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Risk assessments should be the foundation of all executive protection programs but are too often underprioritized. Read our latest blog to learn why this happens – and why it should be changed.

The executive protection industry is growing, and so is the number of new executive protection manager positions.

As we will see in this blog, new EP managers face all of the same challenges as new managers in any industry – and there are plenty of them – as well as a number of issues more specific to executive protection.

Like anything else with many moving parts, executive protection programs are subject to wear and tear and even the occasional breakdown. Preventive maintenance significantly reduces the risk of small problems turning into big ones that can ultimately result in program failure.

Corporate use of Critical Incident Response Teams (CIRTs) is increasing. Our own number of teams working at corporate clients has risen five-fold in the last six months alone. We’ve written before about CIRTs and how the integrate with corporate security…

In this blog, we take a closer look at three of the most frequently mentioned hesitations that make new corporate clients express – and the myths about executive protection that underlie them.

As we write this blog in August, there remain many uncertainties about how many in-person participants will travel to Davos next summer. The conditions under which they will meet and the consequences for the executive protection details that are charged with keeping their principals safe, happy and productive during the meeting are still unclear.

No one said that life is supposed to be fair. Spending a lot of time with idiots can indeed make you an idiot. But as EP professionals (should) know, spending a lot of time with billionaires does not make you a billionaire. Go figure.

The lack of shared standards makes it difficult for clients to distinguish good from bad executive protection programs. In this blog, Christian West and Sonny Schürer make a modest proposal for improving standardization of the executive protection industry based on their experience with ISO 9001 quality certification in Denmark.

If protective intelligence is the bridge that connects intelligence analysis and executive protection, micro intelligence is what holds that bridge together. Read the blog by Christian West and Martin Nielsen to learn more about practical intel that starts at the street level.

In this blog, Christian West & Brian Jantzen explore one aspect of the new normal after COVID-19: the increasing importance of remote protective security management.

The executive protection industry must adapt to evolving client demands and risk scenarios to stay relevant in a world with COVID-19. It will take many small changes – and some game-changing thinking.

To write this blog, I asked some of my fellow AS Solution managers to name the one thing they’ve learned in their executive protection and security career that’s helping them now during the COVID-19 outbreak. Settling on just one thing…

Now that millions of people around the world are learning to keep their jobs while keeping their social distance, the importance of preventing security breaches when working from home has never been greater. In this blog, we provide nine proven ways to improve your digital safety and protect your privacy.

As the COVID-19 outbreak is turning things upside down for people all over the world, Christian West shares some perspectives on being prepared – also for the unexpected – and never forgetting that forward thinking is key to our profession.

The time has come to add a new skill set to the EP toolbox. In this blog, Martin Nielsen and Christian West argue that if cyber threats to personal security are to be taken seriously, then we need to train and hire the first executive protection technology officers (EPTOs).