Executive Protection

A dark silhouette of an outstretched hand reaches upward from a deep red foreground, while above, a black SUV drives across a desert landscape bathed in warm tones of yellow, orange, and red. The setting sun and distant cacti evoke isolation and danger, with the stark color contrast symbolizing urgency, vulnerability, and the divide between survival and abandonment.

Focus on Executive Protection

Highway Express Kidnapping: Challenges in Prevention, Resilience, and Post-Victimization

Security executive Ricardo Flores, CPP, was kidnapped.
This incident offers crucial experiences for those managing an organization’s executive security policy and corporate resilience to consider—especially if the organization ever operates in a high-risk environment.

How Activism and Executive Risk Converge Today

Executive protection must go beyond logistics and the presence of guns, guards, and gates. It must evolve to consider the full social, digital, and physical complexity.

Back to Basics: Do You Know Who to Protect in an Executive Protection Program?

While modern threats and attack methods ebb and flow, an effective EP program is rooted in a strong foundation, with help from the latest ASIS International standard.

Executive Protection in the Age of Primary Source Collection

As threats to executives increasingly arise in dissonant digital spaces, protective intelligence programs should consider primary source collection to bridge the gap from reactive to proactive.

The Digital Breadcrumbs that Expose Executives

Modern executive protection must take into account how open-source information and social media allows threat actors insight into executives’ routines and weak spots.

The Main Impediment to Executive Protection? The Executives Themselves

ASIS research studies how security directors can overcome the two leading obstacles to effective executive protection: budgets and executive noncompliance.

Benchmarking: ASIS Research Findings and the Executive Protection Standard

Looking for ways to improve your executive protection program? It’s time for a gap analysis between recent ASIS research findings and a new standard about executive protection.

How Executive Protection is Changing One Year After UnitedHealthcare CEO Attack

The security industry continues to reckon with the shifting threat landscape of executive protection.