Connected Intelligence: A New Approach to Managing Risk and Enabling Decision-Makers
Ensuring the safety of people and organizations is dynamic, asymmetric, and complex. A sense of permacrisis has driven a need for those tasked with managing risks to constantly perceive imperatives amongst the unyielding view of threat, risk, and problematic issues. Ontic championed the cause of Protective Intelligence and its concepts for collecting and providing information…
Read MoreOrganized Retail Crime in Focus
Fighting ORC is possible, but without a holistic view and fully resourced corporate security teams and law enforcement partners, it can be an uphill battle. This article was originally featured in Security Magazine We’ve become all too familiar with the social media videos capturing a shoplifter running out of the store with a haul of…
Read MoreThe Meticulous Eye Demanded by High Profile Investigations
In this episode In this episode, Chuck Randolph sits down with Kurt McKenzie, Director of Physical Security at MongoDB and retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent, to discuss the investigative mindset required to solve complex problems in both public and private sectors. From high-stakes federal cases like 9/11 and Amerithrax to corporate security challenges, Kurt shares…
Read MoreHow Security Teams Enable Decision-Making in Times of Crisis
Major General Richard Lake works as an independent consultant focusing on global and corporate security issues. Prior to his retirement from active duty in 2013, Lake served for over 36 years in the U.S. Marine Corps as an intelligence, foreign area, and infantry officer. He also served for four years with the CIA as one…
Read MoreSeparating Signals From Noise: The Biggest Security Challenge Moving Forward
See how generative artificial intelligence is revolutionizing threat detection and risk mitigation. This article was originally featured in Forbes When I started my career as a counterterrorism investigator, information was much harder to come by. A single clue was hard-earned and often involved following breadcrumbs and retracing steps. Real-time data was even rarer since the…
Read MoreYou See Me, You Can Be Me — The Value of Mentorship for Future Leaders
Chief Paradis possesses a combination of 30 plus years of law enforcement, higher education public safety, and emergency management experience. She currently serves as the Chief of Police and the Executive Director of Public Safety for the University of Mississippi Police Department and the Office of Public Safety.
Read MoreHow to Run Effective Workplace Violence Investigations
Learn how to improve workplace violence investigations in three areas:
Read More5 Things California Employers Should Consider to Comply with Senate Bill 553
If you are an employer in California, you’ve probably heard about Senate Bill 553, the legislation requiring most California employers to take steps to prevent and respond to workplace violence and threats. After opposition from various business groups and labor unions prompted the removal of some controversial provisions, the bill passed the California legislature and…
Read MoreCollections from a Lifetime in Protection
Anyone who has read my memoir Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent (Random House, 2008) knows I grew up in the Washington, D.C. area in the 1960s and 1970s. It was a different era when blue-collar families like mine could afford to co-mingle with the Washington power brokers and elite. Geography is always important, and…
Read MoreTill Death Do Us Part — Security at High-Profile Funerals
When it comes down to it, funerals for high-profile individuals reflect much of what takes place at a large scale event. From the intricate level of detail involved in planning logistics to managing media to ensuring unwanted guests stay clear of the service — the event must feel seamless to the average spectator, despite the…
Read MoreOntic Connect Madison
Join the Ontic team and enterprise security leaders for a networking happy hour with heavy appetizers and cocktails at Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse inside the Hilton Garden Inn. This exclusive event is your chance to network with other corporate security teams from the Madison area. Happy hour starts at 5:00pm, but come and go as you…
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‘Mission First, People Always:’ A Mantra for Security Talent
This article was originally featured in Security Management. The phrase “Mission first, people always” is a common mantra in the military, and it is often borrowed in leadership studies. It’s a vision of success that invests in the success of those around you, a sense of shared mission (the why), no matter your specialty or…
Read MoreEmpowering Security Professionals to Impact the Bottom Line with HiveWatch CEO Ryan Schonfeld
In this episode Driven by his frustrations as an end-user of security tools, Ryan Schonfeld, Founder and CEO of HiveWatch, built a company to make it easier for security professionals to be more connected and informed. He knows firsthand the abundance of data available to interpret and the antiquated practices of collecting it from disparate…
Read MoreProduct Showcase: Incidents, Investigations, and Case Management
Mitigating the Alarming Extent of Publicly Accessible Personal Data through Global Integrity’s Qphone
Imagine everywhere you go, and everything you do is being tracked for others to access — from coffee shop visits, to work, to the websites you visit, the list goes on. The hard truth is this threat is a reality for the majority of people. Bill Marlow, CEO and Founder of Global Integrity, has created…
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