March For Our Lives Protests, Counter-Protests and Mass Gathering Security Awareness
By David Pounder On 14 February, a former student entered Stoneman Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida and killed 17 students and school officials. While there have been varying statistics and arguments about the actual number of school shootings in 2018...
REN-ISAC: Higher Education Enterprise Risk Management Leadership
By Brett Zupan and Andy Jabbour Across critical infrastructure, organizations must continually reassess their risks based on an ever-changing threat environment. In doing so, and as part of broader risk management activities, our team encourages applying a...
Blended Threats: Understanding an Evolving Threat Environment
By Andy Jabbour This is an update to the original post, “Terminology for $500. What Are Blended Attacks?” 26 May 2017, and the update, "Blended Threats: Understanding an Evolving Threat Environment," 24 Jan 2018. As our team continues projects focused on the...
President Trump: You’re Completely Wrong About Active Shooter Preparedness
By Andy Jabbour In Brief: On 22 Feb, President Trump made remarks regarding the 14 Feb mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In his remarks, the President stated that, “active shooter drills is a very negative thing.” That...
What ISIS Meant by Showing Women Fighting on the Front Lines
By Bridget Johnson (@BridgetCJ) Not to be outdone by the Kurdish, Arabic and Assyrian women who have kicked their butts in the retaking of Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa and beyond, ISIS now claims that they’ve got women out in the field doing their commando work –...
NH-ISAC: Taking a Proactive Approach to Blended Threats
By Andy Jabbour There is a tremendous amount of information that analysts, security and risk leaders, executives, and others try to process daily. In the abundance of noise, we strive to promote a simple idea to developing a threat-informed, risk-based approach...