Goals and Objectives for a Security Organization

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After the incident of 9/11, many of the organizations consider security as its higher priority. The singularly most important and conspicuous purpose of the security is that of protector or guardian. Security is a service function with a tremendous impact but it is difficult to measure or quantify the security values. Therefore, the impact of security can be determined more appropriately by what does not happen rather than what does (Sennewald, 2003). As a function within the organization, security can be defined as the public or private service related activity that provide personnel and equipment and creates policies and procedures designed to prevent and reduce losses caused by the criminal actions as well as non-criminal events that occur due to human error, emergencies, man- made and natural disaster etc. The main purpose and goal of the security programs are to provide protection. It helps the organizations and government to identify the possible threats. Security involves the use of criminal and civil law, investigation, business management, policy formulation, psychology, sociology, and technology to protect the person and property. The security programs focuses on diverse areas such as frauds, disaster recovery and business continuity, energy management, fire prevention and protection, Internet and information protection, executive protection, counter terrorism, business intelligence and workplace violence prevention. The goals of security programs are also to access control, patrol activities and provide security education. Security is involved and interacts with every aspect of personal, organizational and group life. Individual strive to be save and secure. Private business and corporation seek to prevent loss and protect property and human assets and security programs provide them protection by implementing a well- planned program according

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