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Focus on Improving Presentations
While most professionals can give a PowerPoint presentation, delivering a message that can sway decision makers requires executive presence. Here’s how to develop these crucial skills.
Focus on Warehouse and Distribution Center Security
Warehouses and distribution centers are the heart of e-commerce. Their scale, criticality, and inventory make them essential security management sites.
Why Traditional Checkpoints Could Be Increasing Your Enterprise Risk
Understanding—and resolving—this paradox requires security leaders to rethink how risk is defined, measured, and managed in high-throughput environments.
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Cognitive Warfare Is Exploiting Polarization, Both in Nations and Companies
State-sponsored operations are no longer just stealing data or disrupting networks. They are degrading the way people think, and domestic polarization is the attack surface.
Industry News: Security Monitoring Platform Strengthens Protections and Privacy for Nonprofit Clients and Staff
An Austin, Texas-based nonprofit that supports survivors of abuse and violence leaned on a Genetec solution to improve its security and access control across several facilities.
Ideology and Anger: Early Lessons from the Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center Arson
The arson case in California combines workplace violence, devastating property damage, Luigi Mangione, and a noteworthy anticorporate narrative.
Buying Back Decision Time: How Digital Twins Improve Crisis Readiness
AI doesn’t remove uncertainty, but it changes what leaders can see and simulate before, during, and after an impact. The organizations that navigate faster do not just add dashboards; they decide differently.
Vendor-Client Synergy: Resolving Expectation Misalignments in Contract Security
To avoid misalignment, vendors and clients should have early, honest, and realistic discussions about what security officers assigned to the account can and cannot reasonably be expected to do.
How to Secure the Modern Warehouse
Warehouses and distribution centers are the heart of e-commerce. Their scale, criticality, and inventory make them essential security management sites.
Scrap Disposal: When the End of the Supply Chain Becomes a Brand and Public Safety Risk
When scrap governance fails, organizations are not simply losing material, they are losing control of their brand and, in some cases, exposing the public to unsafe products.
Phantom Freight Scams Boost Cargo Crime Rates
Criminals increasingly use digital tools to conceal their identities and enable fraud along the supply chain.
Why Violence Risk in High-Turnover Environments Is a Leadership and HR Governance Problem
Distribution centers and warehouses prove, again and again, that violence prevention is not a security program. It is a leadership system.
Scan Here for Security
Inventory scanners have been invaluable for logistics, distribution centers, and retailers. But those handheld devices are easy to steal and resell, potentially costing organizations device costs and potential revenue.
Certification Profile: Andrew Henecke, CPP, CBCP
Andrew Henecke, CPP, continues a legacy built on the principles of service, discipline, and protecting others.
Book Review: Hacking for Dummies, 8th Edition
In this helpful, easy-to-read guide, author Kevin Beaver provides a practical resource that teaches you real-world hacking and penetration testing skills.
Why Storytelling Is the Ultimate Corporate Security Superpower
Stories are the building blocks of trust, and when trust is secured, data helps to clinch the deal—not the other way around.
Fast Facts: The Elements of Audience Impression
What an audience sees shapes their impression of a speaker, as well as that person’s credibility. Here are a few nonverbal elements that are impacting audiences beyond the content of a presentation.
For Better Presentations, Adjust to Fit Your Audience
While metrics can sometimes help, they aren’t the sole factor behind a successful presentation.
What the C-Suite Wants From Presenters
Two security executives offer insight into what makes great presenters stand out and what to avoid so your presentation doesn’t fall flat.
The 4 Big Advantages of Storytelling in Professional Presentations
Strategic storytelling has been used for centuries to sway audiences. These are the four significant advantages that storytellers can leverage when successful.
Security News
Correspondents’ Dinner Attack Places Scrutiny on Semi-Public Venue Security
The layered security measures at the Washington Hilton hotel for an annual press event are under scrutiny after an armed assailant rushed through a security checkpoint to try and access the high-profile attendees.
U.S. Government Claims China is Engaged in ‘Industrial-Scale Campaign’ to Distill AI Systems
The U.S. government alleged that China is engaged in a deliberate, industrial-scale campaign to distill U.S. frontier artificial intelligence (AI) systems, according to a White House memo published Thursday.
The Executives We Have Are Not Necessarily the Leaders We Need
Executives tend to exhibit individualistic traits, but workers want their leaders to focus on team building. So says a new research study from Hogan Assessments.
Mexico to Boost Security at Tourist Sites After Shooting
While considered an isolated incident, the incident spurred action from Mexican government officials looking to reassure visitors ahead of the World Cup 2026.
Employees Keep Bypassing Approved Communications Tools, Putting Metadata at Risk, New Report Finds
A new analysis from BlackBerry reveals a security gap surrounding end-to-end encryption. It's us. We're the problem.
Activists Attempting to Storm Beagle Research Facility Were Met with Rubber Bullets and Barricades
The research beagle breeding facility boosted its perimeter security measures following an incursion by activists in March 2026.
On the Clock But Mentally Checked Out: Managers Say They’re Increasingly Disengaged at Work
Engagement at work is continuing its downward trend, but there’s a new metric that has workforce analysts concerned: lower engagement among managers now accounts for most of the recent downturn in employee engagement.
Turkey Rocked by Another Mass School Shooting
On 15 April, a 14-year-old entered a middle school in the Kahramanmaraş province of Turkey and began shooting, killing eight students, a teacher, and himself, and wounding 13 others. It was the second school shooting in two days in the country.
When Retail Risk Strikes
Retail risk incidents follow predictable operating rhythms, spiking 363 percent at store openings and peaking between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m., according to a new report from Interface Systems.
Former Student Opens Fire on Turkish High School
A teenager “indiscriminately” attacked his former school in Şanlıurfa, Turkey, with a shotgun on Tuesday, injuring 16 people.
Half of 2025 U.S. Fraud Losses Were Linked to Cryptocurrency Scams
Americans who submitted cryptocurrency fraud complaints to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported significantly high losses last year—181,565 complaints totaled more than $11 billion, up 22 percent from 2024.
Ireland Sees Fourth Day of Protests and Blockades By Farmers
Protesters upset over high fuel prices entered a fourth day of demonstrations, blocking access to fuel depots and parts of Dublin, raising concerns over fuel shortages and access to emergency services.
Public Officials Face Violent Threats Like Never Before
A pair of new resources show the political environment in the United States has created a volatile cocktail in which those engaged in public service and political debate face increasing threats to themselves and their families.
Project Glasswing: Anthropic’s New Initiative to Use AI to Bolster Cyber Defenses
Anthropic’s Mythos Preview is particularly good at finding and exploiting software programming vulnerabilities. Anthropic said it will not be releasing the product publicly, rather, they will share the model with selective companies who can use it to find and patch vulnerabilities in the world’s most important systems.
White House Budget Proposal Would Spike Spending for Defense, Cut Major CISA and FEMA Programs
The Trump administration’s proposed fiscal budget for 2027 would increase spending to a historic $1.5 trillion for national defense, while simultaneously significantly slashing support for domestic defense programs.
Travelers Increasingly Concerned About Geopolitical Conflict, Survey Finds
American travelers are hesitant to book trips because of global conflict—far outstripping concerns about rising travel costs, according to a new survey.
Legal Report: U.S. Appellate Court Upholds Contractor Liability for Conspiracy at Abu Ghraib
A U.S. Appeals Court upheld a jury decision that U.S. government contractor CACI is liable for conspiring to torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison.
Environmental Activists Get Aggressive in Antarctic Waters
Earlier this week the Bandero, a vessel operated the by Captain Paul Watson Foundation, attempted to disrupt the Antarctic Sea, a Norwegian fishing vessel operated by Aker Qrill in the Southern Ocean between Antarctica and the tip of South America by ramming it.
Despite Training and Skill Gaps, U.S. Employers Still Prefer College Graduates
Nearly 70 percent of employers said that recent college graduates hired in the past 12 months needed a moderate to a great deal of additional training or skills development to perform effectively in their roles, according to a recent Gallup-Lumina Foundation survey.
