Now in their seventh year, the UK OSPAs serve to acknowledge the creditable and outstanding contributions that companies, initiatives, teams and individuals make to the security industry and wider community. The awards recognise exceptional performance in different categories. Founder of the OSPAs, Professor Martin Gill, commented: “The standard of entries this year has once again been extremely high, providing some real challenges for our judging panel of 30...

The annual OCS Security Summit 2022 was held at the NEC, Birmingham on Thursday 5th May 2022. Aimed at OCS staff & guests, the programme included an array of leading speakers from across the security industry. These included Mike Reddington - CEO of the British Security Industry Association, Ruth McNee - Head of Business Development at Crimestoppers, Nick Aldworth from Protect Duty, Martin Gill - Director of Perpetuity Research and Nazakat Ali from CTSA. Guest also included OCS' Neil Weller, Chief Information Security Officer and Yvonne Tay...

Survey on influencing the security budget – deadline extended Perpetuity Research is seeking the views of security professionals, in order to better understand the obstacles faced by security managers/directors and particularly the influences on the security budget. For example: How important is it for security managers to have control of the security budget? What has to happen to be able to achieve an appropriate budget? To what extent does the spen...

The Latest from Perpetuity Research: Historically security managers have been marginalised from key decision-making roles in organisations but there is evidence this may be changing as security professionals are increasingly able to demonstrate that security is a business enabler. Perpetuity Research is seeking the views of security professionals, in order to better understand the obstacles faced by security managers/directors. They would welcome your ...

The fourth OSPAs Thought Leadership Summit, organised in association with NSI (National Security Inspectorate), takes place on Thursday, 24^th February 2022 at the Royal Lancaster London and the full programme has now been released.  The programme has an impressive line-up of speakers covering a wide range of hot topics relevant to the whole security industry including:

• What are the expectations of the security ...