Author: Edited by George Campbell
ISBN No: 978-0-12-800062-5
Review date: 11/12/2025
No of pages: 296
Publisher: Elsevier
Publisher URL:
https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-managers-handbook-for-business-security/campbell/978-0-12-800062-5
Year of publication: 18/07/2014
Brief:
Manager’s Handbook for Business Security
price
£45.74
If you want one book to help you go into a new place and shake up the security in a businesslike way, The Manager’s Handbook for Business Security is your go-to book (to use a business phrase).
The reader aimed at is someone, maybe not even from Security, who is seeking best practice, to put into action. The reader, then, is as likely to have to deal with a security team as the board or non-security managers, who maybe have ‘potentially long-held bias from a prior incident that left a bad taste’. From the start the book is savvy – everybody has their own agenda about security. What are you going to do about the things that keep directors, insurers, regulators, awake at night? How can you ‘protect the brand’; add value? This book takes you through the business case for ‘crafting a measurably effective security program’. Chapters cover leadership (how to influence others, such as the legal and marketing people inside the business), risk assessment, selling the ‘security program’ to the business, information and physical security, how to raise awareness (and of what), resilience, good conduct (or ‘corporate hygiene’), the supply chain, and last but definitely not least metrics. Whole books have been devoted rightly to subjects that the authors whizz through in ten pages or fewer, such as ‘safe and secure workplaces’. That is no criticism; there’s simply so much to do, to push through change, to make security in an organisation professional, so that when an emergency or data theft happens, it’s tackled, and lessons are learned. The book ably sets out how the head of security management has to be a manager besides a security figure; and has to build a team, communicate well, and anticipate. Highly, highly recommended for the reader who aspires to be a chief security officer, or is in corporate security already and wants to brush up.
Chapter 1: Understanding the Business of Security
Chapter 2: Security Leadership – Establishing Yourself and Moving the Program Forward
Chapter 3: Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Chapter 4: Strategic Security Planning
Chapter 5: Marketing the Security Program to the Business
Chapter 6: Organizational Models
Chapter 7: Regulations, Guidelines, and Standards
Chapter 8: Information Security
Chapter 9: Physical Security and First Response
Chapter 10: Security Training and Education
Chapter 11: Communication and Awareness Programs
Chapter 12: Safe and Secure Workplaces
Chapter 13: Business Conduct
Chapter 14: Business Resiliency
Chapter 15: Securing Your Supply Chain
Chapter 16: Security Measures and Metrics
Chapter 17: Continuous Learning – Addressing Risk with After-Action Reviews.
