Although the motives of perpetrators in recent vehicle ramming attacks appear to be diametrically opposed, they followed the same simple attack plan: drive a vehicle at high speed into a crowd of people.

The Ligue has been busy fielding reporters’ questions following the targeted killing of a CEO of a major healthcare company outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel. One question we’re getting is if other companies should be worried about copycat attacks.

An organization may have an ‘executive protection plan’ in place, but time and technology can create new vulnerabilities. What is needed is a security process and partners that make an organization capable of adjusting to changing risks.

Intelligence tradecraft in the private sector has expanded significantly. Done right, it supports strategic decision-making related to risk and security, as well as strategic opportunity, and positions organizations ahead of events.

A decision not to implement recommended security measures should be part of a thoughtful process, one that is equally robust as approving security projects or expenditures.

Regarding the attempted assassination of former US President Trump, it is easy to think—if a specific individual or group of people had needed to sign-off on a specific decision to leave that rooftop unprotected—that a different decision would have been made.