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• When the weather changes

  03-09-2026 12:26 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  When we think about extreme weather, we tend to focus on the immediate impact: flooding, water shortages, extreme heat, power outages and damage to buildings or infrastructure. From a security perspective, I'm often more interested in what happens next, says Gavin Wilson, Director of Physical Security and Risk at the consultancy Toro Solutions. Climate disruption doesn't stay local These past we...
  
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• Mercury Strengthens and Streamlines Access Control Expansion with New S4 I/O Modules

  03-09-2026 16:05 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  The secure-by-design platform strengthens resilience and lets organizations expand capacity while protecting existing investments Cardiff, UK, September 2, 2026 – Mercury Security, a global leader in open architecture access control hardware and an HID brand, today announced its Mercury S4 I/O Module family. The new generation of intelligent modules is designed to help organizations moderniz...
  
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• Cyber risk and incident response

  03-09-2026 15:39 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Cyber risk has become a dominant priority for organisations across nearly every sector. As the severity and velocity of the threat landscape and technological change continue to accelerate, organisations are under increasing pressure to ensure they can keep pace and recover quickly in the aftermath of a cyber event, says Sean Tilley, Senior Director of Sales EMEA, 11:11 Systems.   A core f...
  
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• NASDU General Purpose Security Dog Buyer’s Guide

  03-09-2026 15:19 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Does the buyer know what good looks like? asks Simon Mallin, Head of Canine Standards & Compliance, at the security dog and handlers association NASDU. Over recent months, one of the areas I have been looking at closely in my role as Head of Canine Standards and Compliance at NASDU is not simply how General Purpose Security Dog services are delivered, but how those services are actual...
  
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• Access control in the age of AI

  03-09-2026 14:33 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  For decades, access control was viewed as a purely physical security function. The objective was straightforward: ensure the right people could gain access to the right areas at the right time. If the doors opened when they should and remained locked when they shouldn't, most organisations considered the system secure.  That mindset no longer reflects reality, writes Mike Gillespie, of the inform...
  
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• Regulation for private bailiffs

  03-09-2026 14:16 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  The UK Government has announced regulation of private bailiffs. Those facing enforcement action will have access to an independent complaints process - strengthening the rights of the most vulnerable, according to Labour. Minister for Courts and Legal Services in the Ministry of Justice, Sarah Sackman said:  "Bailiffs have an important job to do, but with that responsibility must come high sta...
  
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• UAV service

  03-09-2026 13:01 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  The guarding firm Land Sheriffs is offering a new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) service. The firm, a member of the ACS Pacesetters group of highest-scoring Security Industry Authority-approved contractors, delivers front line security, including mobile patrols, manned guarding, welfare patrol teams and CCTV deployment and monitoring, for clients across a range of sectors, notably rail. Land Sherif...
  
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• AI-enabled penetration testers accredited

  03-09-2026 11:49 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  The non-profit representing the cybersecurity sector, CREST, has accredited a first ten cybersecurity service providers in AI-enabled Penetration Testing. The accreditation, as launched in July 2026, assesses organisations against independent requirements for responsible, secure, and appropriate use of AI within penetration testing services. This builds upon the previously launched principles for ...
  
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• SIA review of qualifications

  03-09-2026 10:26 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  The Security Industry Authority (SIA) is carrying out a 'strategic review' of the standards it sets, and which form the basis for SIA licence-linked qualifications and training. The review, says the UK regulator, will result in new licence-linked qualifications in 2027. Covered are what's required to gain a licence (the 'core knowledge and skills' of someone wearing a badge on the 'front line'), h...
  
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• Plan for 72 hours of ‘digital disruption’

  03-09-2026 09:45 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Kurtis Toy, Chief Executive of the Cyber Centre of Excellence, has published Analogue 72. It's a 'Green Paper', arguing that Britain plans emergencies from the top down, while the resilience people actually rely on is built from the bottom up. When Storm Arwen tore through Scotland in November 2021, Kurtis Toy was not reading about it in a briefing. He was living in it: a cyber security professio...
  
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• Media Signing Add-on

  03-09-2026 08:48 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  The US-based standards body for making IP-based physical security products interoperable, ONVIF, has announced the Release Candidate for the ONVIF Media Signing Add-on. That's a method for confirming the authenticity and integrity of surveillance video. As manipulated and AI-generated video becomes ever more convincing, a long-standing assumption that CCTV footage is genuine (whether for corporat...
  
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• I/O Modules

  03-09-2026 08:43 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  The access control hardware firm Mercury Security, part of HID, announced its Mercury S4 input-output (I/O) Modules. The firm says its modules extend the company’s intelligent controller architecture with a secure, modular platform that enables users to keep systems running and prepare for future tech. Steve Lucas, Vice President of Sales at Mercury said: “Security infrastructure is expected ...
  
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• Poland’s Private Security Market

  03-09-2026 08:08 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Przemyslaw Grabowski of Global Protection Group describes what’s changing in Poland’s private security market, and why that matters.    For an international security manager, Poland’s private security market can initially look familiar. National operators, regional firms and smaller specialist providers compete for broadly the same types of corporate sites and use many of the sec...
  
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• Designing out crime question in London plan

  02-09-2026 16:49 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Is the Draft London Plan shifting responsibility for designing out crime? asks John Green, Head of Design Consultancy at LMS Security Advisors. At LMS, we ensure that all planning adherence complies with national, regional and local level legislation whether this be the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) or a local city plan.  Our collaborative approach and relationships with develop...
  
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• Crime as a supply chain

  02-09-2026 16:11 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Security leaders must view organised crime as a supply chain, argues Matt Horne, Director of Intelligence and Investigations at the investigation management app, Clue.  The Metropolitan Police's recent recovery of £500,000 of suspected stolen goods demonstrates the value of looking beyond offences to understand the wider criminal networks behind them. The operation resulted in arrests, asset s...
  
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• Business names sign cyber warning

  02-09-2026 14:48 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models become increasingly capable. So says an open letter signed by household business, tech and IT names such as Cisco, Adobe, GitHub, Google, IBM and Open AI. It warns that longstanding bugs, excessive permissions, misconfigurations, insecure and unpatched software, weak authentication, and technical debt in legacy...
  
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• The Security & Fire Awards for Excellence 2026 – Final Entry

  01-09-2026 10:51 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  You’ve achieved so much – make sure you get the recognition you deserve Your company has achieved something special. Your people have delivered. Your projects have made a difference. So why not tell the industry about it? Enter The Security & Fire Awards for Excellence and put your achievements in front of an influential audience of industry peers. You’ve done the hard w...
  
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• Alarm.com Appoints Bert McGaughey as International Business Development Manager

  26-08-2026 11:10 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Alarm.com, the leading platform for intelligently connected properties, has announced the appointment of Bert McGaughey as International Business Development Manager. In this role, McGaughey will drive dealer growth and partner development across the United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa, reporting to Aitor Gauna, Alarm.com European Sales Director, supporting Alarm.com's continued expansion int...
  
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• Solar-powered remote monitoring for Scottish Water reservoir

  26-08-2026 10:47 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Pointer, the security and fire systems integrator, has completed a remote monitoring solution for Scottish Water that lets operators check reservoir water levels from a laptop, tablet or phone. Installed at a site in the Scottish Borders, the system cuts the need for regular in-person visits, including out-of-hours callouts. Reservoirs are often remote and hard to reach, yet still require close...
  
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• MOTUS lock making

  21-08-2026 16:00 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Ned Kenjic, Director and Head of Manufacturing at the physical security product manufacturer ASSA ABLOY UK and Ireland, introduces MOTUS, a new multipoint lock manufacturing flowline at ASSA ABLOY's factory in Willenhall.   At ASSA ABLOY, we believe the future of manufacturing is built on innovation, investment and continuous improvement. That's why we've introduced MOTUS – a transformative n...
  
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• Hidden risks of converged IT and OT systems

  21-08-2026 15:51 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Martin Wegrostek, Cyber Security Portfolio Manager at cyber resilience company OryxAlign, argues organisations need a unified approach to manage the hidden risks of converged IT and OT systems. Historically, IT systems managed corporate networks, applications and data, while OT ran the physical systems that kept operations moving, from building management platforms to industrial control systems a...
  
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• Smoke-tested double doorset option

  21-08-2026 15:47 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Robust UK, a manufacturer of steel doors, has added a fire-rated and smoke-tested double doorset option to its RISER-DOR range. Now available as double doorsets with up to one hour of fire resistance, RISER-DOR can help to contain the spread of fire and smoke, the makers say. RISER-DOR has been independently smoke-tested to BS EN 1634-3, for its single and double doors. It's for use the firm s...
  
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• Agentic AI, alert fatigue and risk

  21-08-2026 15:38 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  For years, security teams have battled alert fatigue, writes Keven Knight, pictured, CEO of Talion Cyber Security. Security tools generate huge volumes of alerts every day, many of which require investigation, validation and prioritisation before a decision can be made. The challenge is making sense of this data quickly to reduce risk. However, agentic AI is beginning to make a real difference wi...
  
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• Facial Recognition on London Underground

  21-08-2026 12:51 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Live Facial Recognition (LFR) surveillance is on trial at Transport for London (TfL) Underground stations by British Transport Police (BTP).  Police reported the first deployment in a TfL station was at Victoria Underground station on Tuesday, August 11, and will then rotate between use at Underground (such as King's Cross St Pancras, pictured, on August 20) and Network Rail stations. The trial h...
  
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• NCSC, comments on agentic AI

  21-08-2026 12:42 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
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• IFPO UK card offer

  17-08-2026 09:52 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  IFPO UK, the UK arm of the US-based International Foundation for Protection Officers, is offering members free access to the Protect Card, as a member benefit. Through the Protect Card platform, you can browse discounts and offers, from everyday essentials and big-brand shopping, with retailers such as Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Boots, Currys, Samsung, Apple, IKEA, B&Q and ...
  
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• US public-private partners on cyber

  14-08-2026 08:46 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  President Trump has signed a national security presidential memorandum to combat transnational cyber enabled crime. It'll allow federal law enforcement to partner with private technology companies. The federal National Coordination Center (NCC) 'shall create, manage, and maintain' a programme whereby companies 'conduct Cyber Surveillance Operations and Cyber Effects Operations against foreign Cyb...
  
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• Beyond the password

  13-08-2026 15:09 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  AI is reshaping cybercrime at an unprecedented pace. Threat actors are using it to industrialise attacks, enable highly convincing phishing campaigns, automate credit-stuffing attempts and compromise accounts at a speed and scale traditional security measures cannot defend against, says Alex Laurie, GTM CTO at the identity security product company Ping Identity. At the heart of these traditional ...
  
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• PM words on high street vape shops welcomed

  13-08-2026 14:40 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  Ilkeston was the venue for Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Communities Secretary Angela Rayner, East Midlands elected Mayor Claire Ward and local, Erewash Labour MP Adam Thompson, for an announcement about countering decline and crime on local high streets. Burnham said: “For many people, the high streets they grew up with have been hollowed out and become unrecognisable over decades of decline....
  
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• Sustainability score hailed

  13-08-2026 08:55 via professionalsecurity.co.uk
  
  The networked products distributor Mayflex has achieved an EcoVadis sustainability score of 86. The Birmingham-based firm says it's a significant increase from its previous score of 69, a 25pc improvement and elevating the business from Silver to Gold status. EcoVadis is a business sustainability rating provider, assessing against internationally recognised sustainability standards including th...
  
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