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Consumerization of Commercial Security At home today, your virtual assistant can notify you of today’s weather, top news stories, traffic conditions, and the time it will take to get to your first appointment. The assistant opens your blinds, turns on the kitchen lights, sets your thermostat, and plays your morning music playlist throughout the house. You can see the driveway camera on your TV to check if it has snowed. When you leave for the day, it sets the daytime temperature of the house, turns off the …
Securing The Hydropower Energy Industry The hydropower industry converts energy from flowing water into electricity. Originally used for mechanical millings, such as grinding grains, today’s hydro plants produce electricity with turbines and generators using a dam, reservoir, or flowing river. This natural source of energy encompasses a wide variety of sizes and layouts, often remotely located, geographically large, and difficult to get to and maintain. According to the U.S. Energy Information …
Securing The Petrochemical Industry Today The best way to determine how to meet regulatory requirements is to conduct a thorough risk analysis and any gaps should be analyzed and resolved over time. The organization should work with its security partners and consultants to find technology-based solutions to the security gaps wherever possible. The petrochemical industry produces organic intermediate refinery products such as natural gas, plastic, rubber, and fiber raw materials. While it sometimes gets a …
Securing Renewable Energy Today The U.S. energy infrastructure is the cornerstone of the economy. Without a working energy grid, daily life as we know it would grind to a halt, and both health and welfare would be in danger. That is why securing critical infrastructure is considered a top priority, and is highly regulated, often subject to local and state as well as federal guidelines from organizations such as NERC (North American Reliability Corp.) that govern both physical and cyber security concerns. …
Optimize Your Security Program With An Intelligence Collection Plan (ICP) With the U.S. economy firing on all cylinders, it is a good reason for savvy leaders to think about protecting their key assets from exposure to ever-evolving internal and external security risks. While security leaders can leverage a multitude of robust integrated security solutions that are readily available on the market, some leaders often neglect intelligence collection planning as one of the simplest and most cost-efficient …
How Leveraging Big Data Changes The Perception Of Security Security professionals are challenged by a negative perception that exists in the security industry, and most likely in their organizations. Physical security is often viewed as a cost that is more of a burden to the organization than a benefit. When the security team does its job well, focusing on preventative measures and proactively anticipating incidents, it may appear they are not doing anything because no major incidents are occurring. …
Must-Have Business Skills For A Security Risk Management Program Change is never easy and for many of us who have been in the security industry for a while, our comfort zone is in the “nuts and bolts” of our day-to-day tactics. We know our details. The risk management approach to business decision-making is a popular topic for business executives, and certainly, something that looks like it will stick around. How should the security industry get on board with the risk-based approach to managing our …
The Top 5 Reasons Why Your Security Program Needs Intelligence Personnel During the past decade, many corporate security divisions have made tremendous strides to evolve as a key component of their company's organizational strategy and growth. Whether a company's security program is in-house, outsourced, or a hybrid of both, the leading global security executives and decision-makers are acutely aware of how to effectively leverage the resource capabilities of intelligence professionals within their …
Rebooting Your Security Program Businesses across the globe face all kinds of risks daily, and these risks are constantly evolving. That’s why we’re always seeking to improve the solutions we offer and challenge our clients to look at things differently. At Allied Universal, we have a security risk management model that helps businesses to build, customize and develop security programs that are ideally suited to their individual needs and environments, whether it’s critical energy infrastructure, a bank, …
Why Moving To A Risk-Based Approach Helps Business Today’s security leaders encounter many challenges. They have to operate with reduced budgets and face challenging and evolving risks daily. Security leaders are often ignored and only called upon when needed or in disaster situations. Many don’t have an ongoing relationship with the C-suite because the C-suite doesn’t understand the value they bring to the whole business. To resolve these challenges, a security leader can apply a risk-based approach …
