Threat Mitigation in an Evolving Risk Environment

With all eyes on California, Michigan, New York and other locations where attacks and threats are more publicly aimed, I am recommending additional focus in other 'attractive' target areas.

For private practitioners, do you know how to contact your local JJTF liaison? Find their phone number, email address or website intake forms. How about your State's Fusion Center? Locate and archive their intake phone numbers, email addresses and webform locations.

Join and participate in mechanisms like local "shield" networking and OSINT sharing groups. Join and participate in your local Infragard chapter. Sign up for HSIN based on your primary client types.

Do you have effective communications strategies for internal and external utilization in the event of a major disruptive event? GETS / WPS for example. Text / SMS vs phone call utilization. Redundant network connectivity offerings? Backups of your servers and critical files? Effective network security on your end user machines? At MIP, we provide Executive / Close Protection services daily to local and State elected officials, members of the media, C-Suite executives, sports figures and high net worth family offices.

Further, we have personnel deployed at Jewish and other religious affiliated places of worship, schools, community centers and gathering places like restaurants, public event spaces and other locations of interest to nefarious actors throughout the region.

We share appropriately sanitized information with close contractual partners, our local Law Enforcement partners, and monitor OSINT and other data streams throughout the day to insure our readiness to provide to effective security and protective services to our Critical Infrastructure and other clientele. Our consultants are world class, having been trained by the Pentagon and DHS, as well as corporate security private partners in close protection, intelligence gathering and high risk security operations, regardless of the environment. We provide comprehensive risk analysis, gap analysis, needs assessment and planning services, for both existing and new construction, as well as estates and agencies.

We encourage every one in the protective and security spaces to stay focused, align your Op Tempo to the ever evolving landscape and be prepared. Help your clients and customers prepare. Help society prepare. We all hope something never happens, but chance favors the prepared mind, and that statistics are staggering. Preparation equals a fighting chance.