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Security Thought Leadership: in conversation with Martin Gill
Panel Discussions & Interviews
Episodes
251 episodes
Do we really care about Young Security Professionals?
There is considerable discussion about supporting the future workers and leaders of the security sector, about the need to create career pathways and provide supportive training and mentoring. Certainly, there is a range of group and support ne...
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Making the protection of the public a legal obligation: a good idea or tried and failed before?
The so called ‘Manchester Arena bombing’, at an Ariana Grande concert on the 22nd of May 2017 resulted in 22 deaths and over 250 injuries. In response the Government has proposed the 'Protect Duty, in short a requirement that those in charge of...
Diversity: what about the disabled and the LGBT community?
150th EpisodeThe security sector regularly discusses diversity issues, this is unsurprising since they are a major challenge. However, most of the focus has been on the need to promote women and be more racially diverse. Laudable though...
The role of auditors in tackling fraud: how we can get the best from our teams
There has long been debate about what the proper role of auditors should be in relation to tackling fraud. Two recent reviews revealed a real gap between reality and expectations of audit performance. Current guidance is that auditors should ta...
Learning from New Zealand: The opportunities and challenges for security
When a group of security professionals were informally discussing which country stood out as having adopted a firm approach to Covid, New Zealand was the most frequently mentioned. Has it been a success? What about the security sector there, ho...
Security and journalism: is the industry getting the reporting that it deserves?
The image the public have of the security sector has frequently been seen as its Achilles Heel. Yet surveys of workers, at different levels, have referred to it as an exciting place to work. Why then, is there both so little coverage of securit...
The Big Issues Impacting on Security: What Now, What Next?
Security has been in the news. Some say it takes a crisis for security to be seen as valuable. Covid 19 represented a worldwide crisis that globally appears to have put security centre stage. But when it is over, what then? What have we learnt ...
Thinking about security in Ireland: what have been the enablers of good security?
Ireland has long been recognised for being good at security. The traditional challenges of terrorism just across the border, the numbers of murders and drug offences over time have also had an impact in focussing the response of different group...
What we can learn about security from areas that have been less affected by the pandemic: the case of Scandinavia
We have tended to focus our attention on areas that have been worse affected by the pandemic. However, in a previous webinar on the impact of the pandemic on Scandinavia we heard that the impact had been modest, certainly much less than the wor...
Assessing the competence of security officers: What needs to change?
Following the publication of the IFPO report, ‘The Competence of Frontline Security Professionals and What They Say About Their Work’, this webinar will evaluate the process for improving the role of the frontline worker (and the perception if ...
Why are financial crimes such a low priority and what should we do?
It is becoming more widely recognised that fraud is now recognised as the most common offence type in many countries (including the UK) but is not seen as a priority by governments or law enforcement agencies. It is often still seen as victimle...
Responding to aggressive people: the implications for the security sector
The security sector is at the forefront on interactions with the public, and at a time when there is international anxiety, there are risks that need to be managed. We have heard in previous webinars about how the pandemic has seen abuse agains...
Effective incident reporting: the missing gem in the good security toolbox?
Any dictionary will help determine the difference between ‘data’, ‘information’ and ‘intelligence’, and there are many different types of each. They can all contribute to what is defined as an ‘incident’ so often the starting point for generati...
Security in the BeNeLux: what are the barriers to progress and how can they be overcome?
At all levels and in all areas, personnel working in the security sector are outstanding performers, they are expert in what they do, professional in their approach, and appreciated and valued by their stakeholders. They provide a reference poi...
Giving victims the right to meet those who offended against them (reparation schemes): a good idea or a flawed concept?
Recent decades have witnessed a growing recognition of the importance of giving victims a voice in the criminal justice process generally and in bringing their plight to the awareness of offenders specifically. Forms of achieving this vary, but...
Thinking about outstanding security in Kenya: what are the barriers to making further improvements?
Previous webinars have indicated that around the world countries face very different challenges in having a professional security sector, one that workers choose as a preferred career of choice, one clients’ view in favourable terms, and one th...
What the security implications of cryptocurrency and are they being managed?
Cryptocurrencies, typically created using blockchain technologies, are available in digital form only and provide a different way of trading that is generally presented as being ultra-secure, but is it? After all we know that the wallets crypto...
Thinking about security as a science: how developed is the body of knowledge?
Science can be considered as a process that generates knowledge and then organises it so that findings – in the form of testable explanations and predictions about a subject – can be tested. While science generally has a long history the subjec...
What is meant by ‘profit protection’? And is anyone really doing it?
This session is sponsored by Lodge Service https://lodgeservice.com/It is not unusual in any sector to generate buzz words and phrases that catch on. Security is no exception. ‘Profit protection’ ...
The CISO perspective on protecting the critical infrastructure against increasing cyber attacks
In a previous Thought Leadership webinar we considered the protection of the national infrastructure from a physical security point of view, here we consider it from the viewpoint of cyber. Clearly, attacks take different forms, and there have ...
Celebrating the role of the security officer: what next?
The 24th July is national security officer day chosen as it is the 24th day of the 7 month, and security officers work 24/7. We have heard on previous Thought Leadership webinars of the enormous amount of work and progress that has been made in...
Ransomware: who is being targeted, and should you pay the ransom?
It is always a risk that a company will become a victim of a ransomware attack, and the consequences can be severe. What should victims do: lose business and not give in or a go for a quick fix by succumbing to the demands of offenders? Law enf...
Is fraud purely an opportunistic crime?
This session is sponsored by Altia https://www.altiaintel.com/We tend to think of fraud as an offence committed because an opportunity presents itself and that some individuals will take advanta...
Has the pandemic produced a new type of security or are things just the same? Examining the case of Nigeria
The world has experienced a change, one that has impacted on the personal and professional lives of nearly all people. Security personnel have been at the forefront, either losing their job as some industries stopped functioning (e.g. airports ...
The pandemic and crime rates: Insights from criminologists
The pandemic has had a dramatic impact on people’s daily routines, it has disrupted business and personal operations globally. But what has been happening to crime rates has received scant attention, at least in public discourse. What we do kno...