Contemporary Security Management

Contemporary Security Management

3rd Edition - November 8, 2010

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  • Author: John Fay
  • Hardcover ISBN: 9780123815491
  • eBook ISBN: 9780123819512

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Contemporary Security Management, Third Edition teaches security professionals how to operate an efficient security department and how to integrate smoothly with other groups inside and outside their own organizations. Fay demonstrates the specifics of security management: how to organize, plan, develop and manage a security operation. how to identify vulnerabilities. how to determine the protective resources required to offset threats. how to implement all necessary physical and IT security measures. Security professionals share the responsibility for mitigating damage, serving as a resource to an Emergency Tactical Center, assisting the return of business continuity, and liaising with local response agencies such as police and fire departments, emergency medical responders, and emergency warning centers. At the organizational level, the book addresses budgeting, employee performance, counseling, hiring and termination, employee theft and other misconduct, and offers sound advice on building constructive relationships with organizational peers and company management.

Key Features

  • Comprehensive introduction to security and IT security management principles
  • Discussion of both public and private sector roles, as well as the increasingly common privatizing of government functions
  • New experience-based exercises to sharpen security management and strategic skills and reinforce the content of each chapter

Readership

Professional security managers already in the workforce and students in security management programs at universities and online

Table of Contents

  • 1. Historical Roots
    2. Organizing
    3. Managing People
    4. Leadership and Management Skills
    5. Strategy
    6. Budget Management
    7. Managing Change
    8. Making Decisions
    9. Managing Risk
    10. Managing Guard Operations
    11. Managing Physical Security
    12. Managing Access Control
    13. Managing Investigations
    14. Pre-employment Screening
    15. Emergency Management
    16. Business Continuity Planning
    17. Information Security
    18. Substance Abuse Prevention
    19. Executive Protection
    20. Workplace Violence
    21. Employee Awareness
    22. Security Vulnerability Assessment
    23. Security System Design
    24. Homeland Security
    25. The Critical National Infrastructure

Product details

  • No. of pages: 480
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2010
  • Published: November 8, 2010
  • Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
  • Hardcover ISBN: 9780123815491
  • eBook ISBN: 9780123819512

About the Author

John Fay

Mr. Fay was a special agent of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) and later the Director of the National Crime Prevention Institute at the University of Louisville. He has held security management positions in the petroleum industry while teaching at the university level. He holds the Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hawaii, and is a well-known and respected author of many books, including Butterworth's Security Dictionary: Terms and Concepts, Drug Testing, Encyclopedia of Security Management: Techniques and Technology, and Model Security Policies, Plans, and Procedures, all by Butterworth-Heinemann.Was a special agent of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) and later the Director of the National Crime Prevention Institute. Former manager of security for British Petroleum's operations in the Gulf of Mexico. He was previously an adjunct professor at the University of North Florida and the University of Houston.

Affiliations and Expertise

former Director of National Crime Prevention Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA

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