Posts Tagged ‘Operational Risk Management’
How Security Teams Can Leverage Crime Data to Protect Their Assets and Facilities
Whether you’re scouting for a new business location or assessing the safety of an existing one, corporate security professionals focused on keeping facilities, employees, visitors or other assets safe, need a way to better understand the geographical risks surrounding them. With the increase in crime rates being a persistent and endemic problem in the United States,…
Read MoreRed Teaming at Scale to Uncover Your Big Unknowns
This article was originally featured on Dark Reading During the global war on terror, a group of commissioned and noncommissioned officers in the United States military participated in a unique training event. Soldiers of various ranks, all with different specialties, assembled in a remote location where they were stripped of rank and other identifying markers.…
Read MoreA Constant State of Crisis: How Corporate Security Teams Are Adapting to the New Normal
Corporate security teams face a new normal, and it’s called permacrisis – a state where instability and insecurity are constant. While many security teams already operate in this mindset, the difference is that the security department is one of many teams in constant vigilance. As a result, departments across organizations are becoming aware of permacrisis…
Read MoreA Physical Security Imperative: Critical Infrastructure Security
Attacks on critical infrastructure have doubled in the last year, with events such as the attacks on Ukrainian power companies, Colonial Pipeline and JBS Food, that have brought to light the necessity of critical infrastructure security systems and networks to function properly for society to operate. The impact of recent cyber attacks on power grids…
Read MoreDeveloping a “Corporate Foreign Policy”: The Urgent Need for Boardroom Geopolitics Strategies
An era of pervasive geopolitical tumult means that companies, and the executives who run them, must begin formulating and following coherent strategies for global engagement. In the first piece of a series on the intersectionality of geopolitics and global business, Colin Reed explores this growing need, and poses early recommendations for companies seeking to develop…
Read MoreUsing The Indications and Warning (I&W) Analysis to Manage Organizational Risk
The Center for Connected Intelligence partnered with Scott McHugh who works for the Institute for Homeland Security at Sam Houston State University to develop this piece. One of the key reasons we created the Ontic Center for Connected Intelligence (CCI) was to share industry tools, best practices and lessons learned to help those who protect…
Read MoreWhy Corporate Execs Should Prepare For Heightened Polarization
This article was originally featured on Forbes This year alone, the Department of Homeland Security has issued over half a dozen National Terrorism Advisory Bulletins. The latest warned that the U.S. remains in a heightened threat environment. Sadly, the DHS’s bulletins aren’t a new development. For the past few years, domestic extremists and foreign adversaries alike…
Read More6 Measures Safety, Security and Protection Leaders Can Take To Be Proactive During Volatile Times
In our recent webinar, Leading Corporate Security During Volatile Times, Ontic security experts joined to discuss ways for security leaders to future-proof their programs, prioritize protection and leverage technology to help mitigate risks inflicted by the rapidly-evolving threat landscape. The panel consisted of Chuck Randolph, Executive Director of Strategic Intelligence, Dr. Marisa Randazzo, Executive Director…
Read MoreHow to Build Situational Awareness Faster in Your Organization
See how modern advancements emphasize the benefits of integrated technology in enhancing faster threat detection and response. Situational awareness is mandatory for the modern security professional. Understanding where threats originate and their vector relative to your principals and assets helps companies mitigate risk and protect their operations. In the past, corporate security teams relied heavily…
Read MoreCorporate Stances, Potential Blowback and Security Strategies
This article was originally featured on Security Info Watch The drumbeat of bad news for corporate security and risk management seems to be endless: blowback from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the mass shooting in Uvalde, Russia’s war in Ukraine, the upcoming 2022 midterm elections, the ongoing investigation and hearings…
Read MoreLeading Corporate Security During Volatile Times
Watch this webinar with Ontic security experts to learn how to:
Read MoreManaging Risk Teams Through Multiple Crises: L.E.A.R.N While You Lead
Security and risk teams continue to be stretched thin, tasked with managing multiple priorities of work within an uncertain environment fueled by the ongoing effects of issues such as COVID-19, civil unrest and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. They are asked to stay on top of the ancillary effects of all those issues. Still, they are…
Read MoreTaking Sides: Securing Executives and Operations Amid Unrest
The tempo of protective security concerns since the 2020 election have been relentless. Threats have been non-stop since the 2020 election, followed by the January 6th storming of the U.S. Capitol, the D.C. bomber on the run, compounded by protests related to the pandemic, social justice issues and economic unrest. The leaked Supreme Court memo…
Read MoreHow Security Professionals Can Manage Threats From Extremism And Covid-19 Backlash
This article was originally featured on Forbes Count corporate security professionals among those wary of our country’s turbulent political landscape. The results of a recent survey my company, Ontic, conducted indicate that the rise in domestic extremism and political-related violence were among the highest concerns of security, compliance and legal professionals whose job it is to keep…
Read MoreThe Global Focus, And Local Reality
The security environment that large companies face is book-ended right now by two momentous and historical events. On one end is the rise of domestic extremism, on display most potently during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. On the other is the human tragedy unfolding in Ukraine, along with the personnel, global security,…
Read MoreImagining the Unimaginable: A Letter From Executive Director Fred Burton
As we think about the unique challenges that we have faced over the past few months, it’s a good time to scan the horizon for what lies ahead. The Omicron variant arrived during a holiday season when many, not including myself however, had anticipated a reemergence from the pandemic. Supply chain issues led to a…
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