The Unforeseen Impact of Security Team Reductions is the Loss of Knowledge This has been a terrible time for everyone especially in the hotel industry as hotels and hotel companies seek substantive...
Some hotel companies seem to be taking a first casualty approach to security risk management Given the uncertainty surrounding the hotel sector, I have been engaged in many conversations about the...
Hotel security and resilience risk management programs have been severely impacted by the downsizing or disbandment of corporate security teams. The likely impacts of this have been discussed in a...
Early on in my corporate security career, I was sitting at my desk when I received a report of a serious security incident at a hotel in my area of responsibility. Being new and somewhat naïve, I...
The campaign was ready and the partners had signed off. We were going to do a big push for putting women into security leadership in the hospitality industry. Each of the NPI partners had written a...
Have you considered? Do you have a holistic security strategy that covers both cyber and physical defence? Do your cyber and physical security teams work to a single plan? Do you monitor and...
Threats to business from its employees have always been a serious threat which is often overlooked because it is unpalatable to think that colleagues could pose a threat. The current crisis has led...
Speaking to colleagues in the hotel security sector, it is evident that the current crisis is having a severe impact on corporate and hotel security teams. Major hotel brands have decimated their...
In a business world where the terms equality and diversity are used left, right and centre, there are still a large number of gender-dominated jobs at all levels across all sectors. Although some...
The purpose of this blog is to make a case for senior security and business leaders to step forward and champion the development of women as security leaders. A couple of months ago I was conducting...