Your emergency contact list is only as good as the last time you actually tested it. This week, bomb threats hit schools across New Mexico, Texas, and beyond — plus a political party HQ in France — and the real story wasn't the threats themselves, but what organizations discovered mid-event about their own emergency plans.
In this episode of Security Unpacked, Nicole breaks down:
🔔 Emergency notification failures — why outdated contact lists and untested alert systems are a silent risk hiding in plain sight
🏒 The Rhode Island ice rink shooting — and why public-facing events need their own security playbook, not just a stretched version of your daily operations
💻 The Dell zero-day with a physical security twist — how China-linked threat actors targeted building management, access control, and surveillance systems, and why firmware/software ownership is often nobody's job
✈️ The Eurail travel data breach — what it means for travel security and executive protection when itinerary data ends up on the dark web
🔴 Red teaming, explained — why this week's events were essentially involuntary red team exercises, how to run your own, and why the debrief matters more than the test itself
Your one action this week: Pull up your real emergency notification list and verify it. Call the numbers. Send a test message. It takes 20 minutes and could make all the difference.
Security plans get tested on someone else's schedule. Be ready before that happens.

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