ARTICLES ANALYSIS

Articles Analysis



Articles Analysis

Forum Week 2(A): Ronnie Mccullough

In this article, Total Security Management has been defined. It is a business practice developed and implemented to enhance comprehensive risk management and security practices for a firm's entire value chain. This business process improvement strategy seeks to create added value for companies by managing security and resilience requirements as core business functions rather than as reactionary expenditures. TSM implementation involves a thorough evaluation of key internal and external business distribution channels, and policies and procedures in terms of a firm's level of preparedness for a variety of disruptive events. TSM encourages companies to manage security initiatives as investments with a measurable return and seeks to transform security from a net cost to a net benefit.

A U.S. company that imported expensive goods from China conducted a security audit on its cargo operation and found that large areas of significant weakness in on e main areas and that was the cargo handling department. The problem was that even though the company's goods were searched and secured before they left the factory, they were later stacked on a pallets to be flown to the U.S.(Anderson) Once in the United States, the cargo were then broken down and prepared to be distributed and shipped out to specific locations within the U.S. During the second phase of the shipping process the products were re-handled by various people unknown to the company just cargo handlers that are assigned to a location. This allows so many opportunities for theft or cargo tampering.

Cargo containers are an important segment of maritime commerce. Approximately 90 percent of the world's cargo moves by container. Each year, approximately 16 million oceangoing cargo containers enter the U.S. carried aboard thousands of container vessels. In 2002, approximately 7 million containers arrived at U.S seaports, carrying more than 95 percent of the nation's non-North American trade by weight and 75 percent by value.( GAO-04) An incident at a port is not just limited to theft but terrorist acts which could be life changing to not only the family members but the nation.

Forum Week 2(A): Michael Bennett

TSM is a new approach to security system integration, designed to ensure ease of management of complete solutions and deliver a proactive approach to security incidents and issues. For example, network surveillance cameras installed around a city can be seamlessly integrated with Intelligent Video Analytics (IVA) packages in order to detect potential incidents before they occur. By automatically detecting things like erratic driving, flame detection or large crowds forming, operators can be alerted early to potential trouble, or signage can be activated in order to divert or slow down traffic.

An important part of TSM is that it is fully scalable and can therefore be cost effectively deployed in any environment from, for example, retail where the priority is the protection of stock through to the more demanding and sophisticated requirements of those involved in detecting and deterring far more serious threats to our security and ...