An overview of bank security covers the Bank Protection Act of 1968 and industry compliance, as well as anticrime legislation affecting white-collar crime and personnel screening. The text treats the structure and function of the security department, describing responsibilities, corporate planning for security, and insurance coverage. Physical security coverage includes daily operating procedures, alarm and surveillance systems, physical specifications for night boxes, auxiliary safes, automatic tellers, and vaults. Data security topics encompass data protection, transactions, networks, software, use of third-party services, controls, and audits. This reference book examines the impact on banks of violent crime (i.e., robbery, burglary, kidnapping, and extortion) and also white-collar crime (i.e., embezzlement, fraud, counterfeiting, theft of securities, and computer crime). Information on investigating internal crime includes reporting criminal activity, interviewing, interrogating, polygraph tests, implications of the Miranda ruling, search, arrest, and report writing. Aspects of emergency planning address kidnapping, bomb threats and bombing, riots, fire, natural disasters, and nuclear war. Reference notes are given. The appendixes contain the text of the Bank Securities Act, the Computer Credit Protection Act, applicable Security and Exchange Commission rules, and lists of source materials and reference documents.