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Don’t Get Burned by Digital Wildfires

- Are you at risk of getting burned by a digital wildfire?

Big Picture Risk Management

- How companies are using governance, risk, and compliance solutions to improve efficiency, meet regulatory requirements, and centralize risk management.

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance: It Can’t Happen to Us—Avoiding Corporate Disaster While Driving Success

- Although its intended audience is primarily senior corporate executives and board members, this book also makes an excellent how-to manual for any security manager.

Risk Analysis and the Security Survey, Fourth Edition

- Written in two parts, the book takes the reader beyond merely conducting the risk analysis in part one to what happens should preparedness fail.

Behind the Numbers

- Top Barriers to Enterprise Risk Management

Social Media and Criminal Organizations

- In the social media world, individuals are encouraged to readily serve up personal data about where they are, who they are with, and when. But cartel members who use Facebook or similar social sites, for target selection can easily exploit this information to establish behavior patterns. (ONLINE EXCLUSIVE)

Book Review: Security Risk Management

- Wheeler believes risk managers should consider banning the term “best practices” from their vocabulary; he doesn’t think one size fits all when creating a security risk management program.

Mission-Based Policing

- The authors of Mission-Based Policing have developed an interesting approach to urban policing in high-crime areas. The counterinsurgency paradigm advanced by Lt. General David H. Petra­eus and Lt. General James F. Amos is the impetus of their mission-based policing.

DHS Announces Rick Rescorla National Award for Resilience

- Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Friday announced the creation of the Rick Rescorla National Award for Resilience.

Risk Management the Right Way

- Companies must have a plan to ensure that risk management is embraced by the entire organization.

Charlotte Proposes Ordinances to Enhance Security During DNC

- The City of Charlotte is amending its city ordinances to address security while “protecting free speech” in preparation for the Democratic National Convention, but Occupy protesters and city residents have some concerns.

Accidents Will Happen

- Hospitals and other types of workplaces will see their share of accidents. Whether the company gets sued as a result may depend on how well security officers and other employees are trained to respond to, document, and learn from those incidents.

Morning Security Brief: Weather Disasters, Meth Drop Boxes, Deutsche Bank Attack Thwarted, and More

- Weather disasters in 2011 caused $52 billion of damage. Oklahoma to save money by using meth lab drop boxes. German authorities defuse a bomb targeting the Deutsche Bank chief. And more.