Security & Resilience Dispatches

People don’t go “shopping” for Security & Risk Management Training Courses on LinkedIn. When they are actually looking for a course (think, “buyer journey”!), the absence of an alternative to source and review options means they use their LinkedIn network for referrals. This can often mean that better and / or more appropriate providers miss the opportunity and the new business, and the investing prospect investing their cash ends up with a poor outcome. Read more…

Our Safety, Security, & Risk Management RESOURCES application will be released in the coming days!   We will soon launch our Safety, Security, & Risk Management “Resources” application, enabling stakeholders to generate value from equipment, facilities and other assets via dynamically manageable classified promotions, so they can respond to specific or changing market conditions, in a format that is searchable by prospects. The new application will enable promotions of niche Read more…

The Safety, Security, & Risk Management market is highly fragmented, opaque, increasingly regulated, and difficult to navigate. Finding the credible information required to make informed decisions is challenging and time-consuming, causing delay and increased cost, missed opportunities, and liability exposure. How can I access the best candidates – operationally compliant and available to deploy often at short notice? Who is hiring? Who provides the best training courses? Who has the Read more…

“A return to business travel – mapping out the kidnap and extortive threat” is a very interesting report released by Hiscox, in partnership with Control Risks, looking into the decline of kidnapping as a consequence of reduced business travel during COVID-10, but the likely reversal of such trends as the world begins to emerge from the pandemic and resume travel. “In many of the countries where kidnapping and extortive crime Read more…

Constant discussion fills social media channels about standards across the Safety, Security & Risk Management market, how they might be raised, and the “race to the bottom”. Companies notoriously operate at low margin. The ability to be competitive and maintain standards can conflict. Compliance and the maintenance of standards presents an ongoing but necessary burden. It is a painful, resource-intensive experience, not helped by the lack of supporting systems to Read more…

Andy Thompson speaks with David Otto, a highly experienced independent global Counter Terrorism, Security and Organized Crime Consultant / COIN Researcher at Stepped In Step Out (SISO) UK LTD and Geneva Centre for Security and Strategic Studies (GCASS). A subject matter expert consultant for governments and NGOs including the UN, NATO, Interpol, US DoD, and a selected trainer on AT/CT & Organized Crime solution strategies for the Anti-Terrorism Accreditation Board Read more…

Andy Thompson speaks with Richard Pendry, owner of Pendry Risk Management, a consultancy in the field of Risk Management, Organisational Resilience, and Counterterrorism for NGOs, the United Nations, commercial companies, and government organisations. What is the origin of Pendry Risk Management? I have been in the security industry since 2005. It was not something I aimed for. Like a lot of guys, I just fell into it. I had a Read more…