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• Case Study: Cut Your Maintenance Costs By 25 Percent

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  Money spent on equipment maintenance and service has reached an all-time high as a percentage of security spending, according to IOFM’s latest research project. One organization, which was spending close to $1 million per year, decided to do something about it. See how they cut their annual service cost by 25 percent.  Continue…

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• Will You Be Ready Next Time? 9 Crisis Lessons Learned

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  The Global Risk Network recently hosted summits to discuss the latest global crisis events. So what did experts and participants come up with? What advice do they have for security and other organizational crisis managers about better preparing their organization for the next major disaster? Here are the top recommendations.  Continue…

• Force Size: Do You Waste Money, Risk Lawsuits or Get It Just Right?

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  One of the most critical decisions a security executive needs to make is on force levels, which requires delicately balancing both security and cost concerns. Information can be hard to come by on this point, so IOFM Research included data collection on it as part of our 2011 Benchmark Survey on Corporate Security Spending. What did we find? How can you determine the right ratio of organizational employees to security staff at your organization?  Continue…

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• Lessons Learned in Tackling a Security Manual

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  When Darrell Clifton arrived to head up security at Circus Circus Reno, he discovered that its last security manual had been written on a typewriter. Soon after, he found himself Continue…

• Have You Evolved to a Service-Based Program? Should You?

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  One might expect that at L-3 Communications, a top defense contractor, security is pretty buttoned-down. The truth is far different, however. The department operates, first and foremost, on the idea that it exists to help run the business. See how their security team developed a customer-friendly model and how to make it work.   Continue…

From the Blog

• What’s Wrong With This Picture?

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  Consider the following research hypotheses: (1) If a retailer raises employee wages, they’ll experience less employee theft. (2) Prior loss prevention experience predicts better store detective performance. (3) Crisis simulation/training is the best predictor of a firm’s crisis readiness. Now, guess which of the three was found to be untrue? Continue…

• Does Rand Paul Have a Point—Or Just Way Off Base?

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  The plan of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to disband the TSA and return airport security to airports and carriers isn't going anywhere (more underwear bomb revelations took care of that), but it does focus attention on an important question. To what degree should individual business units and sites craft security and how much should be handed down from corporate? IOFM Research examined how companies currently handle this choice.  Continue…

• They Leave the Light On, But Is It Safe?

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  It is necessary to review the safety and security features for any property on a recommended travel list, or otherwise gain assurance that the property has security measures sufficient to keep traveling employees safe. This checklist tool is a composite of measures that many companies now prefer to be standardized in the hotels their personnel frequent in select destinations. Continue…

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• Pick Your Prevention

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  Based on a survey of top security executives, the accompanying solutions tool reveals what the preferred prevention strategy is for different industries. Continue…

• Contract Guards Today: Reliable & Ethical—But Out of Shape?

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  IOFM recently surveyed companies that use contract security officers (Security Guard Firm Ratings & Benchmarks Report). In the areas of character and personal qualities, what do clients think about their firms’ officers?  Continue…

• Is Your Investment in Security Cameras a Waste?

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  A local official looking into why security cameras failed to catch the recent theft of a gazebo from a community garden lamented, "This is the third time I have requested camera footage and the third failure." It’s not the kind of theft that can break a business, but it’s exactly the type of crime that video surveillance is supposed to prevent or solve. We’ve dug into public reports of failures in video surveillance schemes to offer this list of 8 practical warnings.  Continue…