Security Management, January 2026

Tabletop exercises and other scenario-based discussions can produce limited results, depending on the scope and participation level. By adding future-proofing concepts, accounting for culture, and factoring in some gamification elements, you can raise your TTX game and glean more actionable insights to help your organization take advantage of changing conditions. 

Security executive Ricardo Flores, CPP, was kidnapped. The incident reveals key lessons about preparedness, targeted attacks, secondary victimization, and protecting personnel in high-risk environments.

Professional basketball games give fans the rare opportunity to sit directly next to the action on the court. This access creates a thrilling game experience, but also poses risks for players, team personnel, and fans alike.

A collection of recent strange security news stories, focusing on the sports world this month.

Finance ministers from Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Italy, and The Netherlands held a call on 28 January to discuss a German proposal to form a small group of the European Union’s largest economies to advance the continent’s economic interests.

The U.S. Department of Treasury canceled all its contracts with consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton on Tuesday and referenced a past insider threat incident as the reasoning.

After the separate fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota by federal agents, more than 60 CEOs and leaders from companies headquartered in the city issued a letter calling for a de-escalation of tensions and for authorities to work towards “real solutions.”

The global degradation of trust has moved beyond polarization, beyond grievance, and is creeping into insularity, where people are increasingly reluctant to trust anyone different from them, according to the 2026 Edelman Trust Barometer.

More than 700 businesses in Minnesota are closed today as part of a statewide day of action protesting aggressive immigration enforcement actions that have swept up U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants alike.

A jury acquitted former Uvalde, Texas, school police officer Adrian Gonzales of 29 charges in connection to his actions on 24 May 2022 when a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.

PwC found that CEOs are significantly less confident about short-term growth at their companies and they are more worried about a range of threats, including macroeconomic volatility, cyber risk, and geopolitical conflicts.

On 18 January, South Africa’s National Disaster Management Center declared that the torrential rains and floods in the region qualify as a national disaster after at least 30 people in the country died.

Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in a news briefing this week that the country defended itself against destabilization efforts targeting its energy grid in December 2025.

When it comes to a highly disruptive cyber attack—one that renders mobile, remote, and hybrid endpoint devices inoperable—time has become a critical factor.

Peak perils, such as major hurricanes and earthquakes, still affected some regions, but the number of non-peak events drove up overall costs.

Spanish authorities arrested 34 people suspected of involvement in Black Axe, an organized criminal network involved in various crimes, including business email compromise schemes.

Protests in Iran quickly spread from shopkeepers to students to the public at large during the past two weeks, driven by anger over economic issues, political repression, social unrest, and overall complaints about the nation’s clerical leadership.

The FCC banned new sales of foreign-made drones in the United States, posing major problems for drone market dominator DJI.

On the morning of 7 January, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, sparking a wave of protests.

New York City recorded 688 shooting incidents in 2025, notably lower than the previous record low of 754 in 2018.

Scammers are using artificial intelligence to defraud churches and churchgoers.

Venezuela has some of the world’s largest oil reserves, but U.S. President Donald Trump’s goals of restarting U.S. oil companies’ activity in the country face significant infrastructure and security challenges.