Ryan Schonfeld

Ryan is the Co-Founder & CEO of HiveWatch, and the vision behind reimagining how organizations keep their people and assets safe. Drawing on his background in law enforcement, security consulting, and Fortune 500 environments, he built HiveWatch to help security leaders stay more aware, connected, and proactive.

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Phase 2: Scale

We started HiveWatch to solve the most difficult problems challenging physical security – at scale. We wanted to help big enterprises with multiple systems; bringing them all together to increase…

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Events, Industry Expertise

5 Ways to Approach Growth as a Security Leader

  For many security leaders, growth has a trickle-down effect. Expansion through mergers and acquisition or organic growth, in addition to decreases in facility or employee count, directly impacts the…

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Industry Expertise

Taking the Physical Security Ecosystem Approach to Access Control

As a Security Director, I spent a lot of time seeking a single solution that would fulfill all my physical security operational needs — like bending an access control system…

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Industry Expertise

PSIM is out. Fusion is in.

In a global security operations center (GSOC), operators are making decisions about the safety and wellbeing of assets and people. A lot of the challenges across security programs involve many…

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Industry Expertise

It’s Time for Physical Security & IT to Come Together

Taking a new approach to anything is never easy. For so long, security decisions were made by security leaders; but as the lines blur between IT and physical security, and…

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Industry Expertise

Security Doesn’t Scale!

Security doesn’t scale!    Now before you get offended and stop reading, consider where we are as an industry today and how much we’ve evolved over the past 5, 10, 15,…

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Industry Expertise, Tips & Tricks

Reducing Noise in Security Operations Centers

For so many of us, the picture in our minds when we discuss security operations centers or command centers is the photo of numerous operators with multiple screens, a massive…

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Product Updates

Security Finally Scales: Introducing the HiveWatch® AI Operator

Two years ago, I wrote an essay, “Security Doesn’t Scale!” Today, I’m here to tell you that’s no longer true. After countless hours in Security Operations Centers (SOCs), analyzing mountains…

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Industry Expertise

How Data is Changing Safety in the Workplace

When we all headed home to work back in 2020, security teams reeled at the shift in protection for the modern workplace. And as businesses continue to require more time…

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Industry Expertise

How Technology Addresses Worker Shortages in Security

It’s clear that despite recent layoffs in the tech industry and general unease about the economy, there are still significant gaps in the number of jobs available and the amount…

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