Megan Gates

Washington, D.C., United States

Senior Editor at Security Management (US)

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A Look at Security Around the Secretive Election Process

1 week ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

Conclave: A Look at Security Around the Secretive Election Process The cardinals have gathered. The windows are closed. The doors are sealed. And a conclave in Vatican City is once again underway. The conclave is one of the most secretive processes that takes place in the world. At 4:30 p.m. local time today, 133 cardinals walked into the Sistine Chapel where they will be sequestered for the 26th time.
Spotting DPRK IT Remote Workers

1 week ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

Recruitment Red Flags: Spotting DPRK IT Remote Workers The job market these days is competitive, but personal branding can push a profile to the top of the stack. Just ask North Korean threat actors, who have been using well-polished LinkedIn profiles to find their next well-paid position.
5 Takeaways from ASIS Europe’s Future of Travel Risk Management Workshop

1 month ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

5 Takeaways from ASIS Europe’s Future of Travel Risk Management Workshop 1 April 2025 Security Technology, April 2025 Security practitioners from around the world gathered in March at ASIS Europe 2025 in Dublin, Ireland, to discuss trending security topics and challenges. One of those topics was travel risk management (TRM), which has been top of mind for many security practitioners as business travel gets back to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels.
Lessons in Emergency Management on the 30th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing

1 month ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

Q&A: Lessons in Emergency Management on the 30th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing On the morning of 19 April 1995, people were going about their business at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The major building hosted 11 U.S. federal agency offices, a credit union, and a child care center. It was a bustling center of activity in the U.S. state’s capital with approximately 600 federal and contract workers and about 250 visitors that morning.
Third-Party Involvement in Confirmed Security Breaches Doubled

1 month ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

Verizon 2025 DBIR: Third-Party Involvement in Confirmed Security Breaches Doubled Do you know how secure your vendors are? Are you sure? Those questions are top of mind after Verizon released its 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) this week, finding that third-party involvement in breaches has doubled to 30 percent.
Where Wrongful Detention is on the Rise

1 month ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

Where Wrongful Detention is on the Rise 1 April 2025 Security Technology, April 2025 Fifty-four Americans were wrongfully detained or held hostage overseas in 17 countries in 2024, according to an annual report from the James Foley Foundation. “Despite some success in freeing the wrongfully detained, there was little progress in freeing American hostages,” wrote researcher Elizabeth Richards in the 2024 Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Landscape report published by the foundation.
5 Pretravel Steps for Safer Work Trips

1 month ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

5 Pretravel Steps for Safer Work Trips 1 April 2025 Security Technology, April 2025 Business travel is back. Nearly half of travel buyers said they expect their companies to take more business trips in 2025, according to a poll from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). The poll found that corporate business travel increased across all surveyed regions—Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and North America—in 2024.
Five Years Later: Security in a Post-COVID World

2 months ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

Five Years Later: Security in a Post-COVID World There are moments where life is divided into a before and an after. Something so significant occurs that it permanently alters the way you perceive the world and yourself in it. For many of us, 11 March 2020 is one of those moments. That’s the day that the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
How to Create an Effective Workplace Health Program

2 months ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

How to Create an Effective Workplace Health Program There are benefits for both employees and employers when organizations create a workplace health promotion program. These programs can include personal health risk identifications for employees, health risk reduction services like counseling and support groups, preventative services such as immunizations, and even treatment health services like an office-based medical clinic.
The Widening Gap in Pandemic Prevention Measures

2 months ago | asisonline.org | Megan Gates

The Widening Gap in Pandemic Prevention Measures From avian flu to cholera to the Marburg virus to Mpox, the threats to public health are legion. Public health workers are attempting to stop the spread, care for patients, and limit ripple effects that could cause the next global outbreak five years after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic.