Comprehensive system resilience requires a focus on eliminating single points of failure and building a multi-layered approach to mitigate risks associated with system failures. This is why it’s important to think about creating a resilient infrastructure with the following layers: the server layer, the storage layer, and environmental devices.
Publicly shared and promoted research into extremism shines a light on shadowy organizations and radicalization methods. But that spotlight can put researchers—especially female researchers—at risk.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) solutions are evolving to become tools with agency, aka agentic AI. The May issue of Security Technology looks at how security practitioners are using agentic AI and mitigating the risks associated with it.
Have you identified all of your trade secrets? It feels like table stakes, but it’s a critical first question to get all parties on the same page about trade secret protection, says Thomas Stutler, CPP. Then, ASIS Content Development Director Scott Briscoe shares some of the findings from the latest ASIS research report, sponsored by FacilityOS—including key takeaways about compliance, security controls, and adding value to the organization. To wrap up, Bruno Dias, CTM, PCI, explains how children’s behavior in-person and online is affected by their development. That context should inform behavioral threat assessments to avoid overreaction.
“The reality is that it does not have to be a high-profile, highly politically charged episode. You don't have to do anything wrong to run afoul of this. I think it’s important to talk about what are some of the pitfalls, specifically, for where you go in the world. Each region is a little different; each country is different.”
“The only way you can find out how the organization communicates is to bring people to the table, let them know what the overall goal is, and then get their input on how we make that happen.”
“Technical security standardization can provide significant economic advantages as well. By selecting one or a limited range of products for your enterprise, you can become masters of support rather than generalists with a wider range of products.”
“(Nonprofits) collect, process, transfer, and house a lot of sensitive data about their activities and the vulnerable communities they protect—think of migrants, political activists, dissidents—and they raise funds.”
“Most security practices and convenience are polar opposites. As applied to a school environment, remember that educators are already overtasked. Any process or procedure perceived to make a teacher’s mission more difficult will engender substantial opposition.”
“While catastrophic natural disasters have direct and overt impacts, such events often trigger a cascade of second or third order impacts which manifest in ways that are hard to predict.”
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Your first feeling after reading Private Security: An Introduction to Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition, should be amazement that a single author could corral so many details about private security, even if you agree that security is expanding as our lifestyles evolve.
