Insight on Security Program Strategy & Operations

Insight on Security Program Strategy & Operations

Security Barometer Results - Between Risk and Resilience: AI’s Role in Physical Security

AI is not just a cyber risk. Corporate security leaders are leaning hard into AI, not just to understand new risks, but to mitigate them. This security barometer investigated what concerns security leaders about AI and how they’re applying AI today.

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Is there a Potential Connection Between Incivility and Executive Targeting?

Security Executive Council research examines the increase in executive targeting occurring alongside rising workplace incivility and disruptive behavior. This research is being shared to support thoughtful, cross-functional discussion among Human Resources, Legal, Security, and Operations on organizational readiness, governance, and response capabilities.

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Security Barometer - The Future of Corporate Security

Corporate security is often reduced to the old "gates, guns, and guards" (3G) stereotype. In reality, the field has evolved into a strategic discipline focused on identifying and managing risks so the business can operate and grow with confidence.

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Beyond Incivility: The Soaring Business Cost of America’s Deteriorating Civility

A thought leader paper by the SEC reveals a sharp uptick in uncivil behavior, rule-breaking and violence across the United States – trends that are eroding workplace morale, straining businesses, and costing billions in lost productivity.

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Security Optimization - Looking Beyond Traditional Definitions of Convergence

It's long been a common assumption in security that most high-performing and successful security functions operate within a "converged" structure, with corporate and cyber security reporting to a single security or risk executive. But is that assumption true?

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Security Barometer: Why Many Corporate Security Functions Seem to be Experiencing Reductions in Staff and Budgets

While it may seem like today's environment might be demanding greater need for security professionals, we are hearing more about organizations experiencing reductions in Security budgets and staff.

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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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Security Barometer: How Will Current Economic Conditions Affect Security

There is little debate that economic conditions affect businesses, but we want to investigate if the economy is expected to have a significant impact on the Security function within 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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2026 Corporate Security Organizational Structure, Cost of Services and Staffing Benchmark: Selected Highlights

The Corporate Security Organizational Structure, Cost of Services and Staffing benchmark provides reliable, meaningful, and useful data that is specific to corporate security – something that cannot be found anywhere else. To access the full report, participate in the benchmark.

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What Should Your Corporate Security Organizational Structure Look Like?

Use research data to help support your ideas for improving security's org chart.

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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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Security Barometer Results: Three Wishes 2020

What elements would add the most value to security leaders and their teams?

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Security Barometer Results: What is the Security Department's Biggest Challenge

Leading security programs is a difficult job. Not only does the risk environment evolve but the organization's managing business leaders bring their own challenges to the job.

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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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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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