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How Your Influence Can Help or Hinder ESRM Maturity

The enterprise security risk management (ESRM) approach, though, flips that script by putting operational decisions about how to mitigate or accept risk in the hands of the asset owner and positioning the security leader as more of an internal consultant who can guide decisions that meet the asset owner’s needs and enable the business.

There’s a catch-22 in ESRM though: ESRM increases security’s influence in the organization, but security leaders need influence in order to advocate for an ESRM approach to risk management.

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Training Pre- and Post-Boston: How the Bombing Affected Event Security Training

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How Mature is Your ESRM Program?

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Security Technology: Smartphones for Smarter Security

More than 86 percent of the world’s population has a smartphone. These pocket computers continue to change the way people work, socialize, and interact with their closest connections. Security practitioners are no exception, relying on mobile devices for authentication purposes, access control, and to conduct day-to-day tasks to move their organizations forward. In the August issue of Security Technology, contributors share the benefits of incorporating mobile devices into an organization’s security posture alongside practices for managing the risks this technology exposes users to.

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Dave Benson

Senior advisor for threat mitigation and global operations, Center for Personal Protection Safety (CPPS)

“The reality is that it does not have to be a high-profile, highly politically charged episode. You don't have to do anything wrong to run afoul of this. I think it’s important to talk about what are some of the pitfalls, specifically, for where you go in the world. Each region is a little different; each country is different.”

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A.M. Bobby Brumfield

Managing partner, Leonum Advisors

“The only way you can find out how the organization communicates is to bring people to the table, let them know what the overall goal is, and then get their input on how we make that happen.”

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Erik Antons, CPP, PSP

Chief Security Officer, Whirlpool Corp.

“Technical security standardization can provide significant economic advantages as well. By selecting one or a limited range of products for your enterprise, you can become masters of support rather than generalists with a wider range of products.”

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Adrien Ogée

Chief operations officer, CyberPeace Institute

“(Nonprofits) collect, process, transfer, and house a lot of sensitive data about their activities and the vulnerable communities they protect—think of migrants, political activists, dissidents—and they raise funds.”

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Guy Bliesner

Founding member, Idaho Office of School Safety and Security

“Most security practices and convenience are polar opposites. As applied to a school environment, remember that educators are already overtasked. Any process or procedure perceived to make a teacher’s mission more difficult will engender substantial opposition.”

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Hans Fah

Crisis and security practitioner

“While catastrophic natural disasters have direct and overt impacts, such events often trigger a cascade of second or third order impacts which manifest in ways that are hard to predict.”

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