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\",\"name\":\"84945114-b285-40f3-b3d5-3636a8520644\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_3\",\"value\":\"This year, the global market for physical security, cybersecurity, and risk services is expected to approach $500 billion, but there is a growing sense in boardrooms across the globe that the industry is losing ground.
\",\"name\":\"5714293f-7444-4ffe-8da8-ea36699f09c4\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"The most dangerous threats facing enterprises today aren’t external. Internal fragmentation is a critical roadblock that prevents organizations from clearly identifying and responding to external threats. While individual departments, from security and legal to HR and communications, may all be owning their roles, they often fail to communicate with each other in ways that can expose organizations to risk.
\",\"name\":\"310d144b-3330-408b-b32c-4d9a800596e8\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_3\",\"value\":\"After surviving the pandemic, many organizations convinced themselves they were prepared for anything. In many ways, last year shattered that dangerous numbness and exposed the flaw in organizational complacency. From targeting high-profile executives to escalating workplace friction, many corporate security teams found their organizations struggling to keep up.
\",\"name\":\"144bb05a-880e-4215-bcbd-dc7f62e8a0d9\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"Modern threats come from a variety of channels and are directed at many different departments. A grievance aired on social media that comes to the attention of a marketing team, for example, can lead to a physical act of violence. Perimeter security vulnerabilities can expose critical cybersecurity infrastructure. And cryptic employee behavior first noticed by HR can lead to insider threats.
\",\"name\":\"3bd27b96-0a62-4ff6-a0c9-a351d839163d\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"Organizational silos prevent organizations from properly identifying and investigating concerning incidents. In one recent case, a fragmented organization suspected an insider of leaking intellectual property to an external party. The Security and Legal teams investigated these threats and were focused on network anomalies tied to a specific employee. Simultaneously, the Internal Audit team was looking into the expenses of a relatively new employee that appeared fraudulent.
\",\"name\":\"cc6188f5-7563-4c9b-9d88-11093b5dd3a5\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"The auditors, who were not qualified investigators, confronted the employee directly, causing the individual to resign and leave the jurisdiction immediately. Only later did the company realize both investigations pointed to the same person, a mole security had been hunting who provided information to a nation-state to conduct attacks and steal critical IP.
\",\"name\":\"bac503c2-c76a-451b-84cc-3162b4fefa3e\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_3\",\"value\":\"The security industry has also focused on embracing a zero-trust mindset. In the past, having a badge or some other credential certified you as one of the “good guys.” Today, the industry practice is to trust nothing, even legitimate credentials, by default. However, zero-trust architecture fails when applied unevenly. Physical systems and digital systems are often still treated as separate worlds where facilities teams make access control decisions based on cost savings and IT teams focus on network operational resilience.
\",\"name\":\"6c85725a-048c-4ee4-828a-2b8aa8bfcf9a\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"In another recent example at a large company, the Facilities Management function decided to implement new access controls and cameras to reduce the cost of deploying physical guards. They installed the new equipment and connected it to the network without consulting security or IT. Months later, the company suffered numerous successful network hacking attacks as bad actors exploited the new unsecured access control devices and cameras, which lacked standard vulnerability testing.
\",\"name\":\"63673598-5a59-4350-9e98-de9f2c8069ea\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"While the facilities team cut costs in the short-term, their unvetted rollout cost the company millions in network remediation and operational chaos. Without a holistic security strategy and collaboration between business functions, organizations are susceptible to these costly mistakes. An enterprise-wide, unified security approach would have mandated that IT and Security review the architecture before mounting a single camera.
\",\"name\":\"4b85b4b2-7d4a-4499-ac04-efaaee708b96\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_3\",\"value\":\"AI is the most significant disruptor of our time, with the potential to increase organizational efficiency if embraced carefully and implemented strategically. However, a fragmented organization will likely encounter problems as they roll out these tools.
\",\"name\":\"ff27a735-771c-423b-aa61-4581f8d4e8ea\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"Many departments are rushing to adopt and deploy AI independently, as Audit leverages AI for fraud detection, Security implements incident modeling, and Cybersecurity teams deploy agentic AI models that monitor for suspicious activity. However, without coordination, AI will become a force multiplier for silos. While it will increase efficiency, it may also increase the knowledge debt of critical updates not translated to other departments if there is no coordinated plan.
\",\"name\":\"704f6545-f222-440f-a881-732879810f06\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"But if structured correctly, AI can be the great unifier. When AI tools gather data from physical access logs, expense reports, network activity, and behavioral indicators, these tools can act as a central nervous system for the organization. Patterns emerge that no single department could ever see alone.
\",\"name\":\"83ceeb5e-a065-4dba-a844-57313f3b771c\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"When multiple data points show concerning trends that fit a common profile, a unified AI platform could quickly flag the correlation between fraudulent expenses and network anomalies, elevating these warning signs to the appropriate audit and cybersecurity teams for manual review and action. AI can synthesize the routine data of data operations into a clear risk picture for the C-suite if an organization tears down the walls that prevent critical data from being shared.
\",\"name\":\"a73741de-342a-4513-8da2-ed811b7e45d8\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_3\",\"value\":\"While technology cannot fix fragmentation on its own, strong leaders can. For years, many organizations have diluted the role of a centralized risk leader as responsibilities have been scattered among finance, legal, HR, and operations. Today, the disparate nature of modern threats underscores the need for a central security council at the C-suite level that coordinates critical information across functions and sets the overall security posture of an organization. This team must be empowered to gather critical data from each business function and pass threats to the appropriate team for analysis and action. They should also implement a proactive security plan that prevents the organization from being caught flat-footed when disaster strikes.
\",\"name\":\"ef3441d6-35bc-4fc0-ab1d-88c4258c5e6f\"},{\"type\":\"PARAGRAPH\",\"value\":\"This year, business resiliency will be found by shifting the mindset from short-term objectives to long-term strategy. A proactive security strategy asks bigger questions:
\",\"name\":\"8241cbaf-5781-4e24-89e1-40dad3dffe7d\"},{\"type\":\"LIST\",\"value\":\"Moving forward, the organizations that thrive won’t always be the teams deploying the most advanced tools. They will be the organizations that recognize fragmentation as the enemy — and take deliberate steps to proactively create a plan around an organization’s entire risk profile.
\",\"name\":\"dabe2f80-9ec5-4518-813d-7886f24ea21e\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_3\",\"value\":\"AI acts as a central nervous system for risk management by gathering data from physical access logs, expense reports, network activity, and behavioral indicators across departments. It identifies patterns and correlations no single department could detect alone, synthesizing operational data into a unified risk picture that flags concerning trends for leadership review.
\",\"name\":\"7064af17-f376-4fca-9ed2-7489b0e8731c\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_4\",\"value\":\"Establish a central security council at the C-suite level with authority to coordinate data sharing across security, legal, HR, audit, IT, facilities, and communications. This council sets overall security posture, routes threats to appropriate teams, and measures success by enterprise-wide risk posture rather than individual departmental metrics.
\",\"name\":\"c66d894e-b3e7-41ab-ab01-a2095fc33666\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_4\",\"value\":\"Shift from short-term objectives to long-term enterprise thinking by asking: What risks threaten the whole enterprise? How do they intersect? Where do internal boundaries create blind spots? Break down silos, implement zero trust across physical and digital controls, and deploy AI on shared cross-functional data to identify emerging threats.
\",\"name\":\"7c5b2f40-be78-457b-a94f-8aececf724b1\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_4\",\"value\":\"Security and Audit teams separately investigated the same employee—one for IP theft, one for fraudulent expenses—without communicating. The suspect, a nation-state mole, resigned and fled before teams realized the connection. In another case, Facilities installed cameras without consulting IT or Security, creating vulnerabilities that cost millions in network remediation after successful hacks.
\",\"name\":\"a3949557-a87a-477a-a6f6-cbb7dbc51902\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_4\",\"value\":\"Through cross-functional intelligence sharing that correlates signals from multiple sources: social media grievances (marketing), network anomalies (IT), cryptic behavior (HR), suspicious expenses (audit), and physical access patterns (security). A central security council or unified AI platform reveals patterns no single department could identify alone.
\",\"name\":\"004b627f-4acf-45ea-bbbb-ad86aee2ab7d\"},{\"type\":\"HEADING_4\",\"value\":\"Fraudulent expenses often indicate compromised employees selling information to external actors. Suspicious financial behavior frequently accompanies network breaches or IP theft. Without cross-functional visibility, organizations miss these connections—as when separate investigations unknowingly targeted the same insider threat, allowing a nation-state mole to escape detection.
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