Workplace Violence Restraining Orders in California: What They Do, and Where Security Fits
A workplace violence restraining order is a civil court order that a California employer can seek on an employee’s behalf when that employee has suffered unlawful violence, harassment, or a credible threat of violence that can reasonably be expected to be carried out at the workplace. It is authorized by Code of Civil Procedure Section […]
California SB 553: What a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan Requires, and Where Security Fits
A California workplace violence prevention plan is a written program, required of nearly every California employer under Labor Code section 6401.9, that identifies workplace violence hazards, sets procedures for reporting and responding to incidents, records every threat and act of violence in a violent incident log, and trains employees annually on all of it. The […]
What Does Executive Protection Cost, and What Actually Drives the Price?
Executive protection cost is driven by six things: how many hours of coverage you need, how many agents that coverage requires, the qualifications and licensing of those agents, whether transportation is included, how much advance and intelligence work precedes each movement, and the risk level of the environment. Any quote that does not make those […]
Executive Protection for University Presidents and Campus Leadership: Security Planning for the Fall Semester
Executive protection for university presidents is a planned security program that covers a campus leader’s movement, appearances, residence, and travel, built around the reality that a college campus is deliberately open to the public. It differs from corporate protection in one decisive way: the principal’s workplace has no perimeter, no badge line, and tens of […]
Executive Protection During Hurricane Season: How Security Teams Protect Principals and Families When a Storm Threatens
Executive protection during hurricane season is the work of treating a major storm as a security event, not only a weather event – planning evacuations, hardening residences, securing communications, and keeping a principal and their family safe through the chaos that a storm creates. When a hurricane threatens, the ordinary risks a protection detail manages […]
Executive Protection at High-Profile Public Events: What Corporate Boards Need to Know
Executive protection for public events is a layered security discipline that combines threat intelligence, advance logistics, close-protection personnel, and contingency medical support to keep a principal — CEO, board chair, major shareholder, or public-facing executive — safe during keynote speeches, shareholder meetings, trade shows, product launches, and industry conferences. It is fundamentally different from general […]
Protective Intelligence: How Executive Protection Teams Identify Threats Before They Reach the Principal
Protective intelligence is the disciplined process of identifying, investigating, and assessing threats to a protected person before those threats reach the point of action. It shifts executive protection from reacting at the moment of contact to intervening days, weeks, or months earlier, when a concerning person is still gathering information, voicing a grievance, or moving […]
Executive Protection at Annual Shareholder Meetings and Investor Days: How Public-Company Boards Plan for Activist and Threat Exposure
Executive protection at an annual shareholder meeting or investor day is the coordinated security planning that protects directors, the CEO, the executive team, and on-site staff during a single high-visibility event where the company’s most senior people are advertised in advance, gathered in one venue, and subject to questions from anyone with a share or […]
Executive Protection for Family Offices: A 2026 Guide to Protecting Principals, Spouses, and Adult Children
Executive protection for family offices is a coordinated security program that protects every member of a wealthy family – the principal, the spouse, and adult children – rather than only the named executive at the operating company. It treats the family as the protected unit, integrates residential, travel, and event coverage under one command structure, […]
Workplace Threat Assessment Teams: How HR, Legal, and Security Should Collaborate to Prevent Targeted Violence
A workplace threat assessment team (TAT) is a small, cross-functional group inside an organization – typically built from Human Resources, Legal or Employee Relations, Security, and one senior operations leader – chartered to identify individuals whose behavior raises concern about potential violence, evaluate the level of risk, and coordinate a response that protects employees while […]