Metrics and Methods for Security Risk Management

Foreword

James A. King, CBE

Director of Intelligence, Physical and Personal Security, Group Security and Fraud, Lloyds Banking Group

The 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and (nearly) the White House are a landmark for those involved in security management in the government or private sector. Even before 9/11 the most forward-looking organisations, faced with sophisticated criminal and terrorist threats, had begun fundamentally re-engineering their approaches to security. The old, quasi-military, approach of ‘guns, guards, and gates’ was exposed as expensive, inflexible, and ineffective. It had failed and served only to give a false sense of security. From the embers of 9/11 a new risk-based approach to security gained traction. Security ...