Protecting Your Assets

Judging by the daily barrage of active attacker news stories it's any wonder why people think there could be an active attacker lurking around every corner. Thankfully the reality is far from it.

While it may be true that the prevalence of weapons, increasing mental health challenges and declining social standards may have contributed to a higher incidence of violent attacks. The fact is that the chances of experiencing an active attack remain very remote for the vast majority of people.

Listen in as Luciano Cedrone and Brian Claman peel back some of the challenges around active attacker planning and share some practical advice on how they have helped mitigate the risk with clients.

A quality security program has a clear "mission" and provides the underlying justification for why the program exists, how it operates and why.

In E32 Luciano Cedrone and Brian Claman discuss the importance of Threat Risk Assessments and how they can be leveraged to maximize value to the business. Listen in as our hosts demystify some common misconceptions about threat risk assessments and explain why every business running security operations should have one completed.

Luciano Cedrone and Brian Claman take a look at what they consider good

attributes to look for in a consultant. We hear "Consultant" and presume

they have the credentials, experience and professionalism to meet our

needs. The reality is far from that with many so called experts often

stretching the truth, lacking credentials and experience and in some

cases outright making things up as they go along.

Episode 31 our hosts talk about the main characteristics anyone hiring a

consultant should consider. The bottom line is that buyers of

consulting services need to do some homework and make sure the person

you're looking to hire is who they say they are.

Episode 30 - In this episode Luciano Cedrone and Brian Claman take a look at the return to the office through a Security lens and discuss how the re-opening of business can be leveraged as an opportunity to do refresh your security program.

Office security is not just about Covid screening and masks!

Companies have new employees who have never stepped foot in the office, others will have employees who haven't been in the office in as much as 2 years. Assuming Security will seamlessly "go back to normal" could create opportunities for mistakes to be made by employees who have simply forgotten policies and gaps could open for less altruistic people looking to take advantage of employees.

Tune in and have a listen on how Security can actually benefit from the situation to re-set, refresh or create new ways to secure the office.

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Recent shootings in public spaces, notably shopping malls have our Protecting Your Assets hosts Luciano Cedrone and Brian Claman discussing the importance of being prepared. The value of conducting a risk assessment to understand the potential threats and risks your business may face; mitigating those risks with policies, procedures and training; and practicing those preparedness plans to ensure they will work when needed.

No one enjoys planning for a flood, an active attacker or any other threat to business; especially if we want to believe that "it'll never happen to you!"

But as the old adage goes, failing to plan is planning to fail. Take the time to review and assess your preparedness plans so that if and when that "bad" day comes, you are ready for it!

Episode 28 of Protecting your Assets, Luciano Cedrone and Brian Claman

continue their discussion on security preparedness in the 21st Century

and talk with special guest and former Deputy Chief turned private

sector practitioner Chris Fernandes about some of the challenges in

securing a big city.

Chris shares his thoughts on the changing dynamics between the public,

police and private security and the need to manage those relations in a

positive manner to better integrate response, meet expectations and

ultimately increase the safety and security of our community.

Our global community has certainly experienced a great deal of change over the last 18 months. From racial divides, extremism and increasing climate change to rising tensions across many parts of the World and of course a raging global pandemic.

With the race to vaccinate now well under way and return to "normal" at least on the horizon; security programs are preparing for and asking what that new normal will actually look like. As our hosts point out, a post-Covid workplace isn't the only thing that business leaders ought to be preparing for.

The new normal will demand more of security professionals who will need to be more strategic in their approach, pivot quickly as circumstances change and be more astute to the changing cultural realties of today.

Episode 26 continues the discussion on perspectives that started in Episode 25. Our hosts Luciano Cedrone and Brian Claman underline the importance of perspective and the role it plays in daily life and have some serious concerns about politics and politicians use of perspective to play a dangerous game of pandering to divisive issues for the sake of getting votes.

In this episode our hosts express their views on the impact such empty gestures have on the very fabric of our society; intentionally creating the wrongful perception that Canada is amongst the most dangerous countries to live in when it is certainly amongst the most diverse and best places to live in.

Our hosts also introduce the concept of Red Teaming to help business leaders and security professionals "see things from other side" to help make better decisions that account for other people's perspectives.

Have a listen and let us know what your perspective is on the topic!

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Perceptions and Perspectives! having the "right" one can make the difference between success and failure. In this episode Luciano Cedrone and Brian Claman talk about the role perspective and perception can play in our daily lives, our decision making process and of course how they impact security and business.

Our hosts share their experience and talk about the challenges to keeping perspective and ensuring you have the best and most valuable information by considering the perceptions and perspectives of others. Listen in and let us know your thoughts on the topic.

In this episode Luciano and Brian talk to long time security practitioner and friend David Sulston who Chairs the Canadian Security LifeSaver Association. An association dedicated to recognizing guarding of the highest standard, saving lives - literally!

Listen in as David tells us about the underlying motives for the lifesaver award and shares with us the stories behind some of the winners and what we can expect going forward.

You can find out more about the award and how you can help spread the word at https://canadiansecuritylifesaver.ca