Security Risk Management

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[pic] PREVAIL CORPORATION Security/Risk Management Course Lesson 1: Introduction to Security Management 1.1 Security Context for International Security Managers Security staffs are dedicated to protecting and assisting those who need security to protect their business, company, staff, property, family and themselves from many different security problems. Owners and managers of these companies now recognize the need to protect the public, their own staff and their property from security threats. Throughout the world the public, business and staffs are at risk of becoming the subject of the next news story as a victim. The perception of this danger has become amplified through the news media, resulting in heightened fear of the dangers involved. Please answer the Question: What examples of security incidents have you heard of, or experienced in the last three years? Please give 3 examples. 1.2 Recent Trends in Security protection International focus on security grew throughout the 1990s. Increasingly since the 1990s, organizations are viewing security management as an integral part of their operations and one of the core competencies of owners, managers and staff of business. Security trends in the 1990s Attacks on public and business have become more frequent starting in the 1990s. This is attributed to a number of factors, including the following: • Increasingly unstable working environments. • Proliferation of irregular, non-state actors: warlords and rebel groups or armed militias, often with little discipline or respect for the norms of armed conflict. • Increasing politicization of companies, with agencies no longer being perceived as neutral by all parties. • Proliferation of arms. • Increasing pressure on agencies to meet business expectations, even in the face of increasing security threats, due in part to advances in mass
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