Worldwide, businesses face security threats daily. With a workforce returning to the workplace following the COVID-19 pandemic, physical security professionals must confront an ever-growing list of challenges. In 2021 there were 20 separate weather and climate-related disasters that each cost the U.S. one billion dollars or more, just two events shy of the record set in 2020. In a recent 2022 State of Employee Safety Report survey, 54% of employed respondents said they were” extremely or somewhat concerned” about natural disasters at work, 65% said the same about severe weather events and 59% about significant outages. Almost half of all respondents had previously encountered severe weather issues in the workplace. Weather and climate-related disasters have thus been listed as one of the top five physical security threats for 2022.