Security Operations Management

McCrie Professor & Chair John Jay College of Crim

ISBN 10: 0128023961 / ISBN 13: 9780128023969

Published by Butterworth-Heinemann, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Security Operations Management
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0128023961
• ISBN 13: 9780128023969
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Security Operations Management, 3rd edition, is the latest edition the seminal reference on corporate security management operations for today’s security management professionals and students.

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.

• Includes all-new cases and examples―including from outside the U.S.―providing coverage of both the business and technical aspects of security
• Offers increased coverage of cybercrime and workplace violence
• Explores the latest technological advances in security control, command, communications, and computing, and current techniques for how prospective security personnel are vetted, including how to use social media
• Prepares security professionals for professional certification exams

About the Author

Since 1970, Robert McCrie has written, edited, researched, taught, and consulted broadly in issues related to security management (protection of assets from loss) and criminal justice. He edits Security Letter and was founding editor-in-chief of Security Journal, a research journal, and now is editor emeritus.

He has been associated with John Jay College since the 1970’s. He joined the faculty in 1985, moving up the ranks to full professor and serving as chair of one of the largest departments, Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration from 1997-2003. He later helped found his current department.