When there’s an internal or external event on the horizon, physical security is crucial. The best strategy is to conduct a comprehensive physical security threat assessment well before the event to evaluate the threats that face the enterprise and develop contingency plans to secure the organization before, during and after events.
“It’s better to have a plan in place that has been created in a non-stressful situation,” says Jack Leskovar, Director of Security and Risk Management at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. “We try to come up with every complication that we can think of prior to an incident actually happening because the worst thing would be for something bad to happen and you’re trying to devise the plan as you go along.”