How-To Guide: Assessing an Executive’s Digital Footprint
A key element involved in understanding the threats, vulnerabilities, and associated risk to an executive is the assessment of their digital footprint. The ultimate goal is to surface what information is available online for a savvy adversary to exploit. This information could range from details about the executive’s travel movements, satellite imagery of their home(s)…
Read MoreWho’s Telling the Truth? The Evolution of the Polygraph
Most of us associate the polygraph with what we see in movies — a nervous witness sweating and communicating in short, fragmented sentences with eye contact dodging left and right. For those familiar with the test, this scenario is just the tip of the iceberg and reveals one of the biggest misconceptions many have about…
Read MoreHow to Assess Your Executive’s Digital Footprint to Identify Threats
This checklist will help you enhance your understanding of:
Read MoreHow to Mitigate Insider Threats with Continuous Monitoring
In this 45-minute webinar, you’ll learn valuable insights including how to:
Read MoreWhat It Means to Be an Executive Protection Agent
The instinct to step forward and protect leaders when danger is on the horizon has been around since the beginning of mankind. It has evolved into the field of executive protection, or close protection, to keep corporate leaders and high-net-worth individuals and their families safe. In movies, we see agents wearing black suits, disrupting threats…
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How to Assess Your
Executive’s Digital Footprint
to Identify Threats
In this 45-minute webinar, you’ll learn valuable insights about:
Read MoreConsiderations for Personal Safety and Small Office Protection
Not all organizations have large security teams observing and protecting employees and their customers during their day-to-day operations. Small office environments who lack the resources for security staff are often left scrambling when something doesn’t feel right, or, conversely, overreact when presented with an unwanted situation. However, employees and business owners working at organizations of…
Read MoreThe Digital Transformation of Protective Intelligence within a GSOC
This podcast was originally featured on The Great Conversation. Global Security Operations Centers are increasingly expanding their investigative capabilities by formalizing the methodology within a digital transformation model. We turn to a top-performing security professional with over 15 years of physical security experience covering the entire spectrum of Physical Security; Security Operations, Executive Protection, Security…
Read MoreSupporting Mental Health in a Time Where Corporate Security Teams Need it Most
There are times in my career when there are simply no words and silence is the best option. The never-ending chaos of terrorism certainly affected me, particularly when I was a young special agent. When I close my eyes, I can still see the devastation from many crime scenes, such as hijackings and plane crashes.…
Read MoreBehind the Scenes of the JonBenét Ramsey Investigation
The feeling of knowing you are being observed from afar by someone with ill intentions is unequivocally a worst-case scenario. Whether the pre-operational surveillance takes place over days, weeks or months, there are few things that can stand in the way of a true psychopath — such as the unidentified individual who murdered JonBenét Ramsey…
Read MoreProtective Intelligence Lessons From the U.S. Capitol Riot For Companies
This article was originally featured in Security Magazine. After a lifetime in the protection business, the one constant in Washington that I’ve learned is that it takes tragedy to force change. The January 6 Capitol riot is not an enigma. This was a clear protective intelligence failure. The key finding of Retired Army LTG. Russel…
Read MoreThe Unmatched Value of Crisis and Contingency Planning for Situations You Least Expect
If you’re in trouble, even in the most intricate of situations, there’s a high likelihood that Frederic (Fred) Piry can think of a way out. With a background working in Mobile Security Deployments (MSD) — the 911 for diplomatic security — Fred has quite literally moved mountains to get protectees out of unimaginable situations. In…
Read MoreAs Athletes Play, Bad Actors Can Prey: Why Protective Intelligence is Needed in Sports
This article was originally published in Athletic Business. Last year, Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana was at home with his family when he discovered an intruder trying to kidnap his granddaughter from her playpen. Fortunately, Montana and his wife were able to wrestle the 9-month old out of the woman’s arms before any serious…
Read MoreScott Stewart’s Lasting Impact on Protective Intelligence
The following is a personal message from the Executive Director, Fred Burton, regarding Scott Stewart’s nomination as a Pioneer in the Protective Intelligence Honors Program: One cold and rainy Thanksgiving Day many years ago in Washington, D.C., our command center notified us about a domestic threat from a person of interest against the Secretary of…
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Jack Carr’s Path from Former Navy SEAL to New York Times Bestselling Author
If you’re a protection officer, chances are you’ve read a Jack Carr novel (or six) while in a down room or taking a break in a follow car. Whether you’re in the field of protection, a retired officer, or want to escape into an adrenaline-filled place of being a Navy SEAL sniper, pick up one…
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