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Editorial
Our 2025 Forward Features List
January 2025 issue
Copy date; December 9
Main feature: IT security. Phishing, scams, hackers, thefts – and corporate responses. Identity cards, accessories. Ports, airports, supply chains. Security-minded communications.
February 2025 issue
Copy date; January 10
Main feature: Tech trends: drones, AI; robot guards and dogs?! Alarm management – for home, retail and commercial; key-holding response. Corporate security and tall buildings. Access control. ST25 Dublin and Belfast event previews
March 2025 issue
Copy date; February 7
Main feature: manned guarding. This multi-page feature will cover all aspects of guarding including events, close protection, cash in transit, doors, temporary contracts, and in-house or outsource? to name a few. Transport security – air, rail and road; and freight protection. Hospital security.
April 2025 issue
Copy date; March 7
Main feature: Counter-terrorism.: Public Building Protection and guarding against protest (lawful and unlawful). Staff screening and vetting. Counter- and covert surveillance. Investigators and investigations. ST25 Glasgow preview.
May 2025 issue
Copy date; April 11
Main feature: ‘Let’s get physical’. Gates, bollards and fences. Also; Protect Duty re-cap; business partnerships in austerity.
June 2025 issue
Copy date; May 9
Main feature: Financial institution solutions, integrated systems, resilience. Crisis communications. In the control room; alarm monitoring and response; retail and other radio; software.
July 2025 issue
Copy date; June 6
Main feature: Video management software update, getting beyond the hype, at VMS products and applications. Also: Smart card tech. Town centre systems. Access control. Corporate sector guarding. ST25 Manchester preview.
August 2025 issue
Copy date; July 4
Main feature: CCTV in public places. That’s not only town and city centres but shopping malls and stadiums, you name it. Aviation security. Hotel and hospitality security. Also: Threats to retail. ST25 Birmingham previewed.
September 2025 issue
Copy date; August 8
Main feature: Door entry: help points and locks, barriers – and doors!? Also: Car parks. Banking focus. Counter Terror. Alarms and remote video monitoring. Plus ECHO re-cap.
October 2025 issue
Copy date; September 5
Main feature: The security consultant. A multi-page feature on consultancy, out-sourcing (or in-house) and a preview of the Association of Security Consultants’ Consec show. Security TWENTY 25 shows reviewed.
November 2025 issue
Copy date; October 10
Main feature: Importing and exporting. A multi-page feature on how UK security distributors and manufacturers are doing business. Also smart card technology, town centre systems, access control in educational establishments – schools and unis. ST253 London preview.
December 2025 issue
Copy date; November 10
Main feature: Training. What you need for risk and asset protection. Uniforms and the officer and patroller’s kit. CCTV. Prisons; casino and gambling security. The year in review; and previewing the next.
