From duty of care to organized retail crime to C-Suite buy-in and more, a diverse set of challenges and goals are driving enterprise security leaders to build unique security solutions, programs and initiatives. Learn more about how sectors’ security challenges are evolving, which security executives are leading in their fields and what strategies they’re crafting in our annual Security 500 Report.
Welcome to the 2018 Security 500 report, which includes the 2018 Security 500 rankings and sector reports. Our annual Top 10 Trends will be officially unveiled in a webinar later this month.
From hardware to keycards to RFID, smartphones, software and more, access control encompasses a vast number of options for security leaders to manage who enters their facilities.
Data security isn’t just a software issue. It’s far more physical than you think. While the discussions around cybersecurity awareness are primarily centered around workforce awareness, firewalls, passwords and mysterious black boxes, it’s important to note that a staggering amount of security breaches don’t involve logins, passwords or code at all. They involve people, hardware and a deafening lack of preparedness. In the age of all things cyber, are we dropping the ball when it comes to the physical threat?
“Every once in a while I need to remind myself that security is a journey,” says Michael W. Wanik, CPP, CBCP, who is Senior Director, Corporate Security for United Therapeutics Corporation.
“The most difficult part of the job is prioritizing given the number of incidents that could occur,” says Gordon MacDonald, Senior Director, Corporate Security for Wells Fargo.
“I take a lot of lessons from the community policing model, which is policing through customer service,” says Ryan King, Manager of Safety, Security and Emergency Management for Central Florida Health (CFH).
“I like that our company particularly, and this sector generally, is really customer-service oriented and a people industry,” says Jim Gaudet, Senior Loss Prevention Investigator for Associated Grocers of New England.
When George Finney was studying law at Southern Methodist University, a private university in metropolitan Dallas with 11,649 students (undergrad and graduate), his supervisor made him a “deal of a lifetime,” he says.
“My only regret with my career is that I didn’t find this job 20 years ago, although I don’t think I would have been right for the job if I hadn’t had my experiences along the way,” says Greg Brumley, Vice President of Asset Protection and Facilities for Lululemon, the athletic apparel company that’s based in Vancouver, Canada, with 400 retail stores across North America.
What are the critical issues and trends in your sector this year, and how does your enterprise compare to your peers? These 17 Security 500 Sector Reports provide benchmarking data about budget changes, security leadership responsibilities, reporting structure and more. What are the critical issues and trends in your sector this year, and how does your enterprise compare to your peers?
Security technology investments are largely driven by the need to gather intelligence, manager risk and ensure resilience, which cannot be done without situational awareness.
Over the past 20 years, direct economic losses from climate-related disasters rose 151 percent, according to a report from the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.