The role of security in protecting an organizations assets

The role of security in protecting an organizations assets
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The role of security in protecting an organization’s assets
For any given organization or business enterprise, Security serves the vital role of managing and or mitigating threats that pose to undermine the organization’s realization of its goals, mission and vision. As such, the aspect of security comes first since it serves to protect an organization’s assets, enabling it to achieve desired performance or rather success (Land, Ricks, & Ricks 2013). It is therefore essential for the management to identify and implement security policies that involve the creation and maintenance of a security department, defining its goals, roles, tasks or activities and responsibilities. Further, it is equally important to determine how this incorporate and relate with both the internal and external environments of the business. To put it briefly and in general, the mission statement of an organization ought to have provisions for the protection of the enterprise resources via both proactive and reactive measures (Land, Ricks, & Ricks 2013). As such, this paper seeks to explore the importance of organizational security from the perspective of an organization’s assets (including but not limited to information and other tangible assets).
Responsibilities of an Organization’s Security Director
In today’s business world, it stands out clearly, that organizations at all levels ought to have specific predetermined tasks and or departments dedicated to the realization of security. Additionally, focus has shifted from conventional functions in this regard that emphasized on physical protection of property and theft prevention and resolution to the now common ideas of Risk and Safety Management, information or data security, crisis management, internet security, supply chain management, financial fraud, and organized crime and business continuity among others. As such, corporations maintain a security department headed by a security director, whose roles and responsibilities are for the most part determined by the aforementioned functions. In fact, organizational security professionals (directors) are today considered as full and professional managers, leaders and trainers (similar to other managerial professionals within the business environment), responsible for protecting and organization’s assets. These valued assets include but are not limited to electronic data or information, facilities (like the built environment, plant and office spaces), inventories or merchandise, cash and cash equivalents, human resources or personnel, company records and the overall organization brand (Kimiecik, & Thomas, 2006). For these assets, their integrity confidentiality and general well-being remains the primary responsibility of the security department (Lee, 2010).
It is important to note at this point that an organization’s security director is charged with the responsibility of risk management as far as the company’s assets are concerned. They formulate and implement specific policies in this regard and in line with the organization’s goals or mission s...