Articles Tagged with ''sports security''

In a case of insider theft, federal prosecutors charged a former U.S. Golf Association employee with stealing more than $3.4 million in U.S. Open tickets, reselling them for a profit.

Masks will now be required indoors at Bank of America stadium. The Carolina Panthers made the announcement after the Mecklenburg County Health Department recommended issuing another mask mandate in light of the Delta Variant of the coronavirus.

Today, off-the-shelf commercial drone technology poses a significant threat to governments, corporations and the public. While the positive use cases for deploying commercial drones are many, like all technologies, drones have a dark side that security professionals must prepare for.

San Diego Police Department (SDPD) enhanced its situational awareness during the 121st U.S. Open golf tournament, enabling police officers and incident commanders to monitor live video and access mission critical apps from the Joint Operations Center command post and the SDPD headquarters.

We talk to Fred Burton, NYT best-selling author, former special agent, counterterrorism expert, and executive director of the Ontic Center for Protective Intelligence, about how protective intelligence can help keep athletes and their fans safe.

The Goffert Stadium in the Netherlands needed to upgrade its legacy security system, which had fallen into disrepair and was no longer fit for purpose.

The National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS⁴⁾ at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) recently completed a product operational exercise for an RF-based detection system. The two-part exercise included a demonstration of the technology in the company’s laboratory and observation of it in use at a concert at Ruth Eckerd Hall in Clearwater, Fla.