ABSTRACT
As stated previously, my personal experience in the intelligence-based posture was obtained from 25 years as a federal law enforcement agent; my expertise was disrupting and dismantling criminal and terrorist enterprises. The importance of identifying, evaluating, and mitigating existing threats and vulnerabilities has risen to the forefront in the analysis of criminal and counterterrorism investigations in the government and public sectors. As I transitioned to a position as the security lead in the electrical utility industry, specifically through employment at a transmission-only company in the Midwest, I realized the intelligencegathering and analysis techniques applied in criminal enterprise investigations could be applied to private security. The company I worked for had assets consisting of over 10,000 miles of transmission lines, a few hundred electrical substation sites, and about a half dozen offices.
