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Garett Seivold

Garett Seivold is senior writer for LP Magazine. He is a trained journalist who has been covering corporate security for industry professionals for over twenty years. Seivold has been recognized by several organizations for outstanding writing, investigative reporting, and instructional journalism. He has authored dozens of survey-based research reports and best-practice manuals on security-related topics. Seivold can be reached at GarettS (at) LPportal (dot) com.

Articles

Technology

Strengthen Your Security against Today’s Cyber Attacks on Retailers

It’s impossible to remove people from the risk equation, and security awareness campaigns have an important role to play in preventing cyber attacks on retailers.

Safety

The Very Real Risks of Using Drones for Security Purposes

Some retailers may see expansive possibilities for using drones for security purposes and choose to be early adopters, but most are likely to take a slower approach.

Safety

How to Build Your Corporate Travel Safety Policy

A survey of 300 corporate security directors by Security Director’s Report (SDR) found that many international trips that employees take go without a security review. Without sufficient advanced notification of employees’ travel plans, threat assessment and logistical planning to support safe travel are impossible.

Technology

6 Essential Elements for Effective Electronic Security

Loss prevention directors need to call on many skills—not just their security smarts—to make a new or upgraded system optimally effective.

LPM Voice

New Problems, Fresh Opportunities—LP Readies to Rise to the Occasion

As retail undergoes broad transformation, it's not surprising that loss prevention is embroiled in a sea change of its own. With essential shrink challenges as dynamic as ever, LP executives also face new sets of problems, old problems getting worse, as well as fresh opportunities to provide value to retail organizations.

LPM Voice

Impressed by an LP Solution? Product Capability is Just the First Consideration

It's conference season—the time of year when loss prevention executives get to touch and admire the latest advances in new loss prevention technology.

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Magazine Features

Security at the Source

Manufacturer involvement in designing product protection is decades old, noted University of Florida research scientist Read Hayes, PhD, CPP. He remembers Walt Disney's Buena...

LPM Voice

Enough is Enough: Consecutive RILA Conference Sessions Aim to Put Shoplifting Prevention Back on Track

""One of the goals is to get people with competing interests together and ask them: 'What would be palatable to you?' 'What are the things you need?'"

LPM Voice

Ready for the Revolution? New Skills, Focus Are Key to Thriving Under New Challenges

Asset protection practitioners need to accept and respond to the sea change taking place in the retail industry to avoid being engulfed by it, suggest AP leaders. Warning signs abound.

LPM Voice

As Help Fighting Shoplifting Wanes, Where Should Retailers Turn?

Retailers are losing their traditional allies in the fight against shoplifting. Once part of a multi-prong crime control effort—which included courts, communities, and law enforcement—retailers are increasingly fighting the battle on their own.

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