Security Best Practices
Black Friday Security Playbook: How Retailers Can Prevent Holiday Crime
Written By: James Hart The holiday shopping season isn’t just the most important time of year for retailers. It’s also when their risk of theft shoots up. In 2023, retailers saw a 93% jump in the average number of shoplifting incidents compared to pre-pandemic times. That’s according to a survey last year from the National…
Read MoreThe IoT Security Nightmare: Why Smart Buildings Are a Hacker’s Playground
Picture the Scene On a Tuesday morning in downtown Chicago, tenants in a new office tower swipe their badges at the glass entrance doors. Inside, the lobby lighting adjusts automatically to the growing crowd. Elevators, programmed with AI algorithms, optimize the flow of people to the upper floors. In the basement, the HVAC system quietly…
Read MoreWhy Rooftop Access Control Should Be Standard Practice at Outdoor Events
Lessons Unlearned, Countermeasures Unmeasured Written By: Max Briggs, Vice President, Chesley Brown International The first rule of open-air event security sounds simple: control what you can see, and see what you can’t control. In practice, many plans still concentrate almost entirely at ground level—perimeter fencing, magnetometers, bag checks, crowd management—while leaving rooftops, upper windows, and…
Read MoreFrom Ports to Warehouses: Securing the Supply Chain in 2025
Summary: The Human Side of a Global Problem It started with a call just before sunrise. A regional operations manager learned a high-value shipment never made it from the port to the warehouse. The truck was found hours later, empty. The thing that bothered him most was not the loss itself, but how it all…
Read MoreSecurity Solutions for Small Businesses: Safeguarding Digital Assets
Written by: James Hart Even if you don’t think your small business has any valuable information, the average cybercriminal will probably disagree. The last few years have shown that cybercrime is a threat for organizations of all sizes, even smaller companies. Their customer lists, their payment and banking information, their patents and designs — they…
Read MoreDisaster Recovery Strategies: Business Continuity in Crisis
Written by: James Hart The best advice on disaster recovery and business continuity might actually come from the movies. As Rocky Balboa said: “It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.” And that’s really the point…
Read MoreSecuring Office Buildings: Best Practices for Property Managers Seeking a Safer, More Secure Environment
Written by: James Hart As competition for tenants remains high, property managers must not overlook the importance of effectively securing their office buildings, according to experts from Chesley Brown International, the security consulting and risk management firm. New amenities may help win over companies that need to lure their employees back into the office. But…
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