Fred Burton

Companies have a duty of care to provide a safe and secure workplace, but how does a culture of care change in the Covid Era? Fred Burton can help you make sense of the current best practices for protecting people and companies in the COVID-19 era. For example, in light of the pandemic, the potential threat of workplace violence has shifted from the C-suite to the residence. What should HR, corporate security and executives look for to protect employees and the business? How should companies handle threats outside of the workplace?

Since 1999, Fred Burton has worked with numerous billionaires, high-net worth individuals and families to design programs to protect their families, children, homes and offices. His discreet protection model has become the industry standard for protecting businesses and wealthy families. Burton can also help make sense of the unique security threats facing children of high-net worth parents and provide recommendations for how to mitigate these threats.

Fred Burton will explain how the protective intelligence model is key to safeguarding business interests, to include the protection of employees, infrastructure, operations and overall business continuity. Fred Burton is a pioneer in this field and one of the original members of the State Department's Protective Intelligence Division. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to discuss his model and best-selling memoir Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent (Random House, 2008).

Before al-Qaeda, terror groups like Black September and Hezbollah had more American and Israeli blood on their hands than any other terror organizations. Fred Burton will walk you through their fascinating history of assassinations, hijackings and bombings to show how their tactics and strategy are still in play today.

Fred Burton explains the global terror hotspots and emerging threats from a strategic and tactical perspective, to include a review of the most targeted cities in the United States. He will also explain how you can determine the probable targets in your city. Burton is routinely called upon by the national media for expert terrorism commentary and has appeared on CNN, Fox & Friends, Fox News, NPR, Good Morning America, The Morning Joe Show and Al Jazeera.

What are the ramifications and impact to business, travelers and ex-pats, in the event of global terror attacks, disaster and war? In a thought provoking discussion, Burton will lay out the key items you need to think about ahead of time, before disaster strikes. Are you prepared?

In the on-going shadow war between the United States and Iran, what does the U.S. killing of Iranian General Soleimani mean in a broader context? The events occurring today are part of the larger battle between Washington and Tehran have been fighting for decades. Fred Burton was on the front lines of this battle in the 80s and 90s, investigating attacks and airplane hijackings, interviewing victims who had been kidnapped by Iranian proxies; he understands the origins of the conflict and the larger historical issues at play. He is the author of Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station and Hezbollah's War Against America. Burton is the current VP of Intelligence for Stratfor and a former State Department special agent. Burton discusses the history and path to Soleimani's killing and lays out what this could mean for Western business interests in the region.

From his unique experiences and past terrorism investigations as a State Department counterterrorism special agent, Fred Burton will discuss the history and lead-up to the al-Qaeda attack on 9-11. Why didn't the U.S. Intelligence Community see it coming? What did we learn from the attack? Can it happen again?