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Operational Fitness in Executive Protection

Recently I wrote a piece for EP Wired about the importance of combatives training for the protection professional and how I felt if you couldn’t protect yourself, you had no business protecting others.  Several months later I was listening to...

Smarts and Resilience: Protective Intelligence for Everyday Life  

Many people perceive protective intelligence (or PI) relative to high-secret government programs where security intelligence analysts plug away in a 24-hour operations center to protect those of importance. Or high-level officials from terrorist plots.     But in truth, while the term protective intelligence...

Close Protection Job Search in a Post Pandemic Climate   

The pandemic has been devastating on many levels, not least with its impact on the workforce – remote work, a high turnover rate, and even loss of business. There's no shortage of doom and gloom about the state of...

Understanding the Role of a Close Protection Team

A close protection team is a precautionary group there to reduce the risk of danger to the person needing protection. The operatives who form the team are responsible for defusing any aggressive situation involving the individual who hired their services, i.e.,...

When Bodyguards ‘Tell All’ — Slippery Slope with Discretion

Discretion is a word that carries with it both negative and positive connotations. What does it mean to be discrete as a security professional? Most often, it has to do with protecting groups and individuals in precarious contexts.    On the...

Estate Security – The Road Less Traveled

Executive protection details are indeed sought after assignments to young and transitioning security professionals due to public perception (i.e., the black suit, sunglasses, and earpieces). This combines with rubbing elbows with potential public figures and celebrities.  As most executive protection...

How to Hire Executive Protection Professionals: A Guide

When you hire executive protection professionals, you help ensure the safety of yourself as a high-profile client. But also, that of your family and entourage. To this extent, EP security companies are there to work with you to provide...

Executive Protection Standards with Matthew Porcelli – EP Wired Interview

In a remote sit-down with security specialist Matthew Porcelli, we dive deep into executive protection standards, the disputes between solo practitioners and security companies, as well as how to approach certification in the security business. Recent news shows that the...

The Stalker – Much More Than a Physical Threat

The development of the internet in the 21st century has added another, deep layer of complexity to personal protection. Reports of online stalking and harassment are becoming more common. But how serious is the threat a stalker poses? How...

Quality in Protection – EP Wired Interview with James Hamilton

In an exclusive conversation with GDBA's very own James Hamilton, we delve deep into security assessments, quality in protection, the EP gap analysis, and many other enticing topics. For years, it has been said that the EP industry needs to...

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Executive Protection Organizations Worldwide — IPSB

For the fourth issue in our Executive Protection Organizations Worldwide series, we talked with Chuck Tobin, a Member Board...

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