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The executive protection industry is growing. Every year, more people are working in protective security, serving more clients than ever before. Corporations, family offices, and individuals are hiring, too. Although specialist providers like us are getting better at planning a career path, we still have a long way to go. Corporations that hire protective security personnel as full-time employees rarely, if ever, provide these niche staff anything like the career advancement opportunities that they …
Here is our list of six dysfunctions that are responsible for a lot of trouble in both corporate and high net worth protection: 1. Dissimilar framing of what executive protection is all about 2. Poor scoping of executive protection programs 3. Inappropriate span of control in executive protection programs 4. Poor executive protection program leadership 5. An environment of fear in executive protection programs 6. Too much ego in executive protection programs As in other areas of life, these dysfunctional …
Executive protection will always be physical, but cyber threats must now be an integrated element of risk mitigation, too. During the last few years, enterprise security risk experts have shed a fair amount of ink on the “convergence” of physical and cybersecurity. As physical security progressively takes advantage of and relies on digital technology (for example, a majority of major US and European companies already use biometric access control), cyber vulnerabilities quickly turn into physical …
When you work at the office, you take security and many other things for granted. When you work at home, things are different. In addition to doing the regular job, all of a sudden, you’ve got a new side gig as Chief Security Officer, Facilities Manager, and Corporate Canteen Chef, too. Now that millions of people around the world are learning to keep their jobs while keeping their social distance, the importance of preventing security breaches when working from home has never been greater. In this blog, …
In order to keep our clients safe, happy and productive, executive protection professionals have always had to respond and adapt to major events and trends. As the world now faces the sobering consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak, the executive protection industry will once again have to evolve to stay relevant. Some of these changes will be superficial. Some will be so profound that they could be industry game changers. Some events are so significant that they cause long-lasting security reactions which …
In this blog, we’d like to dig into just one aspect of the new normal in a world with COVID-19: the increasing importance of remote protective security management. Clients still have protective security needs all over the world. The fact that most of our corporate clients have stayed home for the last few months doesn’t mean they’ve lost interest in the world. Although globalization has its discontents and plenty of vocal detractors, according to the DHL Global Connectedness Index, “the world is still more …
If protective intelligence is the bridge that connects intel and EP, micro intelligence is what holds that bridge together. We think one way of changing this is getting clearer on the area of intelligence that are relevant to both intel analysts and EP agents: protective intelligence. There are three main things that distinguish protective intelligence from the kinds of intelligence analysis carried out by national intelligence agencies and many major corporations: Protective intelligence is about …
The problems, due to poor standardization of executive protection, are well known. The lack of shared standards makes it difficult for clients to distinguish good from bad executive protection programs. Unless a client organization has a deep understanding of why quality matters, what drives EP program quality, and how quality relates to cost, it is difficult (if not impossible) for them to appraise the real value of an EP program objectively, or to compare one program to another. In our experience, very …
In this blog, we take a closer look at three of the most frequently mentioned hesitations that make new corporate clients express – and the myths about executive protection that underlie them. Myth 1: Executive protection is no different from “bodyguards” Just search “bodyguard” in Google to know why this one pops up. The first of many pages of search results point to the BBC series and the Whitney Houston movie, both of which are entertaining but far from accurate descriptions of corporate executive …
Corporate use of Critical Incident Response Teams (CIRTs) is increasing. In this blog, we try to understand what is driving this growth trend and answer the questions and issues that often come up with new and potential clients for CIRT services. Why are CIRTs trending up? In a word, VUCA, or the mix of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, is increasingly used to describe the world in which we live. In a number, 2020, which many would nominate as the VUCA year of the decade. Or maybe just …
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