The ASIS Foundation’s just-released report ‘Planning for Change: Security Managers’ Perspectives on Future Demographic, Crime and Technology Trends’ analyses future demographic, crime and technology trends in the United States before summarising how experts anticipate these changes will influence security over the next five-to-ten years. In addition, the report offers practical recommendations as to how security managers can adopt now to address these anticipated trends.
The ASIS Foundation contracted the Urban Institute – a non-profit, non-partisan social policy and economic research organisation – to forecast demographic and crime trends, and to provide guidance for the emerging security challenges that may arise from such predictions.
In the 50-page report there are predictions that, like the UK, the US security industry will face many challenges, including an ageing workforce, an increasingly diverse population and a growth in high-tech crimes.
The report is divided into three sections by key topic areas: demographic challenges, crime trends and technology. The final section addresses issues that surfaced during a series of roundtable discussions with dozens of security industry experts representing the banking, healthcare, hospitality, information technology, insurance, retail and transportation sectors.
While this publication is tailored to security managers, it will also be useful to a wide array of personnel, including public-sector employees and law enforcement agents.
The ASIS Foundation – a 501(c)(3) charitable organisation – provides funding and manages endowments for academic, strategic and professional development activities. Support for the Foundation is achieved through financial contributions from individuals, chapters and companies with an interest in the security industry.
Fundamentally, the Foundation advances industry education and research by developing academic programmes, producing special industry reports and research, recognising security-related advancements and achievements, managing endowments for chapters and regions and encouraging continuing education.
Nominations for the European Award
ASIS International has also announced that it’s accepting nominations for the 2009 European Award for Distinguished Contributions to Societal Security.
The ASIS International European Award recognises significant contributions to the advancement of security and the security profession in Europe. It’s the European security profession’s most prestigious recognition of contributions to societal security, awarded to high visibility candidates from the public and private sectors (including senior public officials, politicians and corporate leaders).
The recipient must be an individual or group highly regarded in Europe for having made a significant contribution to security. Nominations may be submitted by any individual, groups or associations and may include self-nominations. The nominator must submit a written narrative detailing the nominee’s contributions deserving of recognition, and outlining why the nominee makes a worthy recipient.
All nominations must be received by the ASIS International European Bureau in Brussels before 15 January 2009. More information regarding the nomination process can be found at www.asisonline.eu (click on the link on the right hand panel of this page).
European Security Conference
The award will be presented at ASIS International’s 8th European Security Conference, which takes place in Montreux, Switzerland on 26-29 April.
That event features 33 high-level educational sessions. High quality presentations developed by and for security professionals will cover the entire spectrum of security topics ranging from combating fraud to hotel security and convergence of physical and information security as well as supply chain security and international standards.
According to an official statement: “The conference will be a unique opportunity to connect with both public and private sector leaders from around Europe and the globe, and discover how they are confronting today’s security challenges.” More information regarding the European conference can be found at www.asisonline.eu/montreux (again, the link can be found on the right hand panel of this News Update item).
Previous winners of the ASIS International European Awards are:
- 2008 – Don Randall MBE (senior vice-president and international security manager at JP Morgan Chase)
- 2007 – Wim Philippa (secretary general, European roundtable of industrialists)
- 2005 – David Burrill OBE (director, Burrill Green)