by Jeff Price | Jan 18, 2015 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Crime and Terrorism, General Aviation Airport Security
I was recently on a panel on CNN discussing the latest al Qaeda threat to aviation. In their online publication, Inspire magazine al Qaeda outlined a strategy for how to make a bomb that would get past a screening checkpoint at an airport. In that same week, I fielded...
by Jeff Price | Apr 21, 2014 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs
The recent report of an individual stowing away aboard a Hawaiian Airlines flight from San Jose to Maui again brings forth the question of perimeter security at airports. A couple of years ago with the infamous jet skier at John F. Kennedy Airport along with a few...
by Jeff Price | Apr 14, 2014 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, Current Affairs
Are you paying too much for Airport Security measures? According to a recent study, yes. But, before you take a gigantic ax to your next years annual security budget, consider what the study assessed, and more importantly, what it didn’t. The study was published...
by Jeff Price | Dec 27, 2012 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, General Aviation Airport Security, Overview of Aviation Security
12th Annual AAAE Annual Aviation Security Summit and looking towards the threats in 2013 Hyatt Regency Crystal City Alexandria, VA The annual aviation security summit brought out a good line of speakers this year, featuring decision makers and policy makers, not...
by Jeff Price | Oct 26, 2012 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security, General Aviation Airport Security
Several recent airport perimeter security breaches have brought the issue into the public spotlight. Normally, such scrutiny is reserved for the “front door,” of aviation security, which is the screening checkpoint and largely the domain of the TSA. The “back door,”...
by Jeff Price | Aug 13, 2012 | Aviation Security, Commercial Aviation Airport Security
With news today of the JetSki’er able to claim the fence and access the airport JFK the question of airport perimeter security is again raised. The first thing we need to look at in this case is what happened. JFK has a perimeter intrusion defense system which...