THE MAGAZINE

Anyone familiar with history knows the perils of taking too literally—or perhaps at all—Nietzsche’s concept of the Superman, but recent news about problems with U.S. Secret Service agents offers a lesson in the more mundane pitfalls of thinking there is any such thing as an Übermensch.

Companies that use scanning tools to search for data must be careful to avoid violating privacy laws.

A biennial report that looks at how well various industries manage risk and guard against cyberattacks has found that critical infrastructure, including the energy and utilities sectors, is among the lowest ranked of the group.

Companies can reduce the likelihood of harassment lawsuits stemming from romantic workplace relationships by preventing relationships between subordinates and managers and by having employees in romantic relationships sign Love Contracts.

Surface transportation systems remain a target for terrorists, leading researchers to study such attacks to determine which deterrents are most successful.

One grocery store is using video synopsis technology for everything from monitoring the flow of store wine tastings to internal investigations.

Retired CIA Officer Gary Berntsen has prepared an insightful guide to the realm of intelligence and counterterrorism that is both useful and easy to read.

There is no shortage of books available to help security managers deal comprehensively with creating, conducting, and evaluating emergency exercises. This is the latest to tackle this subject. And it does an excellent job of pulling together the key elements in this area.

This book’s focus is on asset protection of high-net-worth individuals and families, says reviewer John Friedlander.

This second edition updates its treatment of the topic with additions on tradecraft of the industrial spy and data mining of business information.

The message is that supervisors and leaders who demonstrate by personal example that they’re not too busy or too self-important to bend over and pick up their own spent brass on the firing range are more effective than others who do not.