Does your security add value?

Adding value

Security leads should always look to ‘add value’ to their role and that of their team and pursue opportunities that can contribute to other crucial areas of the organisation. Expanding the security lead’s role, for example, to encompass emergency management and business continuity can achieve a more integrated and valued space within the wider management structure.

In turn, finding additional valued roles for security staff can contribute to the wider organisation’s overall efficiency and cost-effectiveness while helping to develop individual security staff, furnishing them with a better understanding of the organisation’s strategic aims and values while developing new skills.

For example, running quarterly ‘security awareness’ presentations to organisational staff can help demonstrate the value of security to the wider organisation. Such a presentation would allow any updates or procedural changes to be communicated. Still, it would also ‘sweeten the pill’ and make the presentations something staff ‘want’ to add elements that are valuable to individual staff members outside or at work. Inputs on home security, keeping family safe, personal safety, nights out, travel, internet security, scamming, phishing, etc, are relevant to everyone. And tasking security personnel to study and present such material to colleagues adds knowledge, skills, and value.