Research Reports

Now, get the latest data and analysis on security compensation, operations, and training benchmarks for 2008—from an independent, unbiased source of business information for security professionals.

At last, you can look at your own operations in the context of how other security departments operate and the solutions used by other security professionals.

Based on survey responses from over 300 directors to an exclusive IOMA survey, the new data in this report provides insight into how different factors affect:

1. Hiring Practices
2. Compensation Data
3. Turnover Rates
4. Lawsuit Trends
5. Training Norms
6. Recommended Practices

More important, the report gives you benchmarks to address questions about the security function in your own organization.

This Report features over 40 comprehensive Charts and Tables, and covers topics, such as:

• The training methods for security department staff
• Portion of security budget spent on staff training
• The educational requirements for all officers
• Background checks conducted for security staff
• Increase in requirement for officer skill and quality
• Counterterrorism training for all full-time security staff
  How much should/do companies spend on security
• Pay increase in 2008 for line, mid, and top-level security staff
• Annual salary of organization's top security executive
• Turnover in staff
• Ongoing drug testing of line security officers
• Litigation against organizations due to security staff action
• Use of security staff to perform non-security functions
• And many, many more.

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To review this report's Table of Contents and Introduction, click here.