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A security assessment ensures that physical, technical, procedural, and personnel security measures are working together to protect your organization. That means your access control system, cameras, fire alarms, duress buttons, and other technical security devices are aligned with physical security measures like doors, locks, gates, and fences—and that these security disciplines are supported by trained security professionals and policies and procedures that prioritize security.

As it establishes a security foundation, a customized security assessment identifies what you have and what you need to protect your people on a daily basis, evaluates risk by addressing a wide range of areas, including, but not limited to, those below, and offers strategic considerations to improve your security environment. If you don’t currently have these capabilities in place, we can offer best practice based options to build your programs.

Learn how an assessment protects your people

An EMP safeguards your people when the unexpected happens at your location. We can use what we learn in an assessment to determine how to address the four phases of emergency management as supported by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS): prevention/ mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. A clear, comprehensive, and detailed EMP focuses on these four phases and their critical emergency-related priorities to protect against all hazards including natural (weather), accidental (power outages), and criminal (active assailant). Your EMP will be customized specifically to the circumstances of the emergency and tailored to your property. We’ll also coordinate with local first responders so they are familiar with your location before they are called to respond to an emergency there.
Learn how an EMP protects your people.

Collaborating with you, we will customize the training sessions to best meet your objectives by:

• Introducing strategies to improve situational awareness and inviting your people to participate in creating, enhancing, and maintaining a safe environment.
• Helping your employees identify concerning behavior regarding potential workplace violence, how domestic violence could be a factor, and the proper reporting protocols.
• Providing context for risk factors for violence and how life stressors and other factors move someone along a pathway to violence.
• Explaining how your current personnel, policies, procedures, and security measures contribute to a safe workplace.
• Walking your people through the customized EMP to ensure they understand the proper responses to all incidents including active assailant.

Learn how training makes everyone safer

Especially beneficial for the CEO and other C-Suite members, an Independent Security Study helps select executives in your company avoid unnecessary tax liability. Plus it assesses your company’s overall security environment as it relates to travel, corporate and residential properties, and transportation venues and procedures.

The Independent Security Study includes customized security assessments that identify what you have and what you need to protect your leadership and people, evaluates risk by addressing a wide range of areas, including, but not limited to those below, and offers strategic considerations to improve your security environment. If you don’t have capabilities currently in place, we can offer best practice based options to build your programs.
Learn about IRS compliance while enhancing overall security

We’ll help you address the urgent security concerns that hospitals face by enhancing their risk mitigation strategies. While benchmarking the current security measures against those of peer healthcare organizations and sharing current industry best practice-based standards, we’ll help build and sustain a comprehensive security program that protects people, properties, and assets. 

To construct a holistic security strategy, the independent and comprehensive assessments review the current physical, technical, procedural, and personnel security measures in place, local crime statistics, and emergency preparedness capabilities. The master security plan implements the considerations the assessment identifies. Also, we’ll review emergency management plans that prepares the venue for emergencies, and evaluate customized training curricula that creates an educated population that helps everyone do their best work.

Learn how to protect your staff, patients and visitors. 

We’ll help leadership address the urgent security concerns that campuses face by enhancing their risk mitigation strategies. While benchmarking the current security measures against those of comparable higher education institutions and sharing current industry best practice-based standards, we’ll help you build and sustain a comprehensive security program that protects your people.

To construct a holistic security strategy, we’ll conduct independent and comprehensive assessments of current physical, technical, procedural, and personnel security measures, police services, local crime statistics, and emergency preparedness capabilities. We’ll also review emergency management plans that prepare the campuses for emergencies and evaluate training curriculums that educate people about the proper response to any emergency they might face on campus.

Learn how to protect your staff, students, and visitors.

The Lake Forest Group provides fully-customized investigative services including background screening, due diligence, executive search, financial crimes, domestic violence, stalking, workplace violence, theft, injury, insurance claims, harassment, and discrimination, among others.

Investigations are initially  conducted discreetly, and, through public records and open sources. The focus is to identify areas of concern or potentially adverse information such as prior arrests and criminal history, signs of wealth or financial stress, possible associates or prior incidents of concern. We also focus on identifying additional investigative leads to flesh out around reported assets (or debt) we identify. To that end, we conduct a search and review of the following:

• Criminal records (relevant federal and state-level jurisdictions);
• Civil litigation records (relevant federal and state-level jurisdictions), focused on identifying previous contract, employment or financial issues;
• Employment history, including identifying gaps or discrepancies in previous employment (given they are laborers this might be hard to find);
• Financial stress and debt (bankruptcy filings and tax liens);
• Major assets including real property and vehicles
• Targeted social and professional networking sites, blogs, websites and the Internet, with a focus on identifying travel, notable spending and purchases and other signs of financial status; and,
• Local and national media, trade and specialty press, with a focus on identifying potentially adverse or notable information.

Learn how an invetigation enhances overall security