Industry professionals urged to complete fire and security sector skills survey
Professionals across the entire fire, emergency and security sector are being urged to complete a new skills survey produced by the Fire & Security Association (FSA), the Fire Industry Association...
View ArticleRiskIQ deepens digital threat mitigation capabilities with acquisition of...
RiskIQ, a leader in the sphere of digital threat management, has completed the acquisition of brand threat project management company Maccabim.com Ltd and subsequently appointed Jonathan Matkowsky, the...
View ArticleIRM and CMA Competition Law Risk Guide focuses spotlight on director...
The latest risk guide published by the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) features up-to-date Case Studies with key learnings and examples of Best...
View ArticleIntegration agreed between MoD’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory...
An integration has been agreed between the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) and the Home Office’s Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST). This...
View ArticleC-TEC teams with Institution of Engineering and Technology in bid to...
A joint C-TEC/Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) ‘Celebration of Engineering’ day attracted a host of delegates keen to know more about UK manufacturing. Held at C-TEC’s Challenge Way...
View ArticleHealthcare: The Vulnerable Sector for Cyber Attack
The year 2017 is set to feature enhanced attacks on Internet security, with the broad adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) leading to compromise and data often held on legacy systems being...
View ArticlePwC Survey: “UK CEOs rate cyber risks as second most significant business...
PwC’s latest CEO Survey reveals that three-quarters (76%) of UK CEOs consider cyber risks to be a significant business threat. Indeed, cyber risk is second only to the availability of key skills, and...
View ArticleCitizenAid advice supports Government’s ‘Run, Hide, Tell’ counter-terrorism...
Military and civilian doctors have been working together to produce a new app with the aim of saving lives before the Emergency Services arrive on scene to administer help. CitizenAID has been...
View ArticleOperation Bosphorus on firearms trafficking results in circa 250 arrests...
Nearly 250 arrests and 556 gas and alarm pistols seized are a few of the final results of Operation Bosphorus, a series of international actions conducted in 2016. The actions involved ten EU Member...
View ArticleCity traders convicted of £141 million banking fraud in wake of four-month trial
Two City traders have been sentenced for conspiring to defraud a Russian bank of more than £141 million in a series of complex frauds following an investigation conducted by the City of London Police’s...
View ArticleNew Deputy Chairman and Board members appointed to British Transport Police...
The body that oversees the specialist rail policing force in Britain has been further strengthened by the appointment of a new deputy chairman and five new Board members, the Department for Transport...
View ArticleWilson James turns to Nissan LEAF vehicles for leading airport security contract
Security, logistics and business services provider Wilson James has added seven all-electric Nissan LEAFs to its vehicle fleet for use as part of the company’s operation at one of the country’s leading...
View ArticleFormer NHS England Equality Lead Paula Vasco-Knight CBE and husband plead...
Paula Vasco-Knight (NHS England’s former National Lead for Equality, who was also CEO of Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust) and her husband Stephen Vasco-Knight have both pleaded guilty to...
View ArticlePolice Federation issues warning that police service is ‘still haemorrhaging...
The Police Federation has warned that the police service is continuing to haemorrhage officers as the latest Home Office figures show an alarming drop of nearly 21,500 serving officers since 2009....
View ArticleBSI Human Trafficking and Supply Chain Slavery Index reveals UK exposed to...
According to the British Standards Institution’s (BSI) Index, Russia, Slovakia, India and Pakistan are all ‘severe risk’ source countries of ‘modern day slaves’ to the UK. Of the G7 nations, Italy is...
View ArticleFinTech and Fincrime Exchange launches with inaugural meeting at RUSI...
The Royal United Services Institute’s (RUSI) Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies is due to host the first meeting of the FinTech and Fincrime Exchange (FFE), a new initiative orchestrated...
View ArticleUniversity of Surrey to lead £1.1 million study aimed at improving online...
A new study being led by the University of Surrey will see academics exploring how best to tackle the future threats posed by cyber security and cyber crime, focusing on how to better understand and...
View ArticleHiscox introduces Security Incident Response policy to meet changing risk...
Specialist global insurer Hiscox has announced the launch of a new Security Incident Response (SIR) policy specifically designed to address the changing risk landscape. SIR will enable organisations to...
View ArticleOfqual takes action over potential risks posed to private security industry...
The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) has issued a comprehensive 28-page report entitled ‘Licence-Linked Qualifications Used in the Private Security Industry’ outlining the...
View ArticleBRC Retail Crime Survey highlights “wave of cyber threats” and “rising...
The British Retail Consortium’s (BRC) Retail Crime Survey looking back on 2016 has laid bare a growing new frontier of retail crime, driven by rising cyber-enabled incidents. The 18-page document also...
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