Security management in organizations

Security management in organizations

In the corporate world, various aspects of security were historically addressed separately - notably by distinct and often noncommunicating departments for IT security, physical security, and fraud prevention. Today there is a greater recognition of the interconnected nature of security requirements an approach variously known as holistic security, "all hazards" management, and other terms.

Inciting factors in the convergence of security disciplines include the development of digital video surveillance technologies (see Professional video over IP) and the digitization and networking of physical control systems (see SCADA).Greater interdisciplinary cooperation is further evidenced by the February 2005 creation of the Alliance for Enterprise Security Risk Management, a joint venture including leading associations in security (ASIS), information security (ISSA, the Information Systems Security Association), and IT audit (ISACA, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association).

In 2007 the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) released ISO 28000 - Security Management Systems for the supply chain. Although the title supply chain is included, this Standard specifies the requirements for a security management system, including those aspects critical to security assurance for any organisation or enterprise wishing to manage the security of the organisation and its activities. ISO 28000 is the foremost risk based security system and is suitable for managing both public and private regulatory security, customs and industry based security schemes and requirements.

Tips For Gaining Your Financial Independence

Tips For Gaining Your Financial Independence

Making enough money is hard for many people in today’s world. Regardless how much you earn, there’s always something you want and you don’t have enough money for. This makes it very easy for some of us to slide on the slippery slope of debt. You should know that there is hope, but you need to be strong and have a good motivation to become financially independent.

Even people who manage to cover their expenses from one paycheck to another may get in trouble when they need to spend an unexpected amount of money fast. For instance, if their car breaks, they need to find the money for fixing it quickly, otherwise they won’t be able to go to their job anymore. 

In situations like the one described above, many people are tempted to take a payday loan or to use their credit card. When the pay day comes, they pay off their debt. So far so good, but this makes them not to have enough money for the whole month. This is how they will be forced to come up with a solution. If the solution is to take another loan, they are caught into the trap of never being able to pay it off and stay clear. 

Late fees and high interest rates bring profit to financial institutions and make loans very difficult to pay back. Even if you pay your credit card minimum each month, you’ll still have a very long way to becoming debt free, because you are mainly paying interest money.

If you want to break this circle, you need to prioritize your debt and pay first those loans with the highest interest rate. Credit card debt and short term loans should be the first to get rid of. If you can take a long term loan for refinancing these more expensive ones, you should do it. This could save you, but you need to be strong and resist the temptation of getting another expensive loan again.

3D security

3D security is a framework promoting development, diplomacy, and defense as security strategies.

For most people, the word security quickly brings to mind the military or the defense department. The 3D security framework recognizes that security challenges like terrorism, nuclear proliferation, global warming, and SARS or Avian Flu epidemics requires a variety of tools in addressing complex threats. These tools can be categorized broadly under the headings of Development, Diplomacy and Defense; the 3Ds of security.

3D security or “whole of government” approaches have been promoted by countries like Canada and the U.K. for a number of years. Now bi-partisan Congressional leaders and the Bush administration promote 3D security as a new vision for rethinking security as detailed in the 2006 National Security Strategy.

Development refers to governmental and nongovernmental (NGO) efforts to build the economic, social, and political foundations of stable communities and societies. Diplomacy refers to communication or negotiation between people to solve shared problems and address conflicts through political and legal channels. Official State Department negotiations (Track I) and unofficial diplomacy (Track II) between religious, business, academic, or other civil society leaders work best on parallel tracks resulting in agreements that are legitimate, widely supported, and sustainable. Defense refers to a wide range of military tasks including waging war, peacekeeping or coordinating disaster response.

Perceived security compared to real security

Perceived security compared to real security

Perception of security may be poorly mapped to measureable objective security. For example, the fear of earthquakes has been reported to be more common than the fear of slipping on the bathroom floor although the latter kills many more people than the former. Similarly, the perceived effectiveness of security measures is sometimes different from the actual security provided by those measures. The presence of security protections may even be taken for security itself. For example, two computer security programs could be interfering with each other and even cancelling each other's effect, while the owner believes s/he is getting double the protection.

Security theater is a critical term for deployment of measures primarily aimed at raising subjective security without a genuine or commensurate concern for the effects of that measure on objective security. For example, some consider the screening of airline passengers based on static databases to have been Security Theater and Computer Assisted Passenger Prescreening System to have created adecrease in objective security.

Perception of security can increase objective security when it affects or deters malicious behavior, as with visual signs of security protections, such as video surveillance, alarm systems in a home, or an anti-theft system in a car such as a vehicle tracking system or warning sign. Since some intruders will decide not to attempt to break into such areas or vehicles, there can actually be less damage to windows in addition to protection of valuable objects inside. Without such advertisement, an intruder might, for example, approach a car, break the window, and then flee in response to an alarm being triggered. Either way, perhaps the car itself and the objects inside aren't stolen, but with perceived security even the windows of the car have a lower chance of being damaged.