Articles by Mark McCourt

Now back from the ASIS show, how are you going to convince the C-suite crowd to sign off on your plan? Well, more to the point, to sign off on

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools and yesterday’s concepts. Marshall McLuhan       And so this column begins

Measure Twice, Cut Once generates 5,620,000 results on Bing, Microsoft’s new answer to Google (Google found 676,000 results). Everything from carpentry books to hedge fund management to data warehouse and

Recently, I had the privilege to attend Jack Jarmon’s Convergent National Security Risks to Government and Business Symposium at the University of Pennsylvania and breathe the thin air that circulates

Could there be a drier, more boring headline on a column? Probably not. But right now recession management is all the rage and grabbing the attention of security and business

As if 2009 was not off to a terrifying enough start, Hollywood has chimed in with added terror and fear at the box office. Predicable new releases including “My Bloody

While the Security 500 identifies those enterprises with the biggest and best security organizations, the Security Executive Council has identified the critically important next 50,000 enterprises as a possible weak

“We are here to do the work that ensures no other family members have to lose a loved one to a terrorist who turns a plane into a missile, a

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  The progress among Security 500 organizations is not only measurable. It is visible. Perhaps the best word to describe the changes during the past year is maturity. The

Feature articles and columns not in this month’s issue include: Criminals Face Downsizing Due to Slow Economy Organized Crime Cuts Capital Spending Gas Prices Affect Hacker Activity, Reducing Attempts 25