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Threat assessment

NZSIS Report
National Security

NZSIS Security Threat Environment Report: More Work Required

September 20, 2024

Short on evidence, methodology, and analysis, the NZSIS’s latest threat report is not its best effort, writes Damien Rogers, Associate Professor of International Relations and Security Studies at Massey University. It’s good to see the […]

Threat monitoring
Features

Step Change in Security Threat Assessment: Open-source enabled persistent threat monitoring

June 25, 2024

The challenges of open source threat assessments can be avoided by subscribing to a persistent threat monitoring service, writes Chris Proctor, Senior Associate Security Consultant with Beca Applied Technologies. I’ve always had a problem with […]

Novel threats
Public Security

Human nature can steer people away from new things – and that can blind them to novel threats

February 18, 2023

Professors Sam Hunter and Gina Scott Ligon of University of Nebraska Omaha write that we’re more resistant to new things than we think, and that makes us more vulnerable than we assume. There’s a military […]

Kimberly Cheatle
Law Enforcement

US Secret Service publishes behavioural threat assessment report covering five years of attacks

February 15, 2023

New report on attacks on public and semi-public places is tragically timely as the US rings in a new year marred by mass shooting after mass shooting, writes chief editor Nicholas Dynon. The 70-page report […]

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