ASIAL Security Insider
Australian Security Industry Association Limited
5.0from 2 ratings
- 165
- Episodes
- 62
- Transcribed
- 2
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 35K
- YouTube views
About ASIAL Security Insider
Drones and robotics are moving from niche capability to mainstream security tools—and at the same time, they’re creating entirely new attack paths for adversaries. In this episode of the ASIAL Security Insider Podcast, we speak with Deborah Evans (Edith Cowan University) about where unmanned systems and robotics are heading, what’s already in use across security and law enforcement, and what the industry must do to prepare. We discuss current developments in UAVs and other Unmanned Systems (UxS) and robotics, the pace-setting influence of China and the United States, and how modern conflict—especially Ukraine/Russia—is driving rapid innovation, adaptability, and proliferation. From a practical security operations lens, we explore what’s likely to be adopted next: more persistent surveillance and patrol, disaster response, and environmental monitoring, enabled by higher-level data analytics and increasingly autonomous systems. We also look further ahead at emerging capabilities such as micro and nano systems, swarming, and the evolution of Counter-UAS (C-UAS)—including detection methods and the trade-offs between kinetic, non-kinetic, and hybrid defeat approaches. Finally, we address the issues that will shape real-world adoption: preparedness, regulation, social and national security concerns, and why the security industry must lead proactively, accept measured crossover from military development, and invest intelligently in C-UAS readiness.
- Publisher
- Australian Security Industry Association Limited
- Category
- education · government · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 14 Mar 2019
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
62 of 165 episodes have a transcript.
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 165 - Digital Malevolence: The Dark Psychology Driving Online Extremism
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 164 - Are You Too Smart to Be Fooled? Social Engineering, Mentalism and the Age of AI
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 163 - Security 2030- What’s Next for Australia’s Security Industry? Part 2
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Ep 165 - Digital Malevolence: The Dark Psychology Driving Online Extremism
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And, you know, it's really concerning. So we have to find ways also to fight back online. I wanted to ask, most of us associate extremism with political or religious beliefs, but your research describes this growing movement where cruelty, chaos, and violence can become objects themselves, this nihilistic violent extremism. This sounds more to the average person like just child predator type stuff. Why are you specifically referring to this as a form of terrorism? Because it does have an ideology. And for me, when you're looking at terrorism, you're looking at a group, you're looking at an ideology, you're looking at some level of social support for it, and then you're looking at that interacting with the vulnerabilities in the individual. […]
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