{"product_id":"9781849287500","title":"The Security Consultant's Handbook","description":"A compendium of essential information for the modern security entrepreneur and practitioner \u003cp\u003eThe modern security practitioner has shifted from a predominantly protective site and assets manager to a leading contributor to overall organisational resilience. Accordingly, \u003cem\u003eThe Security Consultant's Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e sets out a holistic overview of the essential core knowledge, emerging opportunities and approaches to corporate thinking that are increasingly demanded by employers and buyers in the security market.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThis book provides essential direction for those who want to succeed in security, either individually or as part of a team. It also aims to stimulate some fresh ideas and provide new market routes for security professionals who may feel that they are underappreciated and overexerted in traditional business domains.\u003c\/p\u003e  Product overview \u003cp\u003eDistilling the author’s fifteen years’ experience as a security practitioner, and incorporating the results of some fifty interviews with leading security practitioners and a review of a wide range of supporting business literature, \u003cem\u003eThe Security Consultant’s Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e provides a wealth of knowledge for the modern security practitioner, covering:\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEntrepreneurial practice\u003c\/strong\u003e (including business intelligence, intellectual property rights, emerging markets, business funding and business networking)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eManagement practice\u003c\/strong\u003e (including the security function’s move from basement to boardroom, fitting security into the wider context of organisational resilience, security management leadership, adding value and professional proficiency)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLegislation and regulation\u003c\/strong\u003e (including relevant UK and international laws such as the Human Rights Act 1998, the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Geneva Conventions)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrivate investigations\u003c\/strong\u003e (including surveillance techniques, tracing missing people, witness statements and evidence, and surveillance and the law)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInformation and cyber security\u003c\/strong\u003e (including why information needs protection, intelligence and espionage, cyber security threats, and mitigation approaches such as the ISO 27001 standard for information security management)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProtective security\u003c\/strong\u003e (including risk assessment methods, person-focused threat assessments, protective security roles, piracy and firearms)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSafer business travel\u003c\/strong\u003e (including government assistance, safety tips, responding to crime, kidnapping, protective approaches to travel security and corporate liability)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePersonal and organisational\u003c\/strong\u003e resilience (including workplace initiatives, crisis management, and international standards such as ISO 22320, ISO 22301 and PAS 200)\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eFeaturing case studies, checklists and helpful chapter summaries, \u003cem\u003eThe Security Consultant's Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e aims to be a practical and enabling guide for security officers and contractors. Its purpose is to plug information gaps or provoke new ideas, and provide a real-world support tool for those who want to offer their clients safe, proportionate and value-driven security services.\u003c\/p\u003e  About the author \u003cp\u003eRichard Bingley is a senior lecturer in security and organisational resilience at Buckinghamshire New University, and co-founder of CSARN, the popular business security advisory network. He has more than fifteen years’ experience in a range of high-profile security and communications roles, including as a close protection operative at London’s 2012 Olympics and in Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. He is a licensed close protection operative in the UK, and holds a postgraduate certificate in teaching and learning in higher education. Richard is the author of two previous books: \u003cem\u003eArms Trade: Just the Facts\u003c\/em\u003e(2003) and \u003cem\u003eTerrorism: Just the Facts\u003c\/em\u003e (2004).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IT Governance Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163538964720,"sku":"9781849287500","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781849287500_p0.jpg?v=1763752335","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781849287500","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}