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Finance attacks on the rise, states Kaspersky Lab
Cyber criminal attacks on businesses in particular financial institutions show no sign of abating despite concerted efforts to reduce them. That is the main finding of Computers, Networks and Theft (Part 2), a new report just published by Internet security company Kaspersky Lab.
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Armchair site management
If you want to know what’s happening on a job, you can’t beat a visit to site. Or can you? Graham Hough and Roger Flanagan predict the rise of construction management by webcam
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BSIA appoints specialist Olympics project director
Former Legion Group plc managing director (and long-term SMT Editorial Advisory Board Member) David Evans has been appointed project director at the BSIA, focusing the Association’s work in relation to the 2012 Olympic Games
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Home Secretary appoints new chairman at the SIA
On Wednesday 20 December, Home Secretary John Reid announced the appointmant of Baroness Ruth Henig as the new chairman of the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
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Appointments
Security Management Today keeps you up-to-date with all the latest people moves in the security sector
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Archive TitlesHas anyone got the energy to redevelop Battersea?
One of Britain’s most loved buildings, Battersea Power Station, had lain dormant for 15 years until a planning application by Parkview International was approved late last year.
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Archive TitlesEarly launch announced for SIA
In response to requests from private sector security companies operating north of the border, the Security Industry Authority is to launch the ACS in Scotland two months early
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SIR – May I say how sincerely appreciative I am of your deeply flattering and complimentary Editorial Leader in last November’s Security Management Today.
If I have played a significant role in stimulating productive change across the private security industry and its client base then I am truly delighted, but I feel humble and undistinguished in comparison to many across the sector who have striven for so long to create a healthy and ...
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Schools limited alternatives
I read with interest various articles in the Nov/Dec edition of CM (Leader, News & Views, Schools Out) and was left with one overarching question: what is the alternative?
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lmost no news at all, then...
SIR – Following on from the Innersafe Corporation’s recent tests which showed that firewall, encryption and password protection are failing to protect PCs from fraud, identity theft and phishing attacks such findings must surely have implications for the enterprise and those operating an industrial network?
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Archive TitlesSecurity: an open road lies ahead
Spurred on by John Kirtland’s feature in Security Management Today (‘IT bytes...’, SMT, November 2006, ), Phil Mailes tackles the subject of open protocols in the security industry. What does the word ‘open’ mean in this context? Is it real or hype, and should the security professional really care? What’s ...
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Go ahead Make my day!
Paul Heeran applauds the tighter controls being imposed by the Security Industry Authority in determining who is allowed to wear the uniform of a security officer, but at the same time warns clients they must still be on their guard when it comes to selecting their security contractor.
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Brown's green agenda
Chancellor Gordon Brown got everyone talking about sustainable homes last month after his pre-budget speech.
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Archive TitlesSight & Sound Security Solutions attains ACS status
The Right Honourable Ann Widdecombe, Conservative MP for Maidstone and the Weald, recently presented Ashford-based security guarding company Sight & Sound Security Solutions with its Approved Contractor Scheme plaque from the Security Industry Authority.
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Revised CDM regulations aim to reduce accidents
The introduction of CDM in March 1995 represented a huge change in the way health and safety was managed on construction projects. The revised regulations will incorporate the provisions of both CDM and the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996 (CHSW).
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Accepting the challenges
2006 was a year of great change for the private security industry, but that change isn’t over yet. Michael Carré looks forward to another challenging 12 months for contractors, end users and the police service alike.
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Archive TitlesCharity begins abroad
Julian Daniel, head of uk south for bovis lend lease, recalls a trip to africa to visit orphaned children
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BS 8549 is little short of dangerous
SIR – The Security Institute applauds and supports initiatives aimed at enhancing professional standards in all areas of the security business, including consultancy, and would like to see in place a regime designed to engender the very highest standards of professionalism, probity and performance in the practice of security consultancy ...
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GW/3 chairman responds to stinging criticisms of BS 8549
Patrick Dealtry the chairman of BSI Committee GW/3 has moved to clarify the process which led to the publication of security consultancy-related BS 8549 in the wake of myriad complaints about the document from TSI’s chairman Bill Wyllie