Security Layers

When a site, event, or business starts to think about security, it is often an afterthought. We’ll throw some security guards and a bit of CCTV into the mix, and this solves the problem, right?

Unfortunately, not. Ultimately, security is about dealing with people, be that face-to-face or remotely in the case of Cyber. Human beings can be ingenious in identifying weaknesses in a security system. If they are determined and motivated enough, there is little short of Fort Knox that will stop them!

Good security on a commercial level is about protecting those assets that are critical to achieving operational objectives. These could be tangible or intangible assets. On a domestic level, our most valued assets are often family.

When we think about the assets we want to protect, we should think about who or what might want to take, destroy, damage or disrupt them. It could be a low-level opportunist criminal or a complex commercial rival who plans meticulously to disrupt our business activities. We should also consider how they would likely go about achieving their aims. The opportunist thief is likely to use a different methodology to a calculating commercial rival. Still, there is a vast spectrum of options open to those intent on doing a family or business harm.