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Coordinating with our cross-sector partners in public safety, Titan Security is currently monitoring the following protests and special events in the Milwaukee area. The current situation remains extremely fluid, and we recommend stakeholders remain alert and informed.

Anticipated Demonstrations and Special Events

Notes/Analysis

** = Anticipate multiple large-scale protests and demonstrations related to pending U.S. Supreme Court abortion ruling

Safety Tips Near/During Protests

As always, if you “See Something, Say Something.” For life-threatening emergencies, call 911. To report suspicious activity, call 855-RPRT-2-S4 (855-777-8274).

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Midwest. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,000 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-seven consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated, efficient, and customized safety and security solutions from a single source.

Coordinating with our cross-sector partners in public safety, Titan Security is currently monitoring the following protests and special events in the Chicago area. The current situation remains extremely fluid, and we recommend stakeholders remain alert and informed.

Anticipated Demonstrations and Special Events

Notes/Analysis

* = One in a series of national/ethnic parades during warm-weather months

** = Anticipate multiple large-scale protests and demonstrations related to pending U.S. Supreme Court abortion ruling

*** = Large-scale protests and counterprotests anticipated on May 14; multiple gatherings and marches may combine into one location

Safety Tips Near/During Protests

As always, if you “See Something, Say Something.” For life-threatening emergencies, call 911. To report suspicious activity, call 855-RPRT-2-S4 (855-777-8274).

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Midwest. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,000 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-seven consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated, efficient, and customized safety and security solutions from a single source.

In collaboration with our cross-sector public safety partners, Titan Security is currently monitoring the following special events and public demonstrations. The following notes are from a special public safety conference call held by Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office on Tuesday May 3, 2022 regarding recent developments in downtown Chicago and upcoming events happening in the city.

Hosted by:

Call Notes:

Question Responses:

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Chicagoland community. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,200 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-eight consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated and efficient, customized security solutions from a single source.

In collaboration with our cross-sector public safety partners, Titan Security is currently monitoring the following special events and public demonstrations.

Anticipated Activity

Notes/Analysis

* = Potentially disruptive to evening pedestrian and vehicle traffic around Ogilvie train station

** = Likelihood of counterprotesters is significant for this event

*** = Imminent SCOTUS decision resulting in very large increase in abortion-related demonstrations

**** = One in a series of national/ethnic parades along Columbus or State during warmer months

Safety Tips Near/During Protests

As always, if you “See Something, Say Something.” For life-threatening emergencies, call 911. To report suspicious activity, call 855-RPRT-2-S4 (855-777-8274).

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Midwest. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,000 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-seven consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated, efficient, and customized safety and security solutions from a single source.

In coordination with our cross-sector public safety partners, Titan Security is monitoring the following protest and demonstration activity in Chicago.

Pending Protest Activity

Safety Tips Near/During Protests

As always, if you “See Something, Say Something.” For life-threatening emergencies, call 911. To report suspicious activity, call 855-RPRT-2-S4 (855-777-8274).

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Midwest. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,000 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-seven consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated, efficient, and customized safety and security solutions from a single source.

In partnership with a range of cross-sector public-safety agencies, Titan Security is monitoring the following event and protest activities.

Anticipated Demonstration Activity

Safety Tips Near/During Protests

As always, if you “See Something, Say Something.” For life-threatening emergencies, call 911. To report suspicious activity, call 855-RPRT-2-S4 (855-777-8274).

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Midwest. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,000 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-seven consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated, efficient, and customized safety and security solutions from a single source.

In coordination with our cross-sector public safety partners, Titan Security has identified the following protest or demonstration activities during the month of April.

Anticipated Demonstrations

Notes/Analysis

* = Other affiliated protests may occur around the one-year anniversary of the police-involved shooting of teen Adam Toledo

Safety Tips Near/During Protests

As always, if you “See Something, Say Something.” For life-threatening emergencies, call 911. To report suspicious activity, call 855-RPRT-2-S4 (855-777-8274).

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Midwest. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,000 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-seven consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated, efficient, and customized safety and security solutions from a single source.

As has been widely reported in the media, there is a heightened cyber threat due to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. A range of Russian governmental and nongovernmental entities have been observed taking preparatory steps for offensive computer actions targeting Western infrastructure. While there is no specific and credible threat to the Chicago real estate community from the most recent information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), staying alert to such attacks is of the utmost importance for all organizations regardless of industry.

There are steps that all organizations can take in assuring they are following the best methods to avoid cyber threats to their operations. First, for your reference, review documents from the DHS regarding protecting vital internal components known as building automation systems (BAS) or supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA).

Second, verify and update your emergency contacts. Cyber-attacks are often intentionally launched on weekends or holidays to maximize confusion within the targeted organization. It is vital that all staff have access to an updated list of after-hours phone and email contacts for key operational leadership.

Finally, please share information about potential threats with your information technology (IT) professional and/or your engineers or engineering contractors. Not only are these professionals responsible for large segments of your cyber infrastructure, but they have also been specifically targeted in spearphishing attacks seeking to compromise these systems.

As outlined by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), there is a three-step process to help organizations improve their resilience and reduce vulnerability against such attacks: Prepare, Mitigate, Respond.

Prepare

Mitigate

CISA recommends critical infrastructure organizations apply the following mitigations to defend against potential future threats and prevent severe functional degradation if the organization falls victim to a ransomware attack.

Respond

Step 1: Should your organization become a victim of ransomware, CISA strongly recommends implementing your cyber incident response plan by using the checklist below. Be sure to move through the first three steps in sequence.

Step 2: Determine which systems were impacted and immediately isolate them.

Step 3: If and only if you are unable to disconnect devices from the network, power them down to avoid further spread of the ransomware infection.

Step 4: Assign impacted systems for restoration and recovery.

Step 5: Confer with your team to develop and document an initial understanding of what has occurred based on initial analysis.

Step 6: Engage your internal and external teams and stakeholders with an understanding of what they can provide to help you mitigate, respond to, and recover from the incident. Strongly consider requesting assistance from a third-party incident response provider or CISA.

If no initial mitigation actions appear possible:

Step 7: Take a system image and memory capture of a sample of affected devices. Additionally, collect any relevant logs as well as samples of any “precursor” malware binaries and associated observables or indicators of compromise. Note: take care to preserve evidence that is highly volatile in nature—or limited in retention—to prevent loss or tampering.

Step 8: Consult federal law enforcement regarding possible decryptors available, as security researchers have already broken the encryption algorithms for some ransomware variants.

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Midwest. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,000 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-seven consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated, efficient, and customized safety and security solutions from a single source.

In coordination with our cross-sector partners, Titan Security is providing this updated list of pending demonstration activity in and near the Chicago Loop.

Anticipated Events and Demonstrations

Notes/Analysis

* = Note that multiple pro-Ukrainian demonstrations have been taking place on short notice in or near the Loop, including pedestrian marches and car caravans

** = March 29 is the one-year anniversary of the death of Adam Toledo; spontaneous protests or demonstrations are likely in addition to the listed event

Safety Tips Near/During Protests

As always, if you “See Something, Say Something.” For life-threatening emergencies, call 911. To report suspicious activity, call 855-RPRT-2-S4 (855-777-8274).

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Midwest. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,000 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-seven consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated, efficient, and customized safety and security solutions from a single source.

Titan Security is a proud participant in the leadership of the BOMA/Chicago Preparedness Committee, dedicated to the safety of high rise commercial structures in the City of Chicago. Minutes from the most recent monthly meeting of the group on March 15, 2022 are shared below.

ABOUT BOMA/Chicago

BOMA/Chicago is a trade association that has represented the interests of the Chicago office building industry since 1902. Membership includes approximately 240 commercial office, institutional and public buildings and about 170 companies that provide commercial building services to support operational excellence. BOMA/Chicago members constitute approximately 80 percent of all rentable office space and more than 98 percent of rentable space in Class A buildings downtown.

About Titan Security Group

Titan launched in 1994 with a vision for a better way to provide security services to the Chicagoland community. Today, Titan is one of the largest security companies in North America, scheduling approximately 80,000 hours per week, employing more than 2,000 security staff, and have enjoyed over twenty-eight consecutive years of successfully serving our clients across a wide range of industries. Titan delivers results to clients through flexible, customized security solutions, and superior customer service. The Titan approach combines traditional security staffing with electronic security systems to provide integrated and efficient, customized security solutions from a single source.