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Physical Security Measures That Respect Constitutional Rights

Learn how organizations can protect premises without overstepping legal boundaries — ensuring security while upholding constitutional rights.

Joshua Rolls PSP, CSSM, CPD

July 7, 2025

Learn how organizations can protect premises without overstepping legal boundaries — ensuring security while upholding constitutional rights.

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Data-driven decisions in the SOC

Security leaders can use data-driven decision-making to identify inefficiencies, quantitatively measure the success of security procedures and encourage collaboration between teams.

Simon Morgan

May 11, 2023

Data-driven decision-making is a key factor in making informed business and management decisions and is prevalent today in many types of settings.

How to protect physical security systems from cyber risk

Security Staff

April 27, 2022

Physical security systems can protect organizations from security threats, but they also open up cyberattack vectors. These four security tips can help leaders harden their security technology.

Utilizing data analytics in physical security

Farhad Tajali

December 7, 2021

Security professionals can adopt data collection and analysis policies to better understand their organization's security posture. What factors have slowed data analytics in physical security?

Document protection and insider threats

Bob Burnett

November 19, 2021

When it comes to insider threats and document protection, security leaders can take a few practical steps to mitigating both intentional and unintentional breaches.

Securing a large university: IIT Delhi

November 1, 2021

The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) recently migrated their physical security solution to one that includes artificial intelligence (AI)-powered video surveillance. Find out more about the solution in this case study.

Ohio offers $10 million in grants for physical security upgrades at K-12 and higher ed facilities

June 17, 2021

The Ohio School Safety Center will award $10 million in two grant programs that will fund physical security enhancements at K-12 public schools and institutions of higher education in Ohio.

Hardware security breaches are virtually guaranteed

David Barroso

May 17, 2021

Why should you care and how do you defend your organization against hardware breaches?

Protective intelligence lessons from the U.S. Capitol riot for companies

Fred Burton

April 23, 2021

After a lifetime in the protection business, the one constant in Washington that I’ve learned is that it takes tragedy to force change. The January 6 Capitol riot is not an enigma. This was a clear protective intelligence failure. The key finding of Retired Army LTG. Russel Honore’s report reviewing how the pillar of U.S. democracy could have been so easily infiltrated is that the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) must better integrate intelligence into its operations through improved awareness, assessment, sharing, and response capabilities. We can look at effective protective intelligence as a three-part story: Act I is identifying threats; Act II is building those threats into a cohesive profile; Act III is sharing and acting on that information in order to make nothing happen. Applying this framework to January 6 helps us understand how we can and must do better and provides important takeaways for corporations.

FRG monitors Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine trial and research site for 24/7/365 security monitoring

University of Oxford bolstered security at COVID-19 research facility and vaccine trial site

March 24, 2021

The COVID-19 Oxford Vaccine Trial run by the University of Oxford's Jenner Institute and the Oxford Vaccine Group clinical teams needed tight security surrounding the facility to mitigate risk and ensure the safety of staff and assets.