Primary Topics
Weapons Selection
From tasers to firearms to pepper spray, security officers are increasingly armed in some capacity while completing their duties. But what goes in to selecting the type of weapon an officer will carry on the job? This issue of Security Technology explores the topic.
Focus on Executive Protection for Female Executives
Where harassment and threats are concerned, female VIPs face more emotionally manipulative, sexualized threats, including ones that include their family members.
Focus on Inclusive Security Policies
People with disabilities are at higher risk during emergencies. Security teams can craft inclusive emergency and evacuation plans to keep employees, visitors, and organizations safer.
5 Steps to Build an Inclusive Emergency Response
People with disabilities are at higher risk during emergencies. Security teams can craft inclusive emergency and evacuation plans to keep employees, visitors, and organizations safer.
How to Use an Inclusive Mindset to Achieve Workplace Safety for All
Spotting your own biases in your approach to security presents teams with an opportunity to shift to an environment that better protects the whole organization.
Inclusive Security Policies: Emergency Egress Considerations
3 Key U.S. Federal Regulations on Facility Access
Certain federal regulations in the United States mandate building codes and emergency exits, aiming to improve staff safety.
Fast Facts: 4 Factors for Inclusive Emergency Planning
During an evacuation, emergency planning can help employees safely escape from a dangerous situation. But has the planning accounted for everyone?
Add EP Value for Female Principals by Being Considerate
When a woman needs a security presence, a little added consideration can go a long way to ensure the protection is accepted and valued.
How to Broaden Digital Threat Assessments for Executive Protection
Where digital harassment and threats are concerned, female VIPs face more emotionally manipulative, sexualized threats, including ones that include their family members. Traditional protective intelligence gathering must shift to keep up.
Fast Facts: With Cyber Options, Stalking Methods Converge
Celebrities, newscasters, politicians, and public figures are often high-profile victims of stalking incidents, but millions of people are stalked each year, including through technology.
6 Months After Brian Thompson’s Murder, What’s Changed About Executive Protection?
What troubles leaders and security planners alike is how to balance the accessibility of executive teams and the desire to reduce their risk surface.
Orders of Protection Limitations Vary Across U.S. States
Civil restraining order rules vary across U.S. states, complicating executive protection and threat assessment efforts.
Training Builds Frameworks of Support for Armed Security Personnel
Armed security officers are trained to respond to threats in seconds. We spoke with an expert on firearms training to learn more about what this entails and how to provide support for your team when an incident occurs.
Certification Profile: Ricardo Torres, CPP
Through his membership, Ricardo Torres, CPP, was able to connect with other security professionals both in his community and across the globe.
Technology and Talent Boost Crime Solvability in Hartford
The combination of effective analysts, technology, and processes enabled the city of Hartford, Connecticut, to quadruple its crime solvability, especially around nonfatal shooting cases.
Book Review: Teaching Cybersecurity: A Handbook for Teaching the Cybersecurity Body of Knowledge in a Conventional Classroom
This book is meant for teachers who don’t have a background in information technology or cybersecurity but are tasked with incorporating it into their lesson plans.
Always Armed, Rarely Drawn: Rethinking Firearms in Executive Protection
Today’s protection professionals are far more likely to blend into the background than dominate it. And while many of them are armed, the weapon is seldom used and that is 100 percent by design.
The 5 Steps in a Use-of-Force Continuum
Private security officers can use force in some situations. Here’s a look at the type of policy that outlines how officers can use force.
5 Nonlethal Weapons Used by Private Security
Firearms aren’t the only weapons available to private security personnel. Here we take a look at five of the most commonly used nonlethal weapons that a range of officers might use in the course of their work.
Leveraging Lockers: The Future of Weapons Storage is Here
Intelligent weapons lockers represent the future in managing weapons, and departments that leverage them are investing in operational efficiency.
Security News
Man Sets Forest Fire, Shoots at Firefighters When They Arrive
On 29 June, authorities said they believe a man intentionally started a forest fire, then shot at first responders on Canfield Mountain, which is just outside Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, near the border with Washington state. Two firefighters died and a third was seriously wounded.
Lawsuit Claims Tennessee Law Banning 'Sheltering' Undocumented People is Unconstitutional
Nashville church officials, with support from legal and immigrant advocacy groups, filed a class action suit challenging a new state law that classifying people or groups “harboring” undocumented immigrants as human traffickers.
One-Third of People Arrested for Terror-Related Offenses in the EU Were Less Than 20 Years Old
Nearly one in three suspects arrested for terrorism-related offenses in the European Union in 2024 was a minor or a young adult, according to an annual report published Tuesday.
Texas Bans Red-Flag Laws
Texas lawmakers officially passed a law preemptively barring the U.S. state from enforcing or adopting most kinds of extreme risk protective orders (ERPOs).
Planning and Quick Action Prevent Tragedy at Michigan Church
An alert church member and the church’s security personnel stopped an assailant armed with an assault rifle and handgun from entering Sunday services.
Scattered Spider Cyber Criminals Turn to Insurance Companies as Next Targets
U.S. supplemental insurance vendor Aflac disclosed that it experienced a cyberattack earlier this month that potentially affected the company’s data.
Pennsylvania Judge Vacates $10 Million Penalty Against SIG SAUER, But Allows Jury Ruling of Firearm Defect to Stand
A Pennsylvania judge vacated a $10 million penalty against a firearm manufacturer stemming from a case alleging one of its pistols discharged without the trigger being pulled.
New York’s RAISE Act Would Require Security Protocols from Leading AI Developers
If signed into law, the RAISE Act's requirements would only apply to AI companies that have spent more than $100 million in computational resources to train advanced AI models.
Overtourism Causes Unrest Across Europe
People in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, and other European countries gathered to protest the negative effects that massive numbers of tourists have on their cities.
Suspect Arrested for Attack on Minnesota State Legislators
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said the shooting “appears to be a politically motivated assassination,” but the exact motive remains unclear.
Judge Rules Trump Acted Illegally in Federalizing California’s National Guard, But Appeals Court Stays Order
A U.S. appeals court temporarily halted a judicial order that would have forced U.S. President Donald Trump to return control of California’s National Guard to its governor.
Security LeadHER 2025: Add S.P.I.C.E. to Your Career Success Equation
Authenticity at work means living and leading in alignment to your beliefs. Over time, that enables coworkers and executives to understand how and why you make decisions, said Shayla Atkins at Security LeadHER 2025.
19 Bombings and Shootings in Colombia Leave 7 Dead, More Injured
A series of coordinated bombings and shootings in the southwestern region of Colombia left at least seven people dead and wounded around 50. The attacks come on the heels of an attempted assassination against a senator and presidential candidate.
Tragedy Strikes Austrian School
Though relatively rare in Europe compared to the United States, two tragic school violence incidents lead to fatalities in Europe on 10 June.
LA Protests Lead to Federal Deployment of National Guard
Protests that began Friday, 6 June, after ICE officers detained suspected illegal immigrants in several crackdowns around Los Angeles escalated quickly over the weekend leading U.S. President Trump to take control of, and deploy, the California National Guard.
Trump Issues Travel Ban for 12 Countries’ Citizens, Citing National Security Concerns
U.S. President Donald Trump banned citizens of 12 countries from entering the United States and imposed travel restrictions on seven others, citing national security concerns.
U.S. Active Shooter Incidents Decreased in 2024
In a recent report, the FBI found that there were 24 active shooter incidents in 2024, a 50 percent decrease from 2023 and suggestive of a downward trend in this type of violent attacks.
Women's Workplace Abuse Complaints are Discounted More Than Men's, Researchers Find
Researchers found that in situations without clear corroborating evidence, third parties are less likely to take corrective action when women make reports of workplace abuse compared to men.
Attack on Small Group of Marchers Renews Attention on Anti-Semitism in U.S.
On Sunday, 1 June in Boulder, Colorado, eyewitness accounts and personal video recordings detail a man with homemade incendiary devices and a makeshift flamethrower device attacking a group of people gathered to express support for Israeli hostages still in captivity in Gaza.
Animals in the Wrong Places and Doing Things They Shouldn’t Do
Our editors bring you the strangest stories from the realm of security-related news each month.
