Kawika Rogers
Articles published under this byline on EPS News.
EPS DispatchOpenAI’s Bots Hacked a Real Company. What Else Did We Miss?
They worked together, pressured one another, and crossed into real systems. Here is why I am concerned and what I think we should be doing about it.
Kawika Rogers·Oct 13GIC-100: Teach your own classes
Build lesson plans, lead a class and explore three ways to teach with EPS. $349.99 for the full 30-hour course.
Kawika Rogers·Sep 27
EPS DispatchWhat Did You Actually Learn?
Free training, contract work, and making sure people can use what we teach.
Kawika Rogers·Sep 23
EPS DispatchWho Gets Paid First
The email I sent my team at 3:31 this morning, and the order the money goes out. Keep your Marines informed applies to payroll: operating costs first, the team second, the late fee last.
Kawika Rogers·Sep 8
EPS DispatchThe Ants and the Rock: Notes From the Slowest News Week of the Year
The news is selling you ants walking toward a rock. This is the honest report instead.
Kawika Rogers·Jul 6
EPS DispatchUse of Force in 2026: What the Numbers Actually Show
After a record-setting 2024, the latest data points to the first nationwide drop in police killings in six years. But experts warn the picture is messier than a single headline number, and the gaps in what America counts may matter more than the count itself.
Kawika Rogers·Jun 18- EPS Dispatch
EPS Daily Brief, Saturday June 6: Decision season at SCOTUS, deadline season for regulators
Three stories for EPS subscribers: the Supreme Court's pending Wolford v. Lopez carry decision, Cal/OSHA's workplace violence rule nearing a final vote, and ATF's 34-rule reform package open for comment.
Kawika Rogers·Jun 6 - EPS Dispatch
EPS Daily Brief, June 1, 2026: ATF Training Rounds, DHS PSO Awards, Tennessee Guard Rules
Three items for the week's open: ATF moves to formally clarify that training rounds aren't "ammunition," DHS awards 13 small businesses on a new armed PSO services vehicle, and Tennessee's enhanced armed guard rifle/shotgun endorsement is now in force.
Kawika Rogers·Jun 1 - EPS Dispatch
Veteran-Owned and Mission-Ready: SDVOSBs in the Federal Marketplace
The federal government built deliberate pathways to direct contracting dollars to service disabled veteran owned small businesses. SDVOSB certification opens set aside and sole source opportunities, and veteran firms fit security work, but the designation gets you considered while execution gets you hired.
Kawika Rogers·May 30 - EPS Dispatch
Walking the Perimeter: A Practical Approach to Physical Security Assessment
A physical security assessment is not a sales tour or a checklist. It is seeing a facility the way an adversary would, through deter, detect, delay, respond, layered defense, and CPTED, matched to the real threat and budget. Most losses exploit ordinary lapses hiding in plain sight.
Kawika Rogers·May 30 - EPS Dispatch
The Insider Threat: Risk That Already Has a Badge
Organizations spend heavily to keep threats outside the perimeter, then hand keys and logins to thousands. The insider threat is already credentialed. Malicious, negligent, or compromised, it is countered by blending technical controls with a fair, human reporting culture, especially at departure.
Kawika Rogers·May 30 - EPS Dispatch
Bleeding Control Belongs in Every Security Plan
A serious bleed can turn fatal before an ambulance arrives, and the officer on scene is often the only person who can close that gap. Bleeding control, CPR, and AED skills are learnable fast and belong in every security plan as a standard, not an option.
Kawika Rogers·May 30 - EPS Dispatch
Fifty States, Fifty Rulebooks: Security Officer Licensing in America
There is no national security officer license, only fifty state rulebooks with different training hours, background standards, and armed carry rules, and almost no reciprocity. For multistate operators, compliance is not friction. It is a core competency that keeps officers and employers lawful.
Kawika Rogers·May 30 - EPS Dispatch
Your Data Is a Door: Why Digital Privacy Is Physical Security
Security teams harden fences and cameras while the most useful map to a principal’s life sits in the open: addresses, family, routines, all for sale through data brokers and open source intelligence. Digital privacy is not a separate discipline. It is the first layer of physical security.
Kawika Rogers·May 30 - EPS Dispatch
Workplace Violence Prevention Is a Program, Not a Poster
A policy in the handbook and a sign by the break room is not prevention. Real workplace violence prevention is a living program: understanding the four types, building a threat assessment team, creating a reporting culture, training response, and planning for the aftermath.
Kawika Rogers·May 30 - EPS Dispatch
Less-Lethal Tools: What They Do, What They Don't
Less lethal is not nonlethal. Chemical agents, batons, conducted energy devices, and projectile systems each stop a threat without killing, and each can kill under the wrong conditions. The professional standard is policy, training, and sober respect for what every tool does in both directions.
Kawika Rogers·May 30 - EPS Dispatch
Use of Force: The Legal Architecture Behind Every Decision
A force decision is made in under two seconds and then examined for two years. Knowing the legal framework, Graham, Garner, the force continuum, and the report that defends the action, before the encounter is what separates a defensible choice from a career ending one.
Kawika Rogers·May 30 
Threat BriefU.S.-Iran Conflict: Domestic Security Implications
Day 4 of Operation Epic Fury. With Iran's supreme leader dead, the Strait of Hormuz closed, and a confirmed domestic attack, Eight Point Solutions breaks down the threat picture and what organizations must do now.
Kawika Rogers·Apr 15
EPS DispatchEPS Dispatch // April 14, 2026 // Hormuz Blockade Day 2
Day 46 of Operation Epic Fury: ceasefire is fraying after Islamabad talks collapsed. President Trump has ordered a US Navy blockade of Iranian ports while Tehran mines the Strait of Hormuz. DHS remains at heightened posture as soft-target risk climbs at home.
Kawika Rogers·Apr 14
EPS DispatchEPS Dispatch // March 30, 2026 // Operation Epic Fury Day 30
Operation Epic Fury hits Day 30 with no end state. The US has fired 850+ Tomahawks against ~90/year production. Houthis open new front against Israel as Hormuz stays closed and US gas hits $3.98/gal.
Kawika Rogers·Mar 30
Threat BriefEPS Threat Brief Update #4 // March 7, 2026 // U.S.-Iran Conflict Week 2
Day 8 of Operation Epic Fury. EPS downgrades domestic threat assessment from SEVERE to HIGH as Iran's offensive capability degrades 90%, but the systems meant to detect domestic threats have been gutted: blocked FBI/DHS/NCTC bulletin, CISA reduced, CI-12 cut.
Kawika Rogers·Mar 7
Threat BriefEPS Threat Brief Update #3 // March 5, 2026 // Operation Epic Fury Day 6
Day 6 of Operation Epic Fury with no de-escalation. Iran has launched 500+ ballistic missiles and 2,000 drones. Hormuz effectively closed. Conflict expanding to Lebanon, Azerbaijan, and the Persian Gulf. DHS in partial shutdown with no NTAS alert.
Kawika Rogers·Mar 5
Threat BriefEPS Threat Brief Update #2 // March 3, 2026 // U.S.-Iran Conflict: Domestic Security Implications
Day 4 of Operation Epic Fury. Khamenei is dead. Hormuz is functionally closed. Proxy forces have activated. The first domestic attack with an Iran-linked nexus has already occurred in Austin. EPS assesses the domestic threat as SEVERE.
Kawika Rogers·Mar 3