Transportation Security: Further Information

Newrisk Limited is available to advise organisations and governments on transportation security. Newrisk Limited and its principal adviser, Dr Leivesley, have previously provided media commentary, lectures, conference papers and publications on transportation security, examples of which are set out below. To return to an overview of Newrisk Limited's transportation security expertise, please click here.

To request Newrisk Limited's assistance in connection with a transportation security issue or to discuss a tailored package of services, please contact Newrisk Limited directly.

Media Commentary

Newrisk Limited's principal adviser, Dr Leivesley, has provided media commentary on transportation security, including:

• Without a Trace: Who is behind the mystery of flight MH370? Talk in Hanger-7 for Servus TV (Austria) on 5 June 2014;
• 'The Plane that Vanished' panel interview by Donal MacIntyre on MAL MH370 plane disappearance and causation for Channel 5 on 14 March 2014;
• MAS Plane Disappearance for ITV Daybreak, Channel 5 News and ITV News on 10 March 2014;
• Catastrophic Risk Cyber Security Press Briefing for the Institution of Technology and Engineering at the Wellcome Trust on 29 April 2013;
• 6 Terrorists Jailed in West Midlands EDL Attack Plot on ITV Daybreak on 1 May 2013;
• Canada Terror Plot to Derail Train to the US for ITV Daybreak on 23 April 2013;
• Al Aminas gas site, terrorist mass hostage taking (including British hostages) for Sky News on 16 and 17 January 2013 and ITV News on 17 and 18 January 2013;
• Twitter threat to blow up airport found 'not menancing' following court appeal for BBC News on 27 July 2012;
• Underpants bomb plot in Yemen foiled for Sky News and Channel 5 News on 8 May 2012;
• Missile Batteries on Residential Tall Building close to Olympic Park for Sky News and Al Jazeera (UK) on 29 April 2012;
• Olympic Volleyball at the Horseguards Parade for Channel 10 (Australia) on 16 April 2012;
• Eurostar Trains Stuck in Channel Tunnel for the BBC News on 19 December 2009; and
• Channel Tunnel Fire for the BBC News on 11 September 2008.

Lectures & Conferences

Newrisk Limited's principal adviser, Dr Leivesley, has provided lectures & conference papers on transportation security, including:

• 'Cyber Hijack and other Emerging Threats: Strategies for Sustainability' - Key Note Lecture to the CEP (Corporate Executive Program) in Barcelona (Spain) in May 2014;
  
  
• 'Snapshot of Regional Risks and Sustainability- Incorporating Exercise Cyber-Defence' - Lecture to MIS Chief Information Security Officer Middle East 6th Annual Summit and Roundtable in Dubai (UAE) in February 2014;
  
  
• 'CBRNE/Cyber Terrorism: Technical briefing for ‘Exercise London' - Lecture for the Ministry of Defence, Terrorism Causes, Trends and Responses, Knowledge Transfer Programme at the University of Bradford, School of Social and International Studies in April 2013;
  
  
• 'How can we manage road traffic law enforcement to achieve optimum results?' - Paper to the Seminar on Road Traffic Law Enforcement (held under the aegis of the Road User Safety Advisory Committee of the Australian Transport Advisory Council) in Canberra (Australia) in September 1988.

Publications

Newrisk Limited's principal adviser, Dr Leivesley, has written publications on transportation security, including:

• Designing-in Risk and Continuity: International Issues for Rail Risk Management - by Dr Leivesley in the Rail Technology Magazine 2003, Vol. 4(4), 118: "Railways are leading exponents of risk management. Risk assessments on railways help increase network efficiency as well as safety. It is important to recognise that design risk failures are a key issue in rail risk management, especially when extreme loss events cause public outrage. Increasingly, extreme events risk assessment is being included within a total network risk assessment."
  
  
• Human Factor Risk Management: Counting the Cost of Human Factor Risk and Organisational Failures - by Dr Leivesley in the Rail Technology Magazine 2003, Vol. 4(5), 65: "Managing human factor failures and organisational failures are serious challenges for network operations. [This Article] looks at the potential dangers and assesses the increasing use of near-real time operational risk management systems to help reduce corporate risk profiles."
  
  
• Road Safety Enforcement: A Literature Review - Report for the Federal Office of Road Safety (Australia) (August 1987): "This report examines the application of resources and means of maximising enforcement strategies for road safety. Human factors, the law, policing, and mechanical design are analysed as part of the road safety system. Contributions from police in Australia and other countries are included. The results of the analysis identify the complex interactions between human factors and the road environment, and the conclusions list a number of strategies for the development of road safety enforcement policy which takes these into account."
  
  

Newrisk Limited's principal adviser, Dr Leivesley, has also been cited in various publications on transportation issues, including:

• 'Is missing Malaysian jet the world’s first CYBER HIJACK? Chilling new theory claims hackers could use a mobile phone to take over the controls' by Wills Robinson, Daily Mail Online, 16 March 2014: "Dr Leivesley, who now prepares businesses and governments for potential terrorist attacks, told the Sunday Express: 'There appears to be an element of planning from someone with a very sophisticated systems engineering understanding. This is a very early version of what I would call a smart plane, a fly-by-wire aircraft controlled by electronic signals. She added that once the plane is air-side, you can insert a set of commands and codes which can begin a new set of processes."
  
  
• ''World's First Cyber Hijack: Was Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight Hacked with Mobile Phone' by James Fielding and Stuart Winter in the Sunday Express, 16 March 2014: "British anti-terror expert Dr Sally Leivesley said last night: “It might well be the world’s first cyber hijack."
  
  
• 'Outsourced IT Offers Hackers Access to Key Control Systems' by Mark Hennessy in Irish Times, 2 May 2013, discussing cyber security: "The North Koreans have been blamed for interrupting websites run in South Korea by banks, newspapers and TV companies in “a show and tell” warning about what they are capable of during a conflict, warns Sally Leivesley of Newrisk. The South Koreans have taken the warning seriously, upgrading security at their nuclear plants – including disabling every USB port in every computer at the plants lest they be used to breach defences."

To request Newrisk Limited's assistance in connection with a transportation security issue or to discuss a tailored package of services, please contact Newrisk Limited directly.