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Matthew Porcelli

Frontline Protection – More Than a One-Sided Concept 

As we progress through the first quarter of the 21st century and soon into 2025, frontline protection services remain anything but a stagnant business.  With fluctuating markets, client(s) demands, and developing risks, private security teams are tasked with sharpening...

The Key Role of Private Security Officers

Over the course of their assignments, private security officers are not averse to coming across multiple types of employees, guests, or contracted employees. Depending on the size of the organization housed in one or several fixed assets and the...

Insider Threat to the Principal – Negligence, Complacent, or Malicious?

Viewing the possible threats or assaults on principals from the outside is only viewing the glass as half-empty.  Granted, outside manmade threat objectives such as but not limited to political, religious, or even intellectual disability, all pose potential hazards...

Dealey Plaza – 60 Years Later

Last week, I had the privilege of attending and speaking at the Global Security Exchange (GSX) brought to us by ASIS International, in Dallas, Texas. As this was my first visit to the Big D, and a passionate student...

Non-Sterile and Sterile Areas – Where Do They Begin and End?

Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM), is a very effective method for measuring an organization's risks in an advisory capacity, evaluating an organization’s structure during and after a serious incident or crisis, and putting strategic countermeasures in place to lessen...

Drivers of Risk Assessments and Training – Reactivity or Proactivity?

What really drives the energy, if any, behind a risk assessment? Risk assessments are an important cog in the initial and recurrent security framework of any ad hoc or permanent security detail. For fixed assets, site risk assessments are...

Cloudy with a Chance of Pessimism

As the adage goes, “when it rains it pours.” Fear and panic will spread throughout the public as quick as a brush fire; ironically, this was not far from the truth on the 6th of June 2023. Smoke, from wildfires...

Not Just a Profession, but a Calling – Protecting the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Fatima

The vast spectrum of protecting others is not just limited to physical principals. Many years ago, when my calling into security was realized, I took immense admiration and influence behind those who protect the Roman Catholic Church, and the...

Unbeknownst Risk – When Too Much is Too Dangerous

In the March 2023 EP Wired article, “Saving Principals from Themselves,” I included how some principals conveniently made careless decisions on altering their executive protection detail to fit their personal agendas and comfort. Even though there is truth to...

Strategy, Communication, and Maintenance

Executive protection, and security in general, are a blended, and operational sector. Just as no two principals are alike, those who have a stake in the outcome of the operation and protection of the principal also differ in both...

About Me

Matthew Porcelli, MSc, CPP, MSI, F.ISRM, FSyl, is a safety and security manager with 20 years of experience in the criminal justice and private security sector working with clients from international airlines to corporate global headquarters, and alongside municipal, state, and federal law enforcement partners. He is certified as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) through ASIS International and a Master Security Instructor (MSI) with the International Foundation for Protection Officers (IFPO).  Porcelli holds a Master’s degree in Administration of Justice and Security, and is a 2019 graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy Newark, New Jersey Division. Porcelli currently volunteers in high-level leadership positions with ASIS International, IFPO, The Institute of Strategic Risk Management (ISRM), The Security Institute, and The Life Safety Alliance.  Porcelli continues to author numerous articles and white papers and presents at many global conferences on security topics and leadership.    In 2021 and 2024 Porcelli earned the title of “Fellow” with the Institute of Strategic Risk Management and The Security Institute, respectively.  Porcelli was the award recipient in the category of, “Outstanding Young Security Professional,” at the 2023 US Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs), and named one of the, “Top 40 Global Thought Leaders in Security & Life Safety for 2024,” by The Life Safety Alliance.
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