Executive Protection: Smarter. Faster. Better.

Executive Protection is a security specialty focused on safeguarding the life, health, time, reputation, and peace of mind of corporate executives and others who face elevated risk. This book is for directors who manage or hope to develop EP programs, whether in-house or contracted; EP mangers and specialists who need to stay up to date in EP best practices; and security, law enforcement, and other personnel wishing to learn more about EP with an eye toward entering the field. Corporate travel staff, public relations staff, and top executives themselves can likewise learn here about the value of executive protection and the best ways to practice it. This book is carefully designed to help security practitioners work smarter through digital counter-surveillance and psychological threat assessment; faster through security metrics and optimized executive transportation; and better through avoidance of the seven deadly sins of EP.

Robert L. Oatman, CPP (Certified Protection Professional) is one of the preeminent providers of executive protection. His firm, R. L. Oatman & Associates, Inc., has provided EP risk assessments, consultation, operations, and training around the world since 1989. The firm specializes in developing detailed protection plans for the top executives of Fortune 500 companies, as well as for private families and others at risk. In addition, the firm operates an EP training school near its headquarters in Towson, Maryland. In 1998, Mr. Oatman developed the first two-day EP program for ASIS (the leading organization for security professionals worldwide); since then, he has presented it twice a year, throughout the United States and abroad. He was instrumental in establishing the ASIS Certificate in Executive Protection. Currently, he chairs the first ASIS Council on Executive Protection. Mr. Oatman is the author of Executive Protection: Rising to the Challenge (2009), Executive Protection: New Solutions for a New Era (2006), and The Art of Executive Protection (1997).