Latest Editorial
See it, Say it, Sorted: or see it, report it, but act if necessary
ASI December 2020 / January 2021
2020
Easing Lockdown’s Easement: the lesson from aviation security history
ASI Oct 2020
Easing Lockdown’s Easement: the lesson from aviation security history
ASI Aug 2020
Hypocrisy Avoidance & Effective Messaging: key factors to mitigating the threat of a post-coronavirus surge in unruly passenger incidents
ASI June 2020
Coronavirus: excuse or opportunity?
ASI April 2020
The Loss of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752: a failure of risk management rather than 'military human error'
ASI Feb 2020
2019
Stocking Filler Technologies: all I want for Christmas
ASI Dec 2019
Sharing Data Sharing Resources: moving from 'could' to 'should'
ASI Oct 2019
Proactivity: addressing the ever-lengthening 'to-do' list
ASI Aug 2019
Frankie Boyle: typifying a world without order
ASI Jun 2019
Xenophobia On The Rampage: behavioural analysis has never been needed more
ASI Apr 2019
Drones: posing a threat to all aircraft
ASI Feb 2019
2018
My Top 5 Irritants: at airports, on planes and in hotels
ASI Dec 2018
From Passé Baggage Control Questions to Emerging Mental Health Challenges: time to change the focus
ASI Oct 2018
MH370: suicidal pilot, parajacker or, perhaps, stowaway?
ASI Aug 2018
Human Trafficking: not my problem
ASI Jun 2018
Doing the Minimum: the myth of security prioritisation
ASI Apr 2018
Steve’s Legacy: EMPOWERMENT THROUGH COMMUNICATION
ASI Feb 2018
2017
GASeP: words to be translated into action
ASI Dec 2017
Massacre In Las Vegas: a mental health lesson for the avsec community
ASI Oct 2017
Australian Plots, British Blunders and American Trailblazing: but would you deny boarding in the absence of evidence?
ASI Aug 2017
The Six Day War: its legacy for international civil aviation
ASI Jun 2017
Laptops: control, alt or delete?
ASI Apr 2017
MS804: explosive residue on victims confirmed
ASI Feb 2017
2016
Alt-Right: Outright Wrong
ASI Dec 2016
United Nations Security Council Adopts Resolution 2309: time to convert words into actions
ASI Oct 2016
Responding To The Marauding Firearms Terrorist: armed guards, canines and behavioural detection
ASI Aug 2016
Egyptair Flight MS804: exemplifying the challenges, regardless of cause
ASI Jun 2016
Brussels Zaventem: the front-of-house attack becomes reality
ASI Apr 2016
DAALLO Airlines Flight D3 159: bombed en route to Djibouti
ASI Feb 2016
2015
Racial Profiling: no place in the avsec arsenal
ASI Dec 2015
Cockpit Protection: we need more than perceived security
ASI Oct 2015
Carrington Events: are you prepared for the perfect storm?
ASI Aug 2015
Searching Bodies: the civil liberties dilemma
ASI Jun 2015
'Rule of Two'? What About the Rule of Three?
ASI Apr 2015
Holocaust Memorial Day: reminding us to not become bystanders
ASI Feb 2015
2014
Trusted Travellers: there's no such thing
ASI Dec 2014
Effective Targets: focus on security, not facilitation
ASI Oct 2014
Protecting Aircraft: long overshadowed by a focus on screening
ASI Aug 2014
Unruly Passenger Restraint: time to clarify our expectations
ASI Jun 2014
Speculation: unfair but inevitable
ASI Apr 2014
Imarat Kavkaz: aiming for a Black February
ASI Feb 2014
2013
Gerardo I. Hernandez: in memoriam
ASI Dec 2013
Insiders and Front-Of-House Shooters: it's not all about checkpoint operations
ASI Oct 2013
Process Management VS. Effective Security
ASI Aug 2013
Blue Skies Thinking: time to turn a concept to reality
ASI Jun 2013
Objecting To Knives: when the heart rules the head
ASI Apr 2013
Zaventem Heist: preliminary lessons
ASI Feb 2013
2012
The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: part and parcel of avsec history
ASI Dec 2012
A Death In East Sheen: time to focus on airport perimeter security
ASI Oct 2012
Terror In Bulgaria, Hijacking In Xinjiang: concern in Reykjavik, but joy in London
ASI Aug 2012
Trans-Atlantic Cargo Screening: EU & US Compromise
ASI Jun 2012
Pilots, Flight Attendants... And Welsh Rugby Stars: when those we 'trust' are out of control
ASI Apr 2012
50 Million Prohibited Items Confiscated: but how many passengers were denied boarding?
ASI Feb 2012
2011
Transparent Security: time for a poker face
ASI Dec 2011
Critiquing The Critics: debating without venom
ASI Oct 2011
Christian Fundamentalism And Justiciar Knights: proof of the foolhardiness of ethnic profiling
ASI Aug 2011
Not Only Keeping Up Appearances: thanks to Bin Thani, Boisselle and Arenas
ASI Jun 2011
Take Note Abidjan, Cairo and Tripoli: western democracy has its failings too
ASI Apr 2011
80 Years Of Avsec: from Arequipa to Domededovo
ASI Feb 2011
2010
We Wish You A Merry Checkpoint: and secure cargo new year
ASI Dec 2010
Pepto-Bismol: giving the lawmakers an upset stomach
ASI Oct 2010
Zamboanga City Bombing: 2010's Daallo Airlines moment?
ASI Aug 2010
Volcanoes & Flotillas: from Eyjafjallajökull to Gaza
ASI Jun 2010
To Whom Do We Entrust Our Lives?: assessing the calibre of those on the front line?
ASI Apr 2010
Tidings Of Comfort & Joy: for vendors but not for Nigerians
ASI Feb 2010
2009
R&D: research and development or research and deployment?
ASI Dec 2009
Bolivians: the latest hijacker stereotype?
ASI Oct 2009
One Small Step For Man, One Giant Step For Mankind: lessons from Apollo 11
ASI Aug 2009
Swine Flu: the latest impediment to one stop security
ASI Jun 2009
America Takes the Lead: time for a change?
ASI Apr 2009
Gaza: a counter terrorist perspective
ASI Feb 2009
2008
Comedy in the Dock: it's no laughing matter
ASI Dec 2008
Questioning Who Packed Your Bags: an open and shut case
ASI Oct 2008
Freeing Zvonko Busic and Naomi Campbell: aviation security justice on trial
ASI Aug 2008
Trains, Buses & Ships Under Attack: avsec in perspective
ASI Jun 2008
En Route from Urumqi to Beijing: Xinjiang extremism threatens the world stage
ASI Apr 2008
Quality Control: a fear of failure
ASI Feb 2008
2007
Innovation & Courage Required: leaders and trailblazers sought
ASI Dec 2007
Plane Stupid: living up to their name
ASI Oct 2007
Centralised Screening: queue creation, target creation
ASI Aug 2007
Stereotypical Threats: ignorant security
ASI Jun 2007
If At First You Don't Succeed... try, try, and try again
ASI Apr 2007
Traditional Threats: from Khartoum to Madrid and from Prague to a flight near you...
ASI Feb 2007
2006
Letter From Cape Town: the return of apartheid
ASI Dec 2006
Contingency Planning: responding to the next plot
ASI Oct 2006
Positive Profiling: common sense security
ASI Aug 2006
Hoax Bomb Threats: diverting flights, the media and our focus
ASI Jun 2006
Zacarias Moussaoui: master of his fate and captain of his soul?
ASI Apr 2006
Abdicating Responsibility: at what cost?
ASI Feb 2006
2005
Flu Pandemic: a testing time for emergency planning
ASI Dec 2005
On A Screen Near You
ASI Oct 2005
Outright Terror: bold and brilliant
ASI Aug 2005
Futuristic Avsec Available Today
ASI Jun 2005
AVSEC Challenges: six of the best
ASI Apr 2005
Qubein, Ziglar and the Art of Motivation
ASI Feb 2005
2004
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS VS. EFFECTIVE SECURITY
ASI Dec 2004
BLACK WIDOWS STRIKE THE RUSSIAN AIRWAYS
ASI Oct 2004
A FAILURE OF IMAGINATION
ASI Aug 2004
SECURITY SENSITIVE OR SENSITIVE SECURITY?
ASI Jun 2004
IT'S A SAD SAD WORLD
ASI Apr 2004
THE CASE OF THE MISSING WELSH INSURANCE AGENT AND & OTHER STORIES
ASI Feb 2004
2003
A FAILURE OF IMAGINATION?
ASI Dec 2003
IF YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT, THEN DO IT ...
ASI Oct 2003
Hijack A Plane, Win a Council House Game
ASI Aug 2003
Qantas Hijacked: heroic crew save Tasmanian flight
ASI Jun 2003
War in Iraq: heightened concerns yet frozen budgets
ASI Apr 2003
100% HBS: 99% charade?
ASI Feb 2003
2002
Hijacking's Back in Vogue: 2002 in Review
ASI Dec 2002
Ground Zero Revisited
ASI Oct 2002
September 11th Syndrome
ASI Aug 2002
Random Search
ASI Jun 2002
Leila's Prophecy
ASI Apr 2002
Adding Common Sense to Security
ASI Feb 2002
2001
Team Talk
ASI Dec 2001
Thoughts from Ground Zero
ASI Oct 2001
Globalisation or Xenophobia?
ASI Aug 2001
Tasmanian Quarantine
ASI Jun 2001
In Memory of Yulia Fomina and Kampol Meerlap
ASI Apr 2001
Verdict At Camp Zeist
ASI Feb 2001
2000
Xavier To The Rescue
ASI Dec 2000
Speaking With The Enemy
ASI Oct 2000
Dear Senator Hatch
ASI Aug 2000
Raising The Standards
ASI Jun 2000
A Most Unusual Hijack
ASI Apr 2000
A Return To Aerial Arms?
ASI Feb 2000
1999
Lest We Forget
ASI Dec 1999
Aviation Security International: For Your Eyes Only
ASI Oct 1999
April the twelfth, April the thirteenth
ASI Jun 1999
The Sun Doesn't Always Shine
ASI Apr 1999
Quashing Convictions
ASI Feb 1999
1998
Back to the Future
ASI Winter 1998
Terrors' New Arena
ASI Autumn 1998
Tony Benn or The Starship Enterprise?
ASI Summer 1998
Olympics, Terrorism & The Press
ASI Spring 1998
1997
Queuing to Fly
ASI Dec 1997
Who's Responsible?
ASI Sept 1997
New Labour
ASI Jun 1997