Awareity’s Connecting The Dots Blog shares news and insights to help threat assessment teams, community, and organizational leaders, etc. prevent incidents.

RECIPES, RECIPES, RECIPES… Where’s the Cake? (Safer Environments)

If you want to make and enjoy the best chocolate cake ever, you need the RECIPE for the best chocolate cake ever. BUT just having ...
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Cyber Security Failures Explained (and Exposed)

Connecting the dots with Cyber Security failures…Why are so many Cyber Security failures occurring? The data doesn’t lie.  The 2018 Global State of Information Security ...
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Active Shooter: The easiest/best way to prepare for an active shooter incident…

I have seen multiple e-mail Subject Lines, Webinars, and articles eluding to a similar topic "The easiest/best way to prepare for an active shooter incident…" ...
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[Video] Connecting The Dots: Equifax

Related: [Blog] CYBER SECURITY: PATCHING AND THAT DAM ANALOGY! ...
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Cyber Security: PATCHING and that Dam Analogy!

ONGOING PATCHING is one of the BEST ways to prevent expensive and embarrassing information security breaches. Equifax failed to PATCH a server and it led ...
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Disruptive and Tragic Violence: Do You Need More Security?

Disruptive and Tragic Violence incidents are on the increase. Violence is scary, stressful, ugly, concerning, sad, evil, expensive, frustrating, disruptive, and tragic. Disruptive and tragic ...
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The Stupidest Question Ever… Is this Terrorism or Not Terrorism??

Yes, there are stupid questions. Even though our teachers told us there are no stupid questions, there is at least one. Is this Terrorism or Not ...
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The DOTS Are Out There. Prevention IS Possible. But…

If it is possible to “connect the dots” AFTER attacks, why can't organizations and communities “connect the dots” BEFORE attacks to intervene and prevent? They ...
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How To Prevent Terrorism, Violence, and other Acts of Evil

I am not a fan of watching or listening to TV news, however, after the recent attacks in England, I was interested to see how ...
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WannaCry, GAPS, and Cockroaches!

You can’t prevent hackers and hacker threats, but you can prevent breaches like this! When you fail to apply the latest patches to your Systems, ...
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Your Dangerous GAPS: Do you know where they all are?

Dangerous GAPS Evidence from hundreds of post-incident reports reveal almost every organization and community has a myriad of common GAPS and dangerous GAPS. At-Risk Individuals ...
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Calling Evil What It Is Eliminates Confusion with Terrorism, Racism, etc.

Evil is immoral, wrong, sinful, corrupt, vicious, malicious, malevolent, vile, hateful, and bad. Terrorism, rape, racism, murders, drug dealing, pedophilia, harassment, etc. are all the ...
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Attention Education Leaders!

What is more important and more valuable than a student’s life?  What is more important than an employee’s life? What is more important than any ...
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