Understanding Personal Security and Risk

A Guide for Business Travelers
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4987-6578-7
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Uniting broad, time-tested security principles and the author’s 35-plus years of experience with international security, intelligence, and foreign affairs, Understanding Personal Security: A Guide for Business Travelers offers a detailed yet practical framework on which to develop personal security awareness and training programs. As a critical resource for any travelers who may need to make fast, smart judgements in high-risk environments, this book helps readers analyze threats, threat actors, and the common adversarial characteristics, as well as the function of risk as a differentiating principle. This versatile text blends abstract organizing principles with street honed instincts, becoming equally valuable to security managers with previous experience and those corporate or non-profit organizations with employees in developing nations.

Zielgruppe

General and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goslin, Charles E.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements *

About the Author *

Charles E. Goslin, CPP, CISSP *

Introduction *

Chapter 1 – Important Personal Security Concepts *

Concept of Effectiveness *

Concepts of Threat, Vulnerability and Risk *

Concept of Time *

Committing a security plan to memory *

Threat Agents and Threat Actors *

Chapter 2 – Personal Security Principles *

The Principle of Preparation *

Principle of Detection *

Principle of Deterrence *

Principle of Delay *

The Principle of Defense *

Selected Threat Actor Profile: Street Gangsters *

Chapter 3 - When travel plans go sideways *

Arrival at the Airport *

On the road: checkpoints and roadblocks *

Selected Threat Actor Profiles: Roadblocks and Military, Insurgents and Police *

Chapter 4 - Kidnapping *

Classifying Types of Kidnap/Abduction Operations *

Tip of the Iceberg: Keeping Kidnap Threat Trends in Perspective *

Measures to Counter the Kidnap Threat *

Recovering from Kidnap *

Executive Protection: Key Elements of a Program *

Selected Threat Actor Profile: The mindset of a Kidnapper *

Chapter 5 – Patterns of threat in the environment *

Cover of darkness *

Alcohol, Drugs & the Environment *

"Broken Windows" *

Natural Disasters *

Civil Disorder and Rioting *

Chapter 6 - Hotel and Residential Security *

Considerations when choosing a hotel *

Residential Security *

Selected Threat Actor Profiles: Pickpockets, Thieves and the World’s Oldest Profession… *

Chapter 7 – Cyber Security On The Road *

"Darkhotel" Threat *

Foreign Intelligence Service Threat *

Identity Theft Abroad *

Chapter 8 – Shopping, the Sports Stadium, Theatres…Soft Targets *

Preparation *

Detection *

Considerations about the threat *

Response Countermeasure 1: Active Shooters *

Response Countermeasure 2: Suicide Bomber *

Selected Threat Actor Profiles: The Jihadist Suicide Bomber *

Chapter 9 - Risk Assessment for Personal Security *

Step 1: Asset Identification and Impact of Loss *

Step 2: Identify & Characterize the Threat to Specific Assets *

Step 3: Identify & Characterize Vulnerabilities *

Step 4: Assess Risks & Determine Priorities for You and Your Team’s Protection *

Step 5: Identify unacceptable risks and determine Risk Mitigation priorities *

Chapter 10 – Personal Security and Transportation: Securing Your Movement *

Introduction *

Ground Transportation: Vehicle and Rail *

Air Transportation *

Chapter 11 – Managing Your Team’s Personal Security *

Authority *

Communications *

The Team Briefing *

On The Ground *

Roadblock Protocol *

At the Hotel *

Managing Crisis Situations *

Conclusion *

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Goslin is a retired CIA operations officer who served throughout the world in a wide range of capacities that bridged covert technical and HUMINT operations. He continues actively consulting in retirement on international intelligence, security and risk issues faced by multinational corporations operating in some of the world’s most hostile regions. Charles experience offers unique value for the business traveler that must, out of necessity, venture into "Indian Country." His perspective is one drawn from years working in the trenches of the third-world, rather than the relative comfort of a Washington office. Charles has authored and published numerous white papers on the security threat and business risk issues, and lectures regularly on terrorist radicalization and the threat of jihadist groups to Europe and the U.S. He has worked abroad in India, Africa, Central & South America, Europe and the Middle East with personal experience in crisis management and evacuation of facilities and personnel on numerous occasions. His expertise has been solicited by national media, both broadcast and print.