SDC Development 2, Author at TorchStone Global

Countering Insider Threats and the “Little Hook”
In Articles, Corporate Security, Featured on August 19, 2022
One of the most effective techniques used by intelligence officers to recruit insiders as spies is known as the “little…
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Messing With Their Heads: Manipulating and Detecting Hostile Surveillance
In Articles, Corporate Security, Featured on August 12, 2022
Security members and teams can employ aspects of the same tools professional intelligence officers use to identify hostile surveillants. Nearly…
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Cyber Security and Human Vulnerability
In Articles, Corporate Security, Featured on May 27, 2022
Keeping a company safe from cyber attacks often only includes technical security such as properly installed hardware with up-to-date firmware,…
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Propaganda of the Deed: Contextualizing the Buffalo Attack
In Articles, Featured on May 18, 2022
The shooting in Buffalo, NY exemplifies how white supremacists use the internet to broadcast their attacks to spotlight their radicalized…
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Northeast cartel will survive capture, extradition of ‘The Egg,’ expert says
In Recent Article, Traveling Abroad on March 15, 2022
The arrest and extradition of Juan Gerardo “El Huevo” Treviño Chavez is hardly the end of the powerful and ruthless…
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Placing Bomb Threats in Perspective
In Articles, Featured on February 11, 2022
In the wake of the recent wave of bomb threats placed to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) I have…
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The Economist: Latin America’s drug gangs have had a good pandemic
In Recent Article, Traveling Abroad on February 4, 2022
The event had all the trappings of a new-year celebration. Fireworks lit up the sky. Young men danced arm-in-arm, singing,…
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The Hunt: Historically Black colleges and universities hit with string of bomb threats
In Recent Article on February 2, 2022
On this episode of “The Hunt,” Scott Stewart, vice president of Torchstone Global, discusses the threats against historically Black colleges…
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Expert believes HBCU bomb threats meant to cause disruptions
In Recent Article on February 2, 2022
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The number of violent threats received by schools across the nation, two in Jacksonville, is alarming. The…
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Organizational Contingency Plans: Defined, Fluid, Crucial
In Articles, Featured on January 28, 2022
The threat of a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine has pushed to the forefront discussions regarding contingency plans, trip wires,…
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