Risky applications and business applications are being used side-by-side on employee-owned mobile devices that are used for work, a survey by the Bethesda-based Sans Institute, a source for security training and certification, has found.

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SafeNet Inc., of Belcamp, a provider of Internet security technology, has teamed with Oceus Networks Inc., a Reston, Va.-based broadband provider, to jointly secure the U.S. Defense Department's operational deployment of Fourth Generation Long-Term Evolution (4G LTE) for field operations.

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S-1 Corp., of Seoul, South Korea, a mobile security company that is affiliated with Samsung Electronics Co., has signed a multi-year strategic partnership with KoolSpan Inc., of Bethesda.

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Travelers will now find a new security checkpoint at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. The new checkpoint and a secure walkway to other concourses opened Tuesday. The upgrades are the first phase of a major terminal enhancement program. The new ...

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ANNAPOLIS — The head of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has moved his office to the Baltimore Detention Center to closely review security after 25 people were indicted in a smuggling ring involving correctional officers. Rick ...

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WASHINGTON — Budget cuts from Congress will soon reduce the number of free exhibitions on view each day at the Smithsonian Institution and will force unpaid leave for U.S. Park Police officers who guard the nation’s monuments in Washington, New ...

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A cybersecurity conference is being held in Baltimore to discuss commercial developments in the field. Gov. Martin O’Malley and retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden are scheduled to speak at the event on Monday. Hayden is a former National Security ...

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored or withheld for reasons of national security the files that the public requested last year under the Freedom of Information Act more often than at any time since ...

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Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp., of Germantown, a subsidiary of Melville, N.Y.-based Comtech Telecommunications Corp., has received a $1.2 million order for satellite services to support security vehicles operating in the Middle East.

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WASHINGTON — Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to the Transportation Security Administration’s new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives and sports equipment like souvenir baseball bats and golf ...

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