Safety and Security

Cybersecurity verses Physical Security Agendas

Martyn's Law, Safety & Risk, Safety and Security, security, Thought Leadership / Team Inverroy

Ransomware, phishing and AI-enabled fraud are dominating boardroom conversations, and rightly so. The scale and speed of cyber threats mean many organisations are investing heavily in digital defences. But in strengthening one line of protection, are businesses unintentionally weakening another? As funding and leadership attention concentrate on cyber risk, physical security can slip down the […]

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Prepared, Not Paranoid: The Life-Saving Value of Situational Awareness

Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Safety and Security / Team Inverroy

Recent Attacks Highlight the Threat In recent weeks, we have witnessed two chilling forms of violence: a knife attack aboard a train in the UK, where passengers bound for London had to flee as a man wielding a large knife struck multiple people, and a vehicle-ramming incident in France, where a car was deliberately used

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The Age of Adaptation

Global Travel, Resilience, Safety and Security, Travel Risk / Team Inverroy

“The only constant in life is change” – Heraclitus If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that disruption is rarely anticipated and organisations must ensure their teams are prepared to respond. In today’s world, change is not only constant, it’s accelerating. For organisations with people on the move, the ability to anticipate

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Readiness over rhetoric

Martyn's Law, Protect Duty, Safety and Security, security, Stadium Safety, Thought Leadership, Uncategorized / Philippa Boyd

Philippa Boyd, Senior Security Consultant at Inverroy Crisis Management, explains how readiness protects people The Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025, known as Martyn’s Law, represents a major evolution in the UK’s approach to public safety. The law introduces a two-tier framework requiring publicly accessible venues to take proportionate steps to protect the public. Yet

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Beyond Checklists: Rethinking Physical Threat Readiness

Crisis Management, Emergency Response, Safety and Security, security, Training and Exercises, Travel Risk, Uncategorized / Team Inverroy

Airline Bomb Scare Underscores Physical Threat Preparedness On 27 July 2025, passengers on an EasyJet flight from Luton to Glasgow faced a terrifying ordeal when a man emerged from the toilet shouting, “I’ve got a bomb,” and referenced Donald Trump. He was restrained by passengers and arrested upon landing. No device was found, but the

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Sabotage in the UK: A Strategic Signal for Business and Industry

Safety and Security, security, Thought Leadership / Team Inverroy

These were not isolated events. In early 2024, a water treatment facility in the Midlands suffered a sudden systems failure when multiple valves were remotely tampered with. Pressure dropped, distribution halted, and supply to over 10,000 homes was disrupted. Shortly before the failure, staff had reported suspicious drone activity near the perimeter fencing, an incident

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