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How to make the most of your airport security experience

by Mark Dauner in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted September 28, 2017

When travelers talk about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), it tends to be negative. “You won’t believe the nightmare I had getting through security this morning,” or “that TSA agent must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. Unless you really have nothing better to do, the TSA knows that ...

Travel Safety: Use of Vehicles as Weapons

by Security Strategies Today in Risk Management, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted September 7, 2017

It’s happened again-this time in Barcelona, on the popular tourist and historic street known as Las Ramblas. A man using a van as a weapon careened down one of the two narrow side streets that border the wide pedestrian path and used it as a missile of sorts, killing 14 innocent people and injuring up ...

OTA & Travel Distribution Updates – June 23rd, 2017

by Greg Duff in Legal, Technology, Travel. Posted July 4, 2017

“OTA & Travel Distribution Updates” is posted weekly by Duff on Hospitality Law, which is run by Greg Duff of Garvey Schubert Barer. Originally begun as an exclusive update to clients, these pieces are now publicly distributed a week behind the exclusive update. Although these posts are a week or two behind the initial update, ...

President Trump Sets New Standards for Cybersecurity

by Faegre Baker Daniels in Legal, Risk Management, Technology. Posted May 20, 2017

President Trump has issued a much-anticipated executive order (EO) on cybersecurity. The order requires all federal executive agencies to adhere to a single security framework and is intended to improve the nation’s defenses against pervasive cyberattacks. In light of this order, clients may ask more pointed questions about the security policies and procedures that a ...

Cybercrime and Data Breach a Rising Threat to all Employers

by Bryan Carey in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Risk Management, Safety & Security, Technology. Posted May 4, 2017

Over the past six months, we have observed a significant uptick in inquiries about data breach and other cyberthreats from area businesses. We are asked about pursuing claims for recovery of funds lost due to fraud by hacking, state notification procedures in the event of a data breach affecting employees, and general questions about how ...

TSA Under Pressure from Congress – Again

by Robert Freeman in Legal, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted March 6, 2017

TSA Under Pressure Robert Freeman of Cozen O’Connor reports on the pressure felt by the TSA from Congress. The TSA is facing distrust from a number of “committee members from” the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform regarding their operations. The actions in question include “systematcially classifiying potentially embarassing documents as (SSI) to cover ...

Strategic Meetings Management

by ATPI Griffinstone in Travel. Posted December 6, 2016

Strategic meetings management is fast becoming best practice among businesses. Using a standardized approach across your company brings benefits that have long been recognized by organizations around the world. By using one central source to track what you’re spending and where, you’ll be able to monitor events and meeting expenditure company-wide. And you’ll see where ...

Fifteen Years On, Where Do We Stand?

by Security Strategies Today in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted October 13, 2016

With the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks commemorated a few days ago, we thought it would be appropriate to take the pulse of where we were in the immediate aftermath of those horrible events and where we are now. Are Americans safer? Is the world in general safer? Has the threat of terror attacks ...

How Much Crisis Planning is Enough?

by iJET International in Risk Management, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted September 14, 2016

One of the most important management competencies is planning. Crisis planning is the preparation of documented action steps designed to improve the organization’s response toward mitigating a disruption’s impact on assets and resources. Long ago, I was given some sage advice prior to briefing proposed Crisis Planning improvements to the executive team. My boss said, ...

Can You Benefit from Process Efficiencies?

by ATPI Griffinstone in Travel. Posted September 13, 2016

There has never been a greater need to manage costs than amid the recent decline in global oil prices. Cognizant of this, ATPI has developed ATPI CrewLink™, a workflow management platform that will provide full end-to-end integration of all travel data from multiple points. It will take an HR feed from different locations, another from ...

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