The DNA of Executive Protection Site Security

Book excerpt: An in-depth read in relation to executive protection with a focus on site security, The DNA of Executive Protection - Site Security is essential for anyone new to executive protection or requiring advanced instruction on major event planning. If you want to excel as an executive protection professional, you need a thorough understanding of site security protocols, vulnerabilities, and best practices. An executive’s activities are all site based, where the VIP is either at a site, arriving or departing from a site, or travelling through one. Thus, the backbone, or DNA of executive protection is site security. Need a tool to assist with site security assessment and planning? This book includes: 1. Six activity-based categories to help determine when site security resources are warranted 2. Effective ways to establish and build relationships with each of the seven site stakeholder groups 3. Information on access control and accreditation, including assessment of examples 4. Two new protective assessment tools: the facility selection assessment and the strategic site arrival and departure assessment 5. A comprehensive guide to site vulnerability assessments, to identify, review, and evaluate physical security vulnerabilities 6. Effective actions to take if an adversary gains access to the event site 7. A detailed site security guide that outlines 60-areas a site commander should have considered and covered off on game day As site commander, your goal is to be the security subject matter expert at your event site. This book will help you achieve that goal.