The 2025 Annual Guarding Report: Unrest Inspires Upgrades in Training, Technology
Security executives and guarding companies identify trends in security guarding throughout 2025, from political, executive protection challenges, violence, and theft.
A year of social and political unrest that has resulted in high-profile incidents like the assassinations of both UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk — along with day-to-day disgruntlement among everyone from political protesters to those involved in government hearings to unhappy emergency room patients — has ramped up the challenges facing the security industry in 2025.
But both third-party guarding companies and institutions across the gamut of societal sectors has hardened and honed their security posture, with training on how to respond to potentially violent situations — ideally through de-escalation — as well as new technologies, some of them AI-enabled, that help them to do so. And a few years after the “Great Resignation” led to a very tight labor market, hiring and retention challenges seem to have eased.
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