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Since 2009 Homeland Security has been searching and seizing electronics without suspicion or cause anywhere along the United States border. The business community has figured out how to get around the government searches by providing their employees with blank laptops and putting important information in the cloud. It has now been 25 years since Ronald Reagan signed the digital privacy protection laws which in today's rapidly advancing technology era these protections are inadequate.

According to this article the technology of facial recognition is expected to grow tremendously by 2022. Also, mentioned industries such as homeland security who has been using this form of technology since 2015. When comparing the 2D and 3D technology, 2D technology is more widely used due to its low cost and ease of use. The use of 3D technology has its place in the industry as well due to its ability to recognize facial features more accurately than 2D technologies.

The cases of terrorist attacks of hotels increasing. To reflect this situation, the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) cooperate with Department of Homeland Security to classify the security situation and work on security environment of lodging. To improve the security environment, the AH&LA had meetings discussing about attacks alert, security apparatus, and practical and logistical aspects to hotel security. For many years, AH&LA provided e-mail notices to its members alerting hoteliers improve the immediate security environment. With more and more terrorism and tremendous risks, AH&LA coordinated media and government, and produced security training to help hoteliers to protect and guard the hospitality industry.

This article talks about how with the help of Biometrics technology, one of the Boston Marathon bombers were identified. This is a great example as to why biometrics technology is crucial in today's society. It has helped law enforcement and government agencies track down and arrest criminals. 

The International Air Transport Association introduced a new security system at the 67th Annual General Meeting and World Air Transport Summit in Singapore in 2011. This new system would divide travelers in three different categories: known travelers, normal travelers and enhanced security travelers. Each level would have different security procedures and then passengers would pass through different tunnels, one for each category of traveler. For example, if you are a known traveler you would need to pass a iris recognition system which would confirm your identity and you would pass through a tunnel with minimal scanning technology. The scanning procedures get more invasive for normal passengers and even worse for enhanced security travelers.

After 9/11 incident hotels, airlines, cruises are planning and implementing more security measurements to ensure customers' safety. Particularly, in this article security is the biggest concern while traveling. Any terrorist or criminal can book a cruise as a regular passenger and put passengers in danger. That is why in 2004 The International Ship and Port Safety Code requires that all passengers must pass by metal detectors and their baggage has to be X-rayed as well. Cruise ships also work very closely with the FBI, U.S. Coast Guard, and the Department of Homeland security to stay aware of possible pirate activity or terrorist attack. Ports of call are heavily reviewed and compared to ensure traveler's safety since they are in another country and other laws may apply. They check with local security and police forces, and monitor incidents that other cruise ships experience at a given port.

This article describes how often, the security breaches that hotels suffer are actually not a result of their own lack of security, but that of their third party vendors. Brands such as Four Seasons and Hard Rock Hotels have suffered breaches because of security failure from their reservations system, SynXis. The challenge is that to the guest the fault lays with the brand, and the brand thus suffers from the loss of loyal guests.

This article is about the National Institute of Standards and Technology providing hotel owners in the hospitality industry a new practical cybersecurity guide, to reduce risks of high vulnerability that attracted target for hackers in areas such as hotel's PMS that is used to store guests' personal information and credit card data.

Hospitality was ranked third in the top five industries to be comprised by cybersecurity breaches in 2019. Over half the breaches were attacks on on site property servers. NIST offers a guide to hotel owners to reduce risk of cyber attacks. Their guides addresses cyber and privacy risk on PMS. The PMS design protects data moving in the environment and prevents user access. Zero trust architecture requires authentication and authorization of both subject and device to access a network's resources.