For us to identify security management we first have to breakdown the meaning of security management because one person’s ideology of security can be totally different to someone else’s, therefore to define security in Latin (secura with care) basically translates to be free from danger.
To need security management we first have to identify a threat because without a threat we can’t fully understand or comprehend the task at hand, Management is how we go about implementing our principals of management that we have learned throughout our careers and personal approaches to the systems that have been proven over the years in successes and also failures.
The Management section of any security organisation must start at the top from the security director down, It makes no difference if you have a security section of ten or a thousand the command structure must be adhered to because if it doesn’t things can rapidly deteriorate quickly, we have these structures in place as a fallback system to determine where things have failed and also to stop it progressing to the next level.
The thing that usually differs with security management and the other corporate management sections is the others are usually put in place to increase the financial yield of an organization, The Security section although a very important part of an organization is sometimes found to be a costly financial burden which is sometimes seen as an extravagance but necessity. As the old adage says security is everyone’s concern and should be emphasized throughout the whole organization. Today security can be under an umbrella of many guises ranging from information security, physical security, investigations, forensics, screening and crisis management to name a few.
To combat against the threat the security Director/manager must have a good security and risk plan. Michael Blyth (2008) describe that a