The Security Leaders Summit

In an increasingly complex and high-risk environment, organisations must protect their people and premises while continuing to operate in the public eye. This session offers an inside look at how the BBC approaches corporate security across the UK. Drawing on real-world experience, it will explore risk management, threat assessment, crisis response and the balance between openness and safety. Attendees will gain practical insight into how large, high-profile organisations safeguard staff, assets and operation while maintaining public trust.

The immediate human impacts of a terrorist attack are clear, but the financial and operational disruption to both large and small businesses in the aftermath is often less understood. In this session, Pool Re – the UK’s largest terrorism (Re)Insurer and an Arm’s Length Body of Government – will demonstrate how these secondary impacts can be quantified to support informed, holistic risk decision making.

Attendees will gain insight into:

• Why a credible and current view of the terrorism threat is essential.
• The full spectrum of potential costs, from physical damage to business interruption, in the aftermath of an attack.
• How loss estimates can drive improvement to organisational resilience and inform investment prioritisation of finite resources for risk mitigation.
• The role of robust analysis in the assurance of risk financing and risk management decision making.

What can security deal with any day of the year on a Higher Education campus, from safeguarding students and staff to managing protests, mental health incidents, crime prevention and major events, all within a complex and open environment that never truly switches off.

At the core of NSI’s Code of Practice NCP 109 is an important tension:  access control systems must prevent unauthorised access but they must also allow safe escape in emergencies.  This seminar tackles that challenge head-on.

As electronic locking becomes the norm and access control systems grow ever more sophisticated, designers, installers and building operators shoulder greater responsibility. Securing access is only part of the equation; life safety and safe egress are equally critical and every decision must be defensible under scrutiny.

This session provides the NSI perspective on designing, installing, commissioning and maintaining access control systems in today’s real-life scenarios. Matthew and Dave will lead a candid discussion on the challenges, including:

·       Door function and day-to-day operational pressures

·       Retrofitting and managing existing doors

·       Balancing security with safe escape

·       Where Standards, responsibilities and design assumptions intersect

·       The importance of informed judgement and clear, defensible documentation

Who should attend?
NSI-certified companies, specifiers and anyone responsible for access control compliance who want a clearer understanding of the considerations involved in supporting both security and safe escape.

Show how collaboration, connection and communication (via the network, WhatsApp groups and events) tangibly improve careers, culture and security outcomes – with clear actions for the audience.

Across the UK, frontline services, communities, and public-sector bodies are grappling with rising concerns around violence, exploitation, and safeguarding. This session explores the evolving national landscape of public protection, examining how policy, enforcement, community support, and cross-agency collaboration are adapting to meet the needs of those most at risk.

Designed for the wider security, public safety, and risk management community, the session provides a platform to reflect on what meaningful progress looks like and how organisations can work together to deliver better protection outcomes at a national scale.