{"id":765,"date":"2006-05-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/11\/ship-security-system-draws-fbis-attention\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:38:07","slug":"ship-security-system-draws-fbis-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/?p=765","title":{"rendered":"Ship security system draws FBI&#8217;s attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ship security concept being marketed out of Houston would be a welcome tool for authorities if terrorists tried to hit the Port of Houston, the FBI said.   While the agency doesn&#8217;t endorse commercial products, Special Agent Jim Walsh said, a remote-control security system like that developed by VIP Systems could be useful.  Among the features of the VIP system is one that would allow authorities to see, via satellite, inside a vessel like an oil tanker at sea and remotely shut down its engines if it were commandeered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One major fear of port officials throughout the world is that an oil tanker could be commandeered and used as a weapon of mass destruction, said Alex Genin, chief executive and president of VIP Systems.<\/p>\n<p>SkyPort International, a secure broadband satellite communications provider that is working with VIP on the system, has a contract with one company that had a vessel commandeered by pirates on the open seas in Asia.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/business\/3858026.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3252,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}