Author: Paul R Baker and Daniel J Benny
ISBN No: 9781 420 099 638
Review date: 15/04/2026
No of pages: 360
Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Publisher URL:
http://www.crcpress.com
Year of publication: 25/02/2013
Brief:
The Complete Guide to Physical Security
The title of The Complete Guide to Physical Security, if anything, under-sells the book, writes Mark Rowe.
If you take physical security to be gates, grilles, fences, safes and locks, different from electronic security, this book is more than a guide to physical security as it covers CCTV, biometrics and, towards the end, plans, foresight and leadership. It looks like a complete guide to security management. The other quibble – hardly the fault of the two US authors writing for a mainly North American market – is that the book draws on US examples and laws. That said, there is much to enjoy and learn from in this book. Particularly welcome are the chapter on data centre protection, such places often overlooked as unglamorous; and โsecurity mater planโ, appreciating that security professionals have to bring risks to the attention of executives in an engaging way – not the same as a site security assessment. Not the least thing you can learn from this book that physical security is not merely about pieces of metal and plastic, but attitudes towards your guardforce, colleagues and customers.
