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The highly anticipated 2025 UK Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs) took place last night (20th February) at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, bringing together a distinguished gathering of professionals from across the UK security sector. This prestigious event once again showcased the outstanding contributions of individuals and organisations dedicated to security excellence. Opportunity for buyers and suppliers Once again, NSI-certified companies were well represented among those recognised, securing notable victories across multiple categories and demonstrating their ongoing commitment to the highest industry standards. The OSPAs are designed to be independent and inclusive, providing an opportunity for both buyers and suppliers to be acknowledged for their impact on the industry. Extensive research into key factors  NSI-certified companies had an unique version, with 27 finalists securing 83 nominations The awards criteria are based on extensive research into the key factors that define outstanding performance, ensuring a rigorous and transparent judging process. NSI-certified companies delivered an impressive performance, with 27 finalists securing 83 nominations. Four NSI-approved companies achieved success across eight categories, further reinforcing their reputation as industry pioneers. NSI-certified winners of the 2025 The NSI-certified winners of the 2025 UK OSPAs are Outstanding Contract Security Manager/Director: Alex Philiotis – First Response Group Outstanding Security Team: Crime & Intelligence Team – Coop & Mitie Security Outstanding Customer Service Initiative: Here East Safety Customer Service Initiative – CIS Security Outstanding Security Training Initiative: London Bridge City Security Training Initiative – CIS Security Outstanding Event Security Team: Hyde Park Winter Wonderland Team – FGH Security Outstanding Young Security Professional: Tom Marsh - FGH Security Outstanding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Initiative: CIS Security Outstanding Security Sustainability Award: CIS Security and ESG Strategy Advancing industry standards Richard Fogelman, NSI Chief Executive, commented: "As one of the most prestigious events in the security calendar, the UK OSPAs play a pivotal role in recognising the outstanding commitment, professionalism and innovation that drive our industry forward." "This year’s winners and finalists exemplify excellence, demonstrating their dedication to advancing industry standards." Security and fire safety providers Fogelman added: "It was a privilege to see so many NSI-certified companies celebrated for their exceptional contributions to safeguarding businesses, public sector services and wider communities. Their achievements reflect a strong commitment to raising the bar in security. Congratulations to all.” NSI is committed to setting the benchmark for excellence, helping security and fire safety providers uphold the highest industry standards.

The inaugural Fire and Security Matters Awards took place at the Coventry Building Society Arena on 28th April 2022. Celebrating organisations, teams and individuals from across the UK, the black-tie gala dinner and awards ceremony included a significant number of NSI approved companies and their representatives who have achieved the highest standards of excellence and innovation in their pursuit to keep people and property safe. More than 400 guests from the fire and security sectors attended the evening which raised funds for The Fire Fighters Charity. Fire and security sectors NSI would like to congratulate all those who won awards in the 12 designated categories, including 13 NSI approved company finalists of whom the following individuals and teams were awarded prizes in 6 categories: Fire Safety Manager of the Year: Winner - Keith Todd, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Highly Commended – Gary Jarvis, Securitas UK Fire Systems Installer/Integrator of the Year: Winner - Jamie Dawson, Gemini AMPM Ltd Security Guarding Company of the Year: Winner - Mitie Security Commended – CIS Security Security Installer/Integrator of the Year: Winner - National Contracts Team – Tailored Fire and Security Group Ltd Security Team of the Year: Winner - Mitie/B&Q Detective Team Security/Risk Manager of the Year: Highly commended – Mark Taylor, Mitie Security Private security sector Richard Jenkins, NSI Chief Executive commented: “Recognising the invaluable contribution of those in the private security sector who work tirelessly to keep people and property safe in our everyday lives is crucial.” “Without their dedication and commitment to safeguarding our communities, in partnership with the police and other key stakeholders, the places in which we live, work and spend our leisure time in today’s complex and unpredictable environments would be far less safe. As a supporter of the Fire and Security Matters Awards we are proud to congratulate the finalists and winners for their achievements and wish them all every success in the future.”

Fugue, the company putting engineers in command of cloud security, announced next-generation cloud security posture management (CSPM) capabilities to help customers bring their cloud infrastructure into compliance and demonstrate that cloud environments adhere to enterprise security policies. The new features leverage Fugue’s cloud state machine, which captures every resource configuration over time in a cloud environment, and Fugue’s policy engine based on Open Policy Agent (OPA), the open source standard for policy-as-code. Fugue’s cloud state machine and OPA-based policy engine provide customers with continuous visibility into the full configuration state and security posture of their entire cloud footprint. Third party business intelligence With Fugue’s new data warehouse, teams can leverage this data to use with their third party business intelligence (BI) and security information and event management (SIEM) tools to gain better insights into their cloud environments. New integrations with Google Cloud’s Looker Business Intelligence Platform access data from the data warehouse to deliver advanced out-of-the-box reporting and data analytics capabilities that help teams understand their cloud security posture in full context while radically streamlining compliance audits. Enterprise cloud environments With Fugue, we now have access to the full configuration and compliance history of our cloud" “Fugue has simplified the process of maintaining and demonstrating compliance for our cloud environment, a task that now requires fewer resources and a fraction of the time,” said Dale Courtney, IT Manager at Emsi. “With Fugue, we now have access to the full configuration and compliance history of our cloud and can analyse that data and create our own custom reports in ways we haven’t been able to before.” “Today’s dynamic and complex enterprise cloud environments - and the modern attacks that put them at risk  - have far outpaced the ability of repurposed datacenter tools to keep data secure,” said Phillip Merrick, CEO of Fugue. Demonstrated cloud compliance “Cloud is 100% software-defined, making cloud security a software engineering problem, not a traditional security analysis one. Fugue’s next-generation CSPM takes a software engineering approach to cloud security so our customers can get their cloud configurations into compliance quickly and ensure they stay that way - without ever slowing them down.” Fugue’s next-generation CSPM capabilities empower teams to continuously demonstrate compliance using: The data warehouse that provides access to the complete configuration and compliance history of their cloud infrastructure environments for use with third party BI and SIEM tools. Advanced reporting with Google Looker that makes it easy to demonstrate cloud compliance to management and auditors - including historical audits. Configuration state modeling of every resource, relationship, and configuration attribute to understand cloud security in full context and over time. Policy-as-code analysis using OPA that automatically assesses the security posture of cloud infrastructure environments and delivers a detailed and prioritised path to bring them into compliance. Interactive, exportable visual maps that create a shared understanding across teams of what’s running in a cloud environment, including all resource relationships and security vulnerabilities. Eliminate cloud misconfiguration Fugue identifies cloud misconfiguration and compliance violations and helps teams eliminate it with: Cloud configuration baselining and drift detection to understand every change made to a cloud environment and whether those changes violate policy or introduce misconfiguration vulnerabilities. Configuration drift reporting that includes detailed remediation feedback and API-based integrations so teams can get the notifications they need, when they need them. Baseline enforcement that makes security-critical configurations self-healing by automatically remediating unauthorised change - without the need for automation scripts or the risk of unintended destructive events. Software development lifecycle Fugue empowers engineers to find and fix cloud security and compliance issues early in the software development lifecycle with: On-demand policy checks for dev environments to identify security issues and get the feedback needed to remediate them and move forward. An API to integrate cloud security in CI/CD pipelines that automatically run policy checks on cloud infrastructure configurations prior to deploying to production. Infrastructure-as-code validation with Regula, Fugue’s open source tool that applies the same OPA policy-as-code rules used to assess running cloud environments. Industry compliance standards Fugue provides turnkey support for industry compliance standards including CIS Foundations Benchmarks, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, PCI, and SOC 2. Fugue supports custom enterprise policies using OPA and provides the Fugue Best Practices framework to protect against advanced misconfiguration exploits that compliance standards miss. Fugue offers Enterprise and Team plans under a 30-day free trial, and the free Fugue Developer plan for individual engineers. It takes 15 minutes to get up and running with Fugue.