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For years, enterprise security executives have been sharing “best practices.”

What are the critical issues and trends in your sector? How does your enterprise compare to your peers?

Which security programs are taking the lead? These 500 enterprises have been ranked through metrics to determine the forerunners in 18 sectors.

Depending on your needs, some video management solutions can use motion detection to prompt events, read license plates on vehicles in a parking lot, detect added or removed objects from a room, and more.

Conducting investigations is second nature to many security executives.

In 2009 a hacker embedded malware on the point-of-sale (PoS) equipment at a Seattle eatery known as the Broadway Grill.

Airport authorities might consider augmenting existing practices with a program to help prevent, detect and mitigate insider threats. Such a program recognizes the airport for what it is – a complex ecosystem of airlines, vendors, contractors and airport employees – and provides a way for this community to come together to protect the aviation transportation system. In a sense, the airport community becomes an insider threat working group.

The FAA projects a 30x growth of commercial drone use to 600,000 over the next year, which could pose a significant threat to physical security and critical infrastructure. 

Ask a CEO how he or she rose to the top, and they’ll typically cite a litany of past upper level executive management roles, with a clear strategy to get there.