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SECURITY AND DEFENCE LEARNING CELEBRATES 5TH ANNIVERSARY
Security & Defence Learning, the annual conference at which the words of security and technology-assisted learning meet, will celebrate its fifth anniversary this year. The conference, which is held in Berlin every year, brings together key officials, training directors, security planner, academics and suppliers.
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NSF SECURITY ROUNDTABLE WITH BERLIN – BRANDENBURG
The New Security Foundation, which will host Security & Defence Learning 2009 in Berlin on December 2nd, has also arranged a roundtable discussion in Potsdam with the regional government of Berlin Brandenburg on December 1st.
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New Security Learning
Technology and Training For Security, Defence and Emergency Services
An important new publication for the security learning and training sector will be launched in December, New Security Learning will cover the world of technology-assisted learning, training and gaming for international security, defence and emergency services. Published quarterly by the New Security Foundation and distributed to select list of training directors, security planners and key decision makers in governments and organisations, it will be launched at Security & Defence Learning 2009.
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TOP SECURITY TRAINERS AT BERLIN CONFERENCE
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Senior figures from the Swiss Police; INTERPOL; the Scottish Police; NATO, the Ministry of Justice of Brazil and the UK Emergency Planning College joined other leading experts on security training in Berlin on December 2nd for this year’s ‘Security & Defence Learning 2009’, the fifth International Conference on Technology Assisted Learning for Security , Defence and Emergency Services.
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EDUCATION ‘FORGOTTEN’ IN POST-CONFLICT AID
“Education is the forgotten aspect of post-conflict humanitarian aid and aid for refugees”, New Security Foundation Chairman Dr Harold Elletson told delegates at a ground-breaking workshop on ‘post-conflict distance learning’ during ‘eLearning Africa’ in Dakar, Senegal. Dr Elletson reminded delegates that nine years earlier in Dakar, the World Education Forum had set the target of universal primary education for every child by 2015, which was adopted as one of the UN’s millennium goals. “However, over 100 million children still don’t attend primary school. And, of these, 50 per cent are in countries which are either suffering from conflict or recovering from it.”
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E-LEARNING AND POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION
How can education and training survive conflict and catastrophe?
In war zones and regions devastated by a natural disaster, the education needs of the population can easily be overlooked. Yet, experience in Afghanistan suggests that education should be a fundamental part of any reconstruction package and e-learning offers an effective, affordable solution to many problems.
“e-Learning can play a significant role in reconstruction in post-conflict situations,” says Dr Harold Elletson, Chairman of the New Security Foundation, who will report to delegates at Security and Defence Learning 2009 in Berlin on the conclusions of a special session, which he will chair at eLearning Africa (www.elearning-africa.com), involving participants from all over Africa and beyond, on “eLearning and post-conflict situations.”
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SECURITY TRAINING UNDER SCRUTINY
Following the success of four previous forums, Security and Defence Learning 2009, the 5th International Forum on Technology Assisted Learning and Training for Defence, Security and Emergency Services will review the new training challenges facing today’s security and emergency services, assess the impact of new technology and consider the potential for future development.
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S&DL: Training not Equipment key to cyber security,
says expert
One of the world’s leading specialists on cyber security and hacking told participants at Security & Defence Learning 2009 that “equipment-based security solutions” were “easy” to circumvent. Jay Bavisi, President of EC-Council, whose company employs “ethical hackers” to test the security systems of major organisations including, the Pentagon, said that better training was the key to eliminating the problem. He said it was vital to abandon the “equipment-based security mentality” and to focus instead on training and best practice.
Jay Bavisi, President of
EC-Council
“The IT infrastructure of any organisation has to be tested regularly through penetration testing and updated with improvements learnt from investigations of previous attacks to guarantee its functionality,” he said. His views are highlighted in a post-conference report, which is published today by the New Security Foundation.
Other speakers at the conference included the directors of training of INTERPOL, the Scottish Police and the Swiss Police, as well as experts on cyber security, virtual reality learning environments, maritime piracy, emergency planning and online training for medical emergencies, who all contributed fascinating presentations during a day of intense discussions between participants from 17 different countries.
Security & Defence Learning 2009 was praised by participants as “ excellent,” “huge networking potential” and “very informative”. The post-conference report highlights the key issues raised by expert speakers at the conference. These included:
- cyber security and the training urgently needed to deal with threats to equipment-based security systems
- strategic training reviews and how they are transforming defence training
- new training initiatives to deal with maritime piracy
- bridging the gap between academia and the private security sector
- developments in scenario-based training
- how to prepare medical personnel for large-scale emergencies
- new challenges in police training - virtual reality learning
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