FLIR has announced a new technology collaboration with DJI Innovations. Under the strategic arrangement, the companies also announced plans to develop their first joint product, the DJI Zenmuse XT stabilized camera featuring FLIR’s thermal imaging technology for DJI’s Inspire 1 and Matrice aerial platforms.
Introduction:
This is not the best of time for humanity as far as wholesale insecurity, bloodletting and social vices are concerned. Both developed, developing and under-developed countries of the world grapple with one form of security challenge or the other. Hallowed places of worship and religious leaders are not spared in this onslaught by fanatics, criminals, vandals, kidnappers, terrorists, active shooters and their ilks. Shortly before penning this piece, gunmen kidnapped two Catholic Priests in Delta State, South-South, Nigeria. Vanguard Newspaper chronicled the story of Gabriel Ogunsawe, member of a notorious kidnapping syndicate that specializes in kidnapping little children from churches. To this end, churches, mosques in the United States are boosting security in their premises due to intermittent mass shootings, terrorism and violent extremism. ‘’Preliminary 2015 statistics gathered by the Council on American-Islamic Relations found 71 reported cases of vandalism, harassment and threats, with 29 of those incidents occurring aftermath of the November 13, 2015 terrorist attack in France’’. As we know, insecurity, nay terrorism, basks on element of surprise, unpredictability, instilling fear on the populace, effecting mass casualty and this explains why proponents of such dastardly acts opt for soft targets, public places.
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In the blink of an eye, 2015 is almost over. When looking back at it and what it meant for the cybersecurity industry, this year has been predictably busy. We saw large acquisitions, including those of EMC by Dell and Websense by Raytheon, while companies such as Rapid7 and Sophos went public. Large funding rounds were a near weekly occurrence, and as a result the sector raised more than $2.3 billion within the first nine months.
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It should come as no surprise that Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) that control key functions in critical infrastructure are especially at risk of cyber attack. If saboteurs manage to compromise critical infrastructure services, a country’s economy and military defenses can be severely hampered. In addition, since organisations that operate critical infrastructure often own valuable intellectual property, this information can be a target for foreign state actors trying to steal intellectual property to advance their economies or to win competitive bids.
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