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Security Barometer: Security's Gains and Gridlocks: 2023

We've seen many clients leveraging new and existing innovations to the benefit of their organizations, their functions, and even their communities. We've also seen security leaders plagued by familiar challenges. Here's a rundown of the most notable gains and gridlocks security leaders have discussed with us in 2023.
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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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Security Barometer: Is Social Unrest Having an Impact on Your Organization?

This Security Barometer investigated how Security is responding to the threat of social unrest and disobedience for their organizations.
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The State of Security Convergence

Are preconceptions about the convergence of corporate and cyber security accurate in practice?
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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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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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Security Barometer Results: Do Cyber and Corporate Security Work Together in Your Organization?

Both cyber/information security and corporate/physical security have roles to play in protecting and securing the organization.
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When Your Security Nightmare Comes True

A brief overview of the changes playing out in the legal realm of negligence, defensibility, and what constitutes a defensible security program.
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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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Corporate Security Maturity Assessment Peer Comparison

This is a comparison summary of scores from security leaders who have completed maturity assessments based on the SEC's maturity framework maturity scores.
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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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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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What is Security's Role Regarding Drones

The SEC investigated how security practitioners were approaching the influx of UAS use in their respective organizations. Over 20% of respondents reported Security was involved in anti-drone policies.
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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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Next Generation Security Leader Graphic

The Next Generation Security Leader infographic (v.2) is a representation of the skills, elements and knowledge needed for today’s security function. Download your copy!
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