05/17/2013 - Companies requiring that employees travel to other countries must have strong travel security programs to protect both personnel and corporate information.
03/27/2013 - Active Shooter: Rapid Response assembles a team of experts in public safety, critical incident response, and emergency management to produce a comprehensive training film.
02/19/2013 - A new, comprehensive training program for first responders at all levels will replace a system focused on federal agencies, but concerns over testing remain.
02/01/2013 - The NRA is pushing its own approach to school security through its National School Shield initiative. Critics say the program would "weaponize" schools and may not be feasible or effective.
10/05/2012 - A Senate report on DHS support for state and local fusion centers savages the department's training of personnel detailed to the intelligence shops.
07/26/2012 - 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.
01/12/2012 - Advocacy groups are calling for revised standards for serving warrants in the wake of recent police shootings. Indiana implements a statewide travel advisory system. The Canadian government says releasing photos of Taliban hairstyles would harm national security. And more.
12/20/2011 - A bill (H.R. 2619) introduced by Rep. Thomas Rooney (R-FL) would require the government to provide active shooter training to security personnel on military bases. The government would also have to establish policies and guidelines for better preparing law enforcement officers and others who would have to provide security in an active shooter situation, such as the one at Fort Hood in 2009.
10/20/2011 - In his book, Gregory Bennett brings the reader through real life situations faced by first responders and, in doing so, highlights where the responders’ training may be inadequate.
09/29/2011 - While the book is written from a law enforcement perspective and for a police readership, the information certainly applies to private security professionals who must manage large crowd events in stadiums, malls, concerts, and protests that may be aimed at their companies or on the streets surrounding their facilities.
03/11/2011 - Military research division DARPA is planning to train troops on how to enter any type of social interaction, allowing warfighters to better engage strangers and understand previously unknown "rules of the game."