All About MICE: The 4 Motivations of Spies and Saboteurs
Identifying insider threats requires understanding their motivations, whether it’s money, ideology, coercion, or ego.
The Benefit of Converging Physical Security Data with Insider Threat Programs
Digital monitoring tracks what employees do with systems and data. Physical access data captures where they are, when, and how often. Insider threat programs should look at both.
When the Insider Threat Lingers: The Risk That Follows Employment Separations
Whether firing or letting go of an employee is smooth or rough, it might not be the final confrontation between an aggrieved insider and an organization.
Trade Secret Theft: The Overlooked Fault Line in Modern Security
Insider threats are a governance and risk management problem, not just a security one. Security leaders must understand the motivations of these behaviors and the opportunities to curb intentional and accidental insider theft and leakage.
Weaponized Compliance: When the Hotline Becomes a Sword
Underperforming employees who manipulate ethics hotlines to stall disciplinary action threaten to undermine the whole organization’s operations and morale.
Trust: The Center of Gravity of Insider Threats
Unless an organization is implementing effective controls to keep access in check, insider threats will be able to leverage their trusted status to inflict damage.
Certification Profile: Justin Jackson, MPA, CPP, PSP
ASIS certification legitimized Justin Jackson’s career transition from law enforcement to private security.
En Garde! USA Fencing Advances with New Age Verification Process
USA Fencing leverages a solution from Jumio to verify athletes’ ages and ensure a fair field of play.
3 Tools Providing Privacy Protections in Video Systems
New capabilities are forming the foundation of privacy protection in video systems. Here’s a breakdown of the distinct purposes they serve.
Fast Facts: Age Verification Apps Could Limit Access While Introducing New Security Risks
Countries and private companies are rolling out age verification applications to limit children’s access to online content. The new approach could also create significant privacy and security risks.
4 Ways Digital Evidence Management Supports Data and Privacy Compliance
Security teams are often responsible for managing and sharing digital evidence with stakeholders. A management system can help them do this while also complying with privacy regulations.
Del 'Mándame el Video' a la Gobernanza: Cómo la Privacidad Hace Defendibles los Sistemas de Seguridad
Una gobernanza efectiva convierte las solicitudes de video en un proceso que protege la evidencia, a las personas y la credibilidad de la organización.
Security News
Lasting Presence: How to Build Status and Influence as a Security Practitioner
Security LeadHER keynote speaker Alison Fragale shared tools and tactics for security practitioners to build and maintain their status—a key to success in a competitive industry.
Complex, Siloed Physical–Digital Identity Management Creates Fragile Security Posture
Nearly 95 percent of IT and cybersecurity decision-makers said they can revoke all physical and logical access within 24 hours of an employee leaving, but 35 percent said they experienced delays or failures doing so in the past two years.
Court Holds Google Liable for Incorrect AI Answers
In a decision expected to impact other artificial intelligence (AI) developers, a German court found that Google is liable for incorrect answers created by the search site’s AI overview.
Gang Violence in Haiti Remains High as Armed Men Kidnap Security Expert and Family
Armed men in Haiti seized security expert James Boyard, his wife, and 6-year-old daughter. The kidnapping is suspected to have been organized by the Ti Bwa gang, one of several armed groups that controls parts of the Caribbean nation with violence, coercion, and extortion.
Virginia Clean Slate Law Goes into Effect
On 1 July, Virginia will become the latest state to enact a Clean Slate law, sealing the criminal records of people convicted of minor offenses who avoid another criminal conviction for at least seven years.
Global Peacefulness is Deteriorating, Driven by the Great Fragmentation and Rising Drone Use
The world is struggling with the weight of a record-number of conflicts that are increasingly interconnected, driven by technology use, and difficult to resolve, according to a global analysis released this week.
Today’s Workplace Changes Outpace Current Skill-Building Strategies, Report Finds
Seven in 10 respondents said employees need faster ways to practice skills as job demands change, and 47 percent said some of their job skills have become outdated in the past five years.
Violent Threats on Facebook Quadruple Against U.S. Congressmen After Meta Cuts Back on Enforcement
A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that abusive and violent language targeting members of Congress tripled after Meta rolled back enforcement efforts.
Flourishing, Languishing, or Struggling? Mental Health and Wellness Continue to Flounder
Almost half the population surveyed for the Mind Health Report 2026 is not doing well, driven by financial strain, work stress, uncertainty about the future, and unhealthy digital habits.
White House Releases AI Executive Order for Voluntary Model Pre-Review
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a new effort to work with frontier AI developers to address national security concerns, including through pre-review of their newest models before public release.
Pathway to Violence or Pathway to Hope? Behavioral Threat Assessment and Intervention Are Key
Human kindness is the pathway to hope. It’s an unusual message to hear from the FBI during a presentation on behavioral threat assessments, but an impactful one.
Is Your Lightning Safety Plan Ready for Summer Storms?
A recent survey found that while 95 percent venue managers handling outdoor events have a lightning safety plan, only 77 percent of them believe that it fits their events.
You’re Sure Your SOC Can Detect Coordinated Threats. Can You Prove It?
A new report from HiveWatch found that 93 percent of physical security leaders said they are confident they could detect a coordinated threat amid the current alarm volume, but only 19 percent always meet their own service level agreements (SLAs).
The Numbers Add Up to Strange Security
Strange things happen in this world, and sometimes those strange things have ties to security in some way. Once a month, we report some of the stranger security-related, or security-adjacent, stories our editors have run across.
