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  • Police Chief Magazine
  • July 2017

National Security, the Economy and COVID-19: Fifty Shades of the Grey Zone

A new virus of a mysterious origin emerges in a faraway land. Shifting from an epidemic to a pandemic within weeks...

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  • Valarie Findlay
  • July 2017

Insider Threats, Informants and Whistleblowers: Different Animals, Same Stripes?

Along with Atomic Blonde and Kraftidioten, one of my all-time favourite movies is The Informant! A brilliant biographical-comedy...

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  • Vanguard Magazine
  • July 2017

Spies Among Us: Are We Blind To Insider Threats?

Playing out almost daily, the world’s most impactful nations masterfully engage in various tactics, like sanctions, tariffs and detainments...

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  • Police Chief Magazine
  • July 2017

Assessing Current Cyber-Security Methods...

Cyber-Security in the Counter-Terror Model - Counter-terror models focus on physical threat-activities and encourage...

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  • Vanguard Magazine
  • July 2017

Implied Trust, Presumed Secure and Other Dangers of Supply Chain

The US Navy’s Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) bills itself as a "full-spectrum research, development, test and evaluation...

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  • Vanguard Magazine
  • July 2017

Implied Trust ... in Supply Chain Security: Part Two

Last month, my column "Implied Trust, Presumed Secure and Other Dangers of Supply Chain" covered supply chain security in the context of the Naval..

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  • Police Chief Magazine
  • July 2017

Threats In A Hyper-Connected World

Law enforcement organizations are often on the investigation side of cyberthreats and cybercrime, but that is starting to change.

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  • Valarie Findlay
  • July 2017

Not Seeing the Forest for the Technology

Body-worn camera equipment and infrastructure, program development and implementation are by no means cheap.

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  • Vanguard Magazine
  • July 2017

The Weight of the Badge

The boiling anger in the U.S. over police ‘use of force’, and charges of racism and racial-bias can’t help but spill over into Canada, and its affect has been profound as we wrestle with our own issues.

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  • Dissertation
  • July 2017

The Impact of Terrorism on Law Enforcement Organisations in the United States United Kingdom and Canada Since the 1960s

Law enforcement in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada has seen a substantial transformation over the past half century...

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  • Dissertation
  • July 2017

What's It Worth to You? Determining the True Cost and Value of Information

In 2009, the Treasury Board of Canada issued a directive to help ensure effective recordkeeping practices enabling departments to create, acquire, capture...

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  • Dissertation
  • July 2017

Preliminary Research Study: There have been many criticisms of modern law enforcement’s advancements and activities: enhanced search powers...

Preliminary Research Study There have been many criticisms of modern law enforcement’s advancements and activities: enhanced search powers...