Christopher Falkenberg

Christopher Falkenberg
Christopher Falkenberg, President of Insite Security

Christopher Falkenberg is a former Special Agent of the United States Secret Service and litigator at Davis Polk & Wardwell who works as a personal and corporate security expert. Falkenberg is the founder and president of Insite Security, Inc. a security firm that addresses the security needs and protection of corporations and high-net-worth individuals.

Falkenberg worked for the Secret Service Forgery Squad and eventually for the Bank Fraud Squad at the New York Field Office in Manhattan and at JFK Airport from 2000 to 2005. While with the Secret Service, he conducted protective advances for the President and other government officials, both domestically and abroad, as well as for visiting dignitaries. He was also assigned to President Bill Clinton's security detail for the 1992 presidential campaign.^[1]

Career

Upon his graduation from Kenyon College with a Bachelor’s Degree, Mr. Falkenberg applied to the Secret Service and was hired to work in the New York Field Office in Manhattan. He led investigations of major fraud cases including U.S. v. Shapiro (107 F.3d 5) and U.S. v. Constance Darlene Foster Moore.

After spending five years as a Secret Service Special Agent, Falkenberg attended Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. Following graduation, Falkenberg served as a law clerk to the Hon. John S. Martin Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He then joined Davis, Polk & Wardwell, a New York law firm, as a litigator, where he conducted corporate internal investigations and was involved in civil and criminal matters.

Credentials

Among his awards and citations, Falkenberg received the United States Treasury Department’s Special Service Award and was recognized for heroism following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Falkenberg’s company, Insite Security, specializes in personal security for high-net-worth individuals as well as large national and multi-national corporations. He consults with Fortune 1000 companies and high-net-worth individuals on matters including threat assessments and management, executive and family protection, security training, evacuation training, workplace security, and disaster recovery planning.

Insite consults on security management in areas such as outsourced security management, threat and vulnerability assessments, information security and executive and family protection. Its business continuity planning helps corporate leaders in crisis management and disaster recovery planning, often through testing and simulations.

Insite offers investigative services, providing background investigations, due diligence, litigation support and identity theft resolution. Falkenberg’s team consists of former chief security officers, lawyers in multinational corporations and physicians who are board-certified in emergency medicine. Others have held careers at the U.S. Secret Service, FBI, New York City Police and Fire Departments, United Nations Security and the U.S. military.

Falkenberg is the co-author (along with Giza Rodick, a Ph.D. candidate in criminology at the State University of New York at Albany) of a white paper entitled “Economy and Crime: Understanding the Real Connection,” as well as Employer-Provided Security and the Independent Security Study.

Falkenberg is the former president of the Northeast Chapter of the Association of threat assessment Professionals and is Chairman of the Community Security Subcommittee of the Anti Defamation League. He is also a member of trade groups such as ASIS, and The International Association of Independent Private Sector Inspectors General.

References

Sources

↑ The War Room. Dir. Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker. Perf. James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Paul Begala. 1994, Cyclone Films.