Security Operations Management 3rd Edition

Had the Pleasure of having Dr. McCrie as a professor. Excellent text, well formatted and easily read. Coming from a non law enforcement backround , it was approachable.

Amazing instructor! Prof. McCrie made me curious about the detailed world of security management

The book explores the characteristics of today’s globalized workplaces, why security has a key role within them, and what the greatest concern are to security practitioners and senior managers. Incorporating the latest security research and best practices, updates to Security Operations Management 3rd edition include explorations of the key skills needed by security managers to demonstrate the value of their security program, greater emphasis on identifying and managing risk, and coverage of the latest technological advances in security control, command, communications, and computing. The third edition also delves more deeply than previous editions into online security training practices, as well as investigates the changing roles of women and minorities in security operations.This book will provide insights to assess security risks and manage operations to protect assets from loss. The very words used on a routine basis help explain what security practices are all about. The word “operate,” for example, is derived from the Latin operatus, the past participle of the verb “to work”; hence, operations are concerned with exerting power or influence in order to produce a desired effect. Security operations, therefore, are the processes whereby the protective aims of the organization are to be achieved. Success does not depend on good intentions alone, although thoughtful analysis always should precede definitive action. The security practitioner must correctly assume and passionately advocate that his or her appropriate involvement is consequential in achieving what needs to be done.Operating security programs is not easy. Surely protection is an inherent factor in success and continuity of an operation. Because of this, one might assume, falsely so, that efforts to protect assets (and to do one’s job well) would receive broad, largely uncritical support from senior management and ownership. That’s not necessarily the reality. Some senior managers support security programs assiduously; others fail to understand the criticality of security or, for their own reasons, choose to constrain programs to the minimum level possible.

Simple to read and understand