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If you are considering a physical security assessment, please visit this website to preview my new book.  In the book you will find a step by step guide to conducting your assessment, establishing solutions and implementing your plan.  If you are working with a security professional to do your survey, using this book will help […]

Private security generally takes a proactive approach, the objectives are to deter, detect and delay unwanted human activity.  But sometimes the perpetrator avoids or overcomes all measures to prevent their actions and now security must respond to a potential incident that is already underway. The worst case is when the perpetrator has confronted a protected […]

Everyone is anxious to get back to work and in the excitement of reopening, security can be overlooked.  Actually, security must be your first consideration for several important reasons.  Attention is lax; everyone is focused on restarting their job, renewing acquaintances and remembering where they left off months ago. Security procedures may have been forgotten, […]

You should be alarmed … and monitored!  Forgive my play on words to get your attention but the concern is real, a facility not properly alarmed and monitored diminishes the value of other security mitigations.  For example, without alarms how would security forces know to respond to a break in or an unsecured door, or […]

This month’s discussion was prompted by a post on Linkedin that referenced an article titled “How Often Should You do a Risk Analysis?”  The author makes some good points such as: Clients wait 3 – 5 years (a lifetime in security) between reviews Risk is not static, it changes without forewarning Circumstances change making your […]

Who, goes where, when … that is access control in a nutshell.  In this post we will discuss why we need access control, some of the variations in how it is applied and some suggested techniques on applying these systems.   Why Do We Need Access Control All security systems start with a controlled perimeter.  […]

With all the attention being paid to electronic gadgets these days we sometimes lose sight of the basic elements that establish security, perimeters.  What is a perimeter; in security we define it as:   … A contiguous set of barricades such as walls, doors and natural features (like a rock face or the side of […]

Let’s first define a threat assessment, the textbook definition is:   “A threat assessment determines the credibility and seriousness of a potential threat, as well as the likelihood that it will be carried out at some point in the future”.   Many people simply lump together the elements of a threat assessment with a vulnerability […]

A security consultant can help attorneys resolve difficult cases through a variety of solutions.  A consultant can interpret video recordings for frame by frame analysis, examine service records to confirm that security equipment has been properly maintained; these and other resources are available to the attorney when seeking the services of a security consultant. The […]