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October 8, 2024
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Briefs
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Cash
What the European Central Bank Just Learned When It Surveyed Companies About Cash

Stores, restaurants, and hotels in the EU prefer cash for its security, reliability, and privacy, yet more of them aren't accepting cash, according to European Central Bank survey results released in September.

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October 4, 2024
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Articles
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ROI
When Security Integrates People with Technology, Unexpected Benefits Can Be Expected

Integrated security solutions, combining human expertise with technology, not only enhance security operations but also yield significant (and surprising) business value.

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September 24, 2024
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Backgrounder
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Cash
Q&A Primer on Cashless Businesses

Making society resilient against manmade and natural disasters is not the only reason why cash acceptance is critical; "cashless" retailers also do disservice to the public.

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September 17, 2024
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Backgrounder
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Threat Analysis
Q&A on Private Sector Intelligence

Intelligence tradecraft in the private sector has expanded significantly. Done right, it supports strategic decision-making related to risk and security, as well as strategic opportunity, and positions organizations ahead of events.

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September 12, 2024
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Case Study
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Contracting
Maintaining Control in Global Security Operations and Contracts

While there are countless benefits to contracting security, there is an oft-cited drawback: loss of control. However, as the following case study shows, for companies that want to retain it, control and outsourcing need not be mutually exclusive.

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September 6, 2024
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Articles
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Cash
Environmental Impact of Cash vs. Digital Payments: Probably Not What You Think

Since digital payments and cash have similar environmental impacts, supporting one or the other is an unwise strategy to make payment systems more environmentally friendly. Indeed, tilting in one direction or the other can create an infrastructure imbalance that makes things worse.

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August 30, 2024
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Updates
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Regulation
Ligue Statement Explains the Many Benefits of Allowing Foreign Ownership of Private Security Services Companies

Dozens of countries still impose on restrictions on foreign ownership of private security companies, a position that they may wish to re-think for reasons of security, economic development, professionalization, technological innovation, and consumer choice.

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August 23, 2024
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Articles
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Cash
Cash’s Popularity and Necessity is Gaining Recognition at EU Legislative Level

The need to ensure that cash is maintained as a viable payment method is being advocated by civil society organizations, ordinary citizens, and—increasingly—by legislative bodies.

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August 14, 2024
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Articles
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PPP
Why Are Police Responding to Incidents That No One (Including Police) Wants Them To?

When crafting innovative approaches to social challenges from urbanization, public officials should consider research that proves private security is an effective supplement to public police, including for deterring crime, helping individuals in need, and controlling disorder.

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August 13, 2024
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Updates
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ROI
New Infographic Combats Business Myth that ‘Security is a Cost Center’

A company’s spending on security may not directly generate company profits, but that doesn’t mean it can’t benefit a company’s share price or boosts its revenue.

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August 6, 2024
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Articles
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PPP
In Joint Security Arrangements, Failures in Coordination Can Have Tragic Consequences

Evidenced by communication failures that nearly ended in Trump’s assassination, joint security arrangements require specific attention to coordinating activities, including development of a common vision, process standardization, joint training initiatives, and internal and external communication.

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July 25, 2024
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Briefs
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Cash
Cash Infrastructure is the Cornerstone of Resilience

The importance of maintaining and supporting the cash infrastructure has never seemed more important than in the wake of this week's catastrophic IT outage.

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July 24, 2024
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Briefs
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Threat Analysis
Fundamental Security Failure in Attempted Trump Assassination is Something That Can Happen at Any Organization

Regarding the attempted assassination of former US President Trump, it is easy to think—if a specific individual or group of people had needed to sign-off on a specific decision to leave that rooftop unprotected—that a different decision would have been made.

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July 22, 2024
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Updates
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Staffing
What If There Were No Olympics? The People Who Make Events Possible and Keep Societies Safe Need More Than An Annual Thank You. They Need Change.

What if we turned to security workers for help and found they weren’t there?

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July 17, 2024
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Briefs
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Cash
Complexity of Cashless Transactions and the Need for Resilience Highlighted in Recent Outages

Strict reliance on digital payments can make societies less resilient, highlighted by recent outages in March that forced some businesses to close shop and hit McDonald's and Tesco, among others.

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July 11, 2024
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Enhanced Good Practice
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Public Spaces
Prevention of Crowd Crush Injuries and Fatalities

Crowds possess enormous destructive power as trampling tragedies prove, so major events or gatherings demand well-trained security personnel and adequate planning that includes studying pedestrian traffic flows and circulation routes.

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July 10, 2024
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Updates
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Regulation
Ligue Earns a Voice on ISO Standards Technical Committee

In pursuit of its mission to forge practical and equitable security standards, the Ligue now has a place on an ISO technical committee that works on various projects related to security and resilience.

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July 2, 2024
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Enhanced Good Practice
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Threat Analysis
Formalizing Processes for Risk Acceptance

A decision not to implement recommended security measures should be part of a thoughtful process, one that is equally robust as approving security projects or expenditures.

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July 2, 2024
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Briefs
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Cash
Recognition Grows that Safeguarding the Future of Cash is a Consumer Protection Issue

European Consumer Protection Ministers, as well as those in Germany, recently highlighted the need to safeguard access to cash to protect consumers and ensure a resilient retail payment system.

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June 28, 2024
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Articles
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Contracting
Ligue Investigation: Public Tender Documents Reveal Need for Better Procurement Practices in Contracts for Guard Services

The Ligue’s review of Government Transparency Institute data suggests that public tendering for guard services must substantially improve, as practices in those tenders are worse than in tenders for comparable services.

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June 21, 2024
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Articles
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Market Insghts
Financial Activity in the Security Industry: What’s Happening? What’s Next?

Financial analysts say they are encouraged by what they see regarding business opportunities and financial activity in the physical security industry. This article examines financial activity in the security industry and highlights key trends to look for moving forward. (This article was originally published in 2023 and has been updated.)

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June 12, 2024
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Updates
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Critical Infrastructure
Ligue Represented at State of Security 2024 in Berlin

The International Security Ligue was represented at the State of Security Conference at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, a high-profile and important industry event.

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June 11, 2024
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Backgrounder
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Critical Infrastructure
Q&A on Critical Infrastructure Protection

The world’s critical infrastructure is a greater target and more vulnerable than ever, facts that demand a comprehensive approach to protection that aligns physical and cybersecurity and requires collaboration on many fronts. This Q&A primer outlines issues involved and provides entry-level context to a pressing global security challenge.

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June 4, 2024
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Enhanced Good Practice
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Staffing
Increasing Female Industry Participation

It's slowly changing, but security is a male-dominated profession. Women already in the profession believe certain initiatives—which are not universal—could encourage more women to enter and remain in security.

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June 3, 2024
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Case Study
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Staffing
Strategies for Making a Successful Transition to Contract Security

Utilizing the expertise of a contract security firm is tempting, but the transition can be off-putting. Here are 6 steps that a major healthcare group took that it says helped them to successfully make the change.

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May 29, 2024
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Updates
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Cash
The Ligue Welcomes Tanja Kulisch-Ziemens as New Secretary General of Its Cash Chapter

The International Security Ligue (Ligue) has appointed Tanja Kulisch-Ziemens as of May 2024 as its new Secretary General for the Cash Chapter of the Ligue—a position that has recently been created to address the current disruptive challenges of the industry.

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May 27, 2024
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Enhanced Good Practice
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Staffing
Reduce New-Hire Turnover

A stubborn and increasing source of turnover—somewhat “hidden” from the industry—results from new security hires who never report for work or resign before Day 60.

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May 23, 2024
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Updates
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Market Insghts
Touching Base with the Ligue’s New Director General

A little more than 100 days into his tenure as the first Director General of the International Security Ligue, we caught up with Stefan Huber to learn where he sees the Ligue focusing its efforts in the months ahead.

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May 13, 2024
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Case Study
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Mgmt Strategy
Considering the Value of Time in Assessing a Security Project or Service

A global pharmaceutical company’s security executive used a novel approach to better understand how much value a new access credentialing system was creating for his company.

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May 9, 2024
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Updates
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Regulation
Ligue Encourages Costa Rican Legislators to Adopt Proposed Foreign Investment Reforms to Security Regulations

If adopted, Costa Rica will attract foreign investment, improve quality of security services in its country, and enhance national security.

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April 27, 2024
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Articles
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Contracting
High-Quality Security Personnel & Planning Are Crucial to Manage Disobedience

Security officer quality takes center stage at the most critical of times, from disruptions at shareholder meetings to campus protests. Managed correctly, such events may be quickly forgotten. Handled poorly, and they can gain media attention and do lingering damage to an organization’s reputation.

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April 18, 2024
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Articles
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Public Spaces
Australia Mall Attack Highlights Risk to Soft Targets. Better Supplier Relationships Could Help Address It.

A 40-year-old man went on a stabbing rampage April 13 at a crowded shopping mall in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, underscoring the challenge of predicting and preventing random attacks in spaces open to the public. What can “soft targets” do?

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April 9, 2024
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Updates
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Staffing
International Security Associations Launch Contest Answering, "Why Security?"

Global contest encourages security workers to share what they like about their job.

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April 5, 2024
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Articles
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Cash
Lawsuit is Latest Escalation in Fight Against Cashless Mandates

From Melbourne to Hyderabad, citizens are voicing objections to curtailing the freedom to pay in cash

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April 2, 2024
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Briefs
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PPP
Major City Makes Move to Hire Private Security to Improve Policing and Public Safety

Legislators in Los Angeles (USA) are re-writing current city codes with the goal of improving public safety while simultaneously freeing up police to focus on important crime issues.

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March 26, 2024
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Articles
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Market Insghts
Global Physical Security Market Surpasses $400 Billion, Services Still Dominate

A new study on the scope and breadth of the global physical security sector indicates the industry is vibrant market, has regional variations, and includes a few surprises.

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March 13, 2024
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Articles
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Mgmt Strategy
Security’s Value Still Goes Unrecognized. Here is a 4-Step Plan to Change That.

Company security leaders—as a group—do an insufficient job promoting the value of their function, according to research. Security’s full range of benefits are still largely unrecognized. What should security leaders do to change that?

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March 6, 2024
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Articles
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Supply Chain
New Supply Chain Risks and Maximizing Value from Security Investments

Evolving international issues are impacting the security of supply lines, requiring organizations to integrate security throughout supply chain activities. But which solutions yield business value beyond protection?

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February 27, 2024
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Articles
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Contracting
Being a More Informed Security Consumer Can Avoid Disappointment

Some service providers count on consumers to skip due diligence when contracting for services, which results in lower quality work and more consumer complaints. Here is how that plays out in the security sector and what organizations should do to be more informed security consumers.

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January 29, 2024
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Articles
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Crime Prevention
5 Reasons Today’s Employees Do Wrong—And Strategies to Stop Them

All the old reasons for employee deviance still exist today. But there are new reasons for it, too, including less loyalty being exchanged between workers and their employers, a growing mindset of entitlement among younger workers, and greater opportunities to profit from dishonesty.

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January 22, 2024
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Articles
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Cyber
Even as the Cyber Arms Race Heats Up, Insider Theft of Intellectual Property is a Persistent Threat

When asked to identify the most significant global risks facing the world in the next two years, experts rank cyber insecurity fourth—more worrisome than interstate armed conflict and inflation. But while most of the focus on cyber risks is on digital tools and technological one upmanship, people remain a consistent threat to government and business information and intellectual property. Because malicious insiders often act within a normal range of their duties, prevention requires a holistic security approach.

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