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Mar 1, 2006 12:00 PM, By Erin Semple

Contemporary Security Management defines leading-edge concepts for chief security officers and upper-level security management students. This second edition focuses on the challenges of the industry, such as criminal and terrorist threats. Each chapter has been updated and expanded to incorporate new developments. Seven new chapters discuss vulnerability identification techniques, security system design, the nature of terrorism, counterterrorism, weapons of mass destruction, threat and risk assessment and the critical national infrastructure.

The book features case studies that address real-world problems and solutions, explanatory photographs and diagrams, discussion of business management and leadership competencies. The first of 28 chapters, Historical Roots, explains the history behind today's industry. The book then delves, chapter-by-chapter, into topics such as strategy, leadership, organization, management, budget management and decision-making. The later chapters discuss management of risk, guard operations, physical security, access control, investigations, emergencies, incidents and information security. Additional topics include substance abuse prevention, preemployment screening, executive protection, workplace violence, security awareness, vulnerability assessment and security system design, followed by terrorism, counterterrorism, weapons of mass destruction, assessment of terrorist threat and critical national infrastructure.

The book provides an overview for chief security officers or upper-level security management students, providing a foundation to handle the challenges of today's world. The book gives the reader a grasp of post-Sept.11 challenges and demands by explaining the depths of terrorist threats.

Security Metrics Management: How to Measure the Costs and Benefits of Security guides its readers through the process of measuring the costs and benefits of an assets protection program. The book examines protection policies, procedures, processes and projects to determine the effectiveness of several options. The book also features a discussion of how to use security metrics to brief management, justify resources and use trend analyses to build an effective program.

This book is written as a handbook for developing a security metrics management program. The 25 chapters discuss security professionals' roles in supporting business and government agency assets protection needs; management foundation of security metrics; policies, procedures and plans of security metrics management program; case studies; information and personnel security; security education and awareness training; security compliance audits, surveys and risk management; corporate assets protection program; contingency planning; physical security metrics; technical security systems; locks and keys; fire protection; event security; security operations metrics; government security; information systems security; mergers, acquisitions or divestitures security; outsourcing and security profession; and metrics management in the future.

The book introduces the role of security professionals and security metric management, administrative security metrics, physical security metrics, security operations metrics and the system in the future. The book works to provide the necessary tools to support the inexperienced security professional in building an effective security metrics management program. It also acts as a resource for security professionals and managers.

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