This week I attended a seminar organised by the general Dutch Security and Intelligence Agency (AIVD). The agency is the equivalent of Mi5 and Mi6 combined and, unsurprisingly, largely focusses on countering ISIS and other jihadist groups. As the issues discussed during the day were quite broad, I thought it would be interesting to reflect…
I am very excited that our book on Big Data Challenges is now published. This volume brings together an impressive range of academic and intelligence professional perspectives to interrogate the social, ethical and security upheavals in a world increasingly driven by data. Written in a clear and accessible style, it offers fresh insights to the deep…
Toegegeven, het atoomakkoord met Iran is een historische overeenkomst. Het is te prijzen dat diplomatie voor even werd geprefereerd boven het haast traditionele wapengekletter in het Midden-Oosten. Qua symbolische waarde is de overeenkomst te vergelijken met het Camp David-akkoord tussen Egypte en Israël uit 1978. Wat dat betreft niets dan lof voor de betrokken partijen,…
Transforming UK intelligence for Big Data will top of the agenda of a new body to be officially launched in May. The UK’s Intelligence Futures Group (IFG) has already scored a major ‘first’, by bringing senior intelligence analysts and expert academics under the one roof for an intensive one-day workshop at Liverpool Hope University. Intelligence…
