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Defeating cyber fraud with quantum physics – the future of unbreakable security?

December 22, 2014 Ruth Crocker Leave a comment

Credit card fraud and identify theft are serious problems for both industries and individual consumers. Although safeguards have improved in the last decade, there is an ongoing battle between corporations and cyber criminals over our personal information and financial details. However, recent developments in technology as reported in Optica suggest that these authentication security issues may soon be a thing […]

What makes an excellent security supplier?

November 28, 2014 Amy Randall Leave a comment

The latest findings from the Security Research Initiative (SRI) revealed that the most highly valued characteristic of a security supplier is a strong focus on customer needs. While it is also important to have innovative and adaptive senior management more emphasis should be placed on achieving excellent management on the frontline. 489 corporate security personnel and security suppliers from around […]

The ASIS Foundation Publications

October 31, 2014 perpetuity-research Leave a comment

We are pleased to provide details of some very useful ASIS Foundation publications available to download on the ASIS Foundation website that readers should find well worth a look. A Study of Security Metrics. A major study of how security metrics can be used by security managers. This publication includes some very practical outputs on Security Metrics Evaluation Tool and […]

CRIME BYTES Tackling Doorstep Crime – Good Neighbours Stop Rogue Traders

October 31, 2014 perpetuity-research Leave a comment

In line with the Trading Standard’s ‘Good neighbours stop rogue traders’ campaign for National Consumer’s Week (3-7th November), this month’s article will be looking at the nature and impacts of doorstep crime. Doorstep crime involves offenders cold-calling at the homes of consumers, commonly elderly or vulnerable individuals, and offering to carry out property repairs such as roofing, tarmacking or gardening […]

Reducing the impact of serious organised crime in local communities

October 29, 2014 Ruth Crocker Leave a comment

A new project Perpetuity Research and The Police Foundation are running a two year project which will focus on helping the police and their partners to work towards identifying strategies to reduce the impact of serious organised crime in local communities. Bridging the knowledge gap As volume crime continues to fall, concern about serious organised crime, which is costly, harmful and widespread, is rising. Organised crime […]

Stoptober Returns

September 30, 2014 Charlotte Howell Leave a comment

The approach of October heralds the return of Stoptober – a 28 day challenge providing support to those who would like to stop smoking: Visit the website for more information Perpetuity has undertaken a number of projects evaluating initiatives to prevent both the uptake of smoking amongst young people and exposure to second hand smoke. We have found that […]

Aspiring to Excellence: The Case of Security Suppliers and Corporate Security

September 24, 2014 perpetuity-research Leave a comment

What are the most important characteristics of an excellent corporate security department? What makes an excellent security supplier? Our latest Security Research Initiative report explores the characteristics needed to achieve outstanding performance as rated by both corporate security personnel and security suppliers. Views were also garnered on whether in practice excellence in security is actually being achieved. While overall the […]

Interviewing Burglars: Can you Help?

August 29, 2014 perpetuity-research Leave a comment

We are currently conducting a study where we plan to interview burglars about topics such as; how they choose targets, what makes them vulnerable, the sorts of goods that are attractive to steal and the reasons for their selection. All that will be involved is a phone interview that will last approximately 30 minutes. We would be happy to offer […]

Corporate Security Organisational Structure, Cost of Services and Staffing Benchmark

May 30, 2014 perpetuity-research Leave a comment

An update to the most comprehensive security and risk management benchmark in the security industry is now being conducted by the Security Executive Council’s Security Leadership Research Institute. This year the benchmark will be focusing on security budgets and staffing. There is no cost to participate and the resulting in-depth analysis and report will only be made available to those […]

Survey Now Closed – Thanks for Your Help

March 24, 2014 perpetuity-research Leave a comment

Our security excellence survey is now closed. This years SRI study on security excellence is progressing well. We are asking what does an excellent security contractor look like? And what does an excellent security function look like? One of the most important issues is to distinguish between what you get from a good service that you don’t get from a […]

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