From Corporate Security to Commercial Force

A Business Leader's Guide to Security Economics

Marko Cabric

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780128051498
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128051504
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Information Management
• Index: Business

From Corporate Security to Commercial Force: A Business Leader's Guide to Security Economics addresses important issues, such as understanding security related costs, the financial advantages of security, running an efficient security organization, and measuring the impact of incidents and losses. The book guides readers in identifying, understanding, quantifying, and measuring the direct and economic benefits of security for a business, its processes, products, and consequently, profits. It quantifies the security function and explains the never-before analyzed tangible advantages of security for core business processes. Topics go far beyond simply proving that security is an expense for a company by providing business leaders and sales and marketing professionals with actual tools that can be used for advertising products, improving core services, generating sales, and increasing profits. - Highlights and offers insight on issues such as the role of security in advertising and its actual marketing appeal and sales potential - Features tools that can be implemented by readers in order to improve key business processes - Offers advice for improving key business processes, improving the reputation of the company, the marketing appeal of products, (or services) and helping to increase sales

Index

A

Absolute metrics, 74–75

Access control system, 189–193

convenience, 188

cost control, 189

electronic key cards, 190

safety, 188–189

time and attendance, 189

Actual index, 180

Advertising

personalized, 194, 196–197

security improvements, 152–153, 153

as target hardening tool, 155–156

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), 22

Always Be Selling (ABS) principle, 123–124

Armed robberies of cigarettes, 163–164

Asymmetric dominance, 147–148

ATM skimming, 146

Availability of information security, 73

quantification of, 79–80

B

Bad investment versus risk, 44–45

Bank

loans to service providers, 124

of talents, 140–141

Barcodes, RFID technology in, 196–197

Basic human needs, Maslow Pyramid of, 151–152

Blueprint of loss, 65

Board of Directors, 95–96

Bonding, 204–205

Brand equity, 147–148

Brand integrity, 63

Budget(ing), 91–92, 207

cataloging services and cost, 91–92

exercises, 109–110

formula, 79

Business, 12–13

context, security concept and, 75

expenses, 102–103

leadership, 88

Business Acumen, 35–36

Business Analytics, 187

Business Continuity Management (BCM), 30, 32–33, 71–72

limits of, 136–137

resilience versus, 133–134, 134, 136–137

C

Capital Expenditure (CAPEX), 103

Capital expenses, 104

Centralized Model of Corporate Governance, 108–109

Chief Executive Officer (CEO), 95–96, 105–106

Chief Information Officer (CIO), 89–90, 95–96

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), 81, 89–90, 93, 93, 95–96

Chief Security Officer (CSO), 29, 31, 93, 112, 173, 184–185

CIA triad, 71

Commercial mindset versus protection strategies, 105–106

position of security based on expenses type, 105

strategic planning, in quick-win commercial culture, 106

Commercial security, historical perspective of, 1

Communication, 98, 212

measurement of, 180–181

resilience, 141

vertical, 98

Competition, 156

Compliance, 47

Confidential customer data, 78

Confidentiality, 72

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Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication and Appreciation
• About the Author
• Introduction
• Section I: Conceptualize
• Section II: Reevaluate
• Section III: Organize
• Section IV: Utilize
• Section V: Embrace
• Index