Press Release

Securipedia goes live

29 September 2008

Intellect, the trade association for the UK technology industry, has today launched Securipedia – an online wiki for open source, unclassified information sharing between the UK security and resilience community.

A huge variety of agencies and companies guarantee the UK’s security and resilience, and Intellect believes that better information sharing across this broad community is key to improving national security & resilience. Securipedia offers government, companies, academics and the voluntary sector an open platform to communicate, collaborate and develop a better collective understanding of this complex area.

Joel Grundy, Programme Manager at Intellect, said:

“Organisations and individuals in the security and resilience space, from public or private sectors, can use Securipedia to pool information on policy, research or projects. The potential is endless - a regional disaster management agency might, for instance, use Securipedia to investigate which companies are involved in flood defence technology when upgrading their systems.”

Securipedia will build up a comprehensive, accessible bank of essential information including, for example, government reports, policies and initiatives; think-tank research, technology developments, volunteer organisation initiatives and local government agency projects. Having a single place to share this information will help what is at times a disconnected community to knit together without sacrificing agility or creating disruptive organisational change.

Grundy continues:

“For the security and resilience community, there’s a sea of information with isolated islands of expertise and understanding. Securipedia starts to map some of those islands and help the community generate a shared view of this very complex space.
The US community has been using wikis to share this kind of information for a while, and we’re hoping to bring some of the benefits they’ve seen to the UK. Like most wikis, this will be driven by its users, so I’d urge all those with an interest to visit www.intellectuk.org/securipedia and join in”