Landing now on desks is the December 2020 print edition of Professional Security magazine. As ever, we aim to provide news and opinion for the private security manager, whatever your sector or specialism – cyber, manned guarding, physical or electronic.
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Our main feature, as we come to the end of the year, a time for reflection, is about careers, including a lengthy report on Dominic Fortescue. He was the opening speaker at the Security Institute’s recent week-long virtual conference, in lieu of the pre-pandemic one-day conference in London. The questions thrown at him showed how government security has demanding tasks that touch on everyday lives and ethics. The articulate way that Dominic answered was a sign that any stereotypes of the civil service as bland and set in their ways is old hat – not that civil servants wear bowler hats any more. He’s two years into that job as Government CSO – with 14,000 people under him, and the title of director-general of government security group within the Cabinet Office, the central government department that’s in charge of governing.
In our August edition we featured the 350-page Government Security Profession career framework document, that maps out skills, job roles and qualifications.
As the security sector continues to scratch its head wondering how it can reflect society, compete with related lines of work such as the police and armed forces, and become more diverse, particularly by attracting and keeping women in the industry, we ask whether George Lambert is the most influential security manager you’ve never heard of.
The influences on security as a job or career choice were the subject for the latest SRI (Security Research Initiative) study. In terms of going into security, it’s a well-kept secret, suggested Prof Martin Gill, of Perpetuity Research, founder of SRI and the lead behind the report (click here for a free download).
As ever in the mag, there is something for everyone, whatever your background and interest – Formula One cyber-security, campus security management, covert surveillance, project management, retail loss prevention, and counter-fraud. Plus magazine MD Roy Cooper’s gossip page for manufacturers and distributors, four pages of ‘spending the budget’, and four pages of new products and services.
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Picture by Mark Rowe; T-Rex exhibit, Natural History Museum, South Kensington.
