We have all had the experience of driving on a major highway and running into stop and go traffic, the first thought you have is that there must be an accident just over the hill or around the bend. But when you get to the top of the hill or around the bend the traffic starts to flow and there is no accident – what caused the slowdown. Two things traffic volume and “line of sight”.

Cars are getting smarter and more capable. They’re even starting to drive themselves, a little. And they’re becoming a cause of concern for European and American safety agencies and groups.

One of the advantages of age – and so far the only advantage I have found – is that I have been a witness to some of the events that changed the way the industry works and trains. These were “game-changing incidents”–vehicle attacks that rewrote the rules for close protection and security driving.

Consumer Reports just announced the results of its Annual Auto Survey based on data on reliability collected from the vehicles of over 500,000 Consumer Reports members. From this data, Consumer Reports can let shoppers know which vehicles are likely to have troublesome turbocharged engines, infuriating infotainment systems, and taxing transmissions, among other problems.

The authors 2018 Chatter Matters Word of Mouth report studied 1,001 people to learn how they make decisions.

No matter how many emails you send, how many Facebook ads you post, how high you rank in Google search results—all those marketing tactics pale in success when compared with word-of-mouth marketing.

This is an excerpt Transportation Security White Paper I wrote in 1979, (that would be 40 years ago). The paper was written for the International Association…

International Terrorism Guide Website is a ready reference guide for LE, intelligence, military and security personnel about international terrorist threats

No matter what is said by whom, to succeed in the Protective Services profession, you need to gain career capital by collecting marketable experience, skills, and knowledge (ESK).

For many, finding a career path or advancing a career is the most challenging task they face. There are no guarantees for success, but there is a path to it. Many may have the desire and passion for succeeding in a profession, but having a successful career requires a plan, a roadmap. A roadmap shows a destination, or one’s goals, and the practical steps necessary to get to the desired destination.

ISDA has created a protective services roadmap to success.

The ISDA Secure Transportation and Executive Protection News Podcast for Wednesday, November 21, 2018  – High Net Worth Sparing No Expense to Keep Their Lives Private and Secure

Authored by Glenn P. McGovern and written in 2011, Drawn from case examples of incidents from around the world, Targeted Violence: A Statistical and Tactical…

An older article via International Security Driver Association (ISDA) Member Glen Edmunds Organizations are moving into Somalia in droves. The UN is spending a lot…

The ISDA Secure Transportation and Executive Protection News Podcast for Monday, October 22nd, 2018: Drivers Overestimate What Semi-Autonomous Vehicles Can Do

The ISDA Secure Transportation and Executive Protection News Podcast for Wednesday, October 17th, 2018 – Corporate Protective Driving: A View from the Field

ISDA Secure Transportation and Executive Protection News Podcast for Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 – FBI Chief Says Threats from Drones to U.S. ‘Steadily Escalating’