The Unspoken Fear: Are Our Children Ever Truly Safe at School?
As every parent knows, the simple act of dropping a child off at school rests on a quiet, implicit promise: they will be safe here. Yet across Southeast Asia, that foundational trust is fracturing under the weight of unthinkable headlines. On August 7, 2026, a 14-year-old student opened fire inside the Debsirin Nonthaburi School near […]
Enterprise Risk Management Framework Explained
I’ve sat in enough boardrooms over the years to know exactly when risk stops being a slide in a deck and starts being a real conversation. It’s almost never before something goes wrong. A supplier collapses. A cyber incident locks up operations for three days. A site walk turns up a gap nobody flagged. Suddenly […]
Security and Risk Management: Why Most Australian Businesses Get It Backwards
Security and risk management is the combined discipline of identifying organisational threats and deploying the physical, technical, and procedural controls needed to address them, and most Australian businesses fail at it because they buy security as a standalone purchase instead of building it from a documented risk assessment first. A facility manager I spoke with […]
The Hidden Gap in Risk Management: Why Governance and Operations Often Work Against Each Other
Your organisation probably has a risk framework. Maybe even a sophisticated one. Policies that are signed and dated. A risk register with colour-coded heat maps. Quarterly reporting cycles that feed into a governance committee. Compliance audits that come back clean. And yet, if I walked into your facility tomorrow and spent a day actually talking […]
Why Risk Management Fails: Why Risk Appetite Statements Don’t Stop Breaches
Preview Before diving in, here is what this article covers and what you should walk away knowing: Risk Appetite Statements are necessary but not sufficient. Having a documented risk framework does not prevent breaches — operationalising it does. The most common reason why risk management fails is not a weak framework. It is the structural […]
Tragedy Strikes at Vancouver’s Lapu Lapu Festival: A Call for Enhanced Public Safety Solutions
Imagine a vibrant festival filled with laughter and celebration, suddenly shattered by chaos. The recent incident at the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver has sent shockwaves through the community and raised urgent questions about public safety at large gatherings. As the city mourns the loss of life and grapples with the aftermath of this […]
The Israelis took down the Twin Towers
Every year, when the date approaches, the memories arise. Sometimes they float around during the year but become more intense as the date draws closer. These are my memories from the event known as 9/11. Below is my inspector badge (in Hebrew). *Note: My ID number is in black. Between 2001 to 2003, I worked […]