Posts By: Jacob Charles

Protecting the pumps

Oil and gas facilities provide tempting targets for terrorists or saboteurs. Tom Frame explains how the latest IP video security systems can help protect vulnerable and isolated facilities   Organisations within the oil and gas sector face a number of unique challenges that may seem to be easily addressed by IP video security systems –… Read more »

High profile screening – Part 2

In response to Ian Hutcheson’s comments in the July/August issue, Colin Meads argues that airline passenger profiling and opt-in membership schemes are inappropriate and unworkable   The article “High Profile Screening” in intersec’s July/August issue, and Simon Calder’s subsequent article in the The Independent on 3 September, on air passenger profiling opens an interesting debate…. Read more »

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Hezbollah’s Syrian jihad

The civil war in Syria could spark renewed war in Lebanon, warns Anthony Tucker-Jones, with Hezbollah poised to escalate its involvement The recent Battle of Qusair served to highlight Lebanese Hezbollah’s expanding role in the Syrian crisis. There have been rumours of Hezbollah fighters in Syria since the start of the uprising, and they are… Read more »

Prepared for piracy

Timothy Compston considers how the threat of piracy has changed in recent years and asks how naval forces and ship owners are protecting vessels and crews   While naval efforts such as the EU’s Operation Atalanta seem to be having some success in reducing pirate attacks, there is no room for complacency. Piracy remains an… Read more »

Feeling the heat

Christiaan Maras examines why power plants, industrial facilities and other critical infrastructure organisations are increasingly using thermal imaging cameras to improve their security   Trans-national terrorists, insurgent groups and violent activists will continue to become more sophisticated in the years ahead, and one of the key areas most at risk is critical infrastructure: systems or… Read more »

Death of the Pharaoh

Egypt’s President Morsi has been toppled by a military coup. John Chisholm asks how order will be restored in a deeply divided country   It is not often that an army gives seven days’ notice of a coup. Decisions like that are usually taken behind closed doors, to create maximum surprise. Not so in Egypt…. Read more »

Everybody’s business

Company chief executives have a responsibility to protect their staff against terrorism and should not just leave it to the government, argues Richard Kemp   The brutal murder of Lee Rigby on the streets of London in May, allegedly by two men with links to radical jihadists, was a shocking reminder to us all of… Read more »