A compendium of essential information for the modern security
entrepreneur and practitioner The modern security practitioner has
shifted from a predominantly protective site and assets manager to
a leading contributor to overall organizational resilience.
Accordingly, The Security Consultant's Handbook sets out a holistic
overview of the essential core knowledge, emerging opportunities,
and approaches to corporate thinking that are increasingly demanded
by employers and buyers in the security market. This book provides
essential direction for those who want to succeed in security,
either individually or as part of a team. It also aims to stimulate
some fresh ideas and provide new market routes for security
professionals who may feel that they are underappreciated and
overexerted in traditional business domains. Product overview
Distilling the author's fifteen years' experience as a security
practitioner, and incorporating the results of some fifty
interviews with leading security practitioners and a review of a
wide range of supporting business literature, The Security
Consultant's Handbook provides a wealth of knowledge for the modern
security practitioner, covering: Entrepreneurial practice
(including business intelligence, intellectual property rights,
emerging markets, business funding, and business networking)
Management practice (including the security function's move from
basement to boardroom, fitting security into the wider context of
organizational resilience, security management leadership, adding
value, and professional proficiency) Legislation and regulation
(including relevant UK and international laws such as the Human
Rights Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Geneva
Conventions) Private investigations (including surveillance
techniques, tracing missing people, witness statements and
evidence, and surveillance and the law) Information and
cybersecurity (including why information needs protection,
intelligence and espionage, cybersecurity threats, and mitigation
approaches such as the ISO 27001 standard for information security
management) Protective security (including risk assessment methods,
person-focused threat assessments, protective security roles,
piracy, and firearms) Safer business travel (including government
assistance, safety tips, responding to crime, kidnapping,
protective approaches to travel security and corporate liability)
Personal and organizational resilience (including workplace
initiatives, crisis management, and international standards such as
ISO 22320, ISO 22301 and PAS 200) Featuring case studies,
checklists, and helpful chapter summaries, The Security
Consultant's Handbook aims to be a practical and enabling guide for
security officers and contractors. Its purpose is to plug
information gaps or provoke new ideas, and provide a real-world
support tool for those who want to offer their clients safe,
proportionate, and value-driven security services. About the author
Richard Bingley is a senior lecturer in security and organizational
resilience at Buckinghamshire New University, and co-founder of
CSARN, the popular business security advisory network. He has more
than fifteen years' experience in a range of high-profile security
and communications roles, including as a close protection operative
at London's 2012 Olympics and in Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympic
Games. He is a licensed close protection operative in the UK, and
holds a postgraduate certificate in teaching and learning in higher
education. Richard is the author of two previous books: Arms Trade:
Just the Facts (2003) and Terrorism: Just the Facts (2004).
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