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How can security leaders be sure to shore up that outermost barrier at their organizations? When it comes to perimeter security, strong upfront planning and swift real-time reactions supported by technology can go a long way in helping an enterprise secure their most important assets.

Roselle Catholic High School in Roselle, New Jersey recently received a grant to upgrade security measures, allowing the school to implement a new intercom system with emergency communications and lockdown features.

Campus police and security teams are tasked with not only providing a professional and measured response to volatile and politically charged issues, but must still maintain traditional, expected and valuable services, all within budgets that, for many campus security teams, will probably not be increasing. Let’s take a look at practical security practices campus safety leaders can implement.

A number of regional and local Red Cross agencies are holding a variety of virtual natural disaster preparedness classes in honor of Red Cross month in March.

Research done by Finnish University discovers more insight into how coronaviruses spread on cruise ships, along with mitigation security and safety measures that companies can take to bump up safety.

Missouri and Illinois have planned annual statewide tornado drills for Tuesday as part of Severe Weather Preparedness Week.

Some 200 individuals have been charged with federal offenses connected to the siege at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Among them are at least 15 examples of family affiliated extremism. These instances include: five sets of husbands and wives; two cases of fathers and sons, mothers and sons, brothers, and cousins; and an instance of father/daughter and brother/sister participation. Although of a different strain and less serious offenses—none specifically terrorism nor involving murder —such kin-connected radicalism is neither a new phenomenon nor one unique to the United States or elsewhere.