You’ve Just Crossed Over into the Deep, Dark Web It’s the stuff of crime novels and science fiction movies: a virtual world that seems so mysterious and foreboding that one enters only at his or her own risk. Welcome to the dark web, a quadrant of the internet that serves up a motley collection...
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How Mature is your Security Program?
How Mature is Your Security Program? Numbers don’t lie, and quantitative analysis is the key to achieving your company’s security goals. Organizations need to know where their current programs align with best practices, and where there might be gaps, to ensure operational function that consistently achieves exceptional results. A preparedness program that identifies deficiencies...
A Contrarian View: Corporate Security, Crisis Management, and Wholesale Malaise
A Contrarian View: Corporate Security, Crisis Management, and Wholesale Malaise February, 2021 Part I Jon Watson During my time at the FBI Atlanta Field Office, I once received a cable from the State Department informing us that one of our area university professors had been in extended contact with the Russians. He ran a...
Increasing Security through Situational Awareness
Simply stated, situational awareness is knowing where you are; who, and what, is around you; and what imminent or emerging threats may soon require your full attention and correct response. Knowledge, experience, and education enable us all to better interpret our surroundings and help determine if they are safe. This means everyone’s perspective is...
Crime Prevention through Environmental Design (CPTED)
Offenders and regular users of space alike can observe environmental cues that indicate, “This is a safe place,” or “This place appears to be unsafe.” Sophisticated, expensive security is not the sole solution to ensure the physical safety and security of your work site. Organizations should take advantage of natural opportunities beyond security personnel...
Words Matter. How well will you communicate during your next crisis?
Words Matter. How well will you communicate during your next crisis? The value of any communications must be weighed against the potential exposure or liability upon which that communications may create. Yet, employee and public confidence in the ability of your organization to deal with a crisis, and to bring about a satisfactory conclusion,...
Workplace Violence Prevention… Where to Begin
Workplace Violence Prevention… Where to Begin Any definition of workplace violence must be broad enough to encompass the full range of behaviors that can cause injury, damage property, impede the normal course of work, or make workers, managers, and customers fear for their safety. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines...
Odin Enterprises and Atlanta Specialized Care Announce Partnership
Odin Enterprises and Atlanta Specialized Care Announce Partnership Odin Enterprises, a security solutions provider, and Atlanta Specialized Care, a professional counseling practice, are pleased to announce a partnership between the organizations. Odin Enterprises has strong relationships with strategic partners, trusted advisors, and industry experts, who include some of the most knowledgeable individuals in the...
Test Exercise Planning
Test Exercise Planning If you run a business, you’ve learned – and perhaps the hard way – that you don’t get what you ‘expect,’ you only get what you ‘inspect.’ The same can said for your crisis response platforms. Successfully mitigating the impacts of any emergency or crisis event depends upon routine testing, audits...
Real-time Social Media Security Monitoring
Social media threat monitoring is exactly that, proactively using social media to identify and analyze security threats that originate online in the public domain. These threats include everything from negative sentiment identification to explicit threats targeting personnel....