Security & Resilience Dispatches

Social media wasn’t designed to market Safety, Security & Risk Management services but, in the absence of an alternative, companies will use those channels because of the perceived reach, but will often create content that attempts to engage an [inappropriate] audience in a way that may negatively impact their reputation. Safety, Security & Risk Management companies contain experts in their respective fields. They are not digital marketing agencies. The larger Read more…

For all of Marshal’s focus on “global” safety and security risk at the corporate level, this “local level” incident as described by BBC News in this – frankly horrifying – article, is also worth sharing, not just because of the appalling attacks by utter scum, ganging up on defenseless children – with the purpose of sharing it on social media to further humiliate the victim! – but also because of the headline: “If the Police Read more…

“Looking for 3 Tier 1 Executive Protection Specialists with passports for a 1 week effort in Europe starting 03 Sept. Please contact me if you are interested, with resume.” This was posted on LinkedIn recently. They have got 5 days to turn this around and deploy people on task!  Imagine the response though. If this post generates 100 applications, how long will it take to review them all; identify who is Read more…

Procurement in the Security & Risk Management sector is often a slow, tedious drain on productivity and resources, because the market is highly fragmented, opaque, and increasingly regulated. These risks compound within a contingent, short notice operating environment, that causes missed opportunity, commercial disadvantage, reputation damage, liability exposure, or loss. So, for stakeholders wanting to source the best capability available to protect lives and safeguard assets, when and where needed, what can be Read more…

Duty of Care and contract-specific obligations mean you are likely to need to access a plethora of additional documentation to mobilise into a high risk environment, depending on the expertise needed: qualifications, certifications, accreditations, permits, licenses, criminal record checks, travel documents, health documents, insurance, training records… Within our suite of digital services for the Security & Risk Management market, our powerful software enables a “remote-access talent pool” approach to recruitment, Read more…

During the war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 (also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War), I was an Operations Manager at a UK based Security & Risk Management company, overseeing protective security contracts with international News Media clients operating in the conflict zone. One client Bureau Chief was, naturally, chasing the same agenda as his competition, and so needed to get his team rapidly across the border, in order to broadcast their latest scoop, or Read more…

Regardless of the political intentions and outcomes, there are some valuable lessons that security risk management practitioners could learn a year on from the debacle of a withdrawal from Afghanistan – which represented a disgraceful coda to this tragically pointless war and occupation – including technology (where it was helpful, where it wasn’t), training, planning, situational awareness, logistics and mobility, medical provision and more… up to and including how “safety Read more…