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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: What Do Effective Security Leaders and Programs Look Like? 1. What Every Security Leader Should Know Seven experienced security practitioners share the essential information every security leader should know about the profession. 2. Strategic Planning: Your Roadmap to Success Ensure your security organization has a clear direction and mission with these tips for strategic planning. 3. You Get the Behavior You Reward Learn how to encourage enterprise, horizontally-integrated behavior by adapting a culture of partnership and information sharing. 4. Four Strategies to Fill the Resource Gap An experienced security executive shares four strategies to make up for a lack of security resources. 5. Setting a New Standard of Collaboration A case study of collaboration between two security organizations that can serve as an example for a new standard of collaborative partnerships. 6. Local Vigilance Drives Global Defense at Raytheon Using the example of Raytheon Missile Systems, an experienced security professional describes how to promote awareness to build a sense of unity around a common purpose and common cause. 7. Developing a Successful Executive Partnership The CEO and security executive at Baker Hughes Inc. define the elements of a successful collaboration between the business and security executives. Part 2: Leading through Difficult Times 8. Coping with Changes to Company Leadership Strategies for dealing with the transition to a new management agenda following a change in organizational leadership 9. Strategies for Career Preservation Learn how to best position yourself for career preservation with the advice of four experienced security professionals. 10. Dealing with Downsizing Better understand your options for maintaining your current level of protection even when being required to downsize your staff. 11. Extreme Security Program Makeover Experienced security practitioners explain how to build or rebuild a security program after corporate restructuring, layoffs, or budget cuts. Part 3: Budget Issues 12. Managing and Defending a Security Budget Tips for laying a foundation beneath any security budgeting process to help enhance efficiency and effectiveness, and even help position the security leader for advancement. 13. Leading and Managing in a Global Economy One experienced security professional shows how to think globally and predict business risk factors in the global market. 14. How to Move Security Projects Forward while Cutting Costs Four experienced security professionals share strategies for advancing security projects and programs even when the budget is tight. Part 4: Aligning Security with the Business 15. Seven Ways to Maximize Value to the Corporation Identify new methods for contributing to the organization’s success with these seven strategies from an experienced security practitioner. 16. Security in a J.A.R. Security doesn’t need to be perfect to keep our organizations safe—what we need is just about right (J.A.R) security. 17. How Will Business and Risk Drivers Impact Your Mitigation Strategy? Five experienced security professionals explore how changing business trends should impact security and security’s strategies for mitigating risk.

About the Author

Randy Harrison currently directs the security program for Delta Air Lines, Inc. global network serving roughly 165 million passengers annually to over 322 destinations in 59 countries with almost 80,000 employees. Harrison has worked for Delta for 24 years in varying capacities and has progressed through increasingly responsible positions while demonstrating leadership, skilled management and the ability to deliver on promised results. He is skilled in strategizing, developing and implementing complex programs to mitigate varying types of corporate risk (safety, health, environmental, security, business continuity and emergency response), and developing a competitive advantage by contributing to the bottom line. Under Harrison’s leadership, the security program has been elevated to the CEO and Board Committee level as a recognized element of the overall enterprise risk model with corporate measures and reporting criteria.

Reviews

"...there’s plenty of food for thought, and this is one of those handy books that you can read a page or two at a time, pick up and set down again, if time is at a premium." -- Professional Security Magazine Online,August 22,2014