The Meticulous Eye Demanded by High Profile Investigations
When one incorrect piece of data could cost someone their life, you have no choice but to be meticulous about what you do. Kurt McKenzie, Director of Physical Security at MongoDB, has had a career that hinges on the ability to be meticulous in every single thing he analyzes. He is a retired FBI Supervisory…
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 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 More‘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
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 systems — unsure…
Read MoreMitigating 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…
Read MoreHow Empathy Can Help Prevent Violence in the Workplace and in Schools
This article was originally featured in Security Magazine. Over the past year, security personnel across a wide swath of sectors have reported that threats are increasing in volume, severity and/or in urgency. And many organizations are trying to figure out how best to handle this spike in threats. For some supervisors and C-suite leadership, their inclination is…
Read MoreInside the Mind of the Attacker: Using Red Teaming to Mitigate Business Risk
Dr. Treston Wheat is a red team analyst who specializes in TTP (tactics, techniques, procedures) research, threat modeling, and social engineering. Previously, he was a strategic cybersecurity analyst and geopolitical risk analyst. Dr. Wheat is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University teaching about intelligence analysis, and he is the editor-in-chief of IPSB’s The Close…
Read MoreThe Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Strengthening Insider Threat Resilience with Cyber-Physical Integration
A tactical approach to blending cyber and physical security intelligence operations A Strategic Mindset Getting Tactical MITRE Converged Integrated Defense Framework In part one of this two-part overview, I addressed many of the key themes and priorities required to mitigate insider risk properly. There has been a great deal of discourse relating to how an…
Read MoreWhen the Little Things Add Up: The Intel Analysts’ Role in Communicating Imminent Risk to Leadership
The geopolitical landscape has become increasingly complex to manage for intel analysts — especially those conducting risk assessments on an international level. They have to be hyper-aware of countries with a more authoritarian regime that can leverage the business relationship in their best interest, putting the company at risk. However, it’s not always easy to…
Read MoreShattering Silos: Getting Security and Human Resources to Partner Together for Safety
Security professionals and human resources (HR) professionals share a common goal – fostering a safe and secure workplace – yet they often don’t know how to partner together to make it happen. In this episode, Dr. Marisa Randazzo talks with Nici McLean and Melissa Muir, two HR professionals who are passionate about bridging this divide…
Read MoreThe Evolution of Targeted Violence and Why the Threats We Don’t See Pose the Most Danger
When entering unknown territory, the sound of a barking dog in the distance poses an ominous foreshadowing of the potential violence ahead. Identifying the magnitude of the bite (or threat) and how to mitigate it is pivotal to coming out unscathed, and is a mission that Mike Roche, former Secret Service Special Agent and author,…
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