Julie Anne Friend

Julie Anne Friend is the Director of the Office of Global Safety and Security at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She recently contributed three chapters to NAFSA’s Crisis Management for Education Abroad. Friend has a JD in Law and an MA in English from Michigan State University as well as a BS in Speech Communication from Syracuse University, and is licensed attorney in the state of Michigan.

How Sexual Misconduct Threatens the Security Industry

Real and Reputational Risk

Julie Anne Friend

March 13, 2018

Security professionals are tasked with addressing reputational risk as well as physical risk, but are our own departments and industry doing enough to avoid being a risk to the enterprise as a whole? It’s time to take a good, hard look at your workplace and ask if it is inclusive, supportive and fair.

LIVE: August 25, 2026 at 2 PM EDT Learn why critical infrastructure security has become a national security imperative, and the strategies organizations can adopt to improve visibility, collaboration, and response across their security operations.

LIVE: August 27, 2026 at 2 PM EDT Explore how AI-driven cloud security solutions can elevate your security domain enhancing threat detection, streamlining operations, and delivering the resilience modern organizations demand.

Julie Anne Friend

ARTICLES

How Sexual Misconduct Threatens the Security Industry

Sign-up to receive top management & result-driven techniques in the industry.

Join over 20,000+ industry leaders who receive our premium content.