International Security Journal News & opinions for security industry professionals

  • Perimeter security: exploring the gap hiding in plain sight
    by James Thorpe on July 20, 2026 at 2:38 pm

    ISJ hears from Mick Dunne, General Manager, GJD Manufacturing. Ask most site managers whether their facility is secure and you’ll almost always get the same answer: yes. Push a little further, ask them to walk you through their security layers and a familiar pattern tends to emerge. Cameras at the entrances. Alarms on the doors.

  • Major sports venue utilises Genetec Security Center
    by James Thorpe on July 20, 2026 at 1:24 pm

    SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park have unified their physical security operations using Genetec Security Center. Home to the Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, SoFi Stadium is a premier sports and entertainment destination located at Hollywood Park, established as a world-class venue which hosts record-breaking events. Genetec Security Center deployment According to Genetec, Security

  • Why Vulnerability Management as a Service Is Becoming Essential for Organizations
    by Rankspire on July 20, 2026 at 10:58 am

    Security teams are dealing with a problem that keeps getting worse. According to NIST’s National Vulnerability Database, CVE submissions increased by 263% between 2020 and 2025. That kind of growth makes manual or periodic vulnerability management increasingly challenging; a quarterly scan simply cannot keep up with a threat environment that produces new reports every single

  • DMP appoints Bouwer and Chambers in key sales roles
    by James Thorpe on July 20, 2026 at 8:59 am

    DMP has named Ludi Bouwer as Director of Sales, Latin America and Zach Chambers as Director of Sales, Southeast. Bouwer brings =experience with electronic security platforms, channels, integrators, distributors and end-user needs across Latin America. Likewise, Chambers brings invaluable experience managing multi-state territories and building trust-based relationships with dealers, integrators and end-users. “Integrity, loyalty and

  • Ransomware attack disrupts fairlife’s US production
    by James Thorpe on July 20, 2026 at 8:27 am

    On 16 July, The Coca‑Cola Company announced that a dairy company it owns – fairlife, LLC – identified unauthorised access by a third party to a portion of its systems, including its production-related systems, in connection with a ransomware event. According to an announcement published on the fairlife website, after detecting the issue, the company