Generative AI Poses New Challenges to Corporate Insider Risk Management
Learn how to make small adjustments to your insider risk program to protect your organization against evolving AI-based threats Here’s something that sounds like a plot to a movie. And if I hadn’t spent my career in security, I’d have a hard time understanding how it worked. A cadre of ... Read More
Metrics That Matter: How Security Professionals Can Show Value
Build a metrics program tailored to your organization’s strategic goals This article was originally published in Security Magazine. Think back to your early days in the security industry. Perhaps, like many others, you spent years in law enforcement or the military before transitioning to the private sector. The business jargon ... Read More
How to Make Your Security Teams More Effective
Top security managers use the power of research and case management This article was originally published on Securityinfowatch.com. Here’s a true story that many in the security field may find familiar. After an acquisition almost doubled the size of a major grocery wholesaler, the company’s corporate security team started training ... Read More
Emerging Technology Highlights New Converged Risks and Asymmetric Threats
Protecting high-profile individuals and events as the digital threat landscape evolves This article was originally posted in ASIS Security Management Magazine. The ubiquity of technology companies in daily life today puts them in the security spotlight, with increasing media attention, political scrutiny, and complex, overlapping threats. In November 2023, after ... Read More
Insider Risk: Don’t Ignore the Community Context
When looking to mitigate insider risks, security leaders have to remember the potential causes. This article was originally featured in Security Magazine Just a few months ago, many security professionals confessed concern about a potential economic downturn and how that would impact the security environment around them. Some were troubled about possible ... Read More
A New Breed Of Security Leadership: How the Digital Age Is Transforming the Security Professional
This article was originally featured in Security Informed The importance of data is ever-growing. For every profession, we’re witnessing the increasing reliance on data and its ability to promote efficiency for corporate decision-makers. The security industry is no different. The growing reliance on data and technological tools has allowed for ... Read More
The New Information Landscape is Changing How Security Leaders Work
This article was originally featured in Security Magazine Imagine a scenario many security practitioners are familiar with: A bizarre post on an obscure social media account surfaces. It could be construed as a threat against a company executive. But it’s unclear. To further complicate the situation, a different executive at the organization ... Read More
Connected Intelligence: A New Approach to Managing Risk and Enabling Decision-Makers
Ensuring the safety of people and organizations is dynamic, asymmetric, and complex. A sense of permacrisis has driven a need for those tasked with managing risks to constantly perceive imperatives amongst the unyielding view of threat, risk, and problematic issues. Ontic championed the cause of Protective Intelligence and its concepts ... Read More
‘Mission First, People Always:’ A Mantra for Security Talent
This article was originally featured in Security Management. The phrase “Mission first, people always” is a common mantra in the military, and it is often borrowed in leadership studies. It’s a vision of success that invests in the success of those around you, a sense of shared mission (the why), ... Read More
Minimizing IP Theft and Insider Threats During Times of Layoffs
This article was originally featured on Security Today Building out cross-functional collaboration between cyber and physical security teams will create a more unified approach, where a common language is established to better understand each department’s key priorities and processes. Doing so ensures there is collective monitoring of identified risk groups ... Read More

