Enterprise Security Metrics: A Snapshot Assessment of Practices

Created by George Campbell, Security Executive Council Emeritus Faculty Introduction An Important Note on the Scope of this Assessment Where Are We Today? Obstacles A Multi-Track Focus on Metrics State-of-the-Art Benchmarking and Security Metrics Summary of the Multi-Sector Exercise Moving from Benchmarking to In-Depth Capacity-Building Efforts Types of Security Metrics...

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A Retrospective Journey of SEC Insight Over Time

The SEC has always focused on corporate security leadership issues. Our mission is to help security leaders and programs succeed. To achieve that goal, we strive to make our Insight content actionable and relevant. Over the past 20 years we have created over 500 research-based articles focused on providing leaders...

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Operational Excellence in Contract Security Performance Measurement

Created by George Campbell, Security Executive Council Emeritus Faculty member This report continues our series of considerations for the application of operational excellence (OpEx) concepts to corporate security programs (see the first in the series, Defining Best Practices in Global Security Operations Centers). The focus in this edition is on...

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Security's Biggest Challenge

Created by the Security Executive Council The role of the Security function is essentially to identify and mitigate security risks to the organization. However difficult that may be, it is arguably not the biggest challenge Security faces. In this 2016 Security Barometer, we wanted to investigate the hurdles that Security...

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The Nine Practices of the Successful Security Leader

Summary In many professional fields such as legal, technology, and finance one can expect to find certain commonalities among the practitioners. These professionals share certain certifications or degrees, or they have progressed through a series of common steps or training regimens to reach their current position, where they share a...

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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. Some organizations approach these as two unique business silos and others see benefit in interaction and shared vision. This research, conducted in partnership with our strategic alliance partner ISC2, investigated the extent of integration...

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What Is Corporate Security?

Introduction Businesses today operate within a more complex, sophisticated, and interconnected competitive universe than they did 20 or even 10 years ago. Success in this environment requires organizations to take smart risks – to expand into new territories, invest in innovations, and develop new partnerships. The corporate security function plays...

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Security Barometer: Is Your Organization Hiring?

The word on the street is that Security is having a difficult time filling open positions. Hiring good personnel has traditionally been a difficult process. It seems this is becoming more difficult as suitable candidates are harder to come by or those that are highly qualified are demanding higher salaries....

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

By the Security Executive Council 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. This security barometer sought the top challenges security leaders are facing within their own organization. Some selected "Other"...

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Security Barometer: Is Social Unrest Having an Impact on Your Organization?

Social unrest and disruptive behavior seem to be expanding. In this Security Barometer quick poll, we wanted to investigate if and how corporations are being impacted (directly or indirectly) and whether the Security function has a role in risk mitigation plans. For the purposes of this Security Barometer, we used...

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