ASIS UK Winter Newsletter 2016

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Newsletter NO. 4 – 2016

UNITED KINGDOM CHAPTER 208

ASIS NEWSLETTER OF THE YEAR – WINNER 2015, 2013, 2012, 2008 & 2003 – HONOURABLE MENTION 2011, 2006.

ASIS UK outstanding member achievements!

Dear Colleagues The Chapter continues to grow and flourish with our training, education, networking and all-round excellence reinforced and well recognised within ASIS HQ and the industry at large. The change management program has taken far longer than expected but is reaching a fine crescendo with serious progress being made. This will be seen in the Chapter Board and Committee structure, our vision for 2020 (see what I did there), education strategy, new sponsorship menu and enhanced offering for our existing and new sponsors as well as significant changes coming for our website, social media and administrative support activity. All of these changes and much more should be available to us in time for the December AGM and seminar to gear us up to be ready and able to trail blaze throughout 2017.

Our Treasurer Bruce Braes continues to keep us on financial track and our Company Secretary Chris Brogan continues to keep us out of jail. The importance of these two roles in any organisation really cannot be underestimated and without the support of these two chaps, the Chapter would not be in the excellent shape it's in. They are not often recognised for their work which goes on behind the scenes, mainly keeping the Board in check but I hope the photographs below can help you recognise and thank them at the AGM. Awards season!

It was a fantastic late Summer and early Autumn for ASIS UK and it seems awards season has started early and many ASIS UK member's trophy cabinets will now be full to bursting and it was a double whammy for ASIS UK

Mike Hurst receiving his President's Award for Merit from David Davis CPP, the ASIS President.

Vice Chair Mike Hurst. Mike attended the ASIS International Conference in Orlando and whilst there was surprised to receive the President's Award for Merit in recognition of his work as a volunteer leader for the UK Chapter and Europe. Mike works tirelessly for us and although he is well recognised for his efforts here, it is testimony to his work ethic and tenacity that he is receiving recognition and high praise from ASIS HQ. With Mike Hurst receiving his much deserved President's Award for Merit The ASIS UK Chapter Newsletter was also recognised by ASIS HQ in what is now a regular feature of appearing in the winner's enclosure of the ASIS Newsletter awards. The ASIS UK Newsletter received an Honourable Mention which I can only assume is US speak for “we can't let them Brits win every year”. Special thanks to Mike and his editorial team of Helene Carlsson, Jade Davies and Sharon Haye for their stirling efforts in making the ASIS UK newsletter such a popular and highly professional read (despite my contributions). I'm pretty sure next year will be our turn again, if

not an ASIS award, I'm pretty sure a Pulitzer prize won't be far off.

It was a double whammy for ASIS UK member Professor Martin Gill who is fast becoming the Real Madrid of ASIS UK! Martin received the President's Award for Merit at the ASIS conference for his many years of work in the field of security education, his service on the Board of the ASIS Foundation and the setting up of the OSPAs. The ASIS UK Board nominated Martin for the esteemed Association of Security Consultants’ Imbert Association Prize; he was judged to be the winner by the ASC judging panel and the award was very much deserved. It later transpired that Martin had also been nominated by the BSIA, IPSA and the Security Institute! This is testimony to the incredibly high esteem Martin is held in by his peers right across the UK security industry and I am delighted and honoured that Martin is an ASIS member, he is a credit to our organisation and sets an incredibly high standard for us all to aim for.

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OUTSTANDING MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS

A treble whammy for ASIS UK members at WiS AWARDS At the Women in Security Awards dinner in September three ASIS members were recognised for their contributions to the security industry; ASIS UK member Yasmeen Stratton of SSR Personnel won the WiS Award for CONTRIBUTION TO THE INDUSTRY. ASIS UK Board Director Dawn Holmes CPP from Bloomberg was a finalist in the WiS award for Security MANAGER of the Year.

ASIS UK Patron Baroness Angela Harris was a finalist in the WiS Award for CONTRIBUTION TO THE INDUSTRY. Many congratulations to all, we are very proud to have yet more award winners and finalists in our ranks and I'm looking forward to a clean sweep next year.

ASIS UK Autumn Seminar The third seminar of the year was held at Ashurst in London. The accommodation was a bit tight but this was due to fantastic attendance by our members and guests. It made things a little difficult for our sponsors but I am sure the slight discomfort was worth it for such a fantastic afternoon.

For those who weren’t able to make it, I am sure you have already heard about the success from colleagues but to recap briefly, we had an opening speech from the formidable Jane Cannon MBE, Director Industry Engagement, OSCT. A pragmatic update on UK policing and state of the nation with regards to UK Security from Supt Dave Roney of NaCTSO. This incredibly strong opening was followed by an excellently delivered Active Shooter masterclass delivered by two experts; Caroline Neil from RPS who gave us all some challenging and interesting views on traditional responses to Active Shooter scenarios and the brilliant Will Jones who gave the best police delivered presentation on Active Shooter response that I have ever seen. This was all masterfully facilitated by ASIS UK Lead for Military and Policing Dr Mike McDonagh.

The second half of the seminar was a CSO panel on 'Managing Upwards' facilitated by ASIS Board Director, Assistant Regional Vice President and

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OUTSTANDING MEMBER ACHIEVEMENTS

Nomura CSO Andy Williams. The panel was made up of CSOs David Bilson, British Museum; Guy Matthias, IRSuntory, Tim Rawlins, NCC Group and Mike McDonagh.

This new, interactive format was a breath of fresh air and something I intend to keep for future seminars, of course on different subjects but I felt it was informative, enjoyable and I certainly learned a lot. Feedback has been tremendous and I thank those who have written in, it's this information that helps us stay on track with what you, the members, want so please keep it coming. I am genuinely delighted and honoured that we can attract such talent to deliver and support our seminars and am very grateful to the Events team, headed up by Steve Emmins and Caroline Bashford for doing such a consistently sterling job.

I was thrilled to receive a gift from our German cousins on behalf of the Chapter from the German Chapter – collected and delivered to me by Dr Vibhor Gupta after a recent visit there.

It resides in the gigantic ASIS UK trophy room and I'd like to hear from the membership with any ideas about what we can send them in return—a prize for the idea will be announced at the Winter Seminar. Email me: chairman@asis.org.uk.

ASIS/AXIS CPE Day In August we saw another full house and another brilliant CPE training day

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was delivered by our partners and sponsors AXIS Communications. The fact that we can offer these excellent days for free to our members is great and the support from Axis is commendable in their support in delivering this. There was another event held on 2nd November.

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ASIS UK Certificate Holders LunchIn early September ASIS UK Entertainment Chief, Andy Williams organised a Certificate Holders lunch for those ASIS colleagues who hold CPP, PCI and PSP Board certifications (or all three). The day was a tremendous success and to demonstrate the value, importance, longevity and modernity of the certifications we had a guest Dennis Ahern CPP from Christies who passed his CPP in 1996! We were also joined

by Timur Levithan CPP from London Edition Hotel who passed his CPP the day before! How about that for keeping current! The lunch was attended by around 40 ASIS members and guests who enjoyed an incredibly convivial and enjoyable afternoon. We also managed to raise over £750.00 for the London Air Ambulance Charity HEMS whose Chief Executive attended as a guest of ASIS UK and accepted a cheque on the day.

The AGM and Winter Seminar will be taking place on 6 December 2016 at Prudential in London. We have a cracking line up of speakers and an exciting expert panel of professionals collaborating to give pragmatic advice on 'Dealing with a cyber security incident for non-cyber professionals'.

This is advice I'm sure a great number of us need! As well as the AGM at which a number of special announcements and votes are necessary, we are also hoping to follow the seminar with a few Christmas drinks and possibly some surprise entertainment so do get booked up fast! It's close to Christmas and is bound to be a cracker! Book here

This day will become a permanent fixture in the ASIS UK diary and is yet another reason to become Board Certified! For those who wish to find out about ASIS board Certifications please email Certification@asis.org.uk or contact Bruce Braes for more information.

Nominations close on 15th November so get entering, sponsoring (there are a few categories left to sponsor) and nominating!

AGM and Winter Seminar

I look forward to seeing you all at the Winter AGM. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asi s-uk-winter-seminar-agm-tickets28425076168 David

OSPAs The OSPAs for which we saw Martin Gill recognised are something I and the Board heartily encourage every ASIS UK member to enter or nominate a colleague for, in at least one category (there are twelve). ASIS UK ourselves are taking part in the OSPAs and will be supporting the 'In House Security Manager' category alongside a partnering sponsor. Don’t let this opportunity to be recognised in the UK and globally for your efforts pass you by. Find more information here

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CALENDAR

Calendar of Events 2016 November 14th - 15th

ASIS China Conference 2016 Shanghai, China

30th

UK Security Expo (inc.

Transport Security Expo)

December 1st

UK Security Expo (inc.

Transport Security Expo)

6th

ASIS UK AGM and Winter Seminar

TBC

ASIS UK Summer Seminar

20th – 22nd

IFSEC

15th

Security Institute Christmas Party

July

January 22nd – 24th

Security TWENTY 17 Midlands, Nottingham

TBC

ASIS UK Spring Seminar

02nd

The UK Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs)

13th – 14th

Total Security Summit, Stanstead

16th

CSyP Annual Dinner

29th - 31st

ASIS Europe Milan, Italy

2016

25th – 28th

63rd Annual ASIS Seminar and Exhibits, Dallas, Texas.

5th

ASIS CSO Center meeting, London

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ASIS UK Autumn Seminar

October

March

3rd – 4th

Security TWENTY 17 North, Harrogate

TBC Intersec, Dubai

February 9th February

4th September

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June

Security and Counter Terror Expo

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ASIS Middle East,

Bahrain

Additionally We are planning three more regional meetings in 2016, plus other events focussing on • ASIS Women in Security • ASIS Young Professionals • Military/Police Transitioning in Security and • Charity Events

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SECURITY MANAGEMENT

A perfect opportunity to network and socialise with the industry’s finest!

The first ever UK Outstanding Security Performance Awards will be presented at the London Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, Mayfair on Thursday, 2nd March 2017.

The event is for everyone from across the industry to recognise and celebrate outstanding performance, while providing a platform to socialise and network with likeminded colleagues.

The special celebratory evening opens with a drinks reception, followed by a three-course meal with wine, the awards presentation and entertainment.

The night will be hosted by Nick Ross.

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Nick Ross is a journalist and broadcaster best-known for the BBC’s Crimewatch which he presented for 23 years. He founded and chairs the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at University College London which has since expanded into a multidisciplinary Department of Security and Crime Science. He is a trustee of Crimestoppers, has been an adviser to Victim Support and has served on several UK government crime prevention boards. He is author of ‘Crime: how to solve it and why so much of what we’re told is wrong’.

Founder of the OSPAs, Professor Martin Gill, says “the evening is set to showcase the very best from within the industry and everyone involved is welcome to attend. Awards will be presented in 15 categories enabling individuals, companies and teams to be recognised for their outstanding performance across the UK’s private security sector.”

Tickets are available at a cost of £225 + VAT per person or £2000 + VAT for a table of 10. Places can be booked by contacting the events team on 01905 864675 or emailing c.brooks@theospas.co.uk Sponsorship opportunities are available and the brochure can be downloaded at https://uk.theospas.com/sponsors

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ASIS AUTUMN SEMINAR

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ASIS AUTUMN SEMINAR

ASIS UK Autumn Seminar, Ashurst London, 26 September 2016 What do 140 attendees, 8 speakers, 13 Sponsors, 2 very topical of the momentsecurity subjects (namely Managing Active Shooter Situations and the role of the CSO Managing Upwards) and, last but not least, a new fast paced and exciting seminar format have in common?

Well, they were all the star attractions on Monday 26th September 2016. Yes, it was the ASIS UK Chapter Autumn Seminar, held at the Ashurst building in Appold Street, London. The Managing Active Shooter Situations segment of the afternoon started with a fascinating presentation from Jane Cannon MBE from the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (OSCT), highlighting the endless potential and opportunities for government liaison and the private sector. In a very informative input, Jane also covered the work of Joint Security Resilience Centre, one of the main aims of which is to support the work of OSCT to build security capability overseas to reduce threats to the UK and generate opportunities for UK companies.

Next up was Supt Dave Roney on behalf of National Police Chiefs Council. Dave, who is the Deputy National Coordinator for Protect and Prepare, two of the four

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Ps in the PREVENT strategy for counter terrorism (Prepare, Protect, Prevent, Pursue). Prepare and Protect are the UK initiative on protecting the national critical infrastructure and Supt Roney gave an incredible insight into the threat posed to the country from terrorists looking to damage the UK economy by targeting power and communication supplies and other aspects of critical national infrastructure.

Caroline Neil, from RCS Consulting, asked us all: what should we do in the event of an active shooter incident? Caroline explored the Run, Hide, Tell advice given to businesses and examined in detail the training actually given to employees, and whether companies, not wishing to frighten or cause concern or panic to their staff are indeed taking the threat of such an occurrence seriously.

Finally, Sgt Will Jones, from the Metropolitan Police wrapped up the first half of the seminar by covering the most recent and well publicised active shooter situations over the last few years and highlighted how difficult it is to spot when such an event is likely to occur. He gave a brilliant overview of recent situations without compromising future operations by exposing classified intelligence; a tough feat we are sure you’ll agree. With an additional and valued contribution from our own Andy Williams CPP who facilitated an excellent discussion from

four CSOs, David Bilson CPP (Head of Security, British Museum), Guy Mathais (Suntory), Tim Rawlins (NCC Group) and Mike McDonagh, the delegates received some inspired advice on what the traditional corporate security manager now needs to consider in order to up their game and compete on a senior corporate level, as well as how to stand out when in competition with Chief Information Security Officers who can deliver on the newly popular facet of convergence.

So, in terms of content, and audience participation (there was no shortage of questions coming from the floor) such was the pique of interest, a very successful seminar was enjoyed by all. To round off a packed afternoon, in terms of capacity, content and attendance we later saw Mike Hurst and Vibhor Gupta collect their well-earned awards. Mike won the President’s Award for Person of Merit for Volunteer Leadership and Vibhor Gupta won a very large eagle! for a wonderful speech on behalf of the Chapter at an ASIS Germany Seminar.

Other awards were presented to Prof.

Martin Gill who won the ASC Imbert Association Prize —jointly nominated by the ASIS UK Chapter and the Security Institute.

The afternoon was rounded up with some fantastic canapés and drinks, thanks to our wonderful sponsors CIS Security.

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GLOBAL RESILIENCE SUMMIT

Some of the Board, Committee and Members who attended the Global Resilience Summit in October, organised by London First L–R Darren Carter, Mike Hurst, Dr Mike McDonagh, Russell Penny CPP, Peter Lavery, James Butler Front: Graham Bassett, Amanda McCloskey

The UK Chapter has one of the highest number of holders of ASIS Board Certifications in the world.

If you are interested in studying for one of these highly valued certifications please contact

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1986

Mark Rowe, Editor of Professional Security Magazine, recalls 1986.

The Security Institute conference in September heard from one speaker of how people may be radicalised to become terrorists within days. I was sitting next to a UK big city university head of security, and out of the corner of my eye noticed he made a note of that. As soon as the event took a break I asked him about it. He agreed it was possible; if someone, maybe with mental health problems, was at the stage where they were making an internet search for terrorism, they could be radicalised very quickly. What a contrast to the beginning of my university days, almost exactly 30 years before.

I went to the Bristol Students Union to hear the politician Enoch Powell speak, one Friday lunchtime. Instead some anarchists marched down the aisle and shouted intimidatingly and rocked the stage. Powell understandably left. It made the newspapers, and indeed Simon Heffer’s biography of Powell. I only vaguely assumed then that I would become a journalist, but did note that one respected broadsheet quoted a student official that the intruders did not use student IDs to get in the building. Another respected newspaper quoted the same man, saying he thought the intruders did use student ID. Only now has it struck me that perhaps both newspapers were accurate; perhaps the official said opposite things to the two papers.

Another meeting was set for the Friday after, even more popular than the one with Powell; such is human nature. It sparked weeks of debate about ‘no platform’– to give its full title, ‘no platform for fascists’. In passing let me say

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that whatever you thought or think of Powell, he was no fascist. His meeting evidently had had no security; the meeting about him did, courtesy of rugby club types, who enforced a ban on bottles at the door. I fell foul of that – not through meaning to lob one, but because as a thrifty student I carried a bottle of squash with me.

In 1986, no-one dreamed that you could make a liquid bomb, let alone that you might set a bomb off and kill yourself, besides others. In truth Islamist hate speakers (the shifting, uncomfortable and unresolved labels for ‘extremists’ and ‘terrorists’ is telling) have been around universities (and where else?) since at least the mid1990s. Few have wanted to face the facts.

Now universities have a duty under ‘Prevent’ law to watch for radicalisation, including guest speakers, and that tricky task (because how do you police social media, and the young generally, in a free society?) often drops on the desk of security managers. At the time like everyone else I saw those lawless people breaking-up Powell’s meeting as sinister – like the poll tax rioters that I saw pass Cambridge Circus in London in 1990 (again, I just happened to be there, I wasn’t one of them, honestly).

While not denying the crime against Powell, I’m struck now by how those anarchists restrained themselves, as protesters so often do. They could easily have hurt Powell, an old man. They only sought to spoil the meeting, and they succeeded. Thirty years on, how innocent that seems.

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BIG DATA

Benefits of Big Data Analytics in Security – helping Proactivity and Value creation

Dr. Vibhor Gupta, PhD Technology Lead, ASIS UK Chapter vgupta@asis.org.uk

Enterprise security at most organisations is tasked to deal with all aspects of threats and risks which arise due to the nature of their business, geopolitical situation and socioeconomic conditions. Given the spate of recent incidents globally, a lot of attention is drawn towards cyber security. However, as most organisations recognise, this attention is not limited to only the cyber side of security but all elements, which relate to protection of information and people at their organisation.

So for instance: 1. Policies around access to critical areas (physical or virtual) are defined, implemented and monitored more tightly; 2. To reduce the probability of ‘insider threat’, organisations are including measures to vet and audit each individual person (or logical account) who have requested or already have access to these critical areas; 3. Boundaries of these physical or logical areas are finely defined taking into account local operations and industry regulations; 4. All aspects of security such as cyber, data, people, assets and site are being looked at from a holistic perspective with reference to the core business objectives.

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In addition to this, Security departments are becoming (or increasingly intending to be) more proactive to identify risks and threats as opposed to be being reactive to issues which might have already impacted their organisation’s business, people and/or reputation. In this interest, various tools and technologies are deployed to capture data across the aforementioned areas. And with most of these technologies now connected to the network, it’s becoming relatively easier to integrate them as it offers a cost effective alternative to manage various operations which otherwise are divided across different people and systems.

Given the wealth of data which security departments are capturing through their various activities or systems, they are using it in novel ways to identify and resolve risks (exceptions) which otherwise would go unnoticed until they manifest into issues. The principles of these novel approaches are seldom classified into ‘Security Intelligence’ and ‘Behavioural Analytics’. To share a few examples: 1. A global bank comprising of a large workforce (>150K people) and over 100 sites across the world was keen to identify instances where their people were ‘remote’ logging into their IT systems despite being (physically) inside their premises. Such exceptions relate to possible duplication of an identity record, which is a serious threat. As the bank discovered, the ‘best’ (cheap, quick and replicable) way for them to approach this was to apply simple principles of data integration and visualisation across their base logical and physical access control systems. By doing so, the security team was notified of any such exceptions in real time. This allowed for an instant investigation and

helped the bank mitigate their risk significantly.

2. A fortune 500 organisation had multiple reported cases of expensive equipment stolen from different buildings around the main campus area. They suspected the thefts were occurring after hours but analysis of access records from their physical access control systems alone wasn’t very helpful. They had hundreds of people working late at that site on a regular basis so they were unable to identify a manageable number of suspects. But, by applying analytical intelligence to an integrated set of time and attendance data; and physical access data, they were able to resolve this.

A) They first defined a ‘usual’ behaviour of an individual and groups of individuals, i.e. which areas they access the most and at what times.

B) Then they looked for exceptions, i.e. if certain individuals or groups accessed certain areas at times, which fell outside their ‘usual’ behaviour.

By doing this analysis, a single employee stood out and his access pattern also coincided with the thefts. The next time the employee entered a new area after his normal hours, the Security Operations team was notified following which a guard was sent to inspect the building. The thief was caught red-handed. This approach not only helped them resolve a mystery but also provided them with a strategy to prevent similar activities in the future.

3. A highly secure Research and Development organisation spent enormously each year to perform background checks for every person accessing their campus. Reduction of their security budget led them to change their policy such that

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BIG DATA

they decided to perform ‘risk assessments’ on each individual and they re-ran checks only on those who represented the highest risk.

However, this simply led to a cut in the frequency of checks and raised their risk significantly. So it was critical they redefined the way in which they derived their ‘risk assessments’.

They started by factoring each individual’s level of access, the time they had been with the organisation and the time since they last went through a background check. This information was coupled with their known ‘behaviour’ (which areas they access frequently and at what times) to compute a ‘Risk Score’. Background checks were mandated for individuals with a high Risk Score and those who showed a sudden increase in their overall Risk Score. This helped a great deal in maintaining their high security levels (no issues reported since) whilst reducing their operational cost by approximately 85%.

There are several other use cases, which highlight the benefits and values which security departments are creating using the principles of ‘Security Intelligence’ and ‘Big Data Analytics’. To outline a few: 1. Site utilisation metrics – to

what degree is a site being used?

2. Key performance indicators – how well are the security operational teams doing based on their service level agreements?

3. Impact analysis in case of changes such as change of security policies or existing technologies such as access cards and access control systems?

4. Supporting the green agenda by reducing the energy usage in areas which are not used heavily based on the data analysed.

However, all great ideas require a successful execution (implementation) for their ‘greatness’ to be recognised.

During this study we learnt of the following tenets, which were key to successfully achieving the above: 1. Identify the use cases, which should be addressed through the endeavours of ‘Security Intelligence’ or ‘Big Data’. Base these on the experiences of known risks, threats and exceptions; 2. Look for extensible solutions that can contribute to the bigger picture if that should become necessary. Scalability and extensibility are easily achieved when out of the box

solutions are deployed as opposed to customised ones.

This helps organisations protect their investment as such solutions can be geared to handle changes of other third party systems or business processes; 1. Partner with systems’ vendors that specialise in the security vertical and connect to applicable systems (such as Access control, logical human resource systems, security devices) in a noncustomised/non-bespoke manner; 4. Avoid generic “Big Data” solutions from vendors that don’t understand security.

Domain knowledge is very important given that one size doesn’t fit all. Domain knowledge coupled with reference-able experience of a solution provider implied cheaper, shorter and scalable implementation.

With the above it’s evident that security departments globally are recognising the opportunity to be a business enabler and are aligning their objectives so their organisations can run efficiently.

This is a welcome deviation from the traditional view of security being a reactive and investigative team only which was unfairly labelled as a ‘cost centre’.

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ASIS TRIATHLETE

ASIS Triathlete ASIS UK Member, Eddie Hirst, Risk Director of Mitie Total Security Management, competed for Team GB as an age group athlete (40 – 45) in the World Triathlon Championship in the Aquathon and Standard Distance Triathlon events.

The event took place in Cozumel, Mexico, where temperatures topped 37c with 80/90 humidity, which reminded Eddie very much of his native Yorkshire.

The event was famously finished with the elite race with Jonny Brownlee going ‘wobbly’ and then being picked up by his brother and ‘shoved’ across the line

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ASIS YOUNG PROFESSIONALS An ASIS Young professional is defined (loosely) as someone working in the security profession who is either under 40 or has less than 5 years’ experience.

The UK Chapter probably hasn’t done enough to promote the YP programme so far, which is why we are delighted that Stuart Eustace CPP, the global head of security for Pladis Group, has volunteered to be UK YP lead.

He is starting to put together a YP team (currently Sarah Hayward, Ciaran Barry, James Morris CPP, Iskandar Jefferies CPP, Chris Lane, Paul Winstanley and Aaron Olson CPP) and they will be meeting soon to make some plans for 2017.

If you have suggestions for events or programme items or would like to take part (or sponsor) please contact the ASIS office infor@asis.org.uk

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ANNUAL SEMINAR

Lone Wolf Attacks, Cyberthreats, and Collaboration Emerge as Key Themes at ASIS International 62nd Annual Seminar and Exhibits Top U.S. Government Security Chiefs Join Thousands of Physical and Cybersecurity Professionals in Orlando ALEXANDRIA, VA--(Marketwired September 23, 2016) - Security professionals from 109 countries gathered in Orlando, September 12-15 for the ASIS International 62nd Annual Seminar and Exhibits (ASIS 2016), the profession's most comprehensive education program and security marketplace. The event, which was colocated with the (ISC)2 Security Congress and InfraGard 20th Anniversary Congress & Conference, attracted more than 22,000 registrants, representing 10% growth from the previous year. Keynotes by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh C. Johnson and FBI Director James B. Comey underscored key conference themes, specifically the rise of lone wolf attacks, the risk of a cyberattack on critical infrastructure, and the need for greater public-private sector collaboration.

"In addition to my volunteer leadership role, first and foremost I am a security management professional," said David C. Davis, CPP, 2016 President, ASIS International. "From the trade show floor to the formal education program, the depth of learning offered at this year's event was astonishing. As a result, attendees and exhibitors were able to hold meaningful conversations about the current threat landscape, the new tools and solutions available, and how to best support each other's goals."

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featured keynotes by Ted Koppel and Elliott Abrams, included more than 250 education sessions, the first U.S. Outstanding Security Performance Awards, and inspiring remarks by Everest survivor Dr. Beck Weathers. In addition, ASIS 2016 showcased 550 exhibitors, providing attendees with hands-on access to security technology addressing the full spectrum of threats including drone detection, body worn cameras, autonomous security robots, cyber intrusion detection software, 4K cameras, data analytic tools, and more.

80% of ASIS 2016 exhibitors have already rebooked for ASIS 2017, convening Sept. 25-28 in Dallas.

New this year, InfraGard co-located its annual Congress and Conference with ASIS 2016 and will continue the partnership in Dallas in 2017. Both Secretary Johnson and Director Comey identified the need for greater privatepublic sector collaboration, which this relationship exemplifies.

"With increased terror threats both domestically and globally, collaboration with the public, government, and private sector is critical to the security of our citizens, as well as vital infrastructure," said Gary Gardner, chairman, InfraGard Board of Directors. "Partnering with ASIS ensures our collective memberships have access to the intelligence and current threat assessments needed to protect and provide resilience for the communities in which we serve."

In conjunction with the event, ASIS held a free Community Preparedness and Prevention Seminar as part of its

inaugural Security Week. Supported by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Infrastructure Protection, the program educated Orlando community leaders and small business owners on the fundamentals of security, soft-target protection, and crisis preparedness. In addition, ASIS provided free access to the conference and expo for all active duty military, law enforcement, and first responders as part of Law Enforcement and Military Appreciation Day. ASIS rounded out its community outreach with the ASIS Foundation School Security Funding Competition, providing Lake Brantley High School with a $22,000 donation for security upgrades and $19,000 of in-kind security equipment and improvements.

"As the global organization representing more than 35,000 security professionals worldwide, ASIS is distinctly positioned to deliver a dynamic security event that is truly by the industry, for the industry," said ASIS International CEO Peter J. O'Neil, who took the helm of the association earlier this year. "I was inspired and energized by the passionate community of security professionals who convened in Orlando last week. While our annual conference delivers unparalleled value in information sharing, networking, and exposure to cutting edge technology, our constituents can rest assured that we are committed to evolving and modernizing the event's content, format, and events to meet the rapidly changing needs of today's security professionals. We look forward to building on this year's success in Dallas next September."

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ANNUAL SEMINAR

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The ASIS UK Winter Seminar is on 6th December in London and will feature a panel discussion with ’Handling a Cyber Physical Incident for non Cyber professionals’ exploring how they transmit their security message to the Board.

For details and to book ASIS UK events please visit http://asisuk.eventbrite.com