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"We've had situations where
executives have been ap-
proached at their homes, or
while they're travelling, so now
you've got a different victim pool.
you've got the individual execu-
tive, you've got their office staff
who may be at risk of violence,
and then — if that follows them
to their personal life — now we're
talking about the potential that it
blows over to their family."
Proactive measures
So what can organizations do to
protect their executives — and
what can executives do to protect
themselves?
The first thing to do is a thor-
ough risk assessment, to under-
stand the level and type of threats
that might arise, said Hyde.
"When you look at any type of
a threat to a human asset, which
an executive is, or a physical asset
like a building, or a property, or
reputationally for that organiza-
tion (it's crucial to) do a risk as-
sessment. This is the absolutely
critical first step," he said.
Social media monitoring is an
important piece of that, because
it can help you understand how
members of the public view your
organization, he said.
Organizations need to sit
down and take a good look at
their current safety practices,
said Calder.
"The first thing is just to have
that discussion, because a lot of
organizations have a discomfort
around even talking about it,"
he said. "i think it's a multidisci-
plinary approach that involves
safety, security if it exists, human
resources, senior executives of
the appropriate level to sit down
and say, 'How are we going to
manage this as a group?'"
There also needs to be training
in place so employees can recog-
nize behaviours of concern and
report them.
"as they do that, they're in a
better position to manage the
situation and not over- or under-
react to it," he said.
and security measures and
strategies should be preventa-
tive, he said.
"a lot of people get obsessed
with (CCTV) cameras. Well, in
a real threatening situation, it's
going to be much more dynamic
than that, because the camera's
only going to capture the result.
it's not going to be preventative if
you've got somebody that's being
homicidal or suicidal."
antivirus programs, firewalls,
intrusion detection systems and
immediate and qualified inci-
dent response are the keys for
protecting data, said zagribelin.
There should also be informa-
tion security and awareness for
employees — and for high-level
executives, no matter how busy
they are.
in terms of physical security,
organizations shouldn't limit
their strategies to protecting the
executive while she's in the of-
fice — they should also consider
her safety in transit, while travel-
ling and while she's at home, said
Hyde.
"(recently) we saw that
somebody waltzed into justin
Trudeau's house through the
back door (at night). Too many
executives are far too cavalier
and casual with their personal
safety and security and that of
their families. yet some execu-
tives are at heightened risk, and
they do need to take those base-
line security measures," he said.
"There needs to be some thought
put into… where the executive
parks, if they're at higher risk,
how they're getting to the work-
place, how they travel — putting
some security around that, but
also at home.
"They need to have a robust
security plan in place at home to
make sure that they're not vul-
nerable in their homes as well."
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