Security Planning and Assessment

Running head : SECURITY PLANNING

Abstract

Our work aims to make clear relations between security management and security planning . It gives definition of security management organization asset , risk factors . It also provides recommendations about security arrangements and data protection in organizations

Security management is important kind of activities . It binds together to asset management and physical security . Human resource safety functions also belong to its competence . Security managers protect telecommunications systems from unauthorized access . They control and create security services and mechanisms . Management tools such as information classification , risk analysis

are used to identify threats classify assets (Dalton , 1995 . So security managers protect organizations from risk factors . What is risk itself

Risk , ambiguity , and uncertainty often muddy the ing of preferences when the causal sequence of events cannot be clearly specified and particularly when the causal path from cause to (adverse ) consequence cannot be defined with certainty . In such situations , individuals tend to depend on their social environment (group , organization ) as a source of information to validate their beliefs (Kobrin , 1982 : 134

Security management is tied down with the risk management

Risk management primarily seeks to identify the possibility of and prevent catastrophic accidents that do not afford adequate warning time for evasive action . If warning time adequate for evasive action is not available , signposts are not particularly helpful . If an assumption could fail without adequate warning time , action must be taken either to prevent the assumption 's failing (shaping actions ) or to be prepared to clean up afterward (hedging and contingency actions (Dewar , 2002 : 104

Ensuring security in organizations depends on designing out or minimizing the potential for crime and disruptive activity . The security of staff and resources is a crucially important consideration that demands close attention , yet has received , and generally continues to receive , little systematic treatment from security managers worldwide Security measures have been enforced erratically and neglected in varying degrees . The trend towards crimes in organizations is rising and it is no longer wise to conclude that libraries can be exempted from these global considerations . Information managers have to come to terms with the uncomfortable reality that security is a paramount consideration that cannot be ignored if resources are to be protected

The key to success has been the raising of security consciousness through the creation of a security plan or policy within the context of the strategic planning process . In this way , security consciousness becomes integral to , rather than being grafted on to , an existing framework . The most successful adoption and implementation of security plans seem to have been where staff have been closely involved in the audit and proposal mechanisms . Each organization will place its own unique emphasis on the level and nature of security to be adopted and these will be related to local circumstances . The subject of security is typically considered under the headings of staff , materials (including equipment ) and buildings

Security of staff includes the issues of verbal abuse and threats violence and assault . An increasing number of organizations are taking these...