Posts By: Jacob Charles

Anonymised security

Neil Huntingdon explores the growing disharmony between data protection and mass surveillance and the role technology can play in balancing public demand for privacy and security. If you’ve picked up a paper or watched the news even once in recent weeks, it’s likely you’ll have come across at least one of a stream of headlines… Read more »

Data protection

Daniel Markuson examines why governmental institutions around the world continue to fail to protect their citizens’ data More and more governments around the world see data encryption as an obstacle that prevents them from fighting criminal activities. For example, the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have been asking big technology companies to build… Read more »

The weakest link

John Higginson explains why you need to start thinking about supply chain cyber security and looks at the growth of Business Email Compromise Although your businesses will already have put in place measures to increase protection from growing cyber security risks, the next step is to think about your supply chain and whether the organisations… Read more »

Time to invest

Spencer Young examines the importance of convincing the board to invest in cyber security before it’s too late Even if you weren’t glued to HBO’s chilling Chernobyl mini series, you’ll probably know the rough outline of the worst nuclear disaster in history. A poorly planned ‘safety’ test revealed, in the most catastrophic way imaginable, the… Read more »

Space wars

Timothy Compston looks to the heavens to see how geopolitical rivalries on Earth are leading to rising tensions in space With France announcing a new space force – including plans to launch satellites equipped with lasers and guns by 2030; President Trump looking to ramp-up the US military’s space capabilities and countries like China, Russia… Read more »

Red alert

Javier Colado explains why as national safety risks rise, public alerting becomes more urgent In the corporate sector, organisations take their duty of care to their employees seriously. It is important to them that safety procedures are in place to protect staff, even though duty of care is not an actual legal obligation. What is… Read more »

Protection from the skies

Drone Guard reveals what can be done to keep our skies safe as the number of drones is expected to reach 100-million by 2020 Since their appearance in the late 2000s multi-rotor drones have taken the world by surprise. Unlike unmanned aerial systems (UAS) pursued by the world’s military forces under military research, development and… Read more »

Deterring the threat

Patrick Kennedy wonders how do we go about securing critical infrastructure as it embraces the digital age? Until very recently, protecting critical national infrastructure was an entirely physical affair. Thick walls, sturdy fences and in some cases armed personnel were the key to protecting energy, transportation and water infrastructure from potential threats. This status quo… Read more »

A missed opportunity

Barry Scott Zellen reveals how China ceded its claims to what is now the Russian Far East, leaving Japan as Asia’s pre-eminent near-Arctic state Much attention has been devoted to China’s recently articulated Arctic ambitions, particularly since Beijing’s white paper on Arctic policy was released on 26 January, 2018, which asserted that: “China is an… Read more »

Securing the skies

Lucas Young discusses how innovative new technology can effectively protect an airport from perimeter to plane There are few that take security as seriously as airport operators. Safely managing the movement of thousands of people daily onto a highly sophisticated, yet potentially vulnerable form of transport, requires more cutting-edge technology than ever to ensure it… Read more »