Security Expert Lance Foster

Lance Foster, CPP, CSC, has over 25 years of experience in Corporate Security Management, Law Enforcement, and Security Consulting, including physical security, security guard operations, regulatory compliance, security training, and the purchase and maintenance of security equipment. As a consultant, he has developed and/or audited security programs involving financial institutions, multi-unit residential properties, hotels/motels, retail stores, high-rise office buildings, shopping malls, parking facilities, college campuses, lounges, jewelry stores, truck stops, and other commercial properties.

Mr. Foster has served as a detective with assignments in burglary, auto theft, and homicide, and as the Vice President for security for a state-wide bank. He has been an adjunct instructor at two universities, teaching courses in criminology, criminalistics, criminal justice management, and computer fraud. He has made numerous presentations to national security, banking, business, and consulting associations and groups on a variety of security-related topics, including negligent security and risk analysis.

Litigation Support - Mr. Foster is frequently retained as a litigation consultant by law firms representing plaintiffs and defendants in negligent security lawsuits. He has testified at trial as an Expert Witness in the field of security on numerous occasions.

Services:

• Risk Assessments
• Security Surveys and Assessments
• Financial Institutions Security - ATMs, After Hour Depositories
• Litigation Avoidance
• Litigation Consulting / Expert Witness Services

Mr. Foster was a contributing author to the Premises Security and Liability-A Comprehensive Guide From The Experts. He was a committee chairman for the International Association of Professional Security Consultants and developer of their Forensic Methodology used to formalize the process of security experts reaching their opinions and protecting their testimonies from Daubert challenges.