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Security Thought Leadership: in conversation with Martin Gill
Panel Discussions & Interviews
Episodes
251 episodes
Are private military companies part of the private security sector? Why are they different or are they?
Guest Chair: Dr. Glen Kitteringham – Security Consultant, Educator and Research Criminologist (Canada)To some, using the term private military company is simply a new term for an old occupation: mercenary. However, some believe t...
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The role of security associations: a failed resource or a fundamental vehicle for a better security sector?
*50th Episode*Covid-19 is preventing face to face contact – one of the key benefits of belonging to an association. So, have associations outlived their usefulness? After all there is an abundance of free webinars. Moreover, one o...
Security in Asia: What does the new normal look like?
In these global webinars we have reviewed security from many different angles and many different domains, much less common in the western world dialogue has been discussion of what is happening to the security sector in Asia, how it has changed...
The Impact of Covid-19 in Nigeria: what has been the impact and the security response?
Nigeria has a thriving security sector, but like the rest of the world it is facing a crisis that is demanding new ways if thinking and new ways of working. And like the rest of the world it is having to adjust at fast place. Yet there has been...
The security sector and the harms caused by Covid-19: What have we learned so far?
Covid-19 has had a dramatic impact in so many ways, and those working in the security sector have had a front row seat on the anxieties that have been unfolding. We have all witnessed deaths (including a disproportionately high number of securi...
Examining the value of data driven intelligence in security operations: influential or overstated?
This session is sponsored by TrackTik https://www.tracktik.com/Cloud-based technologies are offering new capabilities to gather live data in order to gain business and operational agility, as well...
When things go wrong: being honest about technology
This session is sponsored by TEAM Software
Are financial criminals running amok because of Covid-19? How should we be responding?
This session is sponsored by Atlia-ABM https://altia-abm.com/One of the big challenges of modern society across the world is to cope with the risks of the wider adoption of the virtual world. Precise...
Maximising the potential of big data and protecting people’s privacy: the challenges for the security sector
This session is sponsored by Bidvest Noonan
Mental health, well-being and the security sector: how it manages its staff and how it responds to others
This session is sponsored by Social Stories Club https://socialstoriesclub.com/One of the key issues confronting society today, and all the more so following Covid-19, is the adverse mental h...
Best Practices During Covid-19: Success Stories – A Round Table Discussion at India OSPAs
Moderator:Rajiv Mathur – OSPAsPanelists:Ms Rekha Gairola – Boeing Col. Inderjit Singh Barara – Vara Technologies Maj Rohit Sharma – Sterlite Power Mr. Jeetender Singh – Fortis Health...
‘It is all about cybercrime now’: is this true and what role then for the (non cyber) security sector?
In previous webinars we have learned about the move to online crime in part generated by the reduction in on the street opportunities and fuelled by a working from home environment which has tested and is testing a situation in which people are...
Dealing with violence in a Covid-19 environment: what are the implications for security?
Experience of Covid-19 has witnessed a shift in violence incidents. There has been a greater concern with violence in the home, with suggestions of higher levels of partner and child abuse and certainly more awareness of it. That many people ar...
The role of security installers and integrators in a post Covid-19 world: what next?
This session is sponsored by CSL Group
Protecting high rise buildings: what changes post Covid-19 and can they be safe?
Previous webinars have raised the acute security concerns in protecting high rise buildings, whether that be dwellings or business buildings. In the former people have been in isolation and offences in the home have become more difficult to pol...
How is the Kenya security sector meeting the challenge of Covid-19? What are the lessons learnt and where does it and the regulator go from here?
These are challenging times that are being felt across the globe and Africa is suffering, including Kenya. Cyber crime is rife and for many there does not appear to be an adequate response. In some areas there is a fear of stigma, of quarantine...
What is the role of the State in supporting the Private Security Sector?
In most countries the State does not proactively support private security. In many countries it does not even require the State buys regulated services, and even when it does it faces allegations it will often prioritise price over quality. Whi...
Climate change and security: unrest, the carbon footprint and the security response
This session is sponsored by Bidvest Noonan
Covid-19, where to now for private security in South Africa?
Around the world the issues facing the security sector differ markedly. South Africa is characterised by extremes in terms of security expertise: from the highly skilled to those who operate under the radar of regulation, some using technology ...
Thinking about Innovation in security and crime prevention: where can we look and what can we find?
Purchasers of security – of services and technologies – have sometimes lamented the lack of innovation of the security sector. Either purchasers are unrealistic, and/or the security sector is moribund of good ideas, and/or there are misconcepti...
Developing skillsets in the security sector: do security professionals know how competent they need to be?
This session is sponsored by Skills for Security
What should we expect from security leaders? Are they good enough?
A video and summary of this session is available here.Common themes running through past webinars has been the ex...
If policing is too important to be left to the police alone, what is the role of private security?
A video and summary of this session is available here.Previous webinars have pain...