CERT: Corporate Emergency Response Team...

What have you done lately to help deter, defend or defeat acts of crime or terrorism in your business, building, office park or community?

It's about time the leaders in our respective organizations stood up and volunteered their time, resources or in kind contributions to do so. 

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) has been around for some time and it is now making its way to your own "ground zero", the "Corporate Emergency Response Team" (CERT).

Now that our US First Responders are finally getting the funds they need, to recruit and make the leadership and citizen soldiers of our corporate organizations more prepared.

The awareness and education wave is now ready for prime time in a conference room or a field exercise near you. The funds may be here, but a lack of eager and trained manpower is still our greatest risk. 

Incident Management is about taking command in crisis situations, whether they be the loss of a key employee or the integrity of a mission-critical application online.

The leaders of the next decade will stand out as true patriots in the fight against corruption, fraud, espionage and theft, not all in a foreign land, but just around the corner.

While we need to be prepared for the likely events we know will happen, it is also the training for the ever more likely events that will deter the force that is creating ongoing acts of "corporate terrorism". 

If you haven't done so already, think about the leaders in your company, the company next door to yours, on the floors above and below you. Band together.  Volunteer your time with a non-profit in your county or a religious facility in your neighborhood.  Help them become more safe and secure on a weekly or monthly basis.

Only then will we have the momentum we require to "Deter, Detect, Defend and Document" (4D) the enemy or adversaries in your Area of Responsibility (AOR) on a continuous basis...

Godspeed!