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Security Management Advanced Assignment 3
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Question 1 (Weighting: 10)
Explain how the risk to personnel security can be reduced and how personnel can be monitored without infringing their rights. Give an example of how an organisation might ensure that employees are not at risk, and explain how one would obtain a 'CRB' check.
Personal Security is a prime concern for most employers. By ensuring personal security is acute, other aspects of security for the asset will be enhanced. For instance, my current employer can and does, monitor both my work emails and blackberry, this was clearly stated in my contract and is a basic security enhancement.
Other areas that the employer can instigate could be:
1. Web monitoring service with a list of websites that are not accessible from work IT equipment.
2. CCTV cameras in the workplace, however, this must be in line with the Data Protection Act and The Health and Safety at Work Act (CCTV in areas such as toilets is not allowed).
3. The handing in of smartphones/tablets in certain areas of the premises.
4. Screening of employees baggage on exiting the building.
5. Security encryption and access codes to varying levels of information.
Further to this, the employer can ask all potential staff at the recruitment phase to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. This process is a new system and resulted in the merger of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA). All information for the employer can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check/tracking-application-getting-certificate
While the individual cannot apply for this check a Basic Disclosure Check can still be conducted through Disclosure Scotland ( http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/apply-online/ ).
The documents that are required are the same for both systems with the DSB check being more indepth.
Question 2 (Weighting: 15)
Provide three examples of security equipment or
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Question 1 (Weighting: 10)
Explain how the risk to personnel security can be reduced and how personnel can be monitored without infringing their rights. Give an example of how an organisation might ensure that employees are not at risk, and explain how one would obtain a 'CRB' check.
Personal Security is a prime concern for most employers. By ensuring personal security is acute, other aspects of security for the asset will be enhanced. For instance, my current employer can and does, monitor both my work emails and blackberry, this was clearly stated in my contract and is a basic security enhancement.
Other areas that the employer can instigate could be:
1. Web monitoring service with a list of websites that are not accessible from work IT equipment.
2. CCTV cameras in the workplace, however, this must be in line with the Data Protection Act and The Health and Safety at Work Act (CCTV in areas such as toilets is not allowed).
3. The handing in of smartphones/tablets in certain areas of the premises.
4. Screening of employees baggage on exiting the building.
5. Security encryption and access codes to varying levels of information.
Further to this, the employer can ask all potential staff at the recruitment phase to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check. This process is a new system and resulted in the merger of the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA). All information for the employer can be accessed here:
https://www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check/tracking-application-getting-certificate
While the individual cannot apply for this check a Basic Disclosure Check can still be conducted through Disclosure Scotland ( http://www.disclosurescotland.co.uk/apply-online/ ).
The documents that are required are the same for both systems with the DSB check being more indepth.
Question 2 (Weighting: 15)
Provide three examples of security equipment or