Soft Targets Protections: Safeguarding events and large crowds from vehicle attacks

Today’s ever-evolving threat continuum presents challenges for safeguarding special events from Vehicle as a weapon attacks. The need for organizations to be proactively engaged in assessing risk from multiple angles cannot be understated. Soft target challenges on exterior perimeters to stadiums, venues, arenas, parades, carnivals, festivals, entertainment zones, and mass transit hubs are concerning on multiple levels. In particular, vehicles as weapons are problematic within the sports and entertainment ecosystem. Errant, distracted drivers, intentional bad actors, and the threat of terrorism-domestic, international and lone-actor-insider threats keep venue owners up at night.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. Identify Soft Target challenges in commercial and densely populated areas where large crowds gather.
2. Develop an increased knowledge for effectively safeguarding today’s stadiums, venues, arenas, parades, carnivals and special events.
3. Understand the importance of conducting proper site risk assessments for soft targets.
4. Learn how vehicles as weapons can create inherent risks to soft targets.
5. Understand key risk mitigation strategies for preventing and/or reducing vehicle attacks within densely populated public spaces

INSTUCTORS

Herb Ubbens – Herb Ubbens is the Facilities Sector Chief for InfraGard Eastern North Carolina. He is also the President of Paratus Consultants Group and Crowdguard US. Herb has 28 years in Security, Safety, Emergency Preparedness and Risk Management.
James Demeo – Best-selling author, educator, professional speaker, and event security expert, James brings vast experience to the public/private, non-profit, sports/entertainment, corporate, higher education ecosystems.

Fee: InfraGard Members – $29, InfraGard Patriots Circle Members – $26, All others – $39
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