Security Magazine

2020 December

This month, Security magazine brings you the 2020 Guarding Report - a look at the ebbs and flows security officers and guarding companies have weathered in 2020, including protests, riots, the election, a pandemic and much more. Industry experts discuss access management and security challenges during COVID-19, GSOC complacency, the cybersecurity gap, end-of-year security career reflections and more!

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COVID-19, shutdowns and unrest cascade across the guarding world

Take a look at the ebbs and flows security officers and guarding companies have weathered in 2020.
Ed Finkel
December 1, 2020
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Typically, guarding companies are focused on threats like active shooter, potential terrorism and natural disasters. Though those concerns remained in 2020, security officers and guarding companies have weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic shutdown, social and civil unrest, and an election. How did these concerns impact the guarding world?


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Meet Security’s Editorial Advisory Board

December 9, 2020
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Meet Security’s Editorial Advisory Board – they all play an important role for us, serving as the eyes and ears to the industry, as though-leaders in their areas of expertise, and helping us narrow down the most relevant content possible to our readers!


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Columns

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Security Talk

The 20-mile trail to zero

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Maggie Shein
December 3, 2020
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William Boelcke spent the years 1998 to 2000 with the U.S. Air Force. He’d spend the next 18-plus years battling mental health issues and substance abuse. Two years ago, in a treatment facility in Rockford, Ill., Boelcke was introduced to BraveHearts and its equine-assisted therapy program. The non-profit organization based in Illinois has been working with veterans, providing free equine-assisted therapy and a place of calm and acceptance, since 2007.


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Education & Training

Tackling complacency in the GSOC

Sherman Brawner
December 14, 2020
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It’s a typical day in the Global Security Operations Center (GSOC). The anticipated chatter on the phones, radio communication, and sounds of the software giving audible alerts are all what you’ve come to expect in this busy hub of the security program.


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Leadership & Management

AI and EI as allies

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Michael Gips
December 1, 2020
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Both artificial intelligence (AI) and emotional intelligence (EI) have critical roles to play in security. But two recent reports accentuate the challenge of leadership that tethers technology to humanity.


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Career Intelligence

End of year security career reflections

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Jerry J Brennan
December 1, 2020
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The close of 2020 is fast approaching, and many security professionals have experienced a wide swing in career highs and lows during this challenging year. Many shifts were obviously pandemic-related. Organizations were either forced to consider business realignment or utilized the upheaval to move in a direction that may have been already under consideration. Regardless of the circumstance, the result was a reduction in opportunities in the security profession for some, and career advancement for others.


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