Our Conversations for the Week of October 19-25

One of our sponsors who happens to be deeply involved in intelligent communications, has a tag line that seeks to anchor in the mind of the market what they believe to be core to the risk, resilience, and security technology framework: “To hear, be heard, and be understood”.

Three short declarations integrated into a core value that your voice is critical in every situation.

If you think about it, the knowledge repository we have created through these conversations has the same core value. That is why we attempt to make them easy to consume over coffee in the morning, your commute, or on one of those afternoon walks.

We designed 20-30 minute no fluff, unscripted interviews with key leaders that we tag with meta data (descriptors) that reference “learning” tracks that you can search and use to benchmark how you:

• directly lead your teams,

• indirectly lead your company culture,

• intentionally design and measure using a methodology for designing your program,

• proactive collection, analysis, design and management of the external and internal information that will provide you an early warning system on your threats,

• and, finally, your friend, the tools that can optimize your people or processes or be the very thing that disrupts everything you have done, and thought was possible: technology.

Hear, be heard, be understood.

Our featured conversations this week attempt to do just that. We start with a practice designed to provide you a framework by which you intentionally create your security program as well as your next security technology architecture.

Kent Howard is one of the key resources inside Verizon’s Information Security Risk Management. By deploying ESRM and infusing the methodology with his experience with security technology, he has developed critical analytical problem-solving skills. These skills were apparent when he collegially shared his thoughts on “Security by Design” within the Journal of Physical Security.

We sat down with him to understand how his background and experiences led him to this best practice. As well, we looked for the game changers that could take our community to the next level of value in our collaboration with the organizations we serve. We also provide access to his submission in the Journal and other key references he believes we need in our library.

With this framework in hand, we next turn to an executive who has created a relationship framework to complement the risk management approach.

Inge Huijbrechts is the Global Senior Vice President Responsible Business and Safety & Security at the Radisson Hotel Group. She provides us an insight into how these three domains of safety, security, and sustainability work together. We discover that the sum of the parts is greater than each individual strand. We learn how Sustainability, Safety & Security inspire and create awareness in a distributed environment, especially post COVID-19 when Tourism and Travel operate with minimal resources. We learn how we innovate in the built environment to adjust to the new normal post COVID-19. And we learn how the intersection between corporate responsibility and security become a force multiplier for risk mitigation.

Inge’s influence over 1440 hotels in 115 countries around the world is a remarkable story of a singular focus on the core values and shared commitment between Radisson’s mission and their 100,000+ employees Together with her team, she lays out the strategy for Responsible Business from build to operations and keeps the over 100,000 employees around the world engaged in everyday Responsible Business actions.

With these two conversations we have covered key ideas around Risk Management and Security by Design. And then learned about the unique synergies between sustainability, safety, and security.

Now we turn to leveraging disruptive technology by integrating the human element into a highly leveraged implementation of AI, Robotics, and Predictive Intelligence. We invite, Erik Schluntz, the Cofounder & CTO at Cobalt Robotics, into a great conversation about man, machine, and the hybrid business model needed to augment our people and programs.

Erik was named one of Forbes 30 under 30 in 2018, He earned an MS in electrical engineering from Harvard University and has worked on special projects for both Google[x] and SpaceX

He shares his thoughts on how robotics technology will move from an emerging idea to an indispensable partner to security executives and their teams. He believes it starts with the security ecosystem recognizing that this is a service, not unlike how they have purchased manpower in the past to augment their program. We learn why this existing model may be key to our next move in optimizing our teams, our programs, and our budget.

Each of these voices has made their mark and now, like a pebble thrown into a pond, we extend their impact through this community.

Enjoy