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Author: George Campbell
ISBN No: 97801-2800-688-7
Review date: 25/06/2026
No of pages: 174
Publisher: Elsevier
Publisher URL:
https://www.elsevier.com
Year of publication: 06/08/2014
Brief:
Measures and Metrics in Corporate Security, by George Campbell
price
£45.74
How to measure security? Metrics, in a word. A quite brief book, Measures and Metrics in Corporate Security, suggests that the chief security officer (CSO) ‘should have half a dozen dials that are watched on a regular basis’. The American author George Campbell describes such ‘survival metrics’ – survival in your job, he means – as ‘the hot buttons that you are expected to address’. If you work in a bank, those ‘buttons’ may concern IT resilience. If your business works in hostile parts, your metric may be about number and type of violent incidents. A head of security may already do this, automatically – take most care over the things that keep him awake at night (and that might do him out of a job, if they go wrong). Think SMART – metrics as specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely. This book is snappy – ‘if you are not measuring, you are not managing’ – and sets out how metrics (and workplaces do have data) are a part of doing business, not just security. A good half of the book is given over to examples – that you can lift?! Recommended reading.
