Facing a mass casualty event is a nightmare scenario for all involved, including enterprise security leaders. Former FBI Assistant Director, Victim Services Division, Kathryn Turman explains why survivor and victim support must be a priority for enterprise emergency response.
In this piece, we look at what the Protect Duty law in the U.K. will look like, how it might impact legal requirements in other countries, and how security professionals in the U.S. and beyond can use the findings of the inquiry to fulfill their ethical responsibility to keep visitors and staff as safe as possible.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to prepare against ever evolving threats against the American homeland, most recently highlighting efforts to combat an Electromagnetic Pulse attack which could disrupt the electrical grid and potentially damage electronics.
It is dangerous to be related to a terrorist, let alone a senior terror operative. Such an association can lead to one's imminent death while participating in an attack encouraged by a family member.
Deaths from terrorism fell for the fourth consecutive year, after peaking in 2014. The number of deaths has now decreased by 52 percent since 2014, falling from 33,555 to 15,952, says the 2019 Global Terrorism Index.
U.S. Congressman Josh Gottheimer announced new bipartisan legislation -- the Darren Drake Act -- to help stop ISIS-inspired terrorists from using trucks and other vehicles as weapons of mass destruction.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation to help ensure first responders and public sector officers and employees who developed a qualifying health condition as a result of their response to 9/11 rescue, recovery and clean-up efforts at World Trade Center sites receive pension and health benefits.
The fall of the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City late in the afternoon of September 11, 2001, was not a result of fires, according to a draft report by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF).
