By: IFPO's Tom Conley A memorial at the El Paso Walmart following the mass shooting that occurred there. Mario Tama/Getty Images IFPO Past Chairman Tom M. Conley, CPP, CPO, President & CEO of The Conley Group, Inc. has penned an excellent breakdown of why the mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas was a security [...]
By James A. DeMeo, M.S., adjunct instructor of event security at Tulane University and founder, president and CEO of USESC The tragedy coming out of the Las Vegas-Mandalay Bay mass shootings, a black swan event has event security leaders rethinking the playbook for properly safeguarding today’s confined spaces. The concept of an aerial assault prior to [...]
ByRYAN SAAVEDRA @RealSaavedra March 18, 2018 Shocking new details about the gunman who shot up Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were released on Sunday, and it was revealed that officials from the school and a sheriff's deputy recommended that he be forcibly committed to a psychiatric facility just months before his rampage. Despite clear warning [...]
By Chris Hertig, IFPO Director and retired York College of Pennsylvania professor Violence in our society is getting increasing media attention. It also gets attention in the law offices, HR departments, security departments and police/fire/EMS agencies. Violence is here to stay, and while a decidedly unappealing topic of conversation, it’s a conversation we must have. Terrorism [...]
BY CLYDE HEWITT, CISSP, CHS ON MAR 5, 2018, SecurityInfoWatch.com Many organizations have adopted a herd mentality by assigning the security incident responsibility to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) or senior security official (CISO). Unfortunately, this myopic approach is a prescription for the organization to make serious errors and delay responding based on two key observations. March [...]
People gather for a memorial at Parkridge Church in Coral Springs, Fla. on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, one day after the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.Photo credit: (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS) BY CAROLINE RAMSEY-HAMILTON ON FEB 15, 2018, SecurityInfoWatch.com As an active shooter expert, the last thing I expected [...]
By AWR Hawkins, Breitbart.com The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirms that a security guard at Whittier, California’s El Camino High School thwarted a mass shooting on Friday. CBS News reports the resource officer overheard a student talking about attacking the school just two days after 17 were shot and killed in Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. February [...]
From PrivateOfficerBreakingNews: Florida Hospital will soon deploy its newest security department employees across its Central Florida campuses: effortlessly-adorable gunpowder-sniffing canines. The dogs are part of the health system’s new three-tiered security force, created after the Pulse shooting tragedy and other mass shooting incidents across the country in recent years. IFPO grads can now continue learning [...]
By Jacob Passy, Marketwatch, The New York Post: At some hotels in Walt Disney World, “Do Not Disturb” signs have checked out for good. Walt Disney World has removed the signs from the four hotels located on the Monorail loop that connects with the Magic Kingdom theme park: Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort, Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort [...]
Congrats to IFPO Past Chairman Tom M. Conley, M.A., CPP, CPOI, CPO of The Conley Group, Inc. in Des Moines, IA, for his blog post, The Las Vegas Massacre: The Anatomy of a Catastrophic Security Failure listed as the number-one story by Security Magazine Editor-in-Chief Diane Ritchey. Ritchey wrote, "While the investigation into the shooting continues, Tom Conley highlighted [...]
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