Learn to measure risk and develop a plan to protect employees and company interests by applying the advice and tools in Risk and Security Management: Protecting People and Sites Worldwide. In a world concerned with global terrorism, instability of emerging markets, and hazardous commercial operations, this book shines as a relevant and timely text with a plan you can easily apply to your organization. Find a series of strategic to granular level policies, systems, and concepts which identify and address risk, enabling business to occur in a manner which best protects you and your company.
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"It is, in fact, a relevant and timely book that provides practical instruction regarding the need to assess risk and implement protection of a company's assets to safeguard its people and facilities. What sets this book above others on its topic is its emphasis on programs that avoid the waste of time, effort, and resources." (Bookviews.com, October 2008)
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Protecting People and Sites Worldwide
Whether companies face challenges supporting USAID programs in Pakistan or Kosovo; seek to conduct health projects for DFID in Nigeria or Sudan; support reconstruction, development, or hydrocarbon initiatives in Afghanistan and Iraq; operate commercial enterprises in crime-ridden regions of Mexico and Kazakhstan; or are entering new and uncertain market regions such as Libya, Risk and Security Management: Protecting People and Sites Worldwide presents security experts and other professionals with guidance in understanding how risk management and security services can best be used to enable businesses to flow seamlessly and productively, even under the most challenging conditions.
Informed by the author's eighteen years of professional experience in this arena, Risk and Security Management reveals the fundamentals of risk consultancy and security management for the domestic and global security professional. It offers the essential tools needed to assess risk and manage security services for a company.
Filled with concepts, frameworks, and observations to make for more efficient and effective risk and security management, this practical book:
Captures how companies and their vendors can develop relationships, understanding, and quality assurance to better support the management of risk
Provides a premise for understanding business activities, which can then be placed into a risk management and security services context
Supports both companies and vendors in maximizing organic resources
Presents a framework for ensuring that business continuity is achieved through the protection of people, resources, and reputation
Discusses insights into the scope of risk that many companies face in varying degrees
Explains the unique service of risk consulting
Demonstrates how the alignment of business and security project management is critical for activities to succeed within any business environment
As corporations seek to grow and increase value, they move into areas of the world that are considered perilous or uncertain, requiring guidance on recognizing the various risks involved with a new business enterprise, as well as how to secure their physical space and personnel. Risk and Security Management provides that guidance.
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I was slightly taken aback by the price of the book, however the combination of specialized subject matter and potential value of the information (the security industry is well known as a lucrative endeavor) outweighed any hesitations I had.
When the book arrived in the mail I was instantly pleased with my decision to purchase it. Mike Blyth's Risk and Security Management is an exhaustive study of the modern security industry - focusing on the how. It is not an abstract or academic review of modern security contracting peppered with political opinion. This is a professional reference manual for those both operating in the field and developing the proposals to get business started. Having worked in numerous angles of this industry, I was instantly impressed with the book's layout, which contains chapters that run the gamut of the security industry: from US government contract language, to the conduct and reporting of vulnerability assessments. I'm especially pleased to see Mike's recommendations on handling non-kinetic security concerns, to include information operations, public relations and corporate reputation. True to its title, this book is a comprehensive study of risk and security. I highly recommend this book and I personally feel it deserves a space on any professional/tactical library of those working in the private security industry. I also recommend this book for those operators working on the deck plate levels (PSD, analytical, etc) of the security industry, as well as for those in corporate risk management. This book is one of those rare opportunities for those in our industry to own a well researched tome of information and insight specifically targeted to those in our profession.
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This exemplary volume presents a comprehensive view of all the relevant topics for any organization operating in environments where security is a concern. In a world where increasingly larger amounts of business are being conducted in "non-traditional" regions, this book is imperative for developing a concrete understanding on how to mitigate the threats that these regions present.
Readers of this book will find that risk management solutions are scalable to the level of threat that each organization faces. Readers will also be forced to acknowledge that the short-term costs of appropriate risk management solutions will help to significantly decrease the long-term costs should such measures not be taken. In short, this volume is nothing short of indispensible for the increasingly globalized economy.
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I have found this book to be very informative and a must read for those tasked with mitigating the risk whether that's working at home base or in challenging, high risk environments.
In today's world a crisis or incident can occur at anytime and in any place whether from a criminal act, terrorist incident or natural disaster. As new opportunities open up, companies will enter into new operating environments, or expand existing operations both at home and overseas, a combination of operational and business risk management needs to occur in order to consider the benefits of a new enterprise against the possible threats market entry or expansion may present to the organization. Challenges to companies may come in many forms, whether they affect brand image and reputation, liability exposure, business and operational productivity, threats to personnel or materials, or investor, management and employee confidence. This book will help steer you through that process and whilst it can only be used as a guide it will offer a course of action and practical solutions through which companies and individual managers and consultants tasked with the responsibility of mitigating that risk. I now have at hand a book that I can use as a good reference tool for my business and I would highly recommend it to my colleagues and business associates.
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