Category - Blog

Everybody screws up. Some of us even admit it, if only after a few drinks.

In this blog, Jared Van Driessche and Christian West take an honest look at some of their most epic screw ups as executive protection agents. The names have been changed to protect the innocent – except for Christian’s and Jared’s.

In this blog, Christian West and corporate event security expert Antonio Revilla draw on years of CES experience to point out the six things that make CES interesting – and challenging – from a security perspective. 

In this blog, Christian West and guest blogger Chris Hurst join forces to examine the travel intelligence needs of executive protection professionals. Tasked with keeping people safe, happy and productive while on the road – this week in New York, next week in Nairobi – and with little time to read thick background reports, executive protection practitioners have distinct intelligence needs before, during and after every trip.

Venezuela is in the news for all the wrong reasons.  Wracked by mounting political, economic and humanitarian crises, the security situation continues to go from bad to worse. 

While most observers believe things will get even worse before they get better, they also agree that Venezuela’s political course is unsustainable and that regime change in Venezuela is inevitable. Businesses and NGOs will at some point return – and they will need to travel to Caracas and many other locations. 

In this blog, Rudy Diaz and Christian West give a quick overview of what’s happening in Venezuela, and how executives can prepare to stay safe when visiting this troubled country.

Pop-up retailing is growing – and so are the security challenges that come with it. In this blog we take a look at 7 ways security pros can mitigate risk without compromising the guest experience.

Ensuring the tactical readiness of executive protection details is the number one responsibility of security management. It’s the backbone of quality control. And it’s the one thing that EP and other security practitoners consistently get wrong.

Like people in any other profession, executive protection agents like nothing better than a good story. Some of our favorites are about the agents who go above and beyond the call of duty and demonstrate exceptional qualities to achieve the extraordinary. Others are more down to earth, but reveal some of the quirkier sides of what is already a quirky profession. After all, who but an EP agent can get excited about a story in which practically everything goes wrong behind the scenes, but what everyone sees is a boring non-event? In this blog, we share a few of our favorite executive protection stories – and some thoughts on what makes great EP agents stand out from the rest.

Intelligence analysis is now becoming a critical piece of the overall security efforts for more and more corporations. And from all indications, its usage and influence will be only be spreading in the years to come. In this blog, Christian West shares perspectives on this growing trend based on his experience in corporate security in the U.S. and Europe.

Operational readiness or dumb luck? Executive protection teams must challenge themselves every day to know the difference. Read our blog by Christian West and Ivor Terret to learn more.

In this blog, we examine some of the issues surrounding IoT and protective security. The risks and vulnerabilities caused by the IoT to our clients’ safety, productivity and privacy are real, critical and growing – and they must be considered as we design and implement comprehensive security programs. At the same time, the IoT also offers protective security professionals a range of opportunities that were not possible a few years ago.

There is a lot of confusion surrounding liability and legal compliance issues concerning private security services, including the protective services relevant for high net worth families. The problems are complex, and there are plenty of gray areas open to interpretation….

The days of cookie-cutter event security are long over. Or at least they should be for corporate events. In this blog, we examine how we approach the new normal of corporate event risk management with some of our most forward-thinking clients: balancing carefully designed guest experiences against the complexities of ever-changing risk scenarios. Corporate event risk managers need strong leadership skills to negotiate the often competing agendas of many stakeholders – and to keep events as safe as they are on-brand.

Read this blog to learn how to separate feelings from facts to improve security for high net worth individuals and families.

Working in executive protection is the best and the worst job in the world. Sometimes all in the same day. Read this blog for some insider perspective!

In this blog we introduce the four foundational elements of protection for high net worth individuals and families: Physical security, technology, people and procedures.