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Practicing Good Teleconference Hygiene
Look around your home office, or whatever room is standing in for your home office while you are confined to quarters. What do you see? A
How to Buy a New Handgun
In just the first six months of 2020, approximately 19 million firearms were sold; more than double during the same period a year later. 75%
We Phish Yahoo! a Merry Christmas 🙂
Can your “backup address” make it easier for hackers to target you? Yes, yes it can!
Make My Day – Then Break It
The American Express Centurion lounge at SFO has been going downhill. Here’s why…
How Police Agencies and Schools Can Make Campuses Safer
Here are some of the programs schools have implemented and law enforcement’s role within them With the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre
I’m Not Your Sheepdog – Jeff Knox
Jeff Knox’s wife is neither “sheep” nor “sheepdog,” and she certainly is no “wolf.” She is a “porcupine;” harmless and docile if left alone, but ferocious and dangerous if threatened – even more so if her progeny are threatened.
She would choose flight over fight every time, if flight is a viable option. But if flight is not an option, she has the tools, training, and mindset to win the fight.
Infiltrate, Exfiltrate, and… Inject?
This is a blog about spying in the Internet era. While activists would have you believe that it’s all about online personas, there is still a
Don’t Carry Off Duty Until You Are Trained
if an undercover, off-duty, or retired officer shoots someone or is shot him- or herself by uniformed officers, command and training staff could be guilty of vicarious liability or deliberate indifference.
If You Want a Sandbox, Why Not Hit the Beach?
Why are my security engineers asking me for money to buy a sandbox? Can’t they just go to the beach like everyone else?
“I Want To Be A Police Officer When I Grow Up”
When was the last time that you heard a little girl make that statement? For that matter, when was then last time that you heard
How The Loma Prieta Earthquake Pushed Me Into The Disaster Recovery Business…And Others Out Of Business
A quarter century ago, I got into the disaster recovery business by accident. I was walking through my company’s loading dock and found a huge fireproof safe containing Reel-to-reel backup tapes of all of the software that we developed and sold to our customers, along with our accounting records. Less than a year after I opened my mouth about those tapes sitting on the loading dock, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck and the rest is history.
Saving Lives at Active Shooter Events is in the Public’s Hands
Jan Glarum from A Better Emergency consulting is advocating for active shooter trauma kits to be housed alongside AEDs (automatic external defibrillators) in public areas like shopping centers. I agree with him.
The Invasion Of The Biometric Identity Snatchers
What happens when someone copies your fingerprints or makes a contact lens with a copy of your iris? If someone steals your biometrics, they may be able to prove that they’re you. If you like being “you” – and you’d rather not share that distinction with anyone else – the new world of biometrics is definitely worth thinking about.
Co-worker stops Workplace Murder
Vaughan Food’s COO Mark Vaughan shoots a coworker who beheaded one woman and was attacking another. Do you have enough trained sheepdogs guarding your flock?
When The Fire Alarm Goes Off…
A fire alarm roused 1,800 people staying at two Sheraton hotels. Do you have a plan if you need to evacuate your hotel room? I do and here is what it is.
Would Encryption Have Prevented The Target Hack?
Security professionals need to be performing the same kinds of risk analysis and business impact analysis that business continuity professionals have been doing for dozens of years. As part of that risk analysis you need to determine your most important information, its lifetime, and whether or not you are properly protecting it.
Is There a Target On My Back?
Target didn’t know they were hacked until they learned about it from a third-party forensics firm. How could Target not know that its own systems were hacked? You might be surprised how many companies have no clue…
Black Friday and The Art of the BCP Test
For many families, Black Friday is the center of their Thanksgiving tradition. The planning you do before heading to the mall can be used to help your employees understand why tabletop exercises are so important before doing a full blown (or live fire) BCP test.
Protecting Our Kids From Active Slaughter
There are many ways to make your school or organization more friendly to first responders that will help them help you when it hits the fan. Here are some of Lt. Col. Dave Grossman’s more recent recommendations.
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me
It seems like every store, hotel, or restaurant that I walk into these days has “background music” playing much too loud and many pump in their overbearing “signature scent,” throwing me into an asthma attack. Am I the only party pooper?