Sanjay Dharwadker

For Security SA, I wrote an article discussing the challenges and evolving strategies in aviation security, focusing on risk-based screening, smarter data analysis, and collaboration.

Today, over eight million people take to international travel every day, taking off and landing at hundreds of airports flying scores of airlines. Unfortunately lurking among them could be a handful of illegal immigrants, victims of human trafficking, gangs involved with organised crime and smuggling, and perhaps what have come to be perceived as the most dangerous of them all – terrorists.

It has now been over 40y years ago that elementary metal detectors were first introduced at airports for checking passengers, based on the premise that weapons and explosives would invariably show up if these were being carried on the body of any individual.