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THE 10TH ANNUAL SECURITY 500 Survey is now available online at SecurityMagazine.com/Security500Survey. This annual benchmarking report is designed to give security executives a view of where they stand within their sectors as well as in the industry as a whole.

 Do you want to know where you stand in your sector?  

 As you read through this year’s Security 500 Report and the advertisements surrounding it, you may not realize how much marketing’s mission is intertwined with security’s. Perhaps a digital marketing conference would be as valuable to you as attending a security industry event because the era of collecting, analyzing and interpreting information to identify risks and predict threats has arrived. Scorned for its use by three-letter government agencies, the results are clear. It works. The Predictive Revolution is the culmination of a three-stage evolution in risk and security practices.  

Who is leading the pack in security leadership? These 500 enterprises have been ranked through metrics to determine the frontrunners in each sector.  

The Security 500Benchmarking Survey is based on information from several sources:

• Data supplied directly by participating enterprises
• Data obtained through public resources/records

The Security 500 tracks 18 vertical markets and collects unique data where appropriate (such as the number of unique facilities in healthcare) and applies this data to key metrics. The key metrics collected this year include but is not limited to:

• Security Spending/Person
• Security Spending/Revenue
• Security Employees/Officer

What are security’s top critical issues? What department does security report to? How are budgets changing? What responsibilities do security leaders shoulder within their organization? Compare your enterprise’s focuses to those of your peers in the Security 500’s sector-specific analysis.

The Security 500 tracks 17 vertical markets and collects unique data where appropriate (such as patients in healthcare) and applies this data to key metrics.

Where does your enterprise stand? Compare security rankings sector-by-sector in this benchmarking tool to determine who the frontrunners and thought-leaders are in your enterprise’s field. 

Leveraging metrics and statistics can lead to a stronger security program, just as they led to a better baseball team for the Oakland Athletics in “Moneyball.” So how can these metrics protect your enterprise from a Risk-Nado?