Date: Thursday 20th January Time:17:30 onwards Venue: The Bulls Head, Leicester Forest West, Hinckley Road, Leicester Forest West, LE9 9JE Price: £10 Members - £15 Guests About this event...  Calling all members in the Leicestershire area! If you're around on Thursday 20th January, please feel free to come and join the HQ team for a drink! This is a perfect way to meet other members in your local area. We will be at the Bulls Head, Leicester Forest West  from 5:00pm for a meet and greet and New Year catch up. Please feel free to join us all, grab a pint and to introduce yourself and meet with some of our other members. Feel free to bring a colleague too - the more the merrier (maybe not literally!). To book click here.

Date: Friday 21st January 2022 Time: 10:00am Details: This webinar is for Security Institute Members only About this event...  SyI Morning Feature - Latest Member Benefit - Interview360 We are excited to introduce you to the new Interview360 function on our Professional Development Platform, the newest member benefit available as part of your Security Institute membership. Hosted by Jade Lapper our Membership Engagement Manager and Helen Bandcroft our delivery partner from Abintegro who will guide you through and show you how to use the new feature. What is Interview360? Interview360 enables members to practice mock interviews and browse a comprehensive library of the most commonly asked interview questions. The latest interview eLearning content is blended throughout the tool, with the option for members to filter the guidance according to their needs. Members have the option to take an interview based on the actual content of their CV, take part in an auto-generated interview or create their own mock interview. Unique and highly personalised feedback, based on AI video analysis, is given on body language, communication & speech, camera position and video quality. Every answer receives this AI-powered feedback to help build confidence. In the next phase of Interview360, members will, for example, be prompted to take a mock interview from within CV360 and also receive comparison feedback from Interview360 about content they might want to review on their CV based on their interview answers.  

Date: Tuesday 25th January Time:17:00 onwards Venue: The Euston Flyer, Euston Road (83-87 Euston Road, London) Price: £10 Members - £15 Guests About this event...  Calling all members in the London area! If you're around on Tuesday 25th January, please feel free to come and join the HQ team for a drink! This is a perfect way to meet other members in your local area. We will be at the Euston Flyer, London from 5:00pm for a meet and greet and New Year catch up. Please feel free to join us all, grab a pint and to introduce yourself and meet with some of our other members. Feel free to bring a colleague too - the more the merrier (maybe not literally!). To book click here.

Date: Wednesday 2nd February 2022 Time: 10:00am Details: This webinar is for Security Institute Members and guests About this event...  Marketing priorities for SMEs and SMBs In this week's webinar we are joined by Shivanshi Sharma. Do you ever wonder if the latest digital marketing trends are a boon or a curse for your business? If so then this webinar is for you. Today, especially after the world has experienced a prolonged pandemic, digital space has become an inevitable reality for every brand and industry. Once adopted and used optimally, Shivanshi will assure you this new reality is a boon for your business. In this webinar we will share with you the ways to kickstart your business’ digital marketing, tips to set your marketing budget and some great free of charge marketing tools that are a must for any SME and SMB. Shivanshi is a marketing and branding enthusiast who has assisted many organisations within Security and FMCG industries with strategic marketing, brand building, business development and PR. Having explored the European and Asian security markets, Shivanshi recognised the lack of marketers specialising in the industry and founded Shivanshi Sharma Consultancy (SSC) to provide dedicated marketing and branding support to security organisations. Her consultancy is a Security Institute Corporate Partner and has clients spread across Europe. Apart from being SSC’s Founder and CEO, Shivanshi is the Director of Marketing at the International Professional Security Association (IPSA), a published National Geographic Traveller India writer and a passionate public speaker.

Date: Wednesday 9th February 2022 Time: 10:00am Details: This webinar is for Security Institute Members and guests About this event...  Cyber Surveillance: Pegasus Spyware – Everything You Need To Know Or Were Too Scared To Ask In this week's webinar we are joined by Salt Communications who will be hosting a webinar around the subject of Pegasus Spyware. In this webinar Joe Boyle, CEO at Salt Communications, will explain how hackers exploit Pegasus smartphone spyware and other weaknesses to go around your protection, obtain access to your systems, and steal data and voice information. According to reports, a new variant of the aggressive mobile spyware known as Pegasus has infected the mobile devices of over 50,000 people in 50 nations. Pegasus and other spyware must be safeguarded from enterprise security experts’ mobile endpoints, and ultimately their entire organisation. Salt Communications was formed in 2013 by Joe and other founders who have a shared history in the enterprise security, telecoms, network optimisation and mobile application development. Whilst the market is packed with consumed based encryption communication technologies, the founders of Salt Communications recognised that none of these solutions fit well within an enterprise’s operating framework. Joe's career has been focused on enterprise communications, security and network optimization. He has experienced considerable success bringing innovative new technologies to market, and helping customers adopt those technologies. Before Salt Communications, Joe was the director of product management for Silver Peak Systems and Blue Coat Systems, both in the network optimization space; and before that was employee number 4 at Replify, the first company to virtualize WAN optimization. He worked on secure communications technology at F5 Networks, Aepona (acquired by Intel) and Apion (acquired by Phone.com). Joe holds an MSc in Computational Science from Queen's University Belfast.

Date: Wednesday 2nd March 2022 Time: 10:00am Details: This webinar is for Security Institute Members and guests About this event... Advances In Electronic Security Technologies In this week's webinar we are joined by Michael Byrden, who has over twenty years’ experience in manufacturing electronic security equipment. Michael acted as a commercial director for an Ireland-based manufacturer Access Control Technology (ACT), and is currently a Strategic Partnership Manager with Vanderbilt Industries. This webinar aims to provide participants with an overview of technological advancements in the Electronic Security Sector, and provides best practices guidelines in designing and specifying integrated security solutions. The seminar focuses on the following topics;

• How Software as a Service and Cloud Technology is being used in the security sector.
• Cyber threats – A holistic approach in protecting electronic security devices.
• Using mobile phones as virtual cards and the use of biometric facial recognition in access control.
• RFID Reading and Card Technologies: Identifying the most secure RFID card reading technologies and advising how to protect against card cloning.