Security Director’s Report is a monthly management tool designed to help security directors keep pace with the rapidly evolving world of corporate security. Each issue alerts you to critical news, important new security products, and up-to-date advice that you need to know to effectively manage your security department. SDR’s comprehensive, easy-to-follow articles provide practical advice for meeting your top security challenges, including crime prevention, workplace violence, executive protection, disaster preparedness, and workplace investigations. We also provide exclusive industry benchmarks, best practices in security department management, and the latest data on security director salaries. Each issue also includes a listing of upcoming events for security directors and new briefs alerting you to the latest legal, legislative, and technology news impacting the security industry.
A company can take every wise precaution and still be the victim of a significant violent workplace incident. So in addition to addressing any remaining gaps in internal security, planning, or communication, it helps to get the broader perspective of experts who do nothing but deal with workplace incidents. Are there new trends in the type of violent incidents at work? Are any new solutions showing promise?
It can be tough to know exactly what to make of converged security breaches (unauthorized physical penetrations resulting in hacked information systems or network hacking that creates a physical harm).
You still need to worry about lawsuits caused by security officers’ excessive force, negligence, or wrongful detention. But a new study by SDR and IOMA Research finds that security officers file more lawsuits against employers than they cause because of things they do or don’t do.
The survey, conducted in early 2008 of 347 companies, finds that 8 percent of companies in the last year faced litigation arising out of some action or inaction by…
Faced with store losses, a security department with money to burn can implement the kitchen-sink approach: Throw everything at the problem, and have confidence that one thing or another will help trim losses. But since bottomless budgets are pure fantasy, a security executive needs to carefully place his or her bet on a technology countermeasure. But which one? Is data mining the best solution? EAS? CCTV?
• Rethinking the Security Operations Center
• Regulators Take Aim at Companies Overreaching in Monitoring Staff and Screening & Testing New Hires
• Learn How Security Activities Relate to Business Drivers
• Current Trends in Defending Public Space—What’s Working Now
• The Keys to Managing Today’s Complicated Security Projects…
There was a typically impressive array of "wow, cool" devices on display at ISC West—products that would seem to be a nice add for any security department. But there are also signs that technology’s impact is moving beyond simplifying the way security does things or improving how well it does them to actually changing what security does. Security leaders may need to alter their approach as a result, and no longer look for security systems to fulfill strategy but use the capabilities of today’s systems to formulate it.
According to IMS Research (www.imsresearch.com), the "characteristically conservative" nature of the fire industry has been hampering acceptance of video smoke detection (VSD), but the group forecasts the world market for it to pick up and grow by 39 percent by 2011, to $36 million.
National Fire Protection Association World Safety Conference & Exposition, Las Vegas, June 2-5. Contact: NFPA, 617-770-3000; Web: www.nfpa.org/wsce
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