Security Management Hardcover - 2008

From the jacket flap

Risk and Security Management

Protecting People and Sites Worldwide

Whether companies face challenges supporting USAID programs in Pakistan or Kosovo; seek to conduct health projects for DFID in Nigeria or Sudan; support reconstruction, development, or hydrocarbon initiatives in Afghanistan and Iraq; operate commercial enterprises in crime-ridden regions of Mexico and Kazakhstan; or are entering new and uncertain market regions such as Libya, Risk and Security Management: Protecting People and Sites Worldwide presents security experts and other professionals with guidance in understanding how risk management and security services can best be used to enable businesses to flow seamlessly and productively, even under the most challenging conditions.

Informed by the author's eighteen years of professional experience in this arena, Risk and Security Management reveals the fundamentals of risk consultancy and security management for the domestic and global security professional. It offers the essential tools needed to assess risk and manage security services for a company.

Filled with concepts, frameworks, and observations to make for more efficient and effective risk and security management, this practical book:

• Captures how companies and their vendors can develop relationships, understanding, and quality assurance to better support the management of risk

• Provides a premise for understanding business activities, which can then be placed into a risk management and security services context

• Supports both companies and vendors in maximizing organic resources

• Presents a framework for ensuring that business continuity is achieved through the protection of people, resources, and reputation

• Discusses insights into the scope of risk that many companies face in varying degrees

• Explains the unique service of risk consulting

• Demonstrates how the alignment of business and security project management is critical for activities to succeed within any business environment

As corporations seek to grow and increase value, they move into areas of the world that are considered perilous or uncertain, requiring guidance on recognizing the various risks involved with a new business enterprise, as well as how to secure their physical space and personnel. Risk and Security Management provides that guidance.