David Rubens Associates-Reports

2010 ARTICLES

January

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab - Why can't we learn…..?

Effective security management is not merely an amalgamation of separate and unconnected protocols and guidelines, but is something that is (or at least, should be) constructed upon a seamlessly integrated culture of security which permeates every aspect of an organisation’s culture and ethos.... Read more

Hotel Security Management - Strategies and Tactics for the Modern World

This report is based on a presentation given to the Institute of Hotel Security Management in London, December 2009.... Read more

June

Training – Fit for Purpose?

I have no doubt that every single person reading this article will have undergone some sort of training at some time in their career, and many of you will have been through regular professional development programmes, designed to up-skill you and allow you to work in increasingly complex and sophisticated situations..... Read more

July

Lions and Donkeys….’ – Still Getting It Wrong

The failure to understand the most basic principles of classical risk management is still impacting organisations which are meant to be amongst the best in the worl..... Read more

October

The SIA the next stage

The announcement that the Security Industry Authority (SIA) would be one of the quangos to be axed by the government under its cost-cutting programme has been the topic of conversation on pretty well everyone's lips since the announcement was made as part of the ‘Bonfire of the Quangos’..... Read more

Cargo Plane Bombs

The news that two explosive devices originating in Yemen were recently found on cargo planes will have come as no surprise to security experts familiar with current national security issues, or even to those who have an interest in terrorism and public policy and who know little more than what they read in their daily newspapers...... Read more

December

Cyber - Warfare – The Fifth Dimension

As I am writing this article, the world's super-powers are still formatting their responses to the increasingly belligerent rhetoric emanating from Pyongyang and Seoul, following the South Korean air-strikes against North Korean military bases which in turn were a response to North Korean artillery attacks on South Korean targets..... Read more

The New Age of Counter-Terrorism – Back to Reality

There is a well-known story about Chou en-Lai, the Chinese leader who had spent his youth in Paris. When he was asked by a French journalist, on the occasion of his 75 th birthday, whether he thought that the French revolution had been a positive move or not, he thought for a moment and then quietly replied ‘Too early to tell’. ..... Read more

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