Europe wants sovereign AI infrastructure, more cloud capacity and substantially greater computing power. Yet the global data-centre race may ultimately be decided by something far less digital: electricity. Germany is rapidly expanding renewable generation but remains...
Critical Infrastructures
Editor’s Note: A jacket is not a privacy strategy
Facial recognition is moving out of the control room and into everyday life. If cameras, artificial intelligence and biometric identification converge in devices that look like ordinary glasses, the change will not simply be technological. It will alter the balance...
Editor’s note: Organised crime has become a service industry
Operation Jackal IV is significant not simply because of the number of arrests it produced, but because of what it reveals about the structure of contemporary organised crime. Technical infrastructure, social engineering and money laundering are increasingly...
Aerial scouts are reshaping perimeter protection
Drones add a capability that conventional site security has so far lacked: they can not only detect suspicious activity, but also track it across large areas. Security service provider autosecure demonstrates how unmanned aircraft can be integrated with sensors,...
Hesse Strengthens Municipal Cyber Resilience with New Malware Analysis Sandbox
A new pilot project developed by the Hessen CyberCompetenceCenter and Hochschule Fresenius is designed to help municipalities analyse suspicious files in an isolated environment. Yet the initiative points to a broader shift in public-sector cybersecurity: from...
Wildfire Response Under Pressure: How Drones, AI and Robotics Could Close the Critical Time Gap
In wildfire response, the decisive resource is not always water, manpower or equipment. It is time. The smaller the interval between ignition, detection and effective intervention, the greater the chance of containing a fire before it develops into a far more complex...
Acoustic Drone Detection: When Microphones Become Early-Warning Sensors
Fraunhofer IDMT develops a passive sensing approach for detecting and localizing unmanned aerial vehicles – acoustic “fingerprints,” machine learning, and sensor fusion designed to complement radar, cameras, and LiDARDrones pose a complex detection challenge for...
St. Louis Airport Cuts Camera Requirements by 90% with Multifocal Surveillance
St. Louis Lambert International Airport has deployed Dallmeier’s Panomera multifocal sensor technology to secure more than 6.5 million square metres of airport infrastructure. The new architecture provides high-resolution coverage of extensive airside and landside...
Drone defence starts with situational awareness
From power plants and airports to logistics hubs and industrial sites, Europe’s critical infrastructure is facing a new security dimension above the conventional perimeter. A visit by former German Federal Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder to LivEye’s Drone...
From Checkpoint Security to Counter-Drone Defence: Germany’s Aviation Security System Under New Pressure
One of Europe’s most tightly regulated aviation security environments is being forced to adapt to hybrid threats, weaponised drones and a growing need for real-time coordination between public authorities, airport operators and private security providers. More than...
