History
The Protective Security Council evolved from the Varro Protective Security Conference, a gathering of security professionals who shared a need for information and tools to protect their people and their organizations, and wanted to expand this resource between events.
Protective Security Defined
For our purpose, protective security is defined as: the organized system of defensive measures instituted and maintained at all levels of the organization with the aim of achieving and maintaining security: the freedom from fear and danger.
Mission
The PSC exists to satisfy the need of security professionals for high-level, in-depth information about the strategies, tactics, and tools for protecting people – all the people: from the boardroom to the mailroom, from down the hall to around the world; at every level and location. In this context, the term people, refers to all organization stakeholders: employees, suppliers, stockholders, customers, and communities.
In addition to people, the PSC mission specifically enumerates the organization because it is self-evident that the two are both essential and complementary.
Philosophy
The core of the PSC philosophy is the application of security measures that foster the creation and maintenance of organizational resilience: a dynamic and continuous task that assures continuity of operations, and enables the organization to effectively and advantageously maneuver, grow, and capture new business opportunities in the competitive marketplace.
The PSC places the value of people in the resilience equation at the highest level of importance because without people first, the organization cannot function, regardless the weight of the more fungible facility and information technology assets. Simply stated, people are your most important and valuable asset and contribute more than all the other assets and resources of the organization combined.
Scope
The scope of the PSC spans a substantial range of security measures, functions, and business practices classified in three broad categories: executive protection, operations and management, and education.
Executive Protection is based on the Four Pillars of Executive Protection: Risk, Advance, Intelligence, and Location; and addresses the protective needs of corporate executives, high net worth individuals, dignitaries, and celebrities.
Security Operations & Management addresses issues related to an organization’s larger immediate and extended populations: employees, suppliers, shareholders, customers, and communities.
Security Education & Training addresses contemporary subjects on security research, education, and training.
Functions
The primary activity of the PSC is to provide its constituent community of security professionals with the content, contact, and collaboration needed to function successfully in today’s highly complex and rapidly changing global security environment. This is accomplished by engaging security practitioners and organization executives in a variety of education, information, and networking exchanges; chief among those are the PSC website and the Protective Security Conference.
The Protective Security Council and Varro Press
In the late 1980s Varro Group created and launched the TREXPO Conference & Exhibition events which were held twice annually. These two annual events held in Washington, D.C and Los Angeles became the largest high-risk security and law enforcement events in the U.S. The conference components of the TREXPO events were regarded as the leading educational events on topics related to high-risk and extreme-threat incidents.
In 1994 Varro Group created Varro Press to publish professional security and law enforcement books and training material.
In 2001, TREXPO was acquired from Varro by Bobit Business Media and the events continue to lead the way in tactical law enforcement.
In 2007, Varro Press combined its expertise and knowledge of security issues and conferences to create a unique educational event for security professionals: the Protective Security Conference.
In 2009, the Protective Security Council was formed.
The Protective Security Council is a division of Varro Press, Inc.
The PSC is open to all security professionals who have a need and interest in these critical security issues and tasks.
