Executive's Guide to Personal Security - Softcover

Katz, David S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119574374 ISBN 13: 9781119574378

Publisher: Wiley, 2019

Synopsis

The proven safety tips and techniques for corporate executives, revised and updated

The revised and updated second edition of Executive's Guide to Personal Security, 2^nd Edition offers a strategic handbook for ensuring safety for executives, their employees, and their corporate assets. The book’s lessons outline the basic rules of personal security; it shows how to recognize and prepare for the real threats faced by executives and ordinary individuals in today’s often hostile world. It is filled with the necessary knowledge that can empower executives to face these threats and deal with them successfully. The methods outlined herein, formerly reserved for security professionals and government employees, are made available to the reader. Executive's Guide to Personal Security will teach you situational awareness which allows you to identify potential dangers before they become serious threats. You will learn how to analyze risks, prepare for emergencies, travel safely, and utilize counter-surveillance techniques to enable you to recognize if you are being followed or targeted.  You will gain an understanding of the threats to both personal safety and corporate assets and understand how to implement the appropriate counter-measures to deal with those perceived threats.

With Executive’s Guide to Personal Security, you can learn to take necessary actions to reduce your chances of becoming a target and discover how to make yourself less vulnerable. Written by two seasoned security experts, the lessons presented can be used by those in the business world as well as anyone who would like to feel more secure, including those traveling to foreign countries and individuals studying abroad. New to the second edition is:

• Information for responding to an active shooter incident
• Enhanced details for protecting IP and computers and smart phones
• Strategies for planning for emergencies at home and the office
• Approaches to safety that meet the challenges of today’s world 

Executive's Guide to Personal Security, 2^nd Edition is the comprehensive book that contains information on physical security, principles of route selection, technical security systems, hostage situations, emergency planning, hotel and room selection, armored products, communications, bomb threats, evacuations, and local criminal hazards. 

About this title

About the Author

DAVID S. KATZ is a former senior Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and is the CEO of Global Security Group, a company providing protective and investigative services, fire and life safety consulting, and highly specialized training for private sector and governmental clients. David is an internationally recognized expert in Active Shooter Response and Prevention.

ILAN CASPI is a business executive, a former member of the Israeli General Security Agency, the Israeli Diplomatic Security Service, EL AL Airline, and the Israeli Air Force. He is an expert in executive protection, threat assessments, and developing comprehensive security protocols for international organizations. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

From the Back Cover

THE PROVEN SAFETY TIPS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES CORPORATE EXECUTIVES CAN RELY ON WORLDWIDE―THE FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED NEW EDITION

Around the world, businesses of all kinds are confronted with an ever-increasing number of complex safety and security challenges. Failing to prepare for potential workplace violence, active shooter incidents, natural disasters, public health emergencies, political instability, civil unrest, and a slew of other security issues can have significant, potentially catastrophic consequences. Executive's Guide to Personal Security teaches you how to recognize the real-world dangers facing your business and employees, address security and safety concerns in your organization, run your corporate security function more effectively, and make informed and appropriate security and business related decisions.

Now in its Second Edition, this handbook provides strategies for handling the threats businesses and those working in the private sector may encounter both at home and abroad―providing knowledge once reserved only for government security professionals in a format designed for corporate environments. You will learn to develop situational awareness, plan for all types of emergencies at home and at the office, follow effective travel security protocols, guard against espionage, extortion, and kidnapping, preserve the physical safety of yourself, your family and co-workers, and much more. Let Executive's Guide to Personal Security arm you with the knowledge required to plan for, and successfully deal with, any threat that arises.

From the Inside Flap

THE PROVEN SAFETY TIPS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES CORPORATE EXECUTIVES CAN RELY ON WORLDWIDE— THE FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED NEW EDITION

Around the world, businesses of all kinds are confronted with an ever-increasing number of complex safety and security challenges. Failing to prepare for potential workplace violence, active shooter incidents, natural disasters, public health emergencies, political instability, civil unrest, and a slew of other security issues can have significant, potentially catastrophic consequences. Executive's Guide to Personal Security teaches you how to recognize the real-world dangers facing your business and employees, address security and safety concerns in your organization, run your corporate security function more effectively, and make informed and appropriate security and business related decisions.

Now in its Second Edition, this handbook provides strategies for handling the threats businesses and those working in the private sector may encounter both at home and abroad—providing knowledge once reserved only for government security professionals in a format designed for corporate environments. You will learn to develop situational awareness, plan for all types of emergencies at home and at the office, follow effective travel security protocols, guard against espionage, extortion, and kidnapping, preserve the physical safety of yourself, your family and co-workers, and much more. Let Executive's Guide to Personal Security arm you with the knowledge required to plan for, and successfully deal with, any threat that arises.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1119574374
• ISBN 13: 9781119574378
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256