At HCA Healthcare, Kat Kemper, Director of Physical Security, has built the enterprise security program from the ground up, developing and implementing physical security measures to support patient care, privacy and overall security goals.

Security industry leaders must be relentless in their quest for innovation. In order to self-disrupt their organizations, they should seek ideation, brainstorming and problem-solving, as the catalyzers for radical change.

A useful GSOC is one that understands the problem a company wants to solve so that the data collection requirements and analytics are relevant and staff with the right expertise are in place. If you think that establishing a GSOC is the next step for your enterprise, three key elements will determine its success.

As a critical business, Associated Grocers of New England needed to continue distribution to independent grocer members as well as its own stores throughout New England and New York, while also managing increased freight and procurement demands into the facility during the beginning of the pandemic. The organization’s Risk Management and Loss Prevention teams stepped up to help.

Marc Barbiere came to Georgetown about five months before the COVID-19 pandemic struck with the goal of providing a robust framework for the University to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. Barbiere and the newly restructured Office of Emergency Management put together a framework to streamline and organize emergency and pandemic response to continue operations no matter the cause of disruption.

A critical part of ensuring adequate, safe and reliable operations amid a crisis includes comprehensive tabletop exercises to demonstrate and assess capabilities before an event occurs.

Artificial Intelligence impacts the physical security industry directly when you consider that surveillance cameras are the ultimate end-point device, the “all-seeing eyes” of the Internet. Could “intelligence” be applied to optimize security operations? Learn from one security leader’s experience using AI to reduce tailgating and streamline security operations.