Security DNA

Tracking the changing landscape of security management

In this episode we talk with Greg Schneider, CPP, who is President of Battle Tested Solutions, a San Francisco Bay Area-based security consultancy focused on delivering security management strategies, protective intelligence services andtactical response training to domestic and global clientele. Greg will discuss the changing landscapeof security management – including the importance of situational awareness and training, and AI as it relates to both physical and cybersecurity management policy and practice -- with Steve Lasky, editor in chief of the Security Group at Endeavor Business Media.

Mitigating the risks of advanced connected technologies to protect critical infrastructure

In our latest edition of SecurityDNA hosted by editorial director Steve Lasky, ESI Convergent’s CEO and founder, Pierre Bourgeix, tackles the complex issues surrounding industrial controls and operational technology, which he predicts will be of the greatest concern in the next 5 years or more as security threats and risk challenges become more broad-based and global.
Bourgeix also discusses the premise that critical infrastructure security is EVERYWHERE and describes the business risk drivers in this sector.

The importance DEI and how security leaders can change the dynamic

Steve Lasky, the editorial director for the Security Group at Endeavor Business Media, talks with SMR Group co-founder and security industry veteran Jerry Brennan about the corporate security diversity landscape, the underlying causes and factors contributing to a lack of diversity, and what it will take to bring meaningful, lasting change in the industry. SMR has grown to be one of the world’s leading executive search and management consulting firms and its well-known international brand serves clients across diverse industries and sectors in North America, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

Defining ‘critical infrastructure’ and best practices for keeping it protected

In this episode Steve Lasky, Editorial Director of the Security Group at Endeavor Business Media, talks critical infrastructure with Ed Levy -- a highly accomplished senior executive currently leading the critical Infrastructure (CI) practice at Noble. Levy and Lasky discuss how to define what CI is, what kind of strategic issues practitioners are facing in the CI space, and important lessons on the introduction and application of new security technologies to protect critical assets. 

The anatomy of an innovative security program

In our latest episode, Mark Freedman, CEO and founder of Rebel Global Security, talks with host Steve Lasky about the company Freedman founded in August 2022, six months after Russia invaded Ukraine. Freedman goes over the many challenges that today’s enterprise security management executives are facing, as well as the anatomy of an innovative security program and how it works. Steve and Mark also discuss how organizations can assess global and domestic threats – with China, Russia, the Middle East, and terrorism being the most obvious – and prioritize them.

Diving into CSA’s new access control standard at CES 2024

In this episode, Paul Rothman, editor in chief of Security Business magazine, chats at the recent CES conference with Chris LaPré, Head of Technology for the Connectivity Standards Alliance, about a new access control standard CSA is developing called Aliro and what it will mean for connectivity technology in the future.

Interview with Paul Joyal, Part 2: AI on the battlefield, cyberwars and global terror risks

In part two of our in-depth interview with renowned foreign intelligence expertPaul Joyal, SecurityInfoWatch.com editor Steve Lasky and Joyal discuss the cyber aspect of the Russia-Ukraine war, AI and deepfakes being used on the battlefield, and how the renewed emergence of terrorist groups like Hamas has affected the security industry’s viewof domestic security and global risk. Joyal is a former federal law enforcement officer who has more than 45 years of experience in security and intelligence.

Interview with Paul Joyal, Part 1: How drone technology is changing the war front

Paul Joyal, a former federal law enforcement officer who has more than 45 years of experience in security and intelligence, talks with SecurityInfoWatch about the state of the Russia-Ukraine war and implications over the next 12 months. Joyal also recalls his attempted assassination by possible Russian agents outside his Maryland home, a crime that has never been solved.

The Importance of Enterprise Risk Management Platforms

Steve Lasky, editorial director for the Security Group at Endeavor Business Media, talks with Lynn Mattice, President and founder of the National Economic Security Alliance (NESA), about the need for a comprehensive risk management platforms and how global organizations can build and execute them in complicated corporate environments to meet ever increasing and complex security threats. 
Lynn Mattice

The ‘How’ and ‘Why’ behind the Rise of Anti-Semitism, and What Can be Done About it

Steve Lasky, editorial director for the Security Group at Endeavor Business Media, hosts an in-depth discussion with Evan Bernstein, CEO and National Director of Community Security Service (CSS) – an American nonprofit organization that provides security to the Jewish community in the U.S. Lasky and Bernstein discuss the alarming rise in violence against Jews and Jewish organizations in the U.S. over the last several years, the role that some public officials and social media influencers might be playing in spreading antisemitic messages, and what the steps any house of worship – synagogues, JCCs and Jewish day care centers in particular – can take to mitigate their security risk and keep their people safe.
Evan Bernstein