The pressing need to reduce waiting times for services like security and immigration checks at airports or even when picking up rental cars has come into focus. Undoubtedly, waiting in long queues for any procedure is one of the most frustrating moments for travellers. The COVID-19 pandemic has also contributed to accelerating the adoption of […]

BT has announced it has secured a seven-year deal with NATS, the UK’s leading provider of air navigation services. NATS handles over 2.5 million flights every year and the new long-term contract will strengthen its technology infrastructure by creating a future-fit strategic network architecture to support air traffic operations in the UK. BT will take […]

Thousands of satellites are currently orbiting the Earth and there will be many more in the future. Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken have assessed the security of these systems from an IT perspective. They analysed three current low-earth orbit satellites and found that, from a […]

Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security screening technologies, has announced that it has been selected to supply fully integrated checkpoints throughout Birmingham Airport as part of its £20 million security screening upgrade. The new security checkpoints will feature Smiths Detection’s HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX, a computed tomography (CT) X-ray scanner, which produces high-resolution […]

Genetec – a leading technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations and business intelligence solutions – has announced that the company’s flagship unified security platform, Security Center, has been chosen by Brazil’s Hercílio Luz International Airport in Florianópolis (Floripa), to manage its physical security infrastructure and provide operational insights. Named ‘best airport in Brazil’ […]

Smiths Detection, a global leader in threat detection and security inspection technologies, has been awarded a contract to supply New Zealand’s Aviation Security Service (AvSec) with advanced checkpoint security technology for its five major international airports: Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Queenstown and Wellington. Smiths Detection will supply 35 HI-SCAN 6040 CTiX computed tomography (CT) X-ray machines. […]

Thales, a global technology leader, and Schiebel, an aviation and aerospace component manufacturer, have been awarded a contract by the UK Ministry of Defence to deliver a game-changing rotary wing Uncrewed Air System (UAS) to provide a protective ‘eye in the sky’ capability for Royal Navy warships. The contract for the Peregrine system will see a rotary-powered UAS, […]

Indra, a leading global technological engineering company for the aerospace, defence and mobility sectors, has signed a contract with DFS, Germany’s air navigation service provider, to modernise the country’s entire network of air surveillance radars with state-of-the-art technology. The project, with an execution period of 13 years, has an amount over €100 million, which would […]

Oman Airports is a state-owned company that manages all the airports of the Sultanate including Muscat International Airport, Duqm Airport, Suhar Airport, Salalah Airport. It is therefore essential that it operates with strict security protocol across the board to avoid falling victim to sophisticated cyberattacks. Basim Al Lawati, ICT Technical Senior Manager at Oman Airports, discusses […]

Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, has released its fourth-annual threat research report on ransomware. The new report looks at ransomware attack patterns that occurred between August 2021 and July 2022. For the 106 highly publicised attacks Barracuda researchers analysed, the dominant targets are still five key industries: education (15%), […]