The Institute of Security Science and Technology's annual security science lecture is named in honour of Professor H. V. A. Briscoe (b. 1888, d. 1961). Vincent Briscoe was a distinguished inorganic chemist in the Department of Chemistry (1932 – 1954). He began his career in the College as an undergraduate from 1906 – 1909 where he worked under Professor T. E. Thorpe, and was a lecturer at the College during the First World War. He then became Professor at the Sir John Cass Technical Institute and Armstrong College, Newcastle before being appointed as Chair of Inorganic chemistry at Imperial in 1932 – the first Professor of Inorganic chemistry in the country – becoming Head of Department in 1949. During his war work he explored the chemistry of thorium and the rare earths as well as working on a number of secret projects. He worked on phosgene, high vacuum techniques, and made precise atomic weight determinations of vanadium, tin, thallium, boron and bromine, and pioneered isotopic labelling techniques using 2H and 18O to study exchange reactions. He was famous for his lecture demonstrations, and also apparently a keen motorist whose knowledge of London streets ‘would not have disgraced a taxi driver’. The Undergraduate Physical Chemistry Laboratory in the Chemistry Building at South Kensington is named after him. To mark the centenary of the founding of the British Security Service (MI5), Professor Christopher Andrew (Professor of Modern and Contemporary History, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) was given exclusive access to the Service's files and archives in order to produce an authorised history of the Service: The Defence of the Realm. In his book, Professor Andrew credits Briscoe with providing the first independent scientific advice to the Service, in 1915, on the subject of secret German writing. Service records indicate Briscoe's continuing assistance throughout the inter-war years and during and after the Second World War.
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ISST's annual lecture - Vincent Briscoe Lecture
Author of the first official history of MI6, Professor Keith Jeffery (Queens University Belfast) investigates the extent to which the profession of intelligence might be described as a science in the 2nd Vincent Briscoe Security Lecture. He also explores the role of science itself in both the working and the targeting of British intelligence operations in peace and war.
MI5's first official historian, Christopher Andrew, delivers the inaugural Vincent Briscoe Security Lecture. He explores the interaction between science, technology, and secret intelligence over the last century, from the world wars to the era of transnational terrorism.
Terrorist success depends not only on an ability to keep one step ahead of the authorities, but also one step ahead of counter-terrorist technology. But curiously, as radical or fanatical as terrorists may be, both politically and ideologically, they are technologically conservative. Bruce Hoffman (Georgetown University) explores this paradox and assesses terrorism’s ongoing technological trajectory in the 4th Vincent Briscoe Security Lecture.
In the 3rd Vincent Briscoe Security Lecture, former US Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff asks: when is a cyber attack a genuine act of war? What is the line between the development of offensive versus defensive cyber capabilities? How can law enforcement most effectively combat cyber crime and cyber terrorism while maintaining civil liberties and privacy?
Jamie Bartlett (Demos) explores dark internet subcultures, hidden encrypted websites and the people behind them in the 5th Vincent Briscoe Security Lecture. He covers the rise of citizen-led encryption systems, the crypto-currency bitcoin, the anonymous browser 'Tor', online drugs markets, and how extremist groups and criminals use the internet. Jamie explains how this world operates, and what it means for public safety and security.
In the 6th Vincent Briscoe Security Lecture, former UK Science Minister David Willetts considers ways in which a safe and secure space environment can be sustained and how we must work with international partners and the industrial and academic community to safeguard this 'global commons', which is so important to our critical infrastructure.