The World Economic Forum Has Published Its Fifth Annual Global Risks Report

By consulting a group of experts and academics across the world throughout the year and relaying their findings in this annual report, Global Risks 2010 seeks to provide political and business leaders with a framework for further discussion of a risk landscape that is ever more complex and urges a consideration of the longer term, global implications of risks in areas beyond their immediate focus.

The report can be downloaded from http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/globalrisk/Reports/index.htm or by emailing David.

This report is one of a number of risk management publications that will be examined in the Corporate Risk Management session of the strategically-focussed Security Management Stage 3 Course, 10-21 May 2010. For course details go to http://www.arc-tc.com/pages/university_acredited_sm.asp#sm3 or email Janet.

A Timely Reminder about the Insider Threat

A British Airways worker was arrested in March on suspicion of raising funds for a terrorist attack. The alleged plot to raise funds for a terrorist attack – possibly on an airline – is thought to have been uncovered following a tip-off.

The employee was among 800 staff dealing with passenger bookings in one of BA’s two UK-based call centres. Staff can access to details of thousands of flights and are familiar with basic security procedures.

A useful guide on how to manage the risk of insider threats can be obtained from the website of the the UK's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.

To access the document, click here.

Choosing the Right Lens for Your CCTV Camera

Courtesy of Boundary Surveillance Ltd

One of the difficult problems when setting up a CCTV system is choosing the right lens for your cameras as different lenses give different fields of view, and different levels of zoom. Some of the higher-end lenses also offer features such as Auto-Iris, and manual zoom/focus adjustment. Choosing the wrong lens can lead to a camera monitoring too small an area, or conversely not having enough zoom to capture events with clarity.

CCTV is covered in detail on the postgraduate-level university-accredited Security Management Stage 2 course. The next course takes place in the UK 11-22 October 2010. for details click here for the ARC website or contact Janet.

How to Earn the MSc Professional Practice in Corporate Security Management

Many of the delegates attending the Security Management Stage 2 course presently are actively working towards a Masters degree in Professional Practice in Corporate Security Management. The knowledge input for the degree is delivered on Security Management Stages 1-3, which constitute three accredited modules out of the total 6 that make up the degree.

On successful completion of Security Management Stages 1-3, delegates then enrol as distance learning students of Middlesex University with which they undertake a transitional module, then a research proposal, and finally a 12,000 word dissertation.

Roger Coutain, BP Trinidad and Tobago, is the first ARC delegate to be awarded his degree.

For more on the scheme, contact David.

Security Scanners at Airports - Use Set to Increase

Security Scanner is the generic term used for a technology that is capable of detecting objects carried under clothes. Several forms of radiation differing in wavelength and energy emitted are used in order to identify any object distinct from the human skin.

In aviation Security Scanners could replace walk-through metal detectors (capable of detecting most knives or arms) as means of screening passengers because they are able to identify metallic and non-metallic objects including plastic and liquid explosives.

When a Security Scanner clears a person, in principle no further searches or screens are necessary. Today walk-through metal detectors' weakness in identifying non-metallic items require screeners to undertake full body hand searches in order to achieve comparable results, as was demonstrated on 25 December 2009, when a passenger attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit with explosives hidden on his body.

Security Scanners are controversial, in both their need to expose passengers to radiation, and their ability to see the body form under clothing, and the European Commission has reported on this issue to the European Parliament. To access the full report, go to:

http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air/security/doc/com2010_311_security_scanners_en.pdf

New Maritime Security Magazine and Association

Letter from Peter Cook, former delegate on Security Management Stage 2......

David,

I was a student of yours when I did the Security Management Stage 2 Course and Fraud course with Chris Taxis in July 2007. I have moved on and I am now an Independent Maritime Security Consultant. I am in the process of setting up the Security Association for the Maritime Industry (SAMI) and as part of that we are publishing a magazine focused on maritime security (attached, with links below).

http://www.em-defence.com/PDFs/Maritime_Security_Special.pdf

http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1n71t/MaritimeSecuritySpec/resources/index.htm?referrerhttp://www.yudu.com/item/details/141342/Maritime-Security-Special-

Intruder Alert: 'Smart Dew' Will Find You!

A remarkable invention from Tel Aviv University — a network of tiny sensors as small as dewdrops called "Smart Dew" — will foil even the most determined intruder. Scattered outdoors on rocks, fence posts and doorways, or indoors on the floor of a bank, the dewdrops are a completely new and cost-effective system for safeguarding and securing wide swathes of property.

For more information, go to: http://www.physorg.com/news157288786.html