Advanced Force Multipliers

Most event security problems are not staffing problems. A team can be fully staffed and still see only what’s directly in front of it, because everything that matters is happening at the level of a person’s eye line. This article is about what changes when you build the team’s detection above that line.

On June 16, 2026, EP Wired published “Advanced Force Multipliers”, by Nic Moretto, in its CSO / EP managers section. The piece is Book 2 of his Awareness-Driven Event Security Series, subtitled “Elevated Observation Posts, Counter-Surveillance Protocols, and Drone Operations for Professional Event Security.” It opens on a Space Coast rock concert, watched from a platform at stage right, and works outward from there: a 3-Zone Observation Model, physical and digital counter-surveillance, joint operations with law enforcement, drone operations under FAA Part 107, and a layer of real-time threat intelligence that is only now becoming standard practice in the industry.

The argument in one line, in the article’s own words from EP Wired:

Ground-level officers respond to what is in front of them. An elevated observer sees what is forming behind it.

That distinction is the working logic behind two of the services we run. Our event security work is built on layered observation rather than roving bodies — platforms, overwatch, and assignments that put someone above the crowd before the crowd becomes the problem. And our drone security program extends that same principle into the air, because a threat that arrives over a fence or above a stage is invisible to anyone watching from ground level.

This is a practitioner’s piece, written from deployments rather than theory. If you run events, manage a venue, or contract security for one, the original is worth your time — it’s here: EP Wired, “Advanced Force Multipliers,” June 16, 2026.