Controlling Risks in Organizations: The Role of Investigations

The investigative function in organizations is generally limited to the identification of individuals, both employees and non-employees, who have harmed it. That is an artificially imposed limitation. With minor modifications to the way investigations are approached, the investigative function can play an important value-added role in the area of controlling organizational risk. This paper identifies that role and the additional value the function can offer.

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Objective-Based Logic: A Methodology for Designing and Obtaining
Buy-In for Programs

This paper presents the Objective-Based Logic (OBL) methodology for the development of programs procedures. Although the paper presents the methodology using security program examples, it is equally valid for the development of programs/processes for other disciplines.

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Mitigating Terrorism and Activist Risks During the Property Selection Process

Do your neighbors increase your terrorism or activist risk profile? Are you unwittingly inheriting their risk by placing your operations in close proximity to theirs? Identifying, evaluating, selecting and building-out a new facility or new space is a difficult task. Once the task is completed, realizing the new location brings unexpected risks because of the neighbors would be an unpleasant surprise.

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The Value-Added of Security System Engineering

Security system engineering can provide significant value to organizations that plan to employ security technology (e.g., electronic access control systems, intrusion detection systems, camera systems, etc.) as part of their security program. Two definitions will help to better understand the information presented in this paper.

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The Problem with Guards

Everyone has stories about problems they have had with guards. Not showing up for work on time, not wearing the proper uniform, sleeping on post, surfing the Internet rather than working, et cetera. These performance issues/types of behavior are not the problems; they are the symptoms of the problems. Most often, guards' performances and behaviors reflect the way they are managed by the organizations in which they serve.

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Why Hire A Security Consultant

Why would I hire a consultant? What value-added can a consultant provide to my business? Click the button below to download a free white paper that provides answers to these questions, along with other valuable information.

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