The Unique Challenges of Securing America’s Public Spaces
Article
Public spaces can draw a variety of behaviors that may negatively affect the space and the people using them. These can range from nuisance behavior, such as panhandling and street preaching, to more serious events, such as large-scale protests and demonstrations, and to dangerous behaviors targeting government personnel, authority, and legitimacy.
Security Management, October 2025
Threat Intelligence: Understanding How Threat Management Supports Resilient Organizations
ASIS Research
This benchmarking report examined how companies obtained threat intelligence and the processes they used to incorporate the intelligence into resilient business operations.
ASIS International, August 2025
The Farmer and the Donkey: A True Fable About Threat Intelligence
Article
An auto parts manufacturer with facilities throughout Central America suffered a unique civil unrest incident that crippled part of its supply chain and learned that its corporate security department was right where it needed to be.
Security Management, August 2025
Campus Protests: Working Together to Meet Peace with Peace
Article
Finding themselves at the epicenter of much of the protest activity, colleges and universities have had to make hard decisions on how to respond. While each institution was presented with unique circumstances and made their decisions based on those circumstances, the results were of varying success.
Security Management, May 2025
Body Language that Undermines De-Escalation
Video
If the message a person’s body language sends clashes with their verbal statements, it creates a sense of distrust, suspicion, and unwillingness to cooperate.
Security Management, November 2024
How Dysregulation Affects De-Escalation
Article
If crisis responders are under chronic stress, their response to the incident could make matters significantly worse.
Security Management, November 2024
Mitigating Threats in a Politically Charged Landscape
Article
Building a proactive plan to deal with threats, organizations can position themselves to respond swiftly and effectively, minimizing impacts on operations, employees, and assets.
Security Management, October 2024
Who and What is at Risk in Politically Charged Environments?
Video
Violent actors motivated by a polarized political landscape have cast a wide net, aiming at targets that normally lie outside the limelight.
Security Management, October 2024
Preparing for Mass Protests and Disruption
eBook
A dramatic rise in polarization and misinformation is heightening the threat of mass protests, political instability, and extremism in 2024 and beyond. This collection of Security Management articles can help you prepare.
Security Management, 2024
Preparing for Civil Unrest and War in Cultural Properties
Article
Cultural properties are interrelated with people, and their protection is fundamental to human rights, community and social identity, and a sense of place and wellbeing.
Security Management, January 2024
Understanding the 3 Levels of Security Glass
Article
To help clarify terminology around the differing glass solutions, here is a quick overview of three levels of security glass.
Security Management, January 2024
Climate Change and the Rise of Dark Green Ideologies
Article
In addition to promoting individual conflict, climate change can serve as a driver of extremism, terrorism, civil unrest, and war. Climate-related violence potential exists along the entire extremist continuum from the far-left to the far-right.
Security Management, January 2024
Intelligence to Address Extremism: Look for What Matters Most
Article
Extremism and hate-related criminal activity are on the rise, threatening organizations and endangering security efforts. By employing the intelligence cycle and leveraging the resources you have at hand, it is possible to develop a better picture for you and your key stakeholders.
Security Management, January 2024
Increased Civil Unrest
On-Demand Webinar
Steven M. Crimando, MA, CTM, principal and founder of Behavioral Science Applications, LLC, presents actionable information to better help leaders and responders protect their organizations’ personnel and assets by understanding the behavior of protesters, employees, and others in the environment when challenged with the possibility of group, crowd, or mob situations.
ASIS International, May 2022
Understanding & Preventing Extremism in the Workplace
On-Demand Webinar
In a highly polarized socio-political climate, employers must recognize the indicators of extremism in their workforce and seek to find a balance between allowing diverse opinions, even unpopular or comfortable opinions, and preventing conflict and potential violence in the workplace.
On-Demand Webinar, April 2022
Conflict, Climate, and COVID-19: Measuring Worldwide Hunger Hotspots
Article
Between conflict, climate shocks, and COVID-19, food insecurity is on the rise, driving vicious cycles of famine, uncertainty, and risk.
Security Management, November 2021
Managing Risk as Demand for Private Security Grows
Article
Armed protests are being planned at all 50 U.S. state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., through at least inauguration day on 20 January, according to an internal FBI bulletin.
Security Management, August 2021
The Changed Nature of Civil Unrest: Lessons from 2020 in Philadelphia
Article
Security professionals need to ask themselves two key questions: Can we protect our property when the police are overwhelmed and does our company have the resources to win the communications battle?
Security Management, June 2021
FBI Warns of Armed Protests Across United States
Article
Armed protests are being planned at all 50 U.S. state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., through at least inauguration day on 20 January, according to an internal FBI bulletin.
Today in Security, 13 January 2021
Q&A: Essential Takeaways from the 6 January Riot at the U.S. Capitol
Article
As federal law enforcement agencies warn of a potential wave of armed protests across the United States in the coming week, members of the ASIS International Extremism and Political Instability Community share lessons learned, analysis, and preparedness advice for the days ahead.
Security Management, January 2021
Q-Speak: The Language of QAnon
Article
Knowing the basics about QAnon, as well as the terminology and beliefs of this movement, can help security leaders recognize when someone is being led down the rabbit hole and possibly becoming a risk.
Security Management, January 2021
Developing a Layered Defense to Harden Facility Security
Article
You always want to project the image of a secure, impenetrable operation to someone passing by as part of a group during a protest, or looking for a crime of opportunity with no premeditation. Hardening is an offensive security measure; it stops the fight before it starts.
Security Management, January 2021
Fallout from Riot at the Capitol Building
Article
"They should have been able to deal with this, but I think it boils down to ‘Fail to plan, plan to fail,'" says Martin Herman, president and CEO of Special Response Corporation.
Today in Security, 7 January 2021
Preparing for Post-Election Civil Unrest
Article
The head of security for MUFG Union Bank, N.A., discusses the potential for unrest and how banking and financial institutions should prepare.
Today in Security, 27 October 2020
Corporate Resilience: How to Anticipate Mass Protest and Disruption
Article
The world is entering a decade of rage, unrest, and shifting geopolitical sands. Security leaders need to understand the factors behind mass protests to accurately predict them and mitigate their effects.
Security Management, September 2020
Change Drivers: Organizations Face Supercharged Activism
Article
The push for companies to show what they are doing for the greater good will only intensify through the lens of the pandemic; the public will want to know whether companies put people or profits first during this global crisis,” says Allison Wood, an associate director at Control Risks.
Security Management, August 2020
Preparing for Protests
Article
Proactive assessment and planning by security professionals can make the difference between a peaceful protest and an out-of-control riot.
Security Management, September 2017
Preparing for Protests: Employee Protection During Protests
Article
Companies that are bracing for protests in their vicinity should discuss best practices with employees to keep them safe.
Security Management, September 2017
Global Civil Unrest Challenges Security Professionals
Article
Lebanon, Chile, Ethiopia, Iraq, and Colombia are just a few of the many countries thrown into tumult recently by civil unrest, and these situations have many ramifications for security professionals.
Security Management, February 2020
Protecting Shops from Looting
Article
Beyond retail shrink caused by shoplifters, internal thieves, or fraudulent returns, retailers are also aware of the risks posed by those taking advantage of chaos from mass protests that have become regular occurrences in 2020.
Security Management, November 2020
Surging Gun Sales Could Soon Become a Workplace Concern
Article
The pandemic, the recession, and various protests are driving a record increase in gun purchases in the United States, and some experts are concerned about what that might mean for employees.
Security Management, December 2020
Embassy Evacuations
Article
To prepare crises, the embassies are required to update an Emergency Action Plan (EAP) and conduct nine types of drills each fiscal year, including duck-and-cover, bomb threat, and chemical/biological response.
Security Management, October 2017
