044 - Risky Business: Turning Chaos into Control

We’re back! In this episode of Tips, Tactics, and Tools, Brink and Tom sit down with a former private school risk manager, Gloria Maas, to explore the critical role of proactive strategies in mitigating risk. Learn why playing defense isn’t enough, how to make your tech work smarter, and why a risk register could be your new best friend. From avoiding costly losses to making sure everyone knows how to pull the right footage, this episode is packed with tips to turn your safety strategy from dusty to effective.

 

Notes:

 

(2:26) Guest Gloria Maas, Defend Systems–former Enterprise Risk Manager for a large private school in the Nashville area.

 

(3:30) People want to get all the technology and then they never touch it again. They just hope that in the moment, everything will work. 

 

(4:08) Tom’s clients top 3 oversights

 

(9:47) Invest in your security. Organizations with reactive instead of proactive postures will always suffer reputational loss. 

 

(12:17) Herring Technology educates clients prior to selling them products. What do you do with the technology you have that’s proactive?

 

(17:00) Cameras capable of gathering analytics to prompt people to events and locations

 

(23:30) Cost of loss v. cost of install

 

(24:40) Emergency Operations Plans and Security Vulnerability Assessments that collect dust

 

(26:30) Multiple people need to know how to use your system. At Glo’s former school, 6 people were involved intimately with security cameras and technology.

 

(28:20) If the person that knows your equipment goes down, have people that can step in to pull footage, etc.