Measuring effective security across an entire organisation is rarely done. The failure of organisations of all types, government and private, to do so tells a story about the historical disconnect of security from the core organisational objectives they serve. The risk environment has changed significantly over the past decades with shocking well documented wake-up calls, from loss of life to loss of data, to leaders of government organisations, CEOs, Financial Directors, boards, shareholders and stakeholders. Responsible organisations have had to address the exposures highlighted and uncovered with ever more expensive and sophisticated security. However, with this comes the need, indeed the obligation, to measure performance and demonstrate contribution. Today security consulting means a measures and metrics program that serves core organisational objectives supports proactive risk management and enables real assessment of the effectiveness and value of security investments is essential in a cost conscious world.

As your security consultant we use metrics systems to determine the safety and security solution investments we recommend and are totally committed to specifying cost effective solutions that serve the core objectives of our customers.

Our approach is risk and threat based advice, following an analysis that measures what constitutes a tolerable level of risk for each organisation. Our approach results in holistic scalable designs and operating solutions, responsive to the evolving threat or risk.

People, Property and Loss Prevention are the drivers behind all our solutions. Continuous improvement of fire, life safety, and physical and data security requires an ongoing partnership and this is the guiding principle behind our approach.

People, process and technology are the three ingredients essential for robust resilient security and continuity planning. In an age when organisations fine tune supply chains, minimise staff levels, outsource services and rely fundamentally on information systems for every part of their organisations operations the fragility of many under stress can quickly lead to collapse.

Whether you deploy security guards or simple locks for your access control, or electronic proximity cards, smart cards, biometric technology or remote CCTV surveillance and monitoring, the security consultants solutions must address current risk in a simple, effective and reliable way whether it be for logical or physical access control. Our professional security consultants can assist you achieve this...

In-house Licensing Review Outcome Report May 2009