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Archive TitlesBranching out
Retail banks are focusing their attentions on providing multi-channel banking such that clients might access ATMs, Call Centres, branches and the Internet with the same high level of service and ‘information richness’. At the core of this philosophy is the ‘Branch of the Future’, wherein integrated network security plays a ...
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Restructure for industry body
Industry body, the Strategic Forum for Construction has been restructured to spread overheads around its member organisations and to address the ongoing workload.
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Archive TitlesBirmingham set to host UK’s first ELDA lighting workshop
Birmingham is to host the UK’s first European Lighting Designers’ Association workshop. Running for a week from 6 February, the event is intended to showcase the power of light and educate students in lighting design.
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Archive TitlesThe Big Issue
The New Year heralds a new determination for the BSIA’s Cash-and-Valuables-in-Transit (CVIT) Section to do all it can in helping to reduce the number of attacks perpetrated against couriers, explains Nick Shotton.
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Archive Titles“Best turnout ever” for IFSEC, states CMP Information
ABC Audit attendance figureS have been confirmed for IFSEC, Security Solutions and Network Advantage 2005 – with a record turnout of 31,774 at Birmingham’s NEC for what was the 33rd Edition of the world’s leading security event organised by CMP Information – publisher of Security Management Today (SMT).
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Archive TitlesSoPHE celebrates its second year behind bars
The Society of Public Health Engineers celebrated its second year anniversary on 24 November 2005 at The Clink Prison in London Bridge.
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Asia Region FM Group launched
The inaugural meeting of the Asia Region FM Group took place on 7 November 2005 at the British High Commission in Singapore.
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Archive TitlesAppetite for destruction
Correct information destruction procedures have become increasingly more important in light of legislative developments concerning Data Protection. Brian Sims examines the escalating problem of ID theft in UK plc, and outlines ways in which security professionals might dispose of confidential material to help tackle the issue. Photographs courtesy of the ...
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Please don’t take on any ex-hackers!
Sir – There’s been much news of late about Daniel Cuthbert – the infamous Tsunami fund-raising web site hacker – managing to land a new job with security company Corsair.
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Archive TitlesIP CCTV hits Amsterdam
IndigoVision’s IP video technology is providing an innovative integrated wireless CCTV solution at Amsterdam’s Central Station
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Archive TitlesIs video-over-IP already obsolete?
The industry grapevine appears to suggest that video-over-IP is the future of CCTV so far as end users are concerned, but is this technology already being backed into a cul-de-sac by surveillance cameras that serve as a monitoring tool and recorder all-in-one? Nick Hewitson tunes in to developments in ‘smart’ ...
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Archive TitlesStand up and be counted, one and all
Sir – increasing terrorist threats and environmental devastation may well have raised awareness of business continuity issues and disaster recovery, but a great many organisations are still missing the point.
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Archive TitlesSetting the world alight
As one half of the duo behind leading lighting architects Speirs and Major Associates, Mark Major is passionate about his work. Just don’t get him started on coloured schemes, says Stephen Kennett
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Energy efficiency agenda at risk
A leading green MP has warned CIBSE that energy conservation will cease to be an issue for the Government if it opts to build more nuclear power stations.
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Archive TitlesTraining for tomorrow: the Central Academy of Security Excellence
With the official launch of major security solutions provider Initial Security’s Central Academy of Security Excellence (CASE) taking place this month, Brian Sims travels to Initial’s Milton Keynes hq to talk to CASE managing director Mike Bluestone about the origins of the new Academy, and its current – and future ...
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Archive TitlesOpen to personal download abuse
Apple’s now ubiquitous iPod has such an extensive memory that some unscrupulous members of staff are plugging their music players into work PCs not to download the latest tracks issued online by Iron Maiden or Marillion, but rather to copy across sensitive company information. How might directors of IT and ...
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Archive TitlesEuropean Centre for Business Excellence backs ACS Option 4
An academic report comparing the merits of the different options for the Security Industry Authority’s Approved Contractor Scheme has concluded that Option 4 is a “superior solution”
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Some answers from GW/3, please
Sir – GW/3 is a British Standards Institution-supported Technical Committee that, every so often, convenes in a back room somewhere with the intention of reviewing, updating and amending British Standards.
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CIBSE all set for 2006
CIBSE is celebrating the completion of another very successful year.
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Archive TitlesTWM relocates to Olympia in 2006
Total Workplace Management (TWM) – the end user exhibition and seminar programme directly addressing facilities and security management-related issues – is moving to Olympia from Earls Court this year, at the same time co-locating with M&E: The Building Services Event, Sustainable Energy and Energy Efficiency Expo (SEEEE) and Context, the ...