Vigilance can report that Paul Manning, Head of Security at Middlesex University, has won the Security Excellence award for In-House Security Manager of the Year 2011. Hard work pays! Or what do you think?
- The Editorial Team
- Industry News
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Friday, 16 January 2026
Kemshall, SecurEnvoy’s technical director and co-founder, looks at how passwords work and offers his advice for strengthening them
Get Safe Online Week, which ran at the beginning of November, is an annual event to raise awareness of internet safety issues. It got me thinking - with most of us logging on (the technical term is authenticating) to the internet to access various websites and applications, often with just a user name and password, can we ever be safe online? Is a password enough? Well, this is my view on the subject.
- ANDY KEMSHALL, CO-FOUNDER, SECURENVOY
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"...these things depend upon feeling. The heart is all, and when that is much interested, a man can do anything. Many a youth would think it hard to make himself a slave for fourteen years. But let him be head and ears over in love, and with such a beauteous sweetheart as Rachel, and he will think no more of fourteen years' servitude than young Jacob did. This is exactly my case. I am in love, and my sweetheart is Liberty, and I am happy indeed. I would rather fight for such blessings for my country and feed on roots, than keep aloof, though wallowing in all the luxuries of Solomon. For now, sir, I walk the soil that gave me birth, and exult in the thought that I am not unworthy of it. I look upon these venerable trees around me and feel that I do not dishonour them. The children of future generations may never hear my name, but it gladdens my heart to think that I am now contending for their freedom and all its countless blessings." - General Francis Marion.
- MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- International Security, Safety & Strategic Defence
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...whilst the Mayor of London Boris Johnson warns: "Criminals beware - we're stepping up a gear to crack down on the drug dealers, burglars and thieves that make our lives a misery. Operation Hawk means our hard working Safer Neighbourhoods teams will be keeping an even closer eye on crime hot spots.”
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