Strategic Security and the Facilities Manager
By Jim Crumbley
Corporate America has realized the strategic importance of the security function and has taken great pains to fully integrate risk mitigation into business...
Information Feeding Frenzy
By Jacqueline Emigh
At more and more organizations today, people can plug into the Internet from just about anywhere conference rooms, the lobby, even hallways. With the...
A Systematic Approach Broadly Defined
LARRY ANDERSON, Editor
The word is part of this magazine's name, so we definitely have a big stake in how that word is defined and interpreted in the security industry. Recent...
Security Hot Spot: Protecting Reception Areas
By James Gompers
It's really easy to overlook lobbies and reception areas when it comes to designing and implementing an overall security strategy. After all, security...
Information Overload
Users and suppliers were bombarded with information about all aspects of the security industry at the Corporate Security Roundtable 2004, Feb. 1-3 in...
The Enemy Within
By Jim Crumbley
When it comes to contracted service personnel, what do employers truly know about them? Can this lack of knowledge be harmful? Security professionals...
RFID and the Future of Asset Protection
By Jacqueline Emigh
Wal-Mart and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) may not have much in common, but asset protection is one mutual interest. Both organizations recently...
Trusting Companies With GOVERNMENT SECRETS
by MICHAEL FICKES
With thousands of companies competing for federal contracts related to security, how does the federal government determine whether or not it should trust...
Engaging Your Guard Force: Five Considerations For A Retention Program
Officers are the backbone of a security program. Managers should take action to ensure that there is a professional and responsive team on hand to provide...
Data Collection Is Key To Program Management
If you can't measure a security program, how can you manage it? Apart from the daily operations, managing a security program can take many avenues that...
The Human Element
James Gompers
Although equipment failure is often cited as a major factor in breaches of security, it is impossible to ignore another significant element human error....
A Drive for Safety
Because of the sensitive issues involved and the competitive nature of the automotive industry, it is important to control access to training areas that...
A Powerful Combination
StorageTek is a $2 billion worldwide company with more than 7,000 employees in 32 countries. The storage solutions and services firm faces many of the...
Overseas THREATS
By MICHAEL FICKES
Security intelligence can avert tragedy. Take the case of a Fortune 100 CEO who planned to meet with a provincial governor in India last November. The...
File Tracking: Case Closed
By Randy Southerland
Tony Donaldson knew that his new file tracking system was worth the money the day a senior partner in the law firm called and asked for an important case...
New Year Is Great Time For Comprehensive Security Review
Thomas W. Leo
Conducting a comprehensive security review should be an accepted business process, designed to identify potential or actual weak areas within companies...
Teamwork and Innovation Lead to Success for Regions Financial Corp.
Regions Financial Corp., one of the 25 largest financial services companies in the nation, ranks on both the Forbes 500 and Fortune 500 listings of America's...
A Secure Market Revival
The Chicago International Produce Market has served as the city's produce hub for restaurants and grocery stores for more than 78 years. The market, first...
FreeMarkets Keeps Cool and Safe With Integrated Access Control
Companies rely on FreeMarkets Inc. to help them do everything from buying goods and services and managing suppliers, to monitoring contracts. As a provider...
Acquisitions Spur Upgrades at Lattice Semiconductor
When Lattice Semiconductor, a developer and marketer of high-performance programmable logic devices, acquired a new site in Shanghai, China, it ended...
THE PULSE OF CORPORATE SECURITY
In a survey of 317 senior U.S. corporate executives 88%rate security as the top or a high priority. 65%have adopted new security standards in the past...
12 Questions To Ask Before You Spec a Guard Booth
By Dave King
Establishing the first line of defense between a facility and a threat on its perimeter, the guard station can also define the image of a facility. Here...
Companies Urgedto Disclose their Cyber-Security Efforts
Publicly traded companies could be required to disclose their efforts to secure information on computer systems, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom...
Managing Risk and Protecting the Organization: A Military Team Approach
By Daniel Ward
During the 1990s, the Department of Defense (DoD) established so-called Force Protection Programs with the purpose of increasing awareness of the threat...
Corporate Security Learns To Be Streetwise
By RANDY SOUTHERLAND
It can be one of corporate America's worst nightmares. A security guard engages in a tussle with a customer or visitor to their building. Heated words...
