You will then have 4 minutes to present your response aloud including tactical decision-making, threat assessment, and personnel management. You will be scored on accuracy, speed, and composure under direct questioning. Paused. I will interrupt you frequently. That is part of the evaluation.
Picked up a sealed envelope from the table and held it up. This scenario is real. It is based on an actual security failure from 18 months ago in this organization. One candidate cost the company $11 million and a federal inquiry. The scenario has been reconstructed from that incident.
Let that land. Every person who reviewed that original file missed the same thing. I want to know if anyone in this room sees it. Look at the group. Presents first.
Brock raised his hand before she finished the sentence. He was confident. That was never in question. He read the brief quickly. A layered scenario involving a high-profile executive transfer, a compromised vehicle route, and an ambiguous contact at the destination location.
Three potential threat vectors. A narrow decision window. He presented fast, aggressive. He locked down the vehicle route first, redirected the motorcade, neutralized the contact at the destination as a confirmed threat. Director En Wacheko interrupted him four times.
He pushed through each interruption. Louder, faster, more certain. When he finished, he spread his hands slightly, an unconscious gesture. See, done, easy. Director En Wacheko looked at him for a moment.
You neutralized the destination contact as a confirmed threat. Yes. What basis? Unscheduled appearance. No clearance on file.
Was a physician, she said flatly. Called in 40 minutes prior. Clearance updated in the secondary system. You didn't check the secondary system. Brock's jaw moved slightly.
I made a judgment call under time pressure. You made an assumption under ego pressure, she said. There's a difference. Made a mark on her clipboard, not the good kind. She looked at the room.
Next. Dara stood. She walked to the front of the room, folder in hand, and set it on the table beside the scenario brief. She read the brief, 90 seconds. She didn't rush.
She didn't scan, she read. When she looked up, she was already speaking. She didn't lock down the vehicle route first. She started somewhere nobody else had started, the destination. The building layout.
The staffing log from the previous 48 hours. She cross-referenced the contact's appearance against the pattern in the scenario data that nobody had mentioned because it required reading three paragraphs simultaneously and holding them against each other. Director Enwacheku interrupted her seven times. Each time Dara stopped, answered directly, resumed exactly where she had left off without backtracking. On the fifth interruption, Enwacheku said, "You're not securing the primary vehicle route.