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Security Design 101: Best Practices on Complex Design Elements

Designing and implementing an efficient security solution is a process that demands meticulous planning, coordination, and execution. By using a systematic approach, organizations can tailor security infrastructure to meet their unique needs.
Effective security designs involving multiple systems, process engineering, or complex integrations require an organized, cross-functional approach. By following best practices rooted both in technical and governance approaches, these design projects can result in successful deployments.

Using ESRM to Gain a Seat at the Table

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Where We Are Now: A Retrospective on Event and Stadium Security

While every event may be different, and venues certainly don’t all look the same, the precautions and steps we take to ensure safety and security have shifted dramatically in recent years.

How Your Influence Can Help or Hinder ESRM Maturity

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

The Critical Role of the Site Survey

Site surveys are the foundation of every successful physical security system—from planning, design, installation, and system documentation to life-cycle maintenance. To avoid a burdensome process, consider these best practices for the best process.

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Where We Are Now: A Retrospective on Event and Stadium Security

An Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Primer for Security Practitioners

Each organization’s priorities around ESG will be different. Before security directors get involved, they should gain further understanding of their company’s goal.

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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.

Alan Greggo, CPP, explains how situational leadership principles can help shape your workforce development and mentoring approach for each individual in your organization. Also in this episode of SM Highlights, learn about how to establish a clearer, more effective project management process for security system design with Mohammed Shehzad and John Hall. And Michael Bacon, CPP, joins SM Highlights host Brendan Howard to discuss the critical role of ethics in security management—and life overall.

Crisis Intervention: A Stabilizing Force

As crises continue to rise, communities are coming together to craft crisis intervention teams and programs to address them in a more holistic manner.

How to Shore Up Personal Resilience Against Vicarious Trauma

Repeated exposure to traumatic incidents, stories, and news can lower a security professional’s resilience to stressors and can cumulatively result in vicarious or secondary trauma.

How to Build a Trauma-Informed Workplace

Given the ubiquity of trauma in the world, some experts are calling on employers to develop “trauma-informed” workplaces. As a result, a number of training programs have popped up to help organizations through the storms.

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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