Dec. 2. New regulation into effect by Sunday is requiring Chinese telecom carriers to use facial recognition of users when registering new mobile phone services. The government says that it is aimed at cracking down on fraud and it means that millions more people will be scanned with facial recognition […]
Dec. 2, Malaysia’s parliament approved at unanimity the first Defence White Paper. The document outlines two roles for the the Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM). The first role is “protecting the national interest”, Defence Minister Mohamad Sabu said, while the second role is ” to carry out military operations other than […]
BELGIUM – At the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Geel, it is developed and produced a spray containing TATP as part of a test kit for aviation security inspectors, containing samples of various dangerous materials. In Brussels Airport, police have trained specialist dogs to trace minimum amounts of […]
On 14th of November, the French Government signed a three-year cybersecurity pact with Airbus, Dassault Aviation, Thales, Safran, Ariane group, MBDA, Naval Group and Nexter but financial details weren’t disclosed. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-cyber/french-government-forms-cybersecurity-pact-with-major-french-companies-idUSKBN1XO1HZ
Nov.27, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that maintaining the NATO defense alliance is of utmost importance to Germany and Europe. “Maintaining NATO today is even more in our own interests than it was in the Cold War — or at least as important as it was in the Cold War,” Merkel […]
Nov. 26, President Donald Trump during an interview said that the Mexican drug cartels will be designated as terrorist groups for their role in trafficking narcotics and people, bringing the Mexico’s foreign ministry to request meeting with U.S. State Department to address the designation. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-cartels/trump-says-u-s-will-designate-mexican-drug-cartels-as-terrorists-idUSKBN1Y02NJ
Earlier this Sunday, the France’s Defence Minister announced that the command post will be operational soon in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates as the headquarters for a European-led mission to ensure safe shipping in the Persian Gulf. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-emirates-france/france-says-abu-dhabi-to-host-hq-for-european-naval-mission-for-the-gulf-idUSKBN1XY0AO
Nov. 22, Seoul made a last-minute decision to renew the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) with Japan after USA urged for renewal. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/world/asia/japan-south-korea-intelligence.html
Already in 1951, German scholar John H. Herz introduced the notion of the security dilemma to explain unwanted war through the escalation of security measures between nations. Dilemmas like this increase greatly in a VUCA world. This acronym was introduced and adopted in 1987 by the US Army War College […]
In 2004 Alex and David Bennet wrote a remarkable (and yet not widely known) book called “Survival in the New World: The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System”. It has been 15 years since it’s publication and yet the lessons of the Bennet’s are probably more relevant than ever. The authors propose […]
European Union (EU) ports are an integral part of its critical infrastructure. An attack on a major EU port, whether through physical, cyber or a combination of both, could cause mass casualties and inflict major economic harm, so it’s vital that the EU ports are properly protected. It is assessed […]
Security management is a complex subject. In simple terms it means protecting people and property – keeping people safe and protecting property and possessions. There are many different approaches and methodologies used in security management, with numerous terms and definitions. Some people tend to make the subject over-complicated but when […]
The International Security Management MOOC is a learning tool developed within the ISM-KA project in line with the development of the Master and will contribute to the education of a broader audience. It will serve as a platform for baseline cultural shift for training and education in safety and security […]
In recent years, effects of environmental issues, geopolitical changes and economic crises affecting the global society have been worsened by terrorism and its radical expansion due to the combination of growing availability of technology, expertise and means. Current scenarios reveal new types of ever increasing dynamic and aggressive threats, which […]
Despite not having a common agreed definition of terrorism, we have three elements that appear regularly in all the proposed wordings from different scholars: politics (or ideologies), fear and violence. Therefore, a simple definition would say that terrorism is a kind of violence that has political or religious based goals […]
Press release by the European Commission and the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU. Link to the original text: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_19_6049 On the beginning of October, Member States, with the support of the Commission and the European Agency for Cybersecurity published a report on the EU coordinated risk assessment […]
Source: Notes de Seguretat Blog (https://notesdeseguretat.blog.gencat.cat/2019/11/11/the-present-and-future-of-organised-crime-in-the-european-union/) Organised crime has evolved significantly over the last twenty years, especially in terms of the number of criminal organisations, their modus operandi, the use of technology and organised crime’s ability to infiltrate infrastructures and the public sector and to make the most of legal […]
Providing a definition on Serious Organised Crime is not an easy job as it is a complex phenomenon which has been explored by several disciplines like sociology, law, criminology, anthropology and psychology, among others. Therefore, we can probably find as many definitions as scholars interested in the topic. One of […]
