2021 May

This May 2021, Security magazine highlights museum and cultural venue protection - find out how a coordinated response effort from museums and cultural heritage institutions enable security directors to continue to ensure the security of their collections and facilities. Throughout this month, check out our COVID-19 Heroes profiles on Boeing, ADM, Sanofi and El Centro Regional Medical Center - security professionals and their departments that have led the way in COVID-19 response, with a key focus on maintaining business resiliency and continuity. Also this month, security industry experts explore tools and training for security professionals, enterprise security risk management (ESRM), the state of asset and loss prevention, and more!

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Ensuring the security of arts, museums and cultural heritage facilities during lockdown and beyond

A coordinated response effort from museums and cultural heritage institutions enable security directors to continue to ensure the security of their collections and facilities.

Maria Henriquez

May 5, 2021

To maintain a unified security and safety operation during closure, many museums and cultural heritage institutions have relied on tried-and-true security and risk management practices, and repurposed their time and energy to reassess, monitor and explore additional risk-mitigation measures to safely reopen and welcome the public back through their doors.

ADM unlocks the power of existing data for COVID-19 response

ADM and its security team tapped into existing data, both inside the company and publicly available, to enable informed decision-making and real-time insight into the company’s pandemic response plan including contact tracing, location insight and information, and facility occupancy.

Maggie Shein

May 11, 2021

ADM and its security team, including Kevin Wujek, Insider Threat Coordinator, tapped into existing data, both inside the company and publicly available, to enable informed decision-making and real-time insight into the company’s COVID-19 pandemic response plan including contact tracing, location insight and information, and facility occupancy.

Case Study: MultiCare Health System takes security to the next level

The healthcare organization based in Washington state has begun a journey of unifying its video surveillance and access control under one platform, yielding better situational awareness, streamlining investigations and providing an additional level of safety and security to staff and patients alike.

Maggie Shein

August 12, 2021

MultiCare Health System based in Washington State has begun a journey of unifying its video surveillance management and access control under one platform.

Enterprise Services

The state of loss prevention and asset protection

Let’s take a look at pain points, best practices and COVID-19’s impact on loss prevention.

Sarah Ludwig Rausch

May 13, 2021

Just like about everything else in the world, the loss prevention/asset protection space has been hugely affected by the pandemic and the “traditional” threat landscape for security professionals in this area has evolved over the past year and half. Let’s take a look at pain points, best practices and COVID-19’s impact on loss prevention.

Enterprise Services

Putting your faith in Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM)

With enterprise security risk management, organizations should consider the risks versus potential impact to dictate when and how often they assess risk. What does that mean for your organization?

Michael Gips

Will Anderson

May 12, 2021

Enterprise security risk management is an approach where organizations should consider the risks versus potential impact in order to dictate when and how often they assess risk. The ESRM approach to risk management and security is meant to keep a security program agile and responsive. Learn about the keys needed to implement an efficient ESRM program.

El Centro Regional Medical Center: Ensuring in-patient care during COVID-19

The Security Department at the El Centro Regional Medical Center maintained a compassionate, yet firm security presence, updating its pandemic response policies and processes, resulting in an orderly continuation of patient admissions and continuation of patient care.

Maria Henriquez

May 12, 2021

The Security Department at the El Centro Regional Medical Center (ECRMC) was put to the test, tasked with supporting the expansion of the hospital’s patient load to 50% above licensed capacity – far beyond any patient census in the hospital’s history. William DuBois, Security Department Manager at ECRMC, led the physical security through the pandemic, ensuring the Department’s updated mission of assuring the safety and security of patients, staff and visitors while maintaining the assets and business continuity of the hospital.

COVID-19 Heroes

Sanofi’s North America security team drives COVID-19 response efforts

From the onset of the pandemic, Sanofi’s North America Security Operations & Technology team has worked across the enterprise to provide critical in-house applications and communications to departments and leaders, as well as be on the frontlines of on-location response efforts, ensuring operational continuity, as well as the safety and security of the company’s staff and assets.

Maggie Shein

May 10, 2021

From the onset of the pandemic, Sanofi’s North America Security Operations & Technology team has worked across the enterprise to provide critical in-house applications and communications to departments and leaders, be on the frontlines of on-location response efforts, ensuring operational continuity, as well as the safety and security of the company’s staff and assets.

Education & Training

Tools and training for security professionals

Brent O'Bryan

May 14, 2021

While many people around the country were under stay-at-home orders, many security professionals, classified by the federal government as essential personnel, have continued to report to work during the pandemic. The heart and soul of the physical security business are the nation’s contract security professionals who assume leadership roles – sometimes with lifesaving ramifications – at facilities across country. Security professionals act as the first line of defense against civil unrest, violence, terrorist attacks and the pandemic.

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Leadership & Management

When good leaders are poor practitioners

Michael Gips

May 5, 2021

Here’s an embarrassing admission: I’m a lifelong Jets fan. If you need proof that the organization is considered a laughingstock, a 2019 article in Inc. magazine is titled, “Want to Be a Great Leader? Look to the New York Jets—and Then Do the Opposite.”

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Security Talk

Bridging the gap: The digital divide

Maggie Shein

May 10, 2021

Steven Seiden, president of Acquired Data Solutions (ADS), has been involved in “digital divide issues” for more than 20 years, and he believes broadening inclusion and diversity in the STEM literacy field is one of his purposes. An engineer by trade, Seiden has experienced a shift in the tech world over the years, watching the convergence of technology, IT and IOT and noting the ever-expanding engineering lifecycle that now includes security.

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Cyber Tactics

Exploitation in the time of COVID

John McClurg

May 5, 2021

BlackBerry Limited released its 2021 BlackBerry Threat Report, detailing a sharp rise in cyberthreats facing organizations since the onset of COVID-19. The research shows a cybercrime industry which has not only adapted to new digital habits, but also become increasingly successful in finding and targeting vulnerable organizations.

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Career Intelligence

Security search firms and your career

Jerry J. Brennan

Joanne R. Pollock

May 5, 2021

Security search firms are frequently contacted by job seekers who reach out to request the recruitment company assist them in finding a new job. Inquiries come from professionals and executives in various stages of their public or private sector careers.

The 2026 threat environment will be louder, faster, and more interconnected. The most pressing risks, from global political volatility to emerging tech disruptions, will challenge organizations to act amid ambiguity and protect credibility in an era of accelerating uncertainty.

Security Magazine

Cover Story

Ensuring the security of arts, museums and cultural heritage facilities during lockdown and beyond

Featured Articles

ADM unlocks the power of existing data for COVID-19 response

Case Study: MultiCare Health System takes security to the next level

The state of loss prevention and asset protection

Putting your faith in Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM)

El Centro Regional Medical Center: Ensuring in-patient care during COVID-19

Sanofi’s North America security team drives COVID-19 response efforts

Columns

Tools and training for security professionals

When good leaders are poor practitioners

Bridging the gap: The digital divide

Exploitation in the time of COVID

Security search firms and your career

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