Contemporary Security Management

Contemporary Security Management, 3^rd Edition teaches security professionals how to operate an efficient security department and how to integrate smoothly with other groups inside and outside their own organizations. Fay demonstrates the specifics of security management:
• how to organize, plan, develop and manage a security operation.
• how to identify vulnerabilities.
• how to determine the protective resources required to offset threats.
• how to implement all necessary physical and IT security measures. Security professionals share the responsibility for mitigating damage, serving as a resource to an Emergency Tactical Center, assisting the return of business continuity, and liaising with local response agencies such as police and fire departments, emergency medical responders, and emergency warning centers. At the organizational level, the book addresses budgeting, employee performance, counseling, hiring and termination, employee theft and other misconduct, and offers sound advice on building constructive relationships with organizational peers and company management.

• Comprehensive introduction to security and IT security management principles
• Discussion of both public and private sector roles, as well as the increasingly common privatizing of government functions
• New experience-based exercises to sharpen security management and strategic skills and reinforce the content of each chapter
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Contemporary Security Management serves as an indispensable working tool for students and security professionals at all levels of experience. It is designed to provide the hard facts on modern practices to efficiently and effectively run a security department and covers such vital topics as: leadership in management, employee relations, risk management and mitigation, terrorism, information security, access control, investigations, substance abuse, workplace violence and emergency management. New topics covered include terrorism and the new government mandate to perform standard vulnerability assessments for various industries. Offers an experience-proven, practical approach to the business of security
* Includes case studies throughout the text provide real-world examples and solutions to management issues.
* Contains samples of security plans and procedures, checklists, diagrams and illustrations aid in explaining a wide range of critical concept

Contemporary Security Management, 3^rd Edition teaches security professionals how to operate an efficient security department and how to integrate smoothly with other groups inside and outside their own organizations. Fay demonstrates the specifics of security management—how to organize, plan, develop and manage a security operation, as well as how to identify vulnerabilities and determine the protective resources required to offset threats.

Security professionals share the responsibility for mitigating damage, assisting the return of business continuity, and liaising with local response agencies such as police and fire departments, and emergency responders. At the organizational level, the book addresses budgeting and personnel issues, and offers sound advice on building constructive relationships with organizational peers and company management.

Mr. Fay was a special agent of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) and later the Director of the National Crime Prevention Institute at the University of Louisville. He has held security management positions in the petroleum industry while teaching at the university level. He holds the Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hawaii, and is a well-known and respected author of many books, including Butterworth's Security Dictionary: Terms and Concepts, Drug Testing, Encyclopedia of Security Management: Techniques and Technology, and Model Security Policies, Plans, and Procedures, all by Butterworth-Heinemann.Was a special agent of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) and later the Director of the National Crime Prevention Institute. Former manager of security for British Petroleum's operations in the Gulf of Mexico. He was previously an adjunct professor at the University of North Florida and the University of Houston.