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The Perils of Benchmarking: Why Corporate Security Programs Are Radically Different

Corporate security programs are as diverse as the corporations they serve. Each company, with its unique history, structure, and evolving needs, develops its security function in a distinct way. This inherent uniqueness poses significant challenges when attempting to benchmark one corporate security program against another.

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Leading During Turbulent Times

Turbulent times often bring uncertainty, chaos, and challenges, marked by rapid change, instability, or conflict. During such periods, leaders must adapt their approaches to navigate effectively. Consider the following to amplify leadership impact and augment decision-making during unsettled times.

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Building a Comprehensive Security Governance Framework for Today's Businesses

Good security governance provides a structural, reliable, and consistent approach to managing security risks. A framework for security governance drives adherence to corporate security programs and reduces external risk by ensuring compliance with company standards and policies.

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SEC's Business Intelligence and Innovation Lab Now Open

Risk-focused, actionable analysis will help corporate security see around corners.

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New Developments in Proactive Loss and Anomaly Detection

Companies lose money in a diversity of ways, but whether the loss is via theft, fraud, poor management, or error, the longer it takes to detect it, the more costly it will be. This summary of a Security State of the Industry meeting discusses tools and techniques of proactive loss detection.

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You Are Here: How Knowing Where You Are Can Help Get You Where You’re Going

Understanding your current conditions, culture, circumstances, and resources helps you to make the right choices for your situation, so you can find the combination of security elements that will best serve you.

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Universe Assessment Identifies Gaps and Opportunities

At the Security Executive Council's May 2022 State of the Security Industry (SSOI) Briefing, SEC staff and faculty led participating Tier 1 security leaders through the new Security Success Universe Assessment, designed to help them identify gaps, find credible organizational partners, and enhance security offerings to fit the needs of their organizations.

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Strategic Planning: Security Program Life Cycle

The following is an abbreviated portion of the Security Executive Council's strategic planning process. The process represents a compilation of methods we have use successfully with several companies.

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Faculty Advisor: Enterprise-Wide Collaboration to Minimize Impact of Activist Events

Q. We want to develop an action plan for dealing with activist groups. Can you provide pointers for evaluating and disseminating strategies that would minimize disruption and promote a safe environment during this type of activity or event?

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Faculty Advisor: Time Utilization and Staffing Capacity Analysis

My company is in the midst of a reduction in force, and security is one of many areas being required to provide senior management with an analysis of time, cost of services and programs, and staff utilization. What is the most effective way to approach this exercise, keeping in mind that the goal is to maintain our current level of full-time equivalents?

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Security Barometer: Is COVID-19 Putting Your Budget or Team at Risk for Reductions?

If Security cannot contribute like they have in the past due to stagnation of certain business activities - will this result in cuts?

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How Firm is Your Security Foundation

Assessing these eight elements can help you ensure that your strongest programs aren't undermined by a weak foundation.

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Reimagine Risk and Security: Evolving Beyond COVID

If we want to adapt to an uncertain future, we first must look at what we’re doing now, why and how we’re doing it, and then examine whether that model matches the reality we are facing.

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Why Security Needs to Understand Digital Transformation: A Primer

Security cannot ignore that their customers expect transactional experiences to be easy, fast and reliable.

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Streamlining Security Programs from the Start

Beginning a new project or starting a new program can feel like an exercise in futility at the beginning. Here is how to quickly get everyone on the same page.

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When Your Security Proposals Keep Hitting a Wall, Try Looking at Your Security Service Delivery Model

Sometimes the service delivery model can be a leading indicator as to why your ideas for enhancing security are not being funded by executive management.

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Budget, Staffing, Accountability: How Can a Service Technology Roadmap Help?

Let's focus now on some specific situations in which a technology roadmap can help an organization.

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Faculty Advisor: Current Challenges Security Leaders are Facing

One of the most frequent questions we’re asked is what are the challenges or hot issues leading CSOs we work with are encountering?

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Responding to a Changing Risk Picture in an Economic Downturn

Security leaders need to proactively address the business changes.

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Forces of Change: What's on Senior Management's Radar and the Potential Impact on Your Security Strategy

We've tracked a few trends of executive interest that are likely to come up in board meetings and hallway conversations. If you're not ready to talk about your response to these issues, now is a good time to examine them.

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Dealing with Security Budget Challenges

There are many ways to deal with the never-ending challenges of reduced resources. Doing more with less is the norm, not the exception.

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Economic Espionage and the Growing Case for Corporate Counterintelligence

The theft of information and intelligence is increasingly gathered on U,S, companies by foreign entities that use the results for a variety of different type of what is now called economic espionage.

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Managing and Defending a Security Budget: Laying a Foundation

This article provides valuable insight for corporate security leaders on how to strategically address budget issues.

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Strategic Master Plan for Corporate Security and KPIs

This chart lists some of the main steps the SEC has identified for obtaining a more comprehensive view of the organization.

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The OPaL+ Assessment Executive Summary

There are three main factors and two cultural attributes that play a role in the success of enhancing or moving programs ahead in any given organization. These form the OPaL+ acronym.

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Is it Time for a Corporate Security Maturity Assessment?

The benefits that can be achieved from Capability Maturity Models are not just for IT security.

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Faculty Advisor: Are You Providing Security Services or a Comprehensive Program?

We feel we provide a multitude of security services to our organization. Senior management wants us to demonstrate we are not just providing ad hoc services but have an evolved program. Any ideas on how we approach this?

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Making the Case for an Operational Risk Leadership Advisory Council

We find that, despite best intentions, enterprise risk management often fails. Risk mitigation assurance requires that we get beyond one-dimensional, compliance-only, enterprise risk "list" management.

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Security’s Role in Corporate Social Responsibility

The Security Executive Council has noticed an uptick in the number of security executives being asked to run corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs for their organizations.

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Emerging Issue Awareness

Emerging issue awareness means something different in every company and industry, and upper management is looking for it now more than ever.

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Defending Your Budget

A major challenge for security leaders is how to keep the security department functioning effectively as it becomes leaner.

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Faculty Advisor: Benefits and Risks of Using Security Frameworks

We are trying to find a good security framework to manage our security program. Any thoughts?

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Faculty Advisor: The Pros and Cons of Managing a Consolidated Security Budget

I may have an opportunity to consolidate security costs for our site locations and international regions into one single budget for which I would have oversight. What are the pros and cons of doing this and, in your opinion, should I?

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