Corporate Security Intelligence and Strategic Decision Making

Foreword

By David Burrill Obe

Intelligence expert and former Chief Security Officer

Corporate Security Intelligence is a fundamental part of the basis on which business security decisions should be made. Few would deny that this is a prerequisite for decision making and yet it is, sadly more often than not, treated with lip service. The need for threat and risk analysis, activities which depend on good and timely intelligence, to influence the delivery of security, corporate or otherwise, can be found in most security policies. Unfortunately, it is common to discover that such analyses are infrequently conducted and infrequently subjected to even the most rudimentary re-assessment. In short, key company decisions are therefore made on the ...