The Security Consultant’s Handbook

Essential information for security professionals

With indispensable guidance and inspirational case studies, this security consultant’s handbook sets out a holistic overview for security professionals. Not only will it stimulate fresh ideas for invigorating your career, it will provide new market routes for you to lead your company’s resilience.

Read this book and master these security domains

• Entrepreneurial practice - Find out more about business intelligence, intellectual property rights, emerging markets, business funding, and business networking.
• Management practice - Understand the security function’s move from basement to boardroom, fitting security into the wider context of organizational resilience and security management leadership.
• Legislation and regulation - Get to grips with relevant UK and international laws such as the Human Rights Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 1998, and the Geneva Conventions.
• Private investigations - Learn all about surveillance techniques, tracing missing people, gathering witness statements and evidence, and how surveillance fits in with the law.
• Information and cybersecurity - Ascertain why information needs protection, what intelligence and espionage is, cybersecurity threats, and mitigation approaches such as the ISO 27001 standard for information security management.
• Protective security - Read through risk assessment methods and person-focused threat assessments, as well as protective security roles, piracy, and firearms.
• Safer business travel - Discover protective approaches to travel security and corporate liability, including government assistance, safety tips, responding to crime, and kidnapping.
• Personal and organisational resilience - Explore workplace initiatives, crisis management, and international standards such as ISO 22320, ISO 22301 and PAS 200l

Succeed in security

This practical and enabling guide provides essential direction for those who want to succeed in security, either individually or as part of a team.

Author Richard Bingley brings to light emerging opportunities and approaches to corporate thinking that are increasingly demanded by employers and buyers in the security market.

This book will help you plug information gaps or provoke new ideas and to become a real-world support tool, so you can offer your clients safe, proportionate and value-driven security services.