OSHA highlights healthcare worker safety on National Caregivers Day Healthcare worker safety amid the pandemic experienced a 249% increase in injury and illness rates in 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In fact, workers in the healthcare and social [...]
Top 3 considerations of public sector crisis management communication tools: Crimes, crises, and dangerous situations are on the rise across the United States. Homicides have spiked over the past year, and a 667% increase in spear-phishing attacks alone since the start of COVID-19 [...]
Small- and medium-sized business leaders share lessons learned and best practices to keep employees and assets safe. While the cybersecurity landscape changes daily, physical security risk mitigation demands constant assessment, too. Small- and medium-sized business (SMB) owners have been challenged [...]
Trends in perimeter security: Does anyone else remember the good old days when all you needed to secure your perimeter was to clear the land around your boundary and construct a palisade with some earthworks to fortify the line? Perhaps [...]
Defending manufacturing facilities: Manufacturers help keep the supply chain humming with shipments of clothing, vehicles, electronic goods, and many more items. Those same manufacturers depend on the supply chain for the raw materials needed for finished products. Process disruptions, such [...]
Protecting physical security site surveys: In the era of entire workforces going remote and a wide variety of tasks being moved online, it seems fair to ask: what else can be transitioned to virtual due to COVID-19? Some activities — [...]
The state of the workforce: Hiring, rehiring and retaining qualified security: There are a number of factors compounding the challenging state of the workforce right now, but security leaders say it’s not all doom and gloom. Hiring and retaining qualified [...]
From perimeter security to internal monitoring, video surveillance systems can bolster risk reduction and strengthen security in educational settings. A guide from IDIS explores the role of video surveillance security in risk reduction in the education sector and in creating [...]
Author - Patrick Brosnan How to prepare for a severe weather emergency? We often think of snow and ice when we think of winter weather. But as Mother Nature has shown us with the latest La Niña cycle, winter can [...]
Author - Isaac Painter Gartner estimated that global security spending would reach over $150 billion in 2021. However, as ransomware and other cyber threats continue to spike — along with the average cost of a breach — many startups may be [...]
