Security DNA

In this exclusive interview with SecurityDNA host Steve Lasky,

Drako – named one of Goldman Sachs's “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2014” -- talks about the common themes regarding

Our guest on the SecurityDNA podcast this week is Steve Jones, Global Chairman and CEO of Allied Universal, an enterprise that has grown from $12 million in revenue to more than $20 billion with approximately 800,000 employees, making the firm the third-largest private employer in North American and seventh highest in the world.

In this edition of the SecurityDNA podcast, SecurityInfoWatch sat down with Stevan Bernard, Senior Security Advisor for International SOS -- a firm that works with global organizations to assess the risks associated with every working environment, from a corporate office to a remote oil rig.

Drawing on his extensive experience in the protection of personnel, content and data and properties in over 50 countries on 6 continents, Bernard discusses impactful lessons learned from the “Guardians of Peace” 2014 hack that released confidential data from the film studio Sony Pictures. He also shares how varied business sectors and organizations can prepare security teams for unexpected disruption and monitor the complex risk environment prevalent today.

In this special edition, Security Business editor in chief

It’s undeniable today that  9/11 had changed the global geopolitical scene, and the constant churn of complex threats coming inside and outside the U.S. is creating new physical and cyber threats manufacturers must start accounting for.

Fred Burton, Executive Director of Protective Intelligence at Ontic and one of the world’s foremost authorities on protective intelligence, security, and counterterrorism, shares his insights on how the world threat landscape has changed and how geopolitical conflicts are disrupting the supply chain and damaging the world economy.

Burton reveals how these global threats are interconnected and how security executives should approach monitoring risks and building resilience into their assessment programs. He also discusses the need for manufacturers to step up their game in physical security and recommends several steps to safeguard operations.

In this episode we talk with Greg Schneider, CPP, who is President of Battle Tested Solutions, a San Francisco Bay Area-based security consultancy focused on delivering security management strategies, protective intelligence services and

In our latest edition of SecurityDNA hosted by editorial director Steve Lasky, ESI Convergent’s CEO and founder, Pierre Bourgeix, tackles the complex issues surrounding industrial controls and operational technology, which he predicts will be of the greatest concern in the next 5 years or more as security threats and risk challenges become more broad-based and global.

Bourgeix also discusses the premise that critical infrastructure security is EVERYWHERE and describes the business risk drivers in this sector.

Steve Lasky, the editorial director for the Security Group at Endeavor Business Media, talks with SMR Group co-founder and security industry veteran Jerry Brennan about the corporate security diversity landscape, the underlying causes and factors contributing to a lack of diversity, and what it will take to bring meaningful, lasting change in the industry. SMR has grown to be one of the world’s leading executive search and management consulting firms and its well-known international brand serves clients across diverse industries and sectors in North America, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

In this episode Steve Lasky, Editorial Director of the Security Group at Endeavor Business Media, talks critical infrastructure with Ed Levy -- a highly accomplished senior executive currently leading the critical Infrastructure (CI) practice at Noble. Levy and Lasky discuss how to define what CI is, what kind of strategic issues practitioners are facing in the CI space, and important lessons on the introduction and application of new security technologies to protect critical assets. 

In our latest episode, Mark Freedman, CEO and founder of Rebel Global Security, talks with host Steve Lasky about the company Freedman founded in August 2022, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine. Freedman goes over the many challenges that today’s enterprise security management executives are facing, as well as the anatomy of an innovative security program and how it works. Steve and Mark also discuss how organizations can assess global and domestic threats – with China, Russia, the Middle East, and terrorism being the most obvious – and prioritize them.