The Terrorist Cycle: An illustration of the multiple phases of a terrorist act. By recognizing the phases, you may be able to determine how real, and near the threat is. Understanding this, you can implement targeted counter-measures to protect personnel, facilities, information and operations.
Thorough Randomness: The ability to choose when and where to employ your assets, not necessarily based on the threat, but on pattern avoidance. Patterns will make you a target, patterns will get you killed!
The Media:Josef Goebbels, HItler's Minister of Propaganda, said of the press, “Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play." Understanding what the press is writing about you and your organization and who their target audience is, can teach you a lot.
The Media is the best friend the adversary "legally" has. The media collects, examines and presents details to the public on your operations, strengths and weaknesses - especially your weaknesses. This information , which is collected before, during and after an incident, provides invaluable "open-source" collaborated intelligence to the enemy which is then marketed to the "target audience". Mitigating your risks means understanding how this open-source intelligence can affect your security and how you can counter/mitigate the threat.
