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 Revised September 2024 Enhanced terrorism risk assessment is required by draft legislation 'Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill', otherwise known as Martyn's Law. Places Martyn's Law...
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 Revised September 2024 Places Martyn's law applies to: Public premises with a public capacity of 200 or more. For example, shops, night clubs, hotels, and universities to name but a few. It also applies to 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...
Innovate Daily Occurrence Book
Innovate your daily occurrence book: Prepare for threats To remind a security officer about threats and report them is difficult. Therefore, why not innovate your daily occurrence book (DOB) and change all that? Importance of the occurrence book More than any other...
Protest Social Media
Protest social media insights Summary Protest social media is a great source of information to learn about where and when protest may occur For people to individually gather, analyse and sort this information is expensive and slow New technologies offer are a fast and...
Gatwick drone threat real or made up? Do you see a duck or a rabbit?
Gatwick drone threat, real or made up? Do you see a duck or a rabbit? Gatwick drone threat Around 9pm, 19 December 2018, a security officer at London's Gatwick airport, reports a drone threat. One unmanned aerial aircraft (UAV) flying outside the airport perimeter and...
Protest and Climate change link: does the weather cause civil unrest?
Protest and Climate change link: does the weather cause civil unrest? There's an increase in climate change and protest. But what drives these protests and gives them such power? Introduction A new, impulsive climate change policy emerged in the U.S. under the Trump...
Is a Freedom Convoy protest coming to the UK?
Is a Freedom Convoy protest coming to the UK?How Freedom Convoy protest began On 22 January 2022 Canadian truckers began protesting against Canada’s Covid19 rules by occupying roads in Ottawa. Three weeks later it extended to vital bridges between US and Canada. Is it...
Protest algorithms: Outrageous stuff modern security teams need to know
Protest Algorithms: Outrageous stuff modern security teams need to know Algorithms are rules used by social media to determine the value of posts A post 'liked' by algorithms may go viral and reach lots of people. Most people, including protestors want their posts to...
SIRV Security Excellence: Innovation of the Year 2021
SIRV Security Excellence Awards: Innovation of the Year 2021 SIRV Security excellence: Seven years in a row Over seven years SIRV has either won or made the shortlist for innovation awards. We're proud to again reach the shortlist for our latest technology innovation....
How to write a daily occurrence book
How to write a daily occurrence book How to write a daily occurrence book is a frequently asked question. Whether you’re new to occurrence books, log books or uncertain, this is the ultimate guide (check out what ChatGPT says) on how to write a daily occurrence book....
Why people protest: Motivations of a serial protestor
Why people protest: Motivations of a serial protestor Why people protest is a mystery to many. A protestors cause may attract the sympathy of some. But few people actively participate in the protest itself. Put off by the discomfort of large crowds and the dangers...
Improving Operations at KeolisAmey Docklands: Case Study
Improving operations at KeolisAmey Docklands: Case StudyIntroduction Improving operations: A joint venture between Keolis and Amey operates and maintains the Docklands Light Railway (DLR). In common with all railways, it occupies a vast area of land which makes staff...
New Dashboard – Software Version Release
New Dashboard - Software Version ReleaseA new version of SIRV is now available, version 1.09. Why produce a new version of SIRV? Software developers produce a new software version for two reasons: 1. Compliance and Security Security vulnerabilities as well as changes...
Daily occurrence book business case
Paper daily occurrence books are a thing of the past. You know this. However, you also know to invest in an alternative needs a business case.
Here is a super powerful digital daily occurrence book business case.
Jeff Bezos’ 5 tips to grow your security company
Grow a security company - Jeff Bezos' 5 tips Do you want to be one of the most profitable security companies, grow fast? Increase profit margins? What would Jeff Bezos do to grow your security company? If you want to grow back strong after the pandemic perhaps...
