Hotel Security in the Wake of Mali

By Hans Kanold

Hans Kanold is the founder of the SafeHotels Alliance.  Kanold has spent more than 25 years in hotel industry. He's also a member of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Advisory Board.

The Cipher Brief spoke with Hans Kanold, CEO of SafeHotels Alliance, a standards organization for hotel security. TCB spoke with Kanold about the siege of the RadissonBlu in Mali, the difficulty in preventing terrorist attacks, and the importance of the human factor in keeping a hotel safe. 

The Cipher Brief: In light of the hotel attacks in Mali, could you give our readers a better understanding of what it takes to secure a hotel in a dangerous security environment?

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