Awareity’s Connecting The Dots Blog shares news and insights to help threat assessment teams, community, and organizational leaders, etc. prevent incidents.

Implement These Lessons Learned to Improve Physical Security

A Lesson Learned is knowledge gained from incidents, near misses, tragedies, lawsuits, etc. Knowledge gained from Lessons Learned are just “recipes” until they become Lessons ...
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Lessons Learned You Can Implement Immediately to Improve Cyber Security

A Lesson Learned is knowledge gained from incidents, near misses, tragedies, lawsuits, etc. Knowledge gained from Lessons Learned are just “recipes” until they become Lessons ...
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Want Better Community Safety? Lessons Learned MUST Become Lessons Implemented.

Lessons learned from 20+ years of incidents and tragedies have exposed the dangerous and common gaps, silos, disconnects, and flawed recycled thinking. Eliminating common gaps, ...
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Cyberattacks: The Solution Requires EVERYONE Staying Alert and Aware

From the very beginnings of the Internet, people have been one of the most common and most targeted gaps for cyberattacks. Why? Because hackers know ...
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Nashville Attack – A Call to Action to Revolutionize Community Safety

The Nashville bomb attack on Christmas morning 2020 exposes the fundamental flaws and the urgent need to revolutionize community safety. We know, based on the ...
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Threat Assessment Teams: Six Tools Most Community and Organization TATs Are Missing

Threat Assessment Teams (TATs) play a very important role in prevention efforts and making organizations and communities safer and are even more critical today due ...
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Connecting the Dots: Stopping Human Trafficking

Return on Prevention vs. Return on Regret This is a real-life experience. I went down to one of the main hotel/casinos on the Las Vegas ...
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Ransomware Solutions: Ongoing Awareness and Accountability Vault

Why are ransomware attacks soaring? Because they are working! It is estimated that by 2021 the predicted ransomware damages will be $20 billion. Why are ...
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National Cyber Security Awareness Month 2020

Are hackers actually BENEFITTING from National Cyber Security Awareness Month? Watch the video below to learn more! Click here to learn more about the proven ...
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New Release! The First Preventers Playbook: How to Intervene, Disrupt, and Prevent Tragedy Before It Strikes

The First Preventers Playbook: How to Intervene, Disrupt, and Prevent Tragedy Before It Strikes. Enough is enough! Old playbooks and strategies depend on First Responders ...
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Twitter Hacked with Old Playbook

The Twitter hack is pretty alarming when you realize what a couple of teenage hackers were able to accomplish using one of the oldest hacking ...
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Scary Indicators for School Leaders… Shootings, COVID, Mental Health & More

Scary Indicators for School Leaders… Shootings, COVID, Mental Health & More Targeted Violence In a 2019 US Secret Service analysis, between 2008 and 2017 41 ...
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9-11 Commission Report: 16th Anniversary

16 years ago, on July 22, 2004, the 9-11 Commission Report was released. Do you remember one of the most important revelations in the 9-11 ...
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High Costs, Bad Headlines, Lawsuits, and “Cockroaches” all Because You Didn’t Do This…(Video)

Hackers and breaches create huge costs and unwanted consequences, but most were preventable. Hackers – cyber criminals, corporate espionage, state-backed countries, insiders, ex-employees, and others ...
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COVID-19: Returning to Work (VIDEO)

As organizations are reopening and returning to work, how are you managing all the new pains and liabilities related to COVID-19 challenges on top of ...
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Major Events (COVID-19) = Major Problems for Information Assets

Major events, like the Coronavirus (COVID-19), are major problems that can lead to more major problems beyond just the scope of health and health care ...
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Problems & Solutions

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is causing a lot of fear, stress, chaos, and confusion with so many different sources of tips, guidelines, apps, etc. While most ...
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Red Flags, At-Risk Individuals, and a Paradigm Shift

May I Have Your Attention Please:  All CEOs, CISOs, CFOs, CROs, COOs, CDOs, Superintendents, Deans, Principals, Board Members, Trustees, Mayors, and other leaders too. A ...
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Warning Signs, Red Flags, and Preventing

How many times have you read a headline or story about an incident or tragedy and it mentioned how warning signs and red flags were ...
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An Umbrella Platform to Better Protect Your Organization

Who oversees your Threat Assessment Team(s) and prevention – CFO, Risk Management, Legal, CEO, other? No doubt they understand the importance of insurance policies for ...
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