What It's All About

This book is about making your security program work better. It is as simple as that. If you have a really good program now, we're going to try to help you make it even better perhaps with a little (or a lot) less cost and effort. If you have a program that needs fixing, we'll give you some ideas on how to do that, minus the wheel spinning we've all seen and probably experienced. What sort of security programs are we talking about? All kinds: air transport security, information systems security, retail security, security in the health care and hospitality industries, security of government classified information, security programs that address the protection of trade secrets and proprietary information, security in industrial environments, and any other kind you can think of.

How can we hope to cover all these widely varied security programs in one slim book? Simply because they all have one critical element in common. Every type of security program you can name is ultimately dependent on people to make it work. And that's what this book is about: people. We're going to be looking at ways to get the active participation of people in and around your organization to make your security program work. And we mean all sorts of people, not just your security staff and security force. They're vitally important to the success of your program, all right. But we need to look beyond them, too, to recruit people throughout the...