Executive Protection in the Digital World In the past, executive protection was focused on mitigating physical threats to an executive in the real world, including blackmail, kidnap and ransom, assault, and more. In today’s world, however, executives have become prime targets not of physical attacks, but rather digital attacks by malicious hackers and bad actors....
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What is an External Threat?
Every organization has external threats. What threats will impact your organization’s safety, security, reputation, and bottom line? What is an External Threat? An external threat is a threat that originates external to your organization. External threats come in many forms, including physical, cyber, and reputational. Malicious threats come from bad actors, criminal groups, or may...
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 laboratory...