Jan. 21 – Italy’s Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza (the Italian financial police) arrested 94 people in a joint police operation last week. They are charged with stealing agricultural subsidies […]
International Security
Jan. 17 – Leonardo announced his new Falco Xplorer drone performed its first flight on January 15. The drone had an approximately one-hour-long flight in a dedicated area and returned […]
Jan. 15 – After December 6th’s attack in the Naval Air Base of Pensacola (Florida, U.S.A.), the FBI strongly asked Apple to unlock the two attacker’s mobile phones, currently locked […]
Jan. 14 – The German Federal Constitutional Court could think about introducing soon more limits on the activities of the BND (foreign intelligence agency) after a claim proposed by a […]
Dec. 18 – Leonardo UK with other Team Tempest partners demonstrated a new miniaturised digital radar warning receiver as part of a new technology development for the Tempest future combat […]
Some new cyber-security standards and protocols drafted by the Pentagon for the defence industry will be released next month. Industry compliance will be foreseen for those standards becoming mandatory for […]
Dec. 11, US House of representatives approved a compromise on the defence authorisation bill for the fiscal year 2020, foreseeing that the Department of Defense (DoD) has to submit a […]
Everbridge, leader company in critical event management, has been selected by Peru’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC) to power the nation’s Early Warning Emergency Messaging System (“Sistema de Mensajería […]
Dec. 6 – The interim government of Bolivia has asked Israel to support local authorities fighting radical leftist “terrorism” allegedly linked to Maduro and drug-traffickers active after former President Evo […]
On next Monday, Dec. 9, Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Vladimir Putin will hold their first face-to-face meeting in Paris with mediation by the French and German leaders. It is more than […]
According to police report, Scotland is facing an increase of cyber crimes by 215 percent compared to the same period of the year in 2018. Deputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham, […]
Dec. 4. Anti-terrorism drills involving dogs have been conducted by Japanese agents to detect suspicious items, including explosives, this Wednesday at Tokyo Station as they intensify security measueres preparations for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The International Security Management MOOC is a learning tool offered by RSM – Erasmus University Rotterdam and developed within the ISM-KA project in line with the development of the Master […]
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 […]
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. […]