HOMELAND SECURITY Securing our borders, facilities and public spaces Following its successful Wellington debut in 2019, Conferenz’s Securing NZ’s Borders, Facilities & Public Spaces is back for 2021. This time, the event brings a pantheon of renown security and resilience specialists to Auckland. Shaping today’s security landscape has become a lot more intricate over the past months, with the ongoing threat of COVID reminding us that this issue will continue to evolve in the near future. Questions are being asked as to what new or additional measures might be put in place to securing our borders, facilities and public spaces, and how understanding further the rights of the public and the obligations at law is critical to delivering effective security and safety services. The Securing NZ’s Borders, Facilities & Public Spaces Conference will focus on key currents shaping today’s security landscape with
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presentations by renowned local and international practitioners and academics. The event is set to draw together professionals concerned with safety and security at the border and at facilities where people tend to congregate. The agenda features thought provoking contributions from a wide range of experts from across law enforcement, government, venue operators, risk management and the security industry. Along with COVID threats and implications for our shared environments, there are other trends emerging. For example, a darker side of social media has arisen - one
which threatens national security and undermines democracy. Nowhere has this been more evident and arguably effective than in the 2016 and 2020 United States Presidential Elections and 2016 BREXIT referendum, but also more recently during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. How these social media implications can be countered is a question to be discussed with Nick Nelson from Massey University. Cyber-attacks are increasing in complexity and sophistication with international and domestic hostile agents increasingly targeting critical areas of infrastructure. Philip Whitmore, Partner - Cyber Security, KPMG will share current trends in
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