September is National Insider Threat Awareness Month Poisoned water. Pathway to violence. Insider threat. What do these things have in common? They all start with a grievance. At a utility company, an insider with authorized access to the water system began threatening to poison it. The act wasn’t random. It was the end point of…
Behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) is a team-based process for spotting concerning behavior early, assessing how much risk it carries, and stepping in before it turns into violence. An effective BTAM program rests on 10 building blocks: leadership policy, a multidisciplinary team, centralized reporting, structured intake, a defined assessment process, evidence-based frameworks, active case…
Most organizations that invest in crisis response training are trying to do the right thing. The problem is often how the training gets designed and delivered. Stress inoculation training, done well, builds the kind of muscle memory that actually functions under pressure. Done poorly, it produces compliance checkboxes and people who freeze anyway. In this…