security

Predicting future customer requirements is key for any business. Get it right and you’re seen as the industry leader within your sector, the innovator that others aspire to emulate. Fail and you are left with at best a costly mistake; at worst your business is ruined beyond redemption. A recent case study in failure is Nokia, [...]

Security firms can get up to £1,500 of government money towards the cost of training apprentices thanks to the 100 in 100 campaign led by CSL Dualcom, the leading supplier of intruder alarm dual-signalling devices. Now in its fourth year, the campaign is aiming to place 100 new apprentices in the 100 days leading up [...]

The 13th most influential man in the fire industry no less, Simon Ince tells IFSEC Global about the imminent prospect of an equivalent to the successful Gas Safe Register. The strategic alliance and partnership manager for Warrington Certification also discusses his work in definining competence criteria for fire-safety managers the challenges involved in sharing best practice across [...]

New legislation forcing internet and phone companies to retain customers’ personal data has once again highlighted the tension between maintaining national security and public trust. The Data Retention and Investigation Powers Bill (DRIP), which cleared the House of Commons yesterday, will force internet service providers and telecoms companies to retain customer metadata for 12 months, [...]

Spiral slides, chutes big enough for mattresses, internal and external shafts, chutes that can be quickly dropped into place when needed, ridiculously steep angles, pipes and half-pipes, or even a net – these are some of the weird and wonderful fire escape chutes found around the world. Click here to see the pictorial evidence. Don’t [...]

Security and IT systems, government agencies and global businesses are having to collaborate more than ever before to create technologically advanced ‘Safe Cities’ capable of protecting infrastructure and public-safety. While this has potential to create huge opportunities for forward-thinking businesses, it also poses many challenges along the way, as they learn new skills and ways [...]

In a career spanning nearly four decades Mike Lynskey has been an installer, ran an installation company, worked in the NSI marketing team and been a self-employed inspector for the SSAIB. Now a consultant with a installation handbook ready for publication, Wakefield-based Mike offers advice to inexperienced installers, not just in best practice installation but how [...]

The owner of a dilapidated Blackpool hotel has been given the longest ever jail sentence for 15 breaches of fire safety law that posed a serious risk to life after he rented a derelict former hotel that had been closed down to four tenants. Preston Crown Court heard that an investigation by Lancashire Fire and [...]

Smarter Working Environments by Tony O’Brien, Siemens Building Technologies In this IFSEC Academy presentation, Tony O’Brien discussed smarter working environments, covering: Current system integration and the benefits this brings The concept of Command & Control, demonstrating the value of automated decision making A step into the future to look at how next generation technology will [...]

Recorded UK crime fell by a staggering 15% last year – the largest annual drop on record – and is down 60% on its 1995 post-war peak. Your chance of being murdered has plummeted by 50% since 2002 and figures across most crime categories have tumbled. And this trend isn’t confined to the UK; across [...]