Posts By: Jacob Charles

Big Brother’s whistleblower

With revelations still emerging about the NSA and GCHQ’s online surveillance activities, Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses one of the worst intelligence scandals in living memory   It seems that the American National Security Agency (NSA) has been plundering global communications networks as if they are buccaneers of old. Like rapacious pirates they decided that there is… Read more »

Oil, gas and terror

Chris Philips warns that isolated oil and gas facilities across Africa and the Middle East remain highly vulnerable to terrorist attack, and calls on the owners to provide adequate protection and insurance   It seems the current en vogue terrorist tactic has moved from placing bombs in busy places to full frontal attacks by groups… Read more »

Putting the Putin

As the Syrian government prepares to offer up its chemical weapons for disarmament, John Chisholm examines how Russian intervention put paid to Western military threats   A month is a short time in Syria, but it has not prevented an awful lot happening. It is not very often that the term “diplomatic coup” is used… Read more »

Hard borders

Tamir Eshel describes how Israeli security technology is being applied to protect its borders against threats ranging from terrorists to people-smugglers   Since its independence in 1948 Israel has faced existential threats by overwhelming military forces and irregular guerrilla groups waging terror campaigns on the young Jewish state. During 60 years of conflict this threat… Read more »

Strengthening cyber security

Timothy Compston investigates the growing number of cyber security attacks by individuals and state actors intent on obtaining valuable intellectual property and other sensitive data, and outlines the countermeasures which can stop them   Today cyber attacks are seemingly never far from the headlines in our increasingly interconnected world as organisations report a surge in… Read more »

Why terrorise transport?

Dr Dave Sloggett tells Robert de la Poer why transport networks remain such tempting targets for terrorists   RP: Why do you think transport infrastructure presents such an attractive target for terrorists? There are softer targets that could prove more deadly and more symbolic… DS: There are several reasons why terrorists think of transport nodes… Read more »

Protecting the pumps

Oil and gas facilities provide tempting targets for terrorists or saboteurs. Tom Frame explains how the latest IP video security systems can help protect vulnerable and isolated facilities   Organisations within the oil and gas sector face a number of unique challenges that may seem to be easily addressed by IP video security systems –… Read more »

High profile screening – Part 2

In response to Ian Hutcheson’s comments in the July/August issue, Colin Meads argues that airline passenger profiling and opt-in membership schemes are inappropriate and unworkable   The article “High Profile Screening” in intersec’s July/August issue, and Simon Calder’s subsequent article in the The Independent on 3 September, on air passenger profiling opens an interesting debate…. Read more »

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