Data driven security -- Identifying assets in need of protection -- Threat assessments -- Crime analysis -- Vulnerability assessment -- Risk assessment -- Crime prevention theories -- Security measures: governance -- Security measures: physical security -- Security measures: personnel -- Project management -- Gaining support for security -- Forensic security consultants and security liability -- Workplace violence prevention -- Security risk modeling -- Security program leadership.

Strategic Security Management, Second Edition provides security leadership and decision-makers with a fresh perspective on threat, vulnerability, and risk assessment. The book offers a framework to look at applying security analysis and theory into practice for effective security program, implementation, management and evaluation. Chapters examine metric-based security resource allocation of countermeasures, including security procedures, utilization of personnel, and electronic measures. The new edition is fully updated to reflect the latest industry best-practices and includes contributions from security industry leaders--based on their years of professional experience--including: Nick Vellani, Michael Silva, Kenneth Wheatley, Robert Emery, Michael Haggard. Strategic Security Management, Second Edition will be a welcome addition to the security literature for all security professionals, security managers, and criminal justice students interested in understanding foundational security principles and their application.

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