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Media Contacts: Vanessa Showalter, Allied Universal/PR Manager Phone: 714-619-9744 Email: Vanessa.Showalter@aus.com Nancy Thompson, Vorticom Public Relations Phone: 212-532-2208 Email: nancyt@vorticom.com SANTA ANA, Calif./ATLANTA – January 20, 2021-- Allied Universal® , a leading security and facility services company in North America, recently announced the acquisition of SecurAmerica -- a privately held, Atlanta, Georgia-based security company with 49 offices located throughout the United States. …
Alejandra Facio Receptionist--El Paso, Texas office/Allied Universal United States Army Although Alejandra Facio didn’t come from a military family, she felt a deep call to serve her country and wanted to make her family proud. At age 20, Alejandra joined the United States Army where she served for more than three years. In the army, Alejandra was a Quartermaster and Chemical Equipment Repairer stationed in Korea and Ft. Hood. After her time with the Army, Alejandra faced the challenge of returning to the …
In this blog, we examine the special needs of high net worth individuals and families who want to travel safely. Why HNW Families Need Secure Travel Support: Prominence and Wealth Increase the Risks The lifestyles of high net worth families often include lots of travel, both domestically and abroad. In addition to the risks that all travelers face, however, from the banal but all-too-common traffic accident to getting mugged in an unfamiliar city, the prominence and wealth of high net worth individuals …
The practice of intelligence analysis originated in national intelligence agencies tasked with supporting national security, foreign policy, and military objectives, and used to be something that only governments took seriously. Intelligence analysts now play an increasingly important role in safeguarding a wide variety of corporate interests, too, ranging from the protection of people to understanding risks that might impact anything from supply chains to critical assets such as production facilities, …
Job burnout, or work-related stress, is an ever-present risk for busy EP agents. While almost none of the alpha types in our industry are willing to admit it, many of us have worked the crazy hours that lead up to burnout – and more than a few of us have discovered the negative consequences of work-related stress too late. In this blog, we take a look at what causes burnout, and what EP agents and managers – as well as our clients – can do to prevent it. What is job burnout? According to the WHO, job …
Some of the most common questions we get from new corporate executive protection clients concern staffing levels is as follows: What are our options? What have companies with similar needs done before us? How many people do we need to set up a program, and what kinds of people do they need to be? This is a natural line of questioning. Those tasked with starting up new corporate EP projects often have little or no experience in the field or track record for reference. This can also be the case for those …
The “make-or-buy” decision is a classic quandary for manufacturing companies. Is the corporation better off making a product or component, or would it be smarter to buy the product from an external supplier? Also called “the outsourcing question”, the same issues apply when companies are faced with the choice of developing in-house service capabilities or contracting with an external service provider. Companies that have decided to start up executive protection programs must answer their own “make-or-buy” …
When most of us think about advance work for executive protection, checklists are still the first things that come to mind. If you’ve got the right checklists and use them the right way, you’re ready for the trip. We’ve developed and refined plenty of them over the years, and we understand why a lot of EP professionals view advance checklists like cooks view their secret sauce recipes: you use them all the time, you don’t share them with just anyone, and you probably inherited them from your own mentor. …
There are a lot of concerns these days about social media and security. Most of this has to do with the security of personal data. Can hackers get into our accounts? What do companies big and small know about us? How are they using it? How securely are they storing it? These are legitimate concerns for everyone, whether you’re a highly prominent CEO or a busy high school student, and there are things we all can do to improve our online security. We’ll even include some general social media safety tips in …
We’ve been getting an increasing number of questions about critical incident response teams (CIRTs) from existing and potential clients. This is natural due to the many active shooter incidents reported not only in schools but also in public areas and workplaces. There is even a website called Mass Shooting Tracker that documents this disturbing trend and reported in 2018 more than 2,000 incidents in which four or more people were shot since 2013 in the U.S. alone We do this as executive protection …
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