Field Intelligence Library
The Knowledge Vault
Real-world lessons, industry news & training resources at your disposal
December 30, 2018
Executive Protection – Realities of the Industry and the Ugly Truth
Let’s talk about the real world of Executive Protection with all its fantasy myths and all its brutal truths. Many newcomers in our Craft have a completely different idea of...
Read Briefing →October 21, 2016
Women in the Executive Protection Industry/Female Bodyguards
Addressing some misperceptions about women in the Executive Protection Industry...
Read Briefing →January 15, 2016
What kind of a security business leader are you?
Over the last 10 years, I have written a few hundred articles and granted interviews related to protective work within our industry. I have almost always addressed topics of interest...
Read Briefing →May 1, 2013
Is a security detail enough?
Personal Protection has always been viewed as a physical or tangible thing that could be measured by effort and labor put into creating and maintaining a program. Since the Internet...
Read Briefing →March 29, 2013
Female Self Defense Courses, can they teach you how to be safe?
The first thing that comes to mind when people hear ‘’Personal Safety’’ is martial arts or firearms training. Being in the security industry for the last twenty years, I have...
Read Briefing →January 16, 2013
The importance of being a responsible and safety-conscious citizen in your community
Leaving the comfort of your couch and going out to see what’s taking place can save people’s lives. Criminals don’t want to be captured and usually flee if confronted by...
Read Briefing →December 15, 2012
After the training what? Gaining Employment in the Security Industry
So you got retired from military, had your time serving overseas, got your experience within a hostile environment, paid a thousand of dollars to training courses in order to gain...
Read Briefing →October 30, 2012
Can you foresee and prevent threats?
No matter what our profession, age, sex, culture or country we live in, we all have to deal at some point in our lives with aggressive individuals, either as criminals,...
Read Briefing →September 5, 2012
Fallen Bodyguards: the unknown heroes
Probably their death news never gets more than a dozen of views in online news sites or blogs. Most of the times their names are not revealed from the MEDIA...
Read Briefing →August 12, 2012
Anne-Marie Murphy Case (1986), A must read Case of Terroristic Attack for Security Operatives:
As posted on Israel Security Agency website: (http://www.shabak.gov.il/english/history/affairs/pages/anne-mariemurphycase.aspx) On Thursday, April 17, 1986, at the Heathrow International Airport in London, El Al security agents thwarted an attempt to...
Read Briefing →July 23, 2012
Mr Bob Duggan, founder of Executive Security International (ESI) thoughts over Colorado theater shooting
As many of us, no matter how often we have seen it happening is always shocking us. Reading news and comments over the last attack in Colorado I came across...
Read Briefing →June 21, 2012
Maintain good communication and cooperation within your work area
During our career in security industry we will have to work along with people who don’t share the same work beliefs, qualifications, training and experience background with us. So even...
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