Current Breaking News & On-Topic Articles – 8/1/2024

The Kimmons Investigative Services’ suite of investigation and security resources covers a wide spectrum of threats and investigative challenges for individuals and organizations. Here are some breaking news and relevant stories that cover different threats and investigative services:

1. Back to Basics: Recognizing the Warning Signs of Workplace Violence

Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine how to recognize the warning signs of workplace violence.

The 33rd annual report examines the year’s crisis news and identifies emerging trends of concern to business leaders.

SOUTH BEND, Ind.Aug. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Crisis news story statistics continued their post-pandemic shuffle with some surprises revealed in the 2023 numbers. The Institute for Crisis Management® (ICM) tallied 1,977,722 crisis news stories in 2023, a decrease of about nine percent over 2022 in a retreat towards pre-pandemic story numbers.

3. Navigating the complex world of cell phone forensics: How multiple SIMs and eSIMs impact investigations

Understanding how these technologies store and manage data is essential for accurately extracting and attributing information during forensic examinations

4. 3 steps to a comprehensive security threat assessment

When there’s an internal or external event on the horizon, physical security is crucial. The best strategy is to conduct a comprehensive physical security threat assessment well before the event to evaluate the threats that face the enterprise and develop contingency plans to secure the organization before, during and after events.

5. Why You Need TSCM Now More Than Ever

Our baseline level of suspicion about the security of data and communications is very high these days. Are smart devices recording conversations and conveying them to marketers? Are encrypted communications apps truly secure from state-affiliated intrusion? Are our corporate networks compromised by hackers? This newfound interest in information security is a good thing, but amidst all the new risks we should not forget that the tried-and-true approaches to spying — especially the use of electronic surveillance devices — are more of a threat than ever.

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