British Cyber Security Chief at `Security and Defence Learning`

 

 

Baroness Neville-Jones

One of the most senior figures in the British security establishment and the leader of the UK Government’s fight against online threats to business will be a keynote speaker at this year’s ‘Security and Defence Learning.’ Baroness Neville-Jones is the Prime Minister’s Special Representative to Business on Cyber Security. A former Minister of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism, she also served as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee.


She will join other security and training experts in the opening session of SDL for a discussion about new threats to information and data security. The discussion is likely to focus on training and learning strategies to enable companies and organisations to prepare effectively, so that they can overcome the new challenges that confront them. It will discuss a range of important information security issues, such as data outsourcing, cloud computing and encryption.

 

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Multiculturalism, Assimilationism and Modernity

 

 

 

Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado

Multiculturalism has failed. So say a British Prime Minister,[1] a German Chancellor,[2] and politicians, academics, and journalists, in Europe, America and elsewhere. For such politicians, multiculturalism threatens security. It leads to alien enclaves; no-go zones where the law of the land is not enforced, and home-grown terrorists breed.[3]

 

 

 

 

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Crossing the Chasm: Reforming Police Training for Today’s Economic Reality

Sandy Sweet
President, Canadian Police Knowledge Network

Sandy Sweet President, Canadian Police Knowledge NetworkIn an adverse economy, it’s understood that compromises must be made.  In policing, training budgets are often among the first and hardest hit.  Though this may provide some short-term relief, it’s contrary to the interests of both officer and public wellbeing.  But there are alternatives. Technology-supported learning is a bridge between destructive compromise and constructive innovation.  The real challenge lies in crossing the chasm.

 

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Creating a British Higher Educational Ethos in Foreign Universities: Examples from Egypt

 

Leslie Croxford

 

Recently an increasing number of new universities, colleges of higher education and postgraduate programs have been springing up throughout the world. Some are institutions already existing but refashioned, like those British polytechnics that are now universities. Yet many are entirely new foundations. They are launched for a variety of reasons. The spectrum spans ethical considerations, such as that education is a human right; the political perception that education is vital to national development; the desire of some countries to export their educational systems; private educational entrepreneurship; and universities augmenting their student intake when, for security reasons following the so-called “War on Terror”, visas are denied to foreign undergraduates who must therefore be accommodated on offshore campuses.

 

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Germany's place in the sun: with the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan

 

Germany has 5,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and supplies the third largest force to ISAF. Dr Hubertus Hoffmann recently visited Camp Marmal in Mazar-e-Sharif and spoke to officers and soldiers of the Bundeswehr about their mission and the implementation of a new "partnering concept" to provide training for the Afghan Security Forces.

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U.S. Intelligence train with videogames

American intelligence agents have made their share of bad calls: the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iraq’s nuclear cache and chronic missteps in Afghanistan are only a few. So in the hopes of honing analysts’ predictive abilities, the spy guys are introducing a new training tactic: videogames.

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Pakistan Taliban declares truce

An anonymous Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan commander told the AP that the group had declared a nation-wide ceasefire in support of ongoing peace talks with the country's government, while Pakistan's military denied reports Tuesday that talks were taking place.

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Illegal foreign purchase of weapons

Hundreds of foreigners and dual-citizens are in Canada with the purpose of creating front companies to procure weapons parts and technologies that they then export to their home countries. And they often go unpunished.

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Dagestan: don't book it, or Thomas Cook it

The republic of Dagestan on the Caspian Sea that is the most explosive place in Russia - and in Europe. There are bomb attacks almost daily, shootouts between police and militants, tales of torture and of people going missing.

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