INRIX is a company that provides traffic analytics. Each year, INRIX releases the Global Traffic Scorecard (GTS). As we have mentioned before, the GTS offers one of the most valuable marketing metrics for security drivers and secure transportation providers. This data helps determine your services’ return on investment (ROI).

In September of 2021, ASIS and the SIA produced the Security Industry Career Pathway Guide for practitioners and suppliers.

As a business, you operate within a Business Model. Your Business Model governs your future in the profession. Noted business author Peter Drucker defines a Business Model as the answer to these questions: Who is your customer, what does the customer/client value, and how do you deliver value at an appropriate cost?

History shows that secure transportation is where the corporate community spends a majority of its training dollars. If you, by chance, review the IRS code, you will find that protective driver training is the only skill that the IRS requires. There is no mention of executive protection training, shooting, or martial arts, just protective driver training.

Facebook security spending is in the news again. Facebook’s parent company Meta, spent $26.8 million on security and private jets for Mark Zuckerberg, according to their 2021 Security and Exchange Commission Schedule 14a filing. 

I get the impression that many of those working in the profession or trying to work in the profession do not understand the concept of a Professional Certification. Many practitioners want a standard, but they want the standard to meet the curriculum of the training program that they attended – that is not how it works.

There has been a great deal of talk on social media about how the industry is growing at an exponential rate. We agree, but we ask the question, in what sector of the profession is it growing, and what sector is increasing their spending on Executive Protection?

wo topics of discussion that can dominate social media are certification and the state of training in the executive protection and secure transportation industry. In reality, certification and training are inseparable. There is a need for standardization in the Executive Protection profession.

As someone who has worked in the Executive Protection (EP) industry for more than 40 years, and have operated a licensed EP/Security/PI agency providing Executive Protection and Protection Driving for 30 years, I felt compelled to talk about this topic to clarify some of the issues regarding independent contractors (IC) and employee (1099 vs W2) status as it pertains to our industry.

Social media gives a voice to anyone. The voice can have a positive or negative impact especially to those seeking knowledge. Social media allows us…

56% Of Those Who Supply Secure Transportation Use Rental Vehicles – the title of this article comes from data collected from the 2019 ISDA Executive…

With over half a billion users, LinkedIn is the biggest opportunity to connect with not only your peers but potential employers, and selling/marketing your products and services.

In recent content from the Executive Protection/Bodyguard community, there seems to be some confusion over the definitions of Brand and Branding.

The purpose of  post today is to give you a better understanding of what social media is, how you can use it for the benefit of your executive protection business, and really go through a first-stage self-assessment guide to answer the right questions to better prepare you to use social media effectively and communicate out who you are, what do you do, and what qualifies you to do it.

In the LinkedIn Group Executive Protection Network a member responded to our article “The 85% Rule” with a question – Why do the numbers from…

This is a phrase you see often in books – magazine articles – on power points presentations – “85 % of all attacks against the…

This article was written by Gordon Mitchell, PhD, CPP.  Dr. Mitchell operates Future Focus, a Seattle based company which provides electronic eavesdropping.  The article was…