Security theater isn’t necessarily as ineffective as the security community believes. In Israel, there is a guard at the entrance to every store. The guard isn’t very useful to stop an attacker, and ...

The National Zoo is slated to become the latest site of the 21st century obsession with security theater. Fences, checkpoints, and bag searches will stand between visitors and the animals that have ...

CSO Senior Editor Bill Brenner goes to New York and finds the perfect example of what Bruce Schneier calls "security theater." Security luminary Bruce Schneier has described security theater as a ...

Another day, another ransomware attack or security breach at a brand-name company. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when you add the cyberattacks at lesser-known companies. This raises the ...

This kind of security theater is a natural response to terrorism, but it’s a response that since 9/11 we’ve done an absolutely terrible job of reasoning through and then gradually ratcheting back.

A tell-all in Politico from a former Transportation Security Agency worker confirms pretty much every awful thing you've suspected of those annoying and invasive airport pat downs. But that doesn't ...

Twenty years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, people in the United States still put up with the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) airport security theater. While the COVID-19 ...

During his colorful tenure as mayor of New York City, Ed Koch often rode the subway and asked his fellow straphangers, “How’m I doin’?” If only Gov. Kathy Hochul would do the same. It wouldn’t take ...

With all the recent cyberattacks, data breaches, lawsuits, enforcement actions, and regulatory investigations, I am often surprised by the number of companies I see engaging in security practices that ...

There's little downside to being alarmist about terror, so we spend too much on measures that evoke feelings of security without actually improving it. At the time, it seemed reasonable. Richard Reid ...