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I taught my kids situational awareness – without them knowing it.
I taught my kids situational awareness – without them knowing it. It started with apples, oranges, and pizza.Because kids love food. And games.🍕 Pizzas = Visibility from windows and doorways.🍊 Oranges = Things that go through windows and doors.🍏 Apples = You. And apples can only go through doors. Wherever we went—pizza shops, coffee shops,…
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Surveillance Detection Saved Us On Our Honeymoon
Surveillance Detection Saved Us On Our Honeymoon I was burning up with a 104-degree fever in the middle of the Ankara bus station. Delirious. Barely making sense. My wife, Mallory—then fiancée—was holding everything together, doing her best to get us to our next destination. She sat me down with our bags and went to get…
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What Human Trafficking REALLY Looks Like.
What does #humantrafficking really look like?Would you know it if you saw it? Would you recognize the signs if it was presented to you? Without the training and experience I’ve had, I can confidently say ‘no’, I would not have. Social media paints a pretty graphic picture and – don’t get me wrong – the…
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Safeguarding Secrets:
This week, we are exploring the nuance of physical access control. In this post-COVID world, the work environment has evolved to incorporate remote and hybrid setups.
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How Can Private Intelligence Help NGOs?
Intelligence reports provide decision makers with a statistically-based prediction of the future. NGOs often work in challenging environments and with limited budgets. Intelligence reports help NGOs make decisions about how to improve their work. Private intelligence firms provide NGOs with objective assessments of the issues at hand, allowing them to make better decisions for their…
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What is a ‘Travel Briefing’?
Imagine arriving in a foreign city for a business trip. It is 23:39 local time, and you’ve just deplaned. You’re tired and hungry and you have to catch the 7:05 train to a meeting in a nearby city tomorrow morning. Most people travel by hoping and guessing along the way. As you fumble through the…
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What is ‘Private Intelligence’?
Private intelligence is the collection, analysis and exploitation of information, by a non-governmental organization. Governments use intelligence agencies to determine where the world is going – for example, what is happening in the next 6 months, 1 year, 5 years, etc. Think Jack Ryan, trying to learn which step the bad guy is going to…
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The Intelligence Cycle
Information is all around us, constantly bombarding us in every direction. News media, social media, friends and family – each one competing for your time, energy and attention. Intelligence professionals know that without verification, information is useless. Think about the last time a parent or trusted friend sent you an article, or a headline even,…
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Being A Targeting Analyst
What is a targeting analyst? A targeting analyst or “targeter” for short, is someone who finds out every little detail there is to know about a person, place or thing. Imagine having the knowledge that your parents, your best friend, and your significant other have about you all rolled into one person. They know your…
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The IR$ (Part One)
“Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you —“ Emotionally triggering headlines are standard in modern news media. Headlines like this are designed to make you feel the way you do, right now. The media companies know that emotionally-triggered people are far more likely to take the click-bait and spread it,…
Travel with Confidence
Be Prepared. Not Paranoid.