Foundation
Research
The National Retail Security Survey is now ready to be completed. We need as many retailers as possible to participate. Please complete the survey now (pdf).
Trends in Proprietary Information Loss
Survey 
In case you have difficulty downloading the above large file, we have split the file into two sections: Part I and Part II.
The ASIS Foundation, The ASIS Information Asset Protection Council and the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive are co-sponsoring 2006 Trends In Proprietary Information Loss Survey which since 1991 has come to be recognized as the premier study of its kind and has come to be the most referenced (definitive) source routinely cited by the Director of the FBI, Senate and, House Select Committees on Intelligence, House Judiciary Committee and other intelligence community agencies as well in the President Annual Report to Congress on Economic Espionage.
Proprietary information loss issues identified in the surveys served as a key elements in testimony that helped shape discussions and legislation action that resulted in the Economic Espionage Act (18 USC 1831, 1832) which are the primary federal statutes concerned with protecting proprietary and trade secret information from economic and/or industrial espionage.
ASIS/SIA Security Market Research Study
In case you have difficulty downloading the above large file, we have split the file into two sections: Part I and Part II.
The ASIS International Foundation in cooperation with the Security Industry Association (SIA) and Shayne Bates of Koffel Associates, Inc. will be conducting a research study that will gain a greater understanding of the reason(s) that organizations choose to implement security programs without an appropriately scaled risk analysis, to identify the quantum of those who choose to proceed to implementation of a protection program without such analysis, and to scope the actual consequences of such actions.
Through the use of a survey to be conducted by SIA, participants will be asked to provide responses to questions regarding security enhancement implementation.
Assessment of the
Preparedness of Private Security in Shopping Malls to Address Terrorist
Attack
In partnership with the Police Foundation, this project looks at the degree to which private security is up to the task of protecting the public form terrorist attacks. This study includes a legislative survey of state laws that regulate private security, an interview of state homeland security directors, a mail survey of mall heads of security, and lastly an identification of best practices being employed by mall security.