The BSIA looks at some of the security solutions available to help mitigate the risks of lone working. Ensuring the safety of employees should always be at the top of the priorities list for any organisation, particularly as we begin to see extended hours of darkness through the winter months.
In reality a lot of customers feel they don’t have the time to attend product training courses and feel they might already know enough. We should all be making the time to develop ourselves and offer the best and latest solutions to our customers.
The global position on piracy appears to have shifted dramatically in the last 18 months. From the constant fear of attack, there appears to be something more of a grim war of attrition developing. So what is the current state of play?
These are dynamic and rapidly changing times for Security and the professionals that work within the sector. The world, from a risk perspective, has become an increasingly complex place.
Whilst the life of a volunteer leader in any membership body is normally underappreciated, over worked and less than glamorous, I have just returned from the ASIS International 62nd Annual Seminar which, this year, was held in Orlando, Florida.
The financial sector has been a key partner of the security services although the AML and compliance bureaucracy has at times put roadblocks in the way of a crucial relationship. The money trail is critical to tracking criminal finance of all kinds but this sort of data is often opaque, prone to distortion and so massive that leads take a long time to discover.
The Government’s decision to ‘plug the security infrastructure gaps’ during the highs of the migrant crisis in summer 2015, resulted in Jacksons Fencing, one of the UK’s leading designers, manufacturers and installers of security fencing and access control systems, winning a tender for 3.2km of fencing and gates to improve perimeter security and safety for the Eurotunnel terminal in Coquelles, Calais.
Islamic State (IS) militants claimed responsibility for two major bombings that underscored the group’s spread across the region. In Cairo, 25 people were killed in a suicide attack at a Coptic Christian church.
The UK Security Expo 2016 opened its doors on 30th November – 1st December 2016 at the London Olympia, bringing in over 7,000 high-end international visitors from 81 countries and eight core sectors: Transport, Government, Energy, Major Events, Communications, Finance, Utilities and the Private Sector. The Lead Editorial Partner, Security Media Publishing, reviews the expo.
Milestone Systems, the globally leading company in open platform IP video management software (VMS), has been recognized by many prominent industry media this year.
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