Security Thought Leadership: in conversation with Martin Gill

Victoria Ekhmou is an experienced security professional having started work in security in the early 1990s and is now one of the leading authorities on security in Africa. She is Board Certified by the Professional Certification Board of ASIS International as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and has expertise in a range of specialisms including guarding and counter-terrori

Peter has a distinguished career in association management. Despite overseeing and spearheading transformational change in his eight plus years as the CEO of ASIS International the Global Board of Directors decided it wants a new type of leader and has recently announced the appointment of William “Bill” Tenney. In this interview Peter discusses his reflections on the role; the

Daniel Lewkovitz is the CEO at Calamity Monitoring, one of Australia's leading security and life safety providers . With over two decades of experience in security and risk management, Daniel's expertise spans physical security, cybersecurity, life-safety monitoring, security system design, antiterrorism, and expert witness services. He has a Master's Degree in Information Technolo

Professor Gloria Laycock is one of the world’s leading scholars on crime prevention. A trained psychologist who has worked extensively in the prison service, Government policy and research and then in academia as a Professor of Crime Science at the Jill Dando Institute. Outspoken, direct and popular, with a keen commitment to ensuring that the findings of academic research are us

Bonnie Michelman is a well-known senior security executive and consultant who has spearheaded the professionalism of the private security sector. She has been President of and chaired the boards of top security industry professional organizations including ASIS International and International Security Management Assoc (ISMA). Bonnie is a recognised - nationally and internationally

Brian Allen is a former Chief Security Officer with Time Warner Cable and then an advisor to company boards and C-suites on their cybersecurity obligations. He now collaborates across the financial sector on security policy and advocacy work. He is also a university lecturer and author of security books that bridge the divide between physical and cybersecurity. His book on 'Enterpr

This episode contains strong language Dr Rich Diston is a career security practitioner, with a MSc with distinction and a professional doctorate. He has held too many professional accreditations to count, and currently holds strong views about security practice and the industry.He works as a trainer/consultant helping develop security professionals, but if you want him to help you

It is good business to be seen to be supporting the ‘green agenda’, and certainly bad news follows or is likely to follow an organisation that is not committed. But how would we know? Do security professionals really care and if so how is that reflected? The ‘environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG)’ concept is becoming more renowned but in what ways is it diffe

Healthcare fraud is a massive problem, the scale of which is only best guessed at, the FBI estimates ‘tens of billions of dollars’, are lost annually in the US, in England alone the government estimates well over a £1 billion was lost last year. The word ‘fraud’ in fact disguises a wide range of criminal acts that vary greatly involving staff (sometimes working with third

There are well established advantages to using robots in security roles. For example, they can independently perform programmed tasks with minimal human oversight, including conducting routine patrols and doing so cost effectively, more productively than humans since they don’t get tired or bored, and work more safely in hazardous environments. But they can lead to job losses, th