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Principles of Security Management

NCJ Number
82907
Author(s)
R J Healy; T J Walsh
Date Published
1981
Length
283 pages
Annotation
In this book - an overview of security management - two security professionals explain the loss risks facing businesses and suggest specific countermeasures. The book covers industrial espionage, bombs, disorders, terrorism, and computer-related crime as well as the more traditional employee and external theft.
Abstract
Cross-company security awareness and a total security system are the keys to effective crime deterrence and control. Managers of finance, purchasing, data processing, insurance, distribution, and security departments should be particularly alert to security risks. The first step in a total security system analysis is vulnerability assessment, followed by development of counter strategies, including an optimum mix of hardware (such as electronic security devices), manpower, and software. System development should end with testing. This text addresses the advantages, disadvantages, and issues involved in use of security guards and job applicant screening and testing. The authors discuss the effects of the changing environment on business crime and the ability to protect the business. They address the legal framework that affects a company's ability to legally screen employees through testing, the social structure which influences the employee's perception of his job and relationship to the company, and technological developments. An index is provided, along with chapter references and study questions.