Fifteen security professionals from nine different countries (Azerbaijan, India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and the UK) are currently studying corporate security management best practice at ARC Training under the guidance of the redoubtable Phil Wood MBE CPP.
Representing such diverse sectors as oil and gas, banking, police, civil service, agribusiness and security services provision, delegates have spent the first week of the two-week programme learning the key core skills areas of risk management, operations management, security design, perimieter and buildings security, personnel security, information security, CCTV and security surveying.
Week two of this university-accredited Security Management Stage 1 programme will focus on Protection against Explosive Devices, Crisis Management, Investigating Skills, Drug and Alcohol Misuse, Management and Leadership, and completion of the course project – a plan to secure a major critical infrastructure facility in a high-risk area.
By the end of the programme delegates should have mastered the key skills necessary to manage a security management programme in an international environment.
The next Security Management Stage 1 course takes place 19-30 November 2007. Contact Janet to reserve your place.
The US-based Pew Research Center has just released its annual Global Attitudes Report. As in previous years, the report makes uncomfortable reading not just for the US, but for many of its allies.
In research carried out earlier this year 85% percent of employees claimed that they could easily download competitive information and take it with them to their next job, in spite of 74% of these companies having a policy that specifically states that company personnel are not allowed to take company information out of the office.
In recent trials of CCTV facial recognition at a major airport an 85% success rate was achieved. Logica, the company behind the trials, found that faces could be successfully identified in a crowd from a distance of several meters 85% of the time, even when volunteers disguised themselves.
Earlier this year a college in Wales was found in breach of human rights law when it monitored an employee's email, web and telephone activity in 1998 and 1999; the employee who took the colleage to court was awarded 3000 euro in damages for stress and anxiety.
Police across the world are warning of a dramatic rise in theft of copper, which has recently increased threefold in value, making it an attractive target for thieves. Copper ground wire is a particular target, and in some instance thieves have cut through high voltage cable!
The FBI is investigating reports that a number of US chemical plants have received telephone calls from bogus callers claiming to be making a survey for an industry trade group. The American Institute of Chemical Engineers has issued an immediate warning not to divulge safety and security information to any caller.
Fifteen security professionals from nine different countries (Azerbaijan, India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and the UK) are currently studying corporate security management best practice at ARC Training under the guidance of the redoubtable Phil Wood MBE CPP.