<MAY, 2008>

VIEWPOINT Passout Game Confused with Suicide PERSONAL SECURITY  The ‘Passout Game’ is often confused with suicide, and is phenomena that seems to be growing among the youth of the world. By The World Protection Group COVER STORY Meshing with Video Surveillance WIRELESS VIDEO SURVEILLANCE  Deploying the right kind of wireless broadband network, one that supports real-time, streaming, high bandwidth video is essential to enabling wireless video surveillance. By Tim Mason SECURITY UPDATE The First Line of Defence PERIMETER SECURITY Perimeter security is the safeguard that buys the user valuable seconds before a break-in can be observed on security monitors. By Chris Norton TECH SPOTLIGHT Challenges Facing Large-scale ID Projects    ID CARD  The shift from the humble single application to the sophisticated multi-application cards offers a much wider range of opportunity/functionality to large-scale ID projects. By Anya Curtis Everything’s Changed and Nothing’s Changed ePASSPORTS  ePassports open new levels of security but their main criteria remain the same. By Duncan Stradling PEOPLE & BUSINESS Sufan Kan/ Honeywell Security Sufan Kan, Honeywell Security’s regional product marketing manager, talks about trends of the video surveillance market in APAC and what appearls most to customers there.  By Jeanny Lim   Kyong-Sik Son/ Vision Hi-tech Kyong-Sik Son, CEO of Vision Hi-tech, talks about the companys strengths and shares his view on the CCTV camera market.  By Jeanny Lim Myung-Ho Yoo/ Samsung Techwin Myung-Ho Yoo, Principal Research Engineer of Samsung Techwin, speaks about the company’s plan this year and offers hish thoughts on the global video surveillance market.  By Jeanny Lim Jeff Rathjen/ DMP Jeff Rathjen, Regional Sales Manager of DMP, discusses DMP’s competitive edges and current sales network. By Sunny Kim  Sun-Chan Kim/ POSDATA Sun-Chan Kim, Marketing Manager of POSDATA’s DVR Business Dept., discusses trends in the DVR market and Posdata’s recent developments.  By Jeanny Lim B.I. Seo/ Wonwoo Engineering B.I. Seo, CEO of Wonwoo Engineering, talks about Wonwoo’s strengths and his view on the global video surveillance market.  By Sunny Kim MARKET VIEW U.K. Biometrics Market: Growing Demands for User-friendly Biometrics Slovenia Access Control Market: From a Follower to a Thriver CASE STUDIES Securing the G8 30 FLIR Systems thermal imaging cameras helped to assure a safe meeting of world leaders in Germany.   WHO’S IN POWER AMG Systems, Raising the Prestige of CCTV Transmission Systems AMG Systems is one of the world’s leading providers of fiber optic transmission equipment designed for CCTV surveillance operations in the transportation and security sectors.   SECURITY IN BRIEF ioimage and EVT enters technology partnership | Bosch acquires Extreme CCTV | IndigoVision’s growth continues | U.K. businesses urged to review travel policies | U.S. DHS expands Biometrics-at-Sea program | New support for H.264 Scalable Video Codec | Advanced fingerprint access control solution released NEWS SPECIAL Home Safety Checklist | You Know Where Your Children Are? MARKET UPDATE Market for People Screening Equipment SPECIAL PRODUCT NVRs PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT Keico Hightech’s Finger pass ‘LV-5000’ COMPANY SPOTLIGHT Coreaworks Grows Again in 2008 EXPO PREVIEW IFSEC 2008 SECURITY BUYERS’ GUIDE