
Discovering the Total Cost of Security to the Enterprise
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Key Features
- The 29-minute, visual PowerPoint presentation with audio narration format is excellent for group learning
- Discusses the trends in certain industries where variable and operating costs have been on the rise
- Includes case studies and examples to illustrate the differences between the three key elements of the total cost of security
Readership
Mid- to upper-level security executives and others with security program oversight; business executives and managers; educators who need instructional resources for their use in corporate training programs or in the classroom
Table of Contents
Enterprise Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
Defining Total Cost
Defining the Operating Cost of Security
Defining the Variable Cost of Security
Operating Costs vs. Variable Costs
Finding the Total Cost of Security Programs
Security Total Costs by Sector
Mandatory Spend vs. Discretionary Spend
Chief Security Officer Management Trends
Critical Next Steps for the Chief Security Officer
Product details
- No. of pages: 10
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2014
- Published: September 2, 2014
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128009215
About the Author
Richard Lefler

Prior to joining American Express, Lefler was deputy special agent in charge of the U.S. Secret Service’s New York office. His 20-year career at the Service included assignments as special agent in charge of protective operations, special agent in charge of the Honolulu office (Far East), and investigative and protective assignments in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. In the nation’s capitol, Lefler’s protective assignments included the Presidential Protective Division and the Vice Presidential Protective Division. He retired from the Secret Service as a member of the senior executive service.
Lefler received his undergraduate degree from the California State University, Los Angeles. He attended the Federal Executive Institute (Charlottesville, Va.), for Executive Education Program and the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Program for Senior Managers in Government at Harvard University. He also completed the majority of work towards a master’s degree in public administration at Baruch College in New York.
Lefler is a past president of the International Security Management Association (ISMA) and served on the board of directors for several years. He was a member of the advisory board for the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators, and is a former member of the State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Committee.
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