SIRV Awards 2024
SIRV Awards 2024 SIRV Awards 2024: The team at SIRV are delighted to announce our Artificial Intelligence Assistant has been shortlisted for Security Innovation of the Year at the 2024 Fire and Security Matters Awards! The Artificial Intelligence Assistant is still in...
Best control room software
Best control room software review Best control room software review brings together leading products for control rooms. Some of the solutions are also listed under other product categories such as, incident management and critical event software. All the products...
Major incident press release template
Major incident press release template Major incident press release template helps you prepare your business for the worst. After a business interruption, critical event, a public communication may be necessary. Therefore, guidance on what to say and what not to say is...
Terrorism convictions 2023
Terrorism convictions 2023, Q4 The below visualisations show terrorism convictions in England between October 2023 and December 2023. It illustrates: Total number of convictions Convictions by cause When the convictions took place The sentences for each conviction...
Buyer vs Seller AI in Risk Management
Buyer vs Seller risk management and artificial intelligence Excerpts from Institute of Strategic Risk Management‘s Buyer vs Seller discussion on 29 February 2024.Discover: How UK has great opportunities with structured data Impact of businesses' different maturity...
Artificial Intelligence in Risk Management Conference 2023
Artificial intelligence in Risk Management Conference - 2023 Institute of Strategic Risk Management Excerpts from Institute of Strategic Risk Management's Artificial Intelligence in Risk Management Conference, including SIRV cofounder Andrew Tollinton. In order: Dr...
Security risk assessment – How to guide
Security risk assessment - How to guide Security risk assessment - how to guide - takes you through how to do a security risk assessment / threat assessment, step-by-step. A security risk assessment forms part of a businesses' security plan, an essential exercise for...
Write a security plan – How to guide
Write a security plan: How to guide Write a security plan: How to guide - takes you through how to write a security plan for a business, step-by-step. A security plan is essential for any organisation that wants to protect its people, reputation, assets and revenue....
Top 15 most profitable UK security companies
Top 15 most profitable UK security companies ‘Sales are for vanity and profit is for sanity’ and although a security company’s sales numbers tell us who is the biggest security company, they don’t tell us if they’re going bust. After all, the most profitable security...
Martyn’s Law software key features
Martyn's Law software key features Martyn's Law software key features should help risk managers address the requirements of draft UK legislation "Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill". It may also be known as Protect Duty software or terrorism software and it...
Crime data: Ultimate guide for risk managers – 3 best website displays
Crime data: Ultimate guide for risk managers Crime data ultimate guide for risk managers looks at why crime data is available and, when and where to get it. Importantly, we also look closely at the publicly available data found on the Police.uk website and assess its...
Situation awareness software features
Situation awareness software features Situation awareness software features helps users become more aware of their situation and therefore, make better decisions. Conceptualised by military leaders, situation awareness software first became available in military...
Civil unrest 2024
Civil unrest: 2024 Friday, 21 July 2023 marked the end of the school year for most children in the UK. In the city of Manchester, hundreds of kids celebrated not by joining a school ball or local disco, rather they headed to the city centre and ran riot, forcing...
SIRV Wins Finalist Innovation Award 2023
SIRV Wins Finalist Innovation Award 2023 SIRV wins finalist status for the Security and Fire Excellence Awards 2023: Software as a Service Innovation of the Year. It's the seventh nomination for SIRV in as many years. On this occasion, it reflects SIRV's situation...
ChatGPT for safety and security Heads
ChatGPT guide for safety and security heads On release ChatGPT broke records for being the fastest growing product in history; its probably responsible for making Artificial Intelligence (AI) an everyday term. The popularity of GhatGPT and its promise to save time and...
ChatGPT – Daily Occurrence Book
ChatGPT makes Daily Occurrence Book entries easy ChatGPT makes daily occurrence book entries easy because it gives: Excellent prompt headings to ensure necessary information is recorded Structure with a good logic flow Help to write a better quality report Contents...
Enhanced Terrorism Risk Assessment
Enhanced terrorism risk assessment - Terrorism Protection of Premises Bill Enhanced terrorism risk assessment is required by draft legislation 'Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill', otherwise known as Martyn's Law. Places Martyn's Law applies to include public...
Present a daily occurrence – How to guide
Present a daily occurrence - How to guide How to present a daily occurrence: Make it visual. Because everyone gets visuals.In this article learn about which visuals to use: How to get data to visualise a daily occurrence Pie chart Bubble graph Bar chart Map Most...
Build a security dashboard – How to guide
Build a security dashboard - How to guide Build a security dashboard and risk managers can: Measure performance in most business functions Demonstrate compliance with forthcoming legislation for example, Martyn's Law. Lets take a look at how to build a security...
Mass communication systems and Martyn’s Law
Mass communication systems and Martyn's Law Mass communication systems send incident alerts and updates to people. Heads of security will likely view them as one way to meet Martyn's Law (Protect Duty) requirements. Lets review their use case and features. Mass...
Civil Unrest & Martyn’s Law Award
Civil unrest and Martyn's Law: Award Scan the horizon and it's clear the security industry face two challenges: civil unrest and Martyn's Law (Protect Duty). SIRV's Threat and Service Monitor helps security aware organisations address this challenge, as recognised by...
Hostile Reconnaissance Terrorist Attack
Hostile reconnaissance in a terrorist attack Hostile reconnaissance is a crucial part of a terrorist attack, nearly always preceding it. Define hostile reconnaissance in a terrorist attack There are many hostile actors that wish organisations harm. For example,...
Places Martyn’s Law applies to
Places Martyn's Law applies to Places Martyn's law applies to: public premises with a public capacity of 100 or more. For example, shops, night clubs, hotels, and universities to name but a few. It also applies to 'qualifying events'; spaces that aren't public...
Protests in London
Protests in London: June 21 - June 22 Protests in London June 2021 to June 2022 uses the Metropolitan Police Service (Twitter) and Metro news service to visualise demonstrations and protests over a 12 month period. The analysis helps answer two common questions: When...
Access daily occurrence book: Fine grain permission feature release
Access daily occurrence book: Fine grain permission feature release Now you can define which user has access to which daily occurrence book. Because the new fine grain permissions feature uses the concept of 'groups', you define which users can view, edit and open...
