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Zelenskiy Denies Ukraine’s Involvement in Alleged Kremlin Drone Attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has refuted Russia’s claims that Ukraine was involved in a drone attack on the Kremlin, which was allegedly aimed at killing Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelenskiy stated that Ukraine fights and defends its territory, not attacking Putin or Moscow. The Kremlin reported that two drones were used in the attack but were disabled by Russian defenses.

Bodyguard Saves Japanese PM from Pipe Bomb Attack

A bodyguard has been hailed as a hero for his quick-thinking actions during a suspected pipe-bomb attack on Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. Video footage captured the bodyguard kicking away a metal object as it landed near Kishida
before positioning himself between the Prime Minister and the device, shielding him with a collapsible, handheld ballistics shield.

AlertEnterprise Reveals First-Ever Guardian AI Chatbot Powered by OpenAI ChatGPT

AlertEnterprise has unveiled its first-ever Guardian AI Chatbot powered by OpenAI ChatGPT. The chatbot will make its global debut at the ASIS Europe and ISC West trade events. Built on OpenAI’s GPT-3 platform, the Guardian AI Chatbot aims to provide security operators with instant access to critical physical access and security insights through quick questions and prompts.

Navigating the Complexities of Wi-Fi Installations

Wireless installations are often seen as an easy replacement for cables, particularly in situations where running wires or fiber optics is impractical or too costly. While wireless solutions can be convenient, even the simplest application of a wireless networking standard can come with challenges that need careful planning and troubleshooting. This article provides insight into the planning and deployment of a successful wireless installation.

Operating as a Commercial Sniper The Myths and Facts

To start with, let’s kill a central myth right off the bat. And that myth is that jobs for commercially employed snipers are widely available and accessible. That is not true. You will not do a sniper course and then be hired as a sniper in a war zone. You will not find any companies that are advertising such jobs. If they are, then I’d be dubious.

LIFE & WORK SKILLS: CONFLICT MANAGEMENT FOR PROTECTORS

Pop quiz: What do you think is greater, the number of executive protection agents who have been fired because their client got killed? Or the number that got fired because a client’s wife/manager/trusted advisor straight-up didn’t like them? I think anyone who has been around the industry longer than five minutes probably knows the answer to that question.

Keeping Your Edge: Building a Solid Foundation

Longevity, consistency and remaining relevant are some primary goals of all protectors. These factors are important when establishing a new contract and providing services for a new client. But what is equally important is the mindset that goes into those first days and weeks on the assignment. As such, I wanted to get the personal perspective of Vantrell Wilson, a close protection agent who I have trained with and worked alongside of for years now.

Venezuelan Gold-Trafficking

The gold business in general is a haven for scammers, money launderers, traffickers, criminals and terrorists. It is an area rife for the services of a protection specialist since the coupling of unsuspecting investors, with sometimes, greedy buyers can lead to a lot of trouble and loss of money, property, and even lives.

Vehicles Used As Weapons

Religious extremist whether Al Qaeda or ISIS have long called for the use of Vehicles as Weapons even going back to 2010, when we saw an article in Inspire Magazine titled, “The Ultimate Mowing Machine.”

Protective Intelligence

Modern Tools for a Traditional Task Many protective service providers and law enforcement agencies have protective intelligence units that conduct investigations, manage threat assessments and provide tactical, operational and strategic analysis of the …

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Hiding from OSINT

In terms of cybersecurity, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) covers any data or information which can be collected from publicly available sources. It often comes as a surprise just how much is available and the nefarious uses it can be put to. OSINT can be …

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Surveillance Detection for Individuals

Individuals face a variety of threats in today’s global environment. By developing and applying a Surveillance Detection (SD) plan to the targets daily protection operations you can significantly reduce the likelihood of an attack on your target. Before surveillance detection (SD) can be used to prevent or deter an attack, you must […]

Phishing Phenomena on the Rise

As with many methods used to manipulate, they do not try to argue someone around to a position in a rational manner; instead, they are designed to elicit and exploit emotional responses.

Phishing is a whole family of different attacks designed to manipulate a target into performing actions against their best interest, usually disclosing information in some way or carrying out fraudulent transactions. Within that family of different types of phishing we have:

A Medics Experience

How the industry has changed and evolved The role of the medic working on the ground in hostile environments has evolved enormously over the last 15 years. For the purpose of this article I will use my experiences in Iraq as this is where I am at …

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Medics in Iraq – Experience on the Ground in Iraq

The role of the medic working on the ground in hostile environments has evolved enormously over the last 15 years. For the purpose of this article, I will use my experiences in Iraq, as this is where I am at the time of writing. In the early days of …

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Hands-On Protection Training

Are We As Good As We Think We Are? After finishing 5 days of intense and demanding protection training aimed at the Close Protection Officer, who has left their ego behind and realised their hands-on Protection Skills need either developing or, in some …

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Keeping Your Edge – I Finished Training, Now What?

It’s the final wrap up of the last day of your Close Protection training course. It’s been a long, and at times grueling, process but ultimately rewarding on multiple levels. Along the way you’ve met some people you have really gelled with (and a couple …

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Working in the Maritime Security Industry

Working in the Maritime Security (MARSEC) Industry By Kevin ‘Knocker’ Whyte Maritime Security has become the new ‘Must Enter’ sector of the security industry, with long established MARSEC companies and new start-ups alike, picking up manpower intensive …

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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 …

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Importance of Continued Combatives Training

Cover & Evacuate vs. Combat - The Importance of Combative Training for Protective Service Professionals Within the industry, it's been long debated whether or not martial arts training is essential to an agent. And if so, what style? In my opinion, the …

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Understanding the Importance of On-going Medical Training

The Security Industry Authority currently requires all those who apply for a licence to be in possession of a recognised first award, currently the First Person on Scene (FPOS) Intermediate Award or the Level 3 Award in First Aid Response or equivalent. Both …

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