Continuity Planning for Wildfires

Continuity Planning for Wildfires

As noted in previous blogs, business continuity and emergency management are fairly broad terms encompassing a large range of potential crises, disasters, risks, and disruptions. Natural disasters are, arguably, one of the most potentially devastating of these...
Preparing Your Workplace for an Active Shooter Crisis

Preparing Your Workplace for an Active Shooter Crisis

In wake of an uptick in mass shooting events, many businesses and institutions have become forced to think more preemptively about how to keep themselves safe from such crises. As security loopholes continue to be exploited and safety culture continues to subsequently...
What Does the Pittsburgh Shooting Mean for Religious Security?

What Does the Pittsburgh Shooting Mean for Religious Security?

Not even a week after the tragic Pittsburgh synagogue shooting that claimed 11 lives, the faith-based community and other gathering places have found themselves left with an almost unfathomable, but inevitably relevant question: “what if a shooting happens here next?”...
Behavior alteration: the first step to strong security

Behavior alteration: the first step to strong security

There are numerous key components that make up a functional security program, but arguably the most important one is a necessary alteration of behavior; which is the willingness of all parties involved to embrace new ways of thinking and acting to ensure that general...