Event Summary
Critical operational environments face a wide range of evolving physical threats, yet many organizations lack a structured, proactive approach to identifying risks and implementing effective security measures. Security practices are often inconsistent or not fully aligned with current threat realities.
Without a comprehensive physical security strategy, organizations are vulnerable to incidents that can disrupt operations, damage infrastructure, and endanger personnel. Gaps in protection, monitoring, or preparedness can lead to delayed response, increased exposure, and significant operational and reputational consequences.
This course provides a practical, real-world framework for understanding physical threats and implementing effective protection strategies. It combines threat awareness with actionable best practices—covering high-value targets, threat types, and proven security measures aligned with industry guidance such as TSA-recommended practices.
Participants will be able to assess vulnerabilities within their facilities, strengthen perimeter and access controls, and improve incident preparedness through policies, training, and drills. They will leave with actionable metrics and a clearer path to building a comprehensive, site-specific security program.
Who Should Attend
- Facility and site managers
- Site security directors and security professionals
- Operations leaders responsible for critical infrastructure
- Risk, safety, and compliance professionals
- Anyone responsible for physical security planning and incident preparedness
What You Will Gain
- A clear understanding of physical threat types and mechanisms affecting operational environments
- Insight into high-value targets and risk exposure within critical infrastructure
- Practical strategies for perimeter security, surveillance, lighting, and access control
- Awareness of TSA-aligned security practices and industry standards
- Tools to strengthen incident preparedness through policies, training, and drills
- Actionable metrics to evaluate and improve your organization’s security posture
- 3 Professional Development Hours (PDH) upon completion
Meet Your Instructor
Annie McIntyre
Director of Security, EverLine
Annie McIntyre is the Director of Security at EverLine. Prior to EverLine, Ms. McIntyre was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Ardua Strategies, Inc., a Texas Corporation, providing solutions for the cyber and operational security issues of energy and infrastructure. Prior to founding Ardua Strategies, Ms. McIntyre was a Principal Member of Technical Staff and Program Manager at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her research areas at Sandia included threats, vulnerabilities, and protection of critical infrastructure systems, and cybersecurity for fossil and renewable energy systems. She managed the Sandia-Forest City Strategic Partnership program for sustainability, and participated in programs such as the Institute for Infrastructure Information Protection (I3P), and National SCADA Test Bed. Ms. McIntyre conducted the first cyber analysis of a renewable system in 2007 for the Department of Energy.
Prior to work in critical infrastructure, Ms. McIntyre worked extensively in the defense sector on information warfare and survivability, serving as IO Laboratory Chief and Information Warfare Lead for Future Combat Systems Assessments at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. She previously served as New Mexico Regional Manager for Concurrent Technologies Corporation, a defense and energy contractor, and performed systems analysis and engineering in the bioinformatics field for Molecular Informatics, Inc. Throughout her career, she has worked closely with the U.S. Departments of Energy, Homeland Security, and Defense.
Ms. McIntyre conducts extensive work on security policies as they relate to energy and infrastructure. She served as an author for the American Petroleum Institute’s SCADA Security Standard (1164v2), serves on the Advisory Council at the North American Energy Standards Board, and has served as a Senior Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Technology Leadership Institute. She is a Licensed Private Investigator in the State of Texas.
