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Security is becoming an increasing source of business intelligence
Premises security has long been viewed by organisations as a necessity rather than an opportunity, but with the growth of intelligent buildings this is rapidly changing. Security is becoming an increasing source of business intelligence that helps to ensure a duty of care to employees and visitors and to support increased revenue generation.
As organisations have become aware of the need to manage their core assets more effectively and efficiently, and the variety of threats those assets need to be protected against has grown, security has become an ‘investment’ rather than an overhead. Organisations now need to look at how they can use security ‘intelligence’ to deliver beneficial improvements to the way they work.
Shattering myths and misconceptions, a physical security implementation should actually be more about letting people in, giving them optimal accesses to areas and services than locking them out. Security doesn’t have to be restrictive. In fact, if an organisation is t... [ more ]
How best to manage the security issues social networking brings to business
A social network is a communication network of social contacts and seems to have become the most popular way to stay in touch. Forrester Research stated that the number of people using the web will increase by 45% to 2.2 billion by 2013, the total global internet audience is currently 625M and two thirds of these internet users have now joined a social networking site (417M). This is a huge number of people and consequently the security risks are equally substantial. Businesses must address these risks.
It seems hard to justify the use of social networking in business as the sites are more focused on keeping in touch with friends, sharing photos, video and chatting; however businesses should not prevent employees from catching up with colleagues and talking with friends while in the office, on their tea break or having a cigarette. Staff morale is important and it would be viewed as draconian to block reasonable use of social networking sites at work. Many businesses are now embra... [ more ]
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