Aaron Marks

Part 5: Building Your Threat Management Program Crisis Ready® organizations start with a mindset that it’s not about the tools, it’s how you use them. In this post, I’m going to talk about how to get out of a reactive, response-focused threat management mindset and build a Crisis Ready® Threat Management Program. It is important […]

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Part 4: Best Practices for Threat Management When it comes to threat management: Recognizing that a threat exists—that there is the potential for harm—is a sound beginning. Assessing the potential threat(s), to identify likely consequences and their impacts on your organization, is an essential next step. Proactively managing the threat(s) in order to mitigate associated […]

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Part 3: Properly Assessing a Threat and Analyzing its Risk While the terms ‘threat assessment’ and ‘risk analysis’ have been frequently used interchangeably, they are not the same. Threat assessment is focused on determining what the associated potential harm could be (how could it hurt me?). Threat assessment focuses on possible consequences vs. probable consequences. […]

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Part 2: Designing the Ability to Properly Detect a Threat Successful threat management programs apply an approach of detection, assessment, and management to protect an organization. An organization’s strategy toward that first step, detection of a threat, is a pretty good indicator of how effective the threat management program is going to be. As a […]

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Part 1: Defining and Categorizing Threats for your Organization When I learned that the Crisis Ready™ Community Monthly Mastermind session for July will discuss threat and risk assessment from a law enforcement perspective, I registered for the event immediately. Primarily because I am always interested in learning how other people approach threat assessment, but the […]

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