Corporate Security Management: Challenges, Risks, and Strategies

✍ Scribed by Marko Cabric

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 215
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Corporate Security Management provides practical advice on efficiently and effectively protecting an organizations processes, tangible and intangible assets, and people.

The book merges business and security perspectives to help transform this often conflicted relationship into a successful and sustainable partnership. It combines security doctrine, business priorities, and best practices to uniquely answer the Who, What, Where, Why, When and How of corporate security.

Corporate Security Management explores the diverse structures of security organizations in different industries. It shows the crucial corporate security competencies needed and demonstrates how they blend with the competencies of the entire organization. This book shows how to identify, understand, evaluate and anticipate the specific risks that threaten enterprises and how to design successful protection strategies against them. It guides readers in developing a systematic approach to assessing, analyzing, planning, quantifying, administrating, and measuring the security function.

• Addresses the often opposing objectives between the security department and the rest of the business concerning risk, protection, outsourcing, and more
• Shows security managers how to develop business acumen in a corporate security environment
• Analyzes the management and communication skills needed for the corporate security manager
• Focuses on simplicity, logic and creativity instead of security technology
• Shows the true challenges of performing security in a profit-oriented environment, suggesting ways to successfully overcome them
• Illustrates the numerous security approaches and requirements in a wide variety of industries
• Includes case studies, glossary, chapter objectives, discussion questions and exercises

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
About the Author, Page xi
Introduction, Pages xiii-xiv
Chapter 1 - About Security, Pages 3-13
Chapter 2 - Corporations and the Place of Corporate Security, Pages 15-31
Chapter 3 - The People, Pages 35-52
Chapter 4 - Managing a Security Organization, Pages 55-69
Chapter 5 - Incorporating Security Elements, Pages 71-85
Chapter 6 - Internal Risks, Pages 89-100
Chapter 7 - External Risks, Pages 101-125
Chapter 8 - Physical Security, Pages 129-150
Chapter 9 - Product, Pages 151-165
Chapter 10 - Human Capital, Pages 167-184
Chapter 11 - Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, Pages 185-200
Chapter 12 - Analysis, Assessments, Planning, Control, and Administration, Pages 203-216
Index, Pages 217-227