Customs and Border Protection says that for the second time in less than three weeks its use of facial comparison technology at Washington Dulles International Airport has resulted in the interception of an impostor trying to enter the U.S. illegally. CBP says a 26-year old woman arriving on a flight from Ghana presented a U.S. passport to the CBP officer and that her facial image captured at the processing station showed she wasn’t a match to the passport. As secondary inspection confirmed the traveler was a Ghanaian citizen and an impostor to the U.S. passport. CBP says its facial comparison technology has a match rate of 99 percent.
The Transportation Security Administration has acquired RSA’s Archer Incident Management Module in support of the agency’s security operations center. The module will augment and expand the capabilities and functionality of the RSA Archer Governance, Risk and Compliance platform used by TSA’s Information Assurance and Cyber Security Division. The SOC currently uses the Hewlett Packard service manager application software as its incident information management system but TSA says this software is a barrier to the SOC’s ability to change aspects of the software to support the need to adapt to changing reporting requirements.