Five minutes or less — that’s how quickly 70% of active shooter events in the U.S. occur, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In those crucial moments, before law enforcement arrives and workers are faced with making life-altering decisions, the [...]
Why parking lot surveillance is central to the new security ecosystem: During the first part of the pandemic, parking lots were an abandoned frontier. Like retail shops, offices, and schools, parking lots were mostly left vacant as people followed lockdown [...]
Author - Ricardo Segovia Bohemian Grove and leadership: Every year since 1878, a group of powerful men gathers for two weeks in the woods of Northern California, in a somewhat secretive retreat called the Bohemian Grove. It has been said [...]
Rapidly Evolving Risk Environment: We are in a period of a rapidly evolving global risk environment. These changes—which include an exponential increase in signal data, greater focus on the role of corporations in civic and political affairs, social unrest, and [...]
Trends impacting security industry: Supply chain shortages, a focus on sustainability, and a changing workforce to reshape technologies — what are seven trends that will impact the physical security industry in 2022? A new HID Global study outlines and discusses [...]
Kind of Insurance and Security Business: Operating a physical security business exposes you to a range of different risks — bodily injuries, property damage, and unsatisfied customers are only the beginning. You can minimize these risks by hiring trustworthy employees [...]
Layered access strategy: Critical infrastructure is the lifeblood of our civilization, delivering power, water, fuel, connectivity, and other elements vital to the population. Any disruption could have devastating effects on families, businesses, schools, the government, and every other aspect of [...]
Infrastructures security challenges: Our nation’s water ports are crucial to both the U.S. and global economies, serving as hubs for moving raw materials, finished goods, and cruise-bound vacationers to every corner of the world. Today’s international trade is so interconnected [...]
An intelligent approach to perimeter security: Bollards, barriers, and barbed wire — these mainstays of perimeter hardware are still key elements of a comprehensive perimeter protection strategy, providing physical obstacles to intruders. As the potential threat vectors to a perimeter have [...]
Protecting social media threats: By some estimates, the number of worldwide social media users reached 4.2 billion in early 2021, and this number continues to grow. Additionally, 91.9% of U.S. marketers in companies larger than 100 employees use social media [...]
