Posts By: Jacob Charles

Token gesture

Andrew Kakabadse and Asma Alawadi consider the issues at stake, asking: If DAOs are ungovernable should investors be worried? Decentralised autonomous organisations (‘DAOs’) abide by a set of rules supporting specific goals laid out in the form of ‘smart-contracts’ and stored on blockchain. However, with no centralised authority or decision-making body behind them, DAOs are… Read more »

A different approach

Why innovation is at the heart of Securiscape He may have personally overseen every aspect of his company’s product development programmes, but there is always one stage Securiscape managing director Mark Stone cannot watch – the impact test.“In 18 years of running this company,” says Mark, “I have never been able to watch the crash… Read more »

Making the grade

Matt Medley explores how manufacturers negotiate and manage Defence Contracts in the regulatory world of the US Department of Defense Contracting with the US Department of Defense (DoD) can represent a significant revenue opportunity for A&D manufacturers, particularly now when US domestic defence spending and international appetite for US-manufactured military equipment is rising. But this… Read more »

Maximising potential

Jamie Barnfield reveals how AI can work with video to transform perimeter security Driven in part by the pandemic, we’ve seen rapid innovation across the security industry and particularly in the video surveillance market. Users continue to benefit from ever higher megapixel cameras with enhanced IR and true WDR, a vast array of new and… Read more »

Plug the gap

Andrea Babbs highlights the advantages of securing access control with vulnerability and patch management The 2021 World Economic Forum report has found that cybersecurity practices in place across organisations are becoming outdated due to increasingly sophisticated and frequent cyber crimes occurring. Consequently – and unfortunately unsurprisingly – businesses of all sizes are finding it difficult… Read more »

Ensuring integrity

Rachel Roumeliotis reveals how a lack of AI governance threatens to undermine all we’re setting out to achieve At the height of the pandemic, the development and roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine put the UK at the forefront of the fight against Coronavirus. Perhaps unbeknownst to much of the public was the fundamental role AI… Read more »

Cause for concern?

Simon Randall considers if the general public should be suspicious about the growing use of facial recognition technology Facial Recognition Technology is rapidly being adopted in both public and private sectors and the market is set to continue to grow, with an estimated worth of $10.2-billion globally by 2028. In its simplest terms it uses… Read more »

Watching brief

Anthony Incorvati explains how network camera surveillance at airports can drive operational efficiency In April, I returned to the US from a business trip, flying from Copenhagen to New York via Charles de Gaulle, Paris. To put it bluntly, it was chaos: long queues of frustrated travellers and raised voices echoing around the terminal.Landing in Paris,… Read more »

Perimeter protection

Peter Jackson examines top security measures to consider when protecting businesses and national infrastructure One of the main questions the industry is facing at the moment is: are we doing enough to protect our critical infrastructure and business properties? After the pandemic and lockdowns throughout 2020-21, crime rates have been increasing. The Office for National… Read more »

A sacred promise broken?

Barry Scott Zellen, PhD, explains why decline in indigenous consultation at the Arctic Council signals a retreat from the spirit of the 1996 Ottawa Declaration The unprecedented four-month boycott of the Arctic Council was unexpected news to the six Permanent Participant organisations representing the indigenous peoples of the Arctic. While the Council is predicated upon… Read more »