Teachout’s Mike Morgan Earns ASIS CPP Certification

Please join us in congratulating Michael G. Morgan, Teachout’s Training and Corporate Compliance Manager on his recent CPP certification. The Certified Protection Professional (CPP) certification is considered the “gold standard” for security management professionals. This certification validates Mike’s knowledge and mastery of core security principles and skills that are essential to success in all areas […]

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Teachout’s 2023 Leadership Development Tour

Making a difference for our team and our clients. Teachout has actively pursued the opportunity to participate in or provide instruction and training for the listed professional security events during 2023. Our ongoing, active participation in these events ensures that our procedures and focus remain current with and beyond industry standards. IAHSS (International Association for […]

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Terry Jones Retires After Decades of Contribution to the Security Industry

Flint, Michigan, September 22, 2023 – De-escalation and seeking a positive outcome were the pillars of security for Terry L. Jones. He has shared that vision with the many employees at Teachout Security that he has mentored over his 30-plus years in the industry. Today, we congratulate Terry Jones MA, CPP, CHPA on his retirement […]

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Cybersecurity in the New Workspace

One of the most unexpected aftereffects of the COVID-19 pandemic was the mass migration from the corporate office to the home workspace. The name for this corporate evolution is “distributed workforce” and it is a growing cybersecurity trend for organizations. The challenge of this new trend is that there is often a significant difference between […]

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Government-Funded Hackers Say They’ve Already Defeated Windows 8’s New Security Measures

Last week’s Windows 8 launch wasn’t just a major product release for Microsoft. It seems to have been a banner day for the government-funded hackers who take Microsoft’s software apart, too. On Tuesday the French firm Vupen, whose researchers develop software hacking techniques and sell them to government agency customers, announced that it had already […]

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California passes strict social media privacy law

Business and colleges barred from requesting access to employees, students personal social media accounts under new law Sept. 28–SACRAMENTO — California, home to many of the world’s social media companies, now has the nation’s strictest privacy laws preventing your boss or college from surfing through the personal information you post on sites like Facebook. It […]

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Emotional, physical cost of workplace bullying

SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION: It jeopardizes health, career and the job once loved by the victim BRODIE Panlock was a waitress working at a café in Australia. Her mother described her as a “beautiful girl who was full of compassion”. Brodie never told her mother that she was viciously bullied by her co-workers. She was just 19 […]

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5 Mobile Security Lessons From the Department of Defense

Several years ago, the National Security Agency wasted millions on a circuit-switched approach to mobile security strategy. With help from the Department of Defense, the NSA is doing things differently now. Enterprise CIOs can learn a few things from the effort, too. Try this thought experiment. You want to provide smartphones, iPads and other mobile […]

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Claim of iPhone hacking raises questions about FBI data

A hacker group says it obtained millions of identification numbers from iPhones, iPads and other devices from an FBI laptop. The agency denies having the data. WASHINGTON — A hacker group’s claim that it obtained from an FBI laptop a file with more than 12 million identification numbers for Apple iPhones, iPads and other devices […]

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