ASIS Standards and Guidelines - Published
ASIS Standards and Guidelines - Published
Standards contact: standards@asisonline.org
Designed as a tool to allow an organization to decide upon and provide a security architecture characterized by appropriate awareness, prevention, preparedness, and response to changes in threat conditions. Standard is structured at a high level. Specific considerations and responses are also addressed for consideration by individual organizations based on specific risk assessment and requirements.
Based on the PDCA model it provides steps necessary to prevent, prepare for and respond to a disruptive incident to manage and survive the event and take actions to ensure the organization's resilience. Provides generic auditable criteria to establish, check, maintain, and improve a management system to enhance prevention, preparedness (readiness), mitigation, response and recovery from disruptive incidents. Annex provides informative guidance on system planning, implementation, testing, maintenance and improvement.
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Guidelines contact: guidelines@asisonline.org
A guideline outlining a series of interrelated processes and activities, including readiness, prevention, response, recovery/resumption, testing and training, and evaluation and maintenance, that will assist in creating, assessing, and sustaining a comprehensive plan for use in the event of a crisis that threatens the viability and continuity of an organization.
Addresses the key responsibilities and accountabilities, skills and competencies, and qualifications for an organization's senior security executive.
Assists in the selection of appropriate physical security measures including defining risk levels, implementing an integrated set of physical security measures, and devising policies and procedures related to security incidents, access control, monitoring systems, lighting, security personnel, audits and inspection, etc.
Provides a seven-step process that creates a methodology by which security risks at a specific location can be identified and communicated, along with appropriate solutions.
The current version of the General Security Risk Assessment Guideline is under review, and further revision is awaiting finalization of the ISO Risk Management standard to assure consistency with relevant documents and standards. Please revisit the ASIS International website for future updates.
Offers general protection advice (collection, storage, dissemination, and destruction) for an entity's information assets, including proprietary, classified, and marketing materials, etc.
Aids employers in understanding and implementing the fundamental concepts, methodologies, and related legal issues associated with the preemployment background screening of job applicants.
Sets forth minimum criteria for the selection and training of private security officers, which also may be used to provide regulating bodies with consistent minimum qualifications.
Provides private business and industry with possible actions that could be implemented based on the Alert Levels of the Department of Homeland Security.
Offers useful ways to maintain a safe and secure work environment through such means as identifying, evaluating, and controlling potential hazards and conducting employee informational training.
