The Circuit Magazine - For Security & Protection Specialists

Muscle Recovery: Essential to Your Next Workout

To avoid rehab, athletes need to be thinking about pre-hab. Get ahead of an injury before it happens. Muscle recovery should be part of every training plan.
So, You Want To Be A Celebrity Protection Agent?

“Elijah, I’m glad you choose me for the assignment, just so you know I have to be home on the 15th as my son has his little league try-outs.” I’ll have to be honest and say, if the assignment extends past the 15th, I’m likely going to use someone else from the outset. Why? Because VIP clients appreciate familiarity but the rotation of celebrity protection agents does not project stability, instead, it implies just the opposite.
Guide to Contracting & Subcontracting Security Services

A Guide to Contracting & Subcontracting Security Services. Market yourself appropriately and professionally, create a large network, do a good job whenever you are given the opportunity and follow up.
Breaking the Communication Barrier

Security Consultant, Ben Hockman, shares tips on breaking the communication barrier when operating in foreign countries where the locals do not speak your native language. Specifically, the advantages he experienced, having Spanish language skills while working on an assignment in Colombia.
Global Risk Roundup January 2019

Our Global Risk partners, Drum Cussac, provide in-depth analysis of global risks via in-house experts, cutting edge technology and through a comprehensive global source network. Here is your summary of the incidents you need to know about from the last 30 days.

The Terrorist Next Door

If ISIS is the new Public Enemy Number 1 then Al Qaeda would likely be 1A, but they don’t hold a monopoly on terror. … >>>

The Threat To Americans for Burning The Quran In The US

On a recent visit to Mazar-e-Sharif, a northern Afghanistan province where seven U.N. workers were killed … >>>

Working a Political Convention

Lessons Learned I recently had the opportunity to play a security role with a large corporate client directly involved … >>>

Hostile Environment Surveillance Operations

A look at Hostile Environment Surveillance Operations As a result of the privatization of Iraq in 2003 … >>>

Behavioral Analysis

In 2005 three suicide bombers detonated body-borne improvised explosive devices (IED’s) in a busy tourist … >>>

Kidnap on the Streets of London

One Mans Terrifying Ordeal The case-study that follows tells the story of Adam, a young professional heading back from … >>>

The Relationship Between Protector and Venue Security

You notice him as he walks into the venue on autopilot. One of the security personnel walking, in a nonchalant manner, … >>>

Surveillance Detection for Individuals

Individuals face a variety of threats in today’s global environment. By developing and applying a … >>>

Interview: Tom Taylor author of “Armored Men”

Circuit Interview with Tom Taylor author of “Armored Men” By Derrick “Bear” … >>>

Maritime Security: The Race to the Bottom

When President George W. Bush famously stood on board the USS Abraham Lincoln declaring the end of major combat … >>>

The DEEP End

Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to the Deep End, the (Dynamic Evolution Of Executive Protection) can you swim? Since the … >>>

Guide to Contracting & Subcontracting Security Services

As a training provider, we benchmark the term ‘post-graduate support.’ We take pride in this as it not only sets us … >>>

Celebrity Protection and Touring

An Introduction to Celebrity Protection and Touring, is a new book by Circuit Editor, Elijah Shaw … >>>

What You Need to Know About Body Armour

You can only perform to the best of your ability with preparation and awareness. Prioritising preparation is the only … >>>

Breaking the Communication Barrier

Having just returned from six months security consultancy and executive protection work in some of the darkest corners … >>>

Pink & fluffy? Not at all!

There are many reactions that I encounter when I tell people what my profession is but the top three tend to be: … >>>

What’s In A Scuba Diving Go-Bag

We use the word “Go Bag” a lot in the Close Protection Industry but the bag itself has a multitude of different uses and … >>>

Why has this affected me so much?

One of the things I’m often asked by security personnel suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder … >>>

14 Lessons For Operating Training Programs in Foreign Countries

It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that Orlando Wilson is a man who lives and breathes training. In this article, he … >>>

Vehicle Dynamics Institute COURSE REVIEW

A few months ago, I had the honor of being awarded a scholarship to Tony Scotti’s Vehicle Dynamics Institute (TSVDI) … >>>

Having a good understanding of travel security is essential for ensuring a successful business trip. Without this knowledge, you make yourself vulnerable to opportunists and professional criminals every time you travel. However, by following these 23 travel … >>>

Mission Creep

Mission Creep Mission creep [definition]: Gradual increase in scope: a tendency of military operations in foreign countries to increase gradually in scope and demand further commitment of personnel and resources as the situation develops. We can all … >>>

Mystery Shopper – Circuit Q&A

Mystery Shopper – Circuit Q&A Nick McCarthy interviews Linda Eastwood. Linda, we became ‘friends’ recently via an online networking portal, exchanged a few messages and then met up at a networking meeting. I was very impressed by your story and your success and thought that Circuit Magazine readers would enjoy your story and the somewhat […]

What's in your GO Bag – Going Digital

What’s in your GO Bag – Going Digital Your Principal has a known stalker that has sent letters and threatening emails. You are at a small venue for a public appearance, and suspect that they might show up. You need to remain with your client in a holding room, but what could make life […]

Obtaining & Maintaining Non Residency and SED

Obtaining & Maintaining Non Residency and SED (Seafarers Earning Deductions) New to the industry, got a contract working overseas and don’t know where to start? NON RESIDENCY You may have decided that a land-based career overseas is the … >>>

Ignore Terrorism… And we loose…

Boston April 15, 2013 14:49 pm: Chechen brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev load two bombs into two separate backpacks; they each carry one and calmly walk into downtown Boston. The brothers, self radicalized, motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs and … >>>

A day in the Life – Maritime Security

The word on the high seas is that the first modern-day Somali Pirates were, in fact, the Somali Coastguard. With Chinese, Spanish and Italian fishing fleets invading the waters off Somalia and fishing them almost dry of Tuna it was inevitable that … >>>

Building Global Cyber Maritime Defence Standards

“The announcement yesterday that shipbroker Clarksons confirmed its computer systems were breached in a major cyber-security attack is a further indication how the global maritime industry is very much in the cross-hairs of the cybercriminal. The … >>>

How disciplined is your mind?

Time for a quick mental boot camp! Our last article in the Circuit Magazine looked at mental resilience and 5 steps your personal mind trainer would recommend to improving this. This time we’re focusing on one simple but effective resilience … >>>

Administering Basic Life Support

Cardiac Arrest can happen at any time, to anybody. Yes; some people are at higher risk of cardiac arrest with certain medical conditions or co-morbidities but very occasionally it ‘just happens’. In 2013, in England alone, the ambulance service attended … >>>

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