http://www.professionalsecurity.co.uk/ A service for the security professional to access security news, views and information. en-us Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:24:37 +0000 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:24:37 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/press-releases/why-competence-is-the-biggest-challenge-facing-security-today/ The security sector is at a pivotal moment. According to Fire & Security Association (FSA) Chair Darren Pool, the industry's future will be defined by how effectively it tackles skills shortages, competency standards, regulatory change and emerging technologies. Speaking about his priorities for the Association, he says FSA must become the go-to organisation for businesses looking for gu... Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:09:53 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/press-releases/why-competence-is-the-biggest-challenge-facing-security-today/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/fire/fire-detection-panel/ The manufacturer Comelit-PAC has launched LogiFire 2 panel, adding to its LogiFire fire detection products with a solution designed for small to medium-sized installations, the company says. The LogiFire range is the firm's addressable fire detection platform, for applications ranging from smaller stand-alone sites to larger, more complex buildings. Designed around a common ecosystem of panels, d... Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:10:44 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/fire/fire-detection-panel/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/designing-for-the-wrong-threat/ Most security failures do not happen because controls are weak. They happen because organisations are defending against the wrong threat, says  Gavin Wilson, Director of Physical Security and Risk, at the consultancy Toro Solutions. Most physical security environments are not poorly designed. In many cases, they are well managed, compliant and supported by significant technology. The issue is th... Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:58:52 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/designing-for-the-wrong-threat/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/physical-security/access-control-for-ambulance-drugs/ East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) has had access control devices fitted for the management and security of controlled drugs across its operations. The project specification included almost 2,000 keys and about 600 cylinders. The products fitted are from Abloy UK; PROTEC2 CLIQ, enabled via ... Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:57:45 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/physical-security/access-control-for-ambulance-drugs/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/case-studies/hub-installs-at-german-doner-kebab/ The restaurant chain German Doner Kebab has locations across the Continent, North America, and the Middle East. In the UK, where the brand has restaurants in city centres, shopping centres, and transport hubs, it has sought to manage fire safety, intrusion protection, and video surveillance across multi-sites. It wanted a single platform that could provide alarms and real-time monitoring of all lo... Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:35:52 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/case-studies/hub-installs-at-german-doner-kebab/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/announcement/asc-board-2/ The Association of Security Consultants (ASC) confirmed a newly elected and restructured leadership team after its Annual General Meeting on June 10.  The Annual General Meeting provided an opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of existing Board members whose leadership and commitment have helped guide the Association through a period of significant progress. The ASC extended its apprecia... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:59:27 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/announcement/asc-board-2/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cyber/cyber-risk-quantification/ Cyber risk needs a common language, says Notis Iliopoulos, pictured, EVP of Managed Risk and Controls, at the platform Obrela. Cybersecurity is great at collecting data. Organisations have access to vast amounts of information about vulnerabilities, threats, control effectiveness, attack paths and compliance status. And security operations centres generate a constant stream of intelligence abou... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:34:44 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cyber/cyber-risk-quantification/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/physical-security/548380-2/ Artificial intelligence (AI) already is impacting the design, specification and management of the built environment. It' a tool for architectural professionals, with its growing role signifying far more than a passing industry trend. According to the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Artificial Intelligence Report 2025, 59 per cent of architectural practices now use AI on at least... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:28:40 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/physical-security/548380-2/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/548378-2/ AI is driving a new wave of motor fraud, says Dave Rossi, Managing Director at National Hunter, a counter-fraud not for profit membership body.    Motor fraud has been evolving fast. AI has acted as an accelerant, adding the ease, accuracy and volume for motor fraud to spread like wildfire. Criminals are operating faster, at a greater scale, and with increasing sophistication, from AI-gene... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:21:31 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/548378-2/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/ai-speed-and-cyber-challenge/ In the AI race, are we moving too fast for our own good? asks Bernard Montel, Field CTO at the platform Tenable. The speed at which AI has evolved and become an integral part of our working lives is remarkable. Whether through generative AI or increasingly sophisticated agentic systems, tasks that once took hours can now be completed in minutes. For many organisations, a world without AI is alrea... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:14:09 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/ai-speed-and-cyber-challenge/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cyber/expense-management/ User behaviour is the biggest security risk in expense management, says Callum Beckwith, Technical Lead at the expense management software firm Capture Expense. Security in financial systems is usually framed as a technical problem and the conversation centres on infrastructure. How data is stored, how systems are encrypted, how access is controlled and monitored. That focus makes sense. Modern... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:08:27 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cyber/expense-management/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cyber/ncsc-advice-on-vulnerable-routers/ With partners the UK official National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – a part of the Government monitoring agency GCHQ – has published an advisory on the methods of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Centre 16 cyber actors. The NCSC says they are exploiting vulnerable routers and opportunistically targeting networks belonging to critical national infrastructure (CNI) globally. In more d... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:05:47 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cyber/ncsc-advice-on-vulnerable-routers/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/announcement/inspiration-in-hr-award-3/ Peter French of SSR Personnel writes about the Inspiration in HR Award: Now in its 20th year, it's open to individuals or organisations and runs with the support of Security & Fire Excellence Awards and SSR. The winner will be presented with their award during the Security & Fire IFSEC Global awards night on Monday, November 30 at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House, on Park Lane, in London's ... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:47:48 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/announcement/inspiration-in-hr-award-3/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cyber/head-units-leave-the-driver-exposed/ Vehicles are becoming increasingly software-based, and there’s no getting away from it, says Gianfranco Vinucci, Chief Operating Officer at PCA Cyber Security. Automotive OEMs and suppliers spy an opportunity for cockpits to play host to connected digital platforms that offer drivers convenience while presenting the automotive industry greater opportunities to open recurring revenue streams via... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:35:58 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cyber/head-units-leave-the-driver-exposed/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/government/money-for-jewish-site-protection/ The Government is giving £251m over three years for protection of Jewish community sites. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer described it as 'delivering a step-change in protection and policing so Jewish communities can live and celebrate their faith free from fear'. Home Office Policing Minister Sarah Jones said: "After a series of appalling attacks against Jewish communities, the difficult decisio... Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:24:37 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/government/money-for-jewish-site-protection/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cctv/dallmeier-at-the-aci-airport-experience-summit-2026/ The German video surveillance product manufacturer Dallmeier is among the exhibitors at the ACI Airport Experience Summit 2026 in Istanbul, at booth 31. Intelligent video technology can help with security and safety, streamline airport operations, and deliver improvements to the passenger experience, the firm says. A focus for the company’s at the show is the protection and monitoring o... Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:38:48 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/cctv/dallmeier-at-the-aci-airport-experience-summit-2026/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/integrated-systems/onvif-extends-with-profile-v/ ONVIF, the US-based open standards body for making IP-based physical security products inter-operable, has introduced the Release Candidate for ONVIF Profile V. That's a draft standard for cloud-based video surveillance. Profile V extends the ONVIF brand-independent approach to the cloud, giving system installers, consultants and end users a way to build cloud video systems that are not tied t... Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:24:53 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/integrated-systems/onvif-extends-with-profile-v/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/announcement/still-time-to-apply-for-wis-awards-2026/ It's only human, that some leave it until the last minute to do something no matter how much it means to them - and that's true too of entering Professional Security Magazine's annual WiS (Women in Security) awards, Magazine MD Roy Cooper writes. Since the early 2010s we've been celebrating the achievements and contributions of women across the security sector; whether front-line professionals or... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:51:04 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/announcement/still-time-to-apply-for-wis-awards-2026/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/security-on-a-reactive-budget/ Ask most security leaders how their last significant budget increase came about, writes Katie Barnett, Director of Cyber Security at the consultancy Toro Solutions, and the honest answer is rarely "we made the case and won it." It's usually "something happened." A breach, a near-miss, a competitor's headline, an audit finding that couldn't be ignored or a new regulation with a deadline attached. ... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:33:55 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/interviews/security-on-a-reactive-budget/ https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/training/548186-2/ A Stewarding Academy in London will be jointly funded (£600,000 each) by the Mayor of London and the Premier League. Delivered it will be the further education college, Capital City College. The pioneering Academy will provide training and create career pathways for stewards working at football clubs in London and those wanting to get into the industry. The organisers state that the stewarding... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:05:54 +0000 https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/training/548186-2/