Security Trends…
From “Silos” to Integrated
Risk Management

Career Highlights
❖ Walt Disney World Security
❖ US Department of State
(Diplomatic Security Special Agent)
❖ Center for Personal Protection & Safety
(CPPS)
❖ DJ Benson & Associates, LLC
❖ Securing Souls Ministries, LLC
❖ Vice President, ATAP Fla. Board of Directors
❖ Certified Threat Manager (CTM)

Career Highlights

Overview
Security Challenges – State of Play: Are We…
• Safer…Worse off…About The Same?
• What Are The “Challenges” We Face?
Moving from Traditional Risk Management Models…
• “Hybrid” Approach
• Inter-Disciplinary & Behavioral Based
What’s Next… Reliable Analytics
• Predictive
• Performance

Security Challenges…

Security
Challenges…
• Is Our World Safer?
• Worse Off?
• About the Same?
• Why is That?

A Broader View…
Environments Are Converging…

A Broader View…
Due to Advances In Technology & Social Media…

A Broader View…
Higher Potential For Risk Exists In All Environments
Result
Risk Prevention and
Response require hybrid
solutions, which
consider all
environments

Security Challenges
❖ Life environments are converging
❖ Synergistic effect of increased violence with
convergence of life environments
❖ Need for broader, more-encompassing definitions of
“Workplace Violence…”i.e. “Work Environment”to
respond to changing world environment
❖ Increased regulatory, legal and compliance scrutiny
demand greater planning, prevention and response

❖ What is the “WORKPLACE” today?
❖ “Mobile workforce”
❖ Traveling on business
❖ The WAY and WHERE of work is changing
❖ WORK “ENVIRONMENT” impacted by:
❖ Place or location where work conducted
❖ Personal & Social lives of the workforce
❖ What constitutes VIOLENCE?
Security Challenges

Specific
Challenges
We Face
• Crime
• Cyber – Social Media & Insider
Threat
• Extreme Violence (Active Threat)
• Domestic and International Terror
• Work “Environment”

Risk Management
Transitions

“Hybrid” Risk
Management
Solutions…
Transition from Traditional “Silo” Approach Based
Upon…
• Expertise
• Responsibilities
To Multi-Functional Approach
• Behavioral Based…Focused upon
• What…Then Who
Resulting in
• Inter-Disciplinary “Consensus” Strategies
• More Effective
• Less Liability

Incident Management

The Complete Picture

So What’s Next?
Reliable Analytics…

Analytics…
Risk Versus
Threat
Integration of Program Data
❖ One Size Does NOT Fit All…Analytics should be Broken
out into two Categories to be useful in Risk
Management Process
❖ Predictive
❖ Performance

Thanks!
Any questions?
@DavidJBenson1
dave@securingsouls.com
t: 407-361-2821