Title: Exploring Some Contradictions of Modern-Day Security
Abstract: The aim of this chapter is to examine some of the contradictions of modern-day security, the way it is managed both in organizations and in the work of private security companies. For example, security is sometimes associated with infringing people's rights, when private security can also provide a means of protecting privacy and minority interests; security is sometimes viewed as a marginal activity when narrowly defined as focused on the protection of assets, yet its potential role in enabling businesses to operate profitably and thereby be seen more positively (in business at least) is underplayed; security is in part about protecting organizational process and operations, yet most security management personnel are not obviously skilled by background experience in this area, especially in a business environment. In a different way, while it is important to understand all risks and threats to an organization as representing its true security management requirement, security directors are often responsible for only some parts of security and often not those which have the biggest impact on keeping an organization secure. And while security research is in many areas in its infancy, we tend to know less about some of the key and commonplace approaches (such as the role of trust, ethics and integrity) than we do about cameras, locks and bolts.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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