Bio:
Barry Thompson is an international speaker, trainer, consultant, and writer. He is one of the original security “guru’s” for a Bankersonline and regularly presents security conferences for trade groups – he has trained over 51,000 financial professionals.
Barry is recognized worldwide, presenting in Brussels, Belgium to European bankers on internal fraud; at the United Nations on identity theft; and to Japanese bankers on bank security. Barry has worked in the financial services industry for over four decades, and has held the positions of security officer, compliance officer, treasurer, senior vice president, and executive vice president. He has handled over 900 security cases and has been involved with investigations and prosecutions at the federal, state, and local levels. Barry is the author of 101 Security Tips for the Beginning Security Officer and has been interviewed by Newsweek, Computer World, USA Today, and other national publications.
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Areas of Expertise:
Compliance Consulting
Security Consulting
Security Training
Questions Answered
11/10/2019
We had money taken at one of our offices. We conducted a review and released everyone who didn’t follow our written procedures. Yesterday we found that money has been stolen again so we didn’t get the right person. We were told by local police we didn’t perform a proper investigation. What should we do now?
11/03/2019
"What is the recommended schedule for the self-testing of your alarm system's communication to the monitoring center (i.e. landlines and/or cell back up)? The alarm system vendors seem to be all over the place on it."
11/03/2019
Our management doesn’t want us to do any training on the warning signs of internal fraud. They have stated that if we don’t talk about it staff won’t consider embezzlements. Besides they tell us something like this won’t happen here!
10/27/2019
You have stated in your programs, 'No MOCK Robberies'. What if we have a video of a mock robbery with an impatient note-passer who does not show a gun? Would this be okay to show employees and branch security officers?
10/27/2019
We have decided should we have an internal embezzlement, we will just turn it over to law enforcement. Wouldn’t this be the best way to handle this problem?
08/18/2019
I had a question regarding our website. We were wondering if we should have "Officer's" names on the website for each branch. I've kind of struggled with this one because they've been on there a long time and it seems most other banks have some staff on their sites, but is that opening us up to risks?
08/11/2019
I am a security officer for a financial institution. We had a robbery where a gun was shown to the victim teller. Today she entered my office to tell me that she saw the robber last night in a local store. Did she or didn’t she? How should I proceed?
08/04/2019
I am working next to a man who told me he purchased a new gun. He was talking about how much fun it would be to chase the CEO across the parking lot. Two years ago, he survived an active shooter incident.
07/28/2019
What is happening to Sarah? She was always so friendly! The last two months she has been a bear to work around. Today Sam said his dog had died, and she told him to “suck it up!”
06/23/2019
The account holder was screaming at me that our institution was worthless. Finally, I found out that no one called them back as promised. It was very hard for me to get the person to believe how could we have handled this better?
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