steps; increase training and ensure that the standards they set are both comprehensive and consistent. In support of this, governments around the world need to encourage these steps by ensuring that all airports adopt identical practices in the processing of passengers and goods through their country's borders. This can be easily achieved by the creation of an international certificate of competence.


Some of the companies that are aiming to whet our tastebuds with creative, innovative and effective solutions are featured on the pages that follow – might they be the industry leaders?


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