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consequences if a serious security incident occurs. The need for remedial action deflects management focus from the business, staff will be distracted and may be upset, sales can be lost, and competitors may be able to take advantage. A loss avoided is as good as a banked
profit, so it pays to prepare for the worst. Hard won income is easily squandered unnecessarily in a complacent security culture. Senior management need to stay alive to the danger of a trouble free run inculcating a false sense of immunity from crime. The Reckitt incident mentioned earlier
demonstrates how the unexpected can tilt a stable and profitable operation with an optimistic view of the future into one having to divert significant resources from business development to business survival. More fortunate organisations lucky
enough to have avoided serious security shocks might still have a nasty surprise, if they looked at the attritional cost and cultural impact of regular small security losses that individually fail to register on the radar of senior management.
Expect the unexpected
When an organisation is hit by a security breach, ignorance of up to the minute security does not cut a lot of ice with shareholders and stakeholders. It’s no good lamenting after an incident that nobody in the business realised that, for example: • certain basic precautions could have sidestepped our serious cyber attack
• we could have saved on guards yet had better, cost effective security
• security lighting would have been affordable using the latest technology
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radical security action is unavoidable if a building falls vacant
there are only certain types of fencing effective against skilled intruders
• we could have remained secure without jeopardising safe escape from fire
These and a wide range of other insights are to be found in the up to the minute FPA Security Handbook. In a reader friendly style, and avoiding unnecessary technicalities and jargon, the handbook is a practical work of reference to have on hand for those responsible for the security of premises.
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