How to Make Spaces Safer by Design

Every environment sends a signal: it’s either easy to exploit or hard to attack.

Target hardening isn’t just adding walls or fences. It’s about making schools, churches, and public spaces resilient by design. Entry points, lighting, line of sight, communication plans, and staff awareness all work together to buy precious seconds when violence threatens.

Those seconds matter. They’re the difference between chaos and coordination, between confusion and control.

At ISTM, we help organizations strengthen both the environment and the people in it — so security measures and human response work as one.

What’s one simple change you’ve seen that made a space feel noticeably safer?

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