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Sept. 1, 2020

IAPSC NEWS

IAPSC Partner Webinar | Trends in Access Control Openings: Touch-less, Intelligent Solutions, Design Considerations & Resources IAPSC On Thursday, September 10 @ 2 pm (ET) join moderator Frank Pisciotta, CSC and presenters Donna Chapman and Jason Groomes of ASSA ABLOY for a Webinar to discuss Trends in Access Control Openings: Touch-less, Intelligent Solutions, Design Considerations and Resources. Review current trends as it applies to door openings and unique needs required for today’s environment. Learn about touchless and sustainable openings, Intelligent solutions, BIM workflow design to enhance access control openings specifications, and more! Donna & Jason will conclude the webinar with a live Q&A. IAPSC Members: FREE Non-Members: $25 This webinar has been approved for 1 CSC credit hour through IAPSC and 1 CPE credit hour through ASIS. REGISTER NOW

Behavioural Analysis Week – Online 2020 IAPSC The Behavioural Analysis 2020 Conference will now be a four-day online event, beginning October 5, 2020. Presentations exploring how hostile or criminal intent can be identified through the observation of behavioural indicators and the use of tactical risk analysis and non-racial profiling techniques. If you can’t join ‘live’ due to a difference in time zone or other commitments, the new digital format will allow attendees to view recordings of the sessions from the ‘live’ event at their convenience. Attendees will have access to: • Professional presentations • Case studies • Panel discussions • Live Q&A • Product demonstrations • Access to presentation recordings IAPSC members will receive a 20% discount when registering, click here or contact IAPSC@IAPSC.org for more information!

PRODUCT SHOWCASE Introducing Overtur™ from Allegion Overtur™ is Allegion’s digital environment for simplifying design, specification and management of door openings, including access control, between Divisions 8 and 28. It serves as a central hub of access control hardware information that allows team members to collaborate on a project in a single platform. LEARN MORE

Set Yourself Apart and Become A Certified Security Consultant (CSC)! IAPSC Earning the Certified Security Consultant designation demonstrates your depth of knowledge, professional objectivity, integrity, and skills as a security consultant. The CSC requires a combination of experience, education, independence, ethics, and successfully passing an online examination. The exam is open to both members and non-members as well as independent (external) and internal consultants. IAPSC members are pre-qualified to sit for the exam and receive a discount on the certification fee. Learn more here and apply today! READ MORE

GOVERNMENT

With many federal employees working from home, cybersecurity experts look to beef up defenses Los Angeles Times In the age of social distancing, many employees have found their workplace shift from an office cubicle to a living room couch. But for federal workers and IT teams who often handle sensitive data using outdated government systems and infrastructure, working from home brings new challenges — particularly as concerns are rising about cybersecurity attacks seeking to exploit the pandemic. READ MORE

PRODUCT SHOWCASE

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BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT

Better security starts with better employee training Security Boulevard Employees continue to be the most significant risk factor when it comes to security. According to a study by Kaspersky Lab, 52% of businesses say employees are their biggest weakness in IT security, with their careless, unintentional actions putting business cybersecurity at risk. According to various other studies, human error accounts for the majority of data breaches, as much as 605 to 90%. READ MORE

'Next-gen' supply chain attacks surge 430% Dark Reading Attackers are increasingly seeding open source projects with compromised components. As commercial and enterprise software developers become more disciplined about keeping their open source software components updated to reduce the risk of software supply chain attacks, the bad guys are getting craftier: Researchers warn that they're over-running open source projects to turn them into malware distribution channels. READ MORE

IT SECURITY

70% of ICS vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely Beta News A new Biannual ICS Risk and Vulnerability Report, released today by Claroty, reveals that more than 70% of industrial control system (ICS) vulnerabilities disclosed in the first half of 2020 can be exploited remotely. READ MORE

Chrome extensions that lie about their permissions Malwarebytes “But I checked the permissions before I installed this pop-up-blocker—it said nothing about changing my searches,” my dad retorts after I scold him for installing yet another search-hijacking Chrome extension. Granted, they are not hard to remove, but having to do it over and over is a nuisance. This is especially true because it can be hard to find out which of the Chrome extensions is the culprit if the browser starts acting up. READ MORE

Database breach exposes profile data for 235M Tiktok, Instagram and Youtube accounts 9 to 5 Mac A database breach has exposed profile data for nearly 235 million users of TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. The data appears to have been collected by a practice known as web-scraping, where a company accesses the web interface of a service and then collates data automatically … READ MORE

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