How Corporate Intelligence Teams Help Businesses Manage Risk

This article was originally featured in Harvard Business Review and was written by Paul R. Kolbe and Maria Robson Morrow of the Intelligence Project at the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. In January 2020, a small team at the global financial services technology company Fiserv began closely watching early warning signs of a…

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Why the Insider Threat Will Motivate Cyber and Physical Teams to Collaborate More Than Ever in 2022

This article was originally featured in IFSEC Global The convergence of cyber and physical security functions reflects the increasing interplay of digital systems and the physical world, and the growing consensus that a gap in one realm leaves the other exposed. But silos between the two security functions continue to exist. In some cases, it’s…

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Reining in Workplace Violence in Healthcare: What Strategies Work?

Discover effective strategies for mitigating workplace violence in healthcare settings from Dr. Marisa Randazzo. This article was originally featured in Security Magazine Two recent news stories –– an active shooter at a Philadelphia hospital, and the distribution of panic buttons to staffers at a Missouri hospital –– make public what many people in the healthcare industry already know: workplace…

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Leading in High-Stress Circumstances from a Former CIA Operations Officer

It’s not always in the forefront of their story, but all great leaders have faced adversity to succeed. Marc Polymeropoulos, former CIA Operations Officer, knows this lesson all too well after serving 26 years of service where he has learned a great deal from the pressure of making decisions in some of the most stressful…

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The Protective Intelligence Winter Podcast List

There’s something about winter that implies new beginnings with a new year ahead. It’s a time where I think about the information I am consuming and how my lifestyle has changed. With conference travel cautiously picking up, it has created the opportunity to listen more — specifically, listen to more podcasts. In addition to the…

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The Protective Intelligence Winter Reading List

With 2021 coming to a close, and the first day of winter upon us, there’s no better time to hit pause and immerse yourself in a good book. Especially when you work in the world of security, safety and protection during a year where you’ve been pushed beyond your limits and faced with the unimaginable…

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Structuring the Unstructured: Using a Converged Security Operations Console and Integrated Research to Better Evaluate Threats

In my last post I discussed why it’s important for security teams to have the right data structure in place to gain more visibility of potential threat signals. Whether you’re missing information because of not knowing where to look, not having the right tools in place, or because you’re inundated with noise, it’s easy for…

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Study Finds Increase in Cybersecurity and Physical Security Attacks Against Executives

Cybersecurity and physical security to prevent executive attacks

In the art of protective and tactical intelligence, trends and analytics matter. Information and intelligence feed “living” threat assessments and should drive your cybersecurity and physical security strategy, coverages, and resources. Protection resources cannot be logically allocated to protect executives and companies without first understanding the holistic threat landscape. In the executive protection security space,…

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