Security DNA

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
 

Why Securing a Cannabis Dispensary isn’t Standard Retail Security Procedure

Steve Lasky, editorial director for Endeavor Business Media’s Security Group, hosts a robust discussion about cannabis dispensary security with Tony Gallo, Managing Partner with the Sapphire Risk Advisory Group, and Jeff Bartley, Senior Asset Protection Consultant with Sapphire. Sapphire Risk Advisory Group is considered one of the top security firms in the cannabis industry.
Gallo is considered by many as the “OG of Cannabis Security” -- an industry he entered in 2013. He has worked with over 600 cannabis clients in 35 states and Canada and spoken at over 100 cannabis business conferences across the U.S.
Bartley has been involved for over 27 years in the asset protection field, focused mainly on high-risk retail and logistics. He oversees all of Sapphire Risk's Phase Three services, which include safety and security training, SOPs, comprehensive risk assessments and exception analytics.
Gallo
Bartley
Lasky, Gallo and Bartley will discuss industry trends and technologies that are driving security, compliance, and retail-loss issues with cannabis dispensaries.

Discussing digital twins, venture capital and smart cities with security industry futurist with Jon Polly

For this episode, host Steve Lasky, Endeavor Business Media Security Group editorial director, discusses trends and technologies being driven by policy and governance with Jon Polly. As chief solutions officer for ProTecht Solutions Partners, Polly and his colleagues work with smart cities and corporations to bring business intelligence and public safety through security IoT applications.
Lasky and Polly will tackle the concept of digital twins expanding into physical security and
 the proliferation of venture capital investment money changing hands and how it will impact how users view legacy systems – as well as how this changes the parameters of physical and cyber convergence.
They’ll also discuss the goals of a smart city and how that relates to security strategies and actual technologies used for city-wide surveillance, unmanned access control, orchestration of systems and a holistic, interconnected community of stakeholders.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jon Polly, ProTecht Solutions Partners

School security: What’s changed since the Parkland shooting and what remains to be done

National school safety advocate Max Schachter (right), the founder and executive director of Safe Schools for Alex talks with Endeavor Business Media Security Group editorial director Steve Lasky about losing his son in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and his mission to provide the most current school safety best practices and resources to students, parents, school districts and law enforcement. 
Since that heartbreaking day, Max has been advocating for policy change at the highest levels of the U.S. government, working alongside members of Congress, leaders of all major federal agencies and sitting U.S. presidents to make schools safer.
Schachter has testified as a subject matter expert before the U.S. House and Senate and multiple state legislatures. In 2018 he advocated for the creation of a federal agency to house national school safety best practices.
In 2019, Schachter’s vision became a reality when President Trump created the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse at SchoolSafety.gov. Schachter attended a White House ceremony last year where President Biden announced the most significant gun safety legislation in 27 years, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which made SchoolSafety.gov permanent and law.

How to understand and respond to cybersecurity threats to physical security systems

In this edition of the Security DNA podcast, Steve Lasky, editorial director for the Security Group at
Endeavor Business Media, chats with Will Knehr, senior manager of information assurance and data privacy at i-PRO Americas, where he works to secure their products and networks.
Will has been working to secure networks since 2004 when he startedhis career in cryptologic warfare, conducting cyber defense missionsfor the U.S. government, helping to defend, accredit, certify, andprovide digital forensics and incident response for the nation’s most sensitive and secure networks.
He also worked for Northrop Grumman supporting special projects for theNational Security Agency and Defense Information Systems Agency building virtualized environments for malware analysis, data brokering, and managing their cybersecurity program.
Will discusses a range of topics in cybersecurity and physical security, including the most pressing threats that go beyond the headlines, the growth of Zero Trust initiatives, and how end-user and systems integrators can make sure they understand the current cybersecurity threats that the physical security industry faces today.