From Response to Prevention: How Modern Organizations Build Anticipatory Security – Part 2

Aug 4, 2026

Targeted violence rarely begins when someone produces a weapon. It is often the end of a developing process involving grievance, ideation, planning, preparation, and movement toward a target. The challenge is recognizing meaningful escalation without treating every angry comment, personal crisis, or unpopular belief as a threat.

There is no single profile of a violent actor. Behavioral threat assessment, therefore, focuses on what a person is doing—not on appearance, identity, diagnosis, political views, or personal associations. Relevant indicators may include increasing fixation, repeated boundary violations, threatening communications, target research, weapons acquisition, surveillance, sudden desperation, or statements portraying violence as necessary or inevitable. No single indicator proves intent; the concern comes from context, combinations of behavior, and escalation over time.

Trust but Verify Part 5: When Forensic Automation Meets the Courtroom

Jul 30, 2026

The Moment Automation Becomes Evidence

Forensic automation often begins as a practical necessity. Modern investigations involve enormous volumes of data, and no examiner can manually review every byte of that information in a meaningful way without the assistance of sophisticated tools. Automation allows investigators to triage evidence, identify relevant artifacts, generate timelines, reconstruct communications, and produce information in a format that attorneys, investigators, executives, regulators, and courts can understand.

The courtroom, however, changes the nature of the conversation. During an investigation, automation may help the examiner find evidence. In litigation, that same automated output may become the basis for an opinion, a production, a witness examination, a motion, or testimony. At that point, the issue is no longer whether the software was helpful. The issue becomes whether the examiner can explain how the evidence was collected, how the tool interpreted it, what assumptions were involved, what limitations were considered, and why the conclusion is reliable.

From Response to Prevention: How Modern Organizations Build Anticipatory Security – Part 1

Jul 23, 2026

Organizations across the United States have invested heavily in security cameras, access-control systems, emergency plans, lockdown procedures, and law-enforcement coordination. These measures are necessary, but they can also create an illusion of preparedness. They help organizations document incidents, regulate routine access, and respond more effectively once violence begins. What they do not necessarily provide is the ability to recognize and interrupt an emerging threat before an attack occurs.