Growth, Progress and Future Hope: Ontic Raises Series A
Today Ontic announced our Series A financing in what is admittedly an interesting time to announce a round of funding. In the midst of what for some has meant sickness, uncertainty and financial distress, we’re announcing growth, progress and future hope. We appreciate the moment we are in, and we’re doing our best to be…
Read MoreThe Terrorist Attack Cycle Remains Unbroken
While our team and many protective intelligence professionals across the industry like to speak to the benefits of new technologies and new methods for protecting assets, we acknowledge that everything we do has a foundation in the tried and true methods that our colleagues in public sector security have developed over the decades. Specifically, it…
Read MoreHow Corporate Security Teams are Evolving
In light of new demands on intelligence programs, security teams have made changes pertaining to team composition, new technology, and the maturing of their programs. Over recent years there have been a number of distinct changes that we have observed as it relates to how corporate security teams operate across all industries. First, the makeup…
Read MoreProtective Intelligence: ROI, Cost Savings, and Risk Analysis
Is the Risk Real? What’s the Cost if a Risk Materializes Why It’s a Critical Component of Security Risk Management The Power of Analytics How to Use a Quantitative Risk Analysis to Demonstrate ROI What Would Our Cost Savings Be With the Countermeasure? A common challenge for security programs across all industries is to demonstrate…
Read MoreThe Role Of Protective Intelligence In Estate Security
Estate security is a critical element for corporate executive protection teams and their supporting protective intelligence programs. We realize that executives spend the majority of their time at the corporate office, their primary estate, as well as various travel destinations. Two of those are static locations and are often desirable targets for would-be attackers or…
Read MoreHow Do Protective Intelligence Analysts Support Security Programs?
Each organization has its own unique structure and processes, but we have identified four primary areas in which protective intelligence analysts across large and small organizations support protective security programs: Ongoing Assessments of Threat/Vulnerability Investigations Auditing Protective Intelligence Data Travel Risk Research #1. Ongoing Assessments of Threat/Vulnerability The most fundamental functions performed by protective intelligence…
Read More10 Challenges Undermining Your Protective Intelligence Program
Protective intelligence means different things to every organization. A protective intelligence program somewhere out there only consists of a log book of suspicious events, and in other instances, it consists of a sophisticated digital platform that catalogues information, analyzes datasets for patterns, and spits out immediate reports. Our goal in this article is to provide…
Read MoreRecognizing the Critical Balance Between On-The-Ground and Remote Intelligence
My expertise is in protecting ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNIs) and dignitaries traveling internationally, with my company’s coordinated security and logistics services. Decades of experience has taught my team and I about the benefits of remote intelligence and the potential pitfalls when remote and ground intelligence efforts are not closely coordinated. In the following paragraphs,…
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