Category: Student blogs

2.2.2023

The State of Global Nuclear Order

The existing nuclear order has also showed signs of resilience, and at least some ability to withstand the new challenges. Although there are different opinions on the role of the NPT and nuclear deterrence in maintaining great power peace, the degree of volatility that we have had thus far have not yet completely tilted the global nuclear stability.

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13.6.2022

Mirror, mirror tell me the truth… - The double-edged sword of social media

The advancement of technology and the rise of social media has given us a double-edged sword. Technology and social media allow people to share information, opinions and interact with others online, but also the opportunity to negatively influence our information, opinions, and behavior.

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11.3.2022

Privatization of Public Security - The Grey Area of Legitimate Violence

Can Finland continue to promote themselves as a country with highly trained police and having good relations with communities when it is the private security guards that are also responsible on everyday interactions with citizens?

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30.12.2021

Anxiety, Distrust, and Alienation: The New Societal Culture?

How does society react when everyone becomes a potential health threat?

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21.12.2021

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? – Public institutions under attack by… the public?

Where is the thin blue line that separates righteous civil resistance against oppression from the unlawful abuse of legal loopholes and undermining of public institutions that serve to protect the population? And who should be responsible for defining this?

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20.10.2021

One BCMS with Societal Benefits, please

Business Continuity Management can still be seen as an excessive activity without quick rewards. Legal obligations would not necessarily ensure the quality of Business Continuity Management plans. That said, in many organizations they might end up providing company for lonely and dusty emergency response plans. On the other hand, legally based requirements would provide principal and practical support for the planning and implementing Business Continuity Management, a preparedness measure that clearly still needs to earn some justification for its existence.

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8.1.2021

Apology on Behalf of Cyber Security – An Integral Part of Societal Resilience

When it comes to cybersecurity, resilience is usually either defined otherwise or sometimes left completely undefined, assuming that the audience knows what is meant with the concept.

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23.12.2020

Quo vadis, securitas – the rise of new security professionals?

Indeed, we may now find ourselves in a curious moment in time where transnational developments such as increased terrorism on the European soil among others have generated a newfound demand for security aficionados.

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21.12.2020

Don't Be a Puppet

Do not let intentionally provocative views mislead you thinking Manichean black and white way about complex issues. Debate openly, but before debating, seek facts from all angles and look at the other side of the matter as well. Don’t be a puppet!

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10.1.2020

Digital Resilience: Why Should We Stop Trying to Shield Our Networks and Data at All Costs?

Digital security is usually understood as building thick firewalls and bulletproof structures around networks and infrastructures to make them impenetrable to all kind of risks. However, increasing complexity and nonlinear changes are continuously demanding the use of resilience as a key strategic response in security policy and practice.

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11.12.2019

Hazards of Partially Automated Driving

Automation is most dangerous when it is consistent and reliable most of the time. This places a false sense of trust, security and comfort on the driver’s mind that may backfire in the most unexpected cases. In addition, human error is unavoidable, thus prone to accidents.

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5.12.2019

From protection to resilience, to immortality?

So if, or more correctly when, this next stage of human evolution is achieved, a new approach to security will have to rise together with it. A drastic change to the four components of security governance — mentalities, institutions and organizations, technologies, and practices — can be expected. How do you address a situation where the human race could be suddenly perceived to pose a threat to the society it has developed? How do you manage the (super)human race without overstepping the line of privacy and freedom? Are superhumans even subjected to the same norms and rights as today’s human race?

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