Security Roles

Security Roles

Introduction

With the increase in globalization and with the increase in technology utilization, the security risks have been increased in the organizations. This situation has leaded the organizations to utilize effective security systems for the protection of their asset. The assets of organizations involve not only tangible and physical assets, but it also involves intangible assets. The information that organization uses is also an asset that requires strict confidentiality and security. Security plays an important role in the business organizations. It has become an essential management tool for today's organization.

In many organizations, the department of security is being developed that is responsible for protecting the losses, the organizational properties and human assets. The security department supervises and manages the integrated coordination among all the functional units of an organization that is concerned with security, permanence and safety.

Today, with the increase in globalization, the organizations are employing diverse workforces because of the strong consideration that workforce diversity adds values to the organizational performances. However, the increased diversity has given many security risks to the organizations. The background checks of employees are strongly conducted at the time of hiring in order to determine the activities and crime records of the candidates. Besides this many control systems and surveillance systems are increasingly being implemented in the workplaces and in the information system technologies that are used by the employees in order to determine the activities of employees and to monitor the utilization of organizational assets and information by the employees.

Discussion

Security has now become an evolutionary process that is responsible for giving the safe and sound working environment to the employees as well as it is responsible for protecting the organizational assets. Security is also considered as a controlling function that provides shield and protection in opposition to real or anticipated threats.

To protect the assets and information systems of organizations, certain policies are designed that helps the security director's to perform various professional responsibilities in securing the organizations from various risks and losses. Employees, when hired, are also informed about the policies of the organization related to the assets' theft and assets' usage. Most of the organizations have strict policies that give no room of flexibility in forgiving the employees' criminal acts. There are a number of crimes that falls into the legal aspects of business management.

In every organization, whether it is small or large business organization, there is always existence of many types of risk uncertainties which involves risk of financial data loss or theft, risk of theft of important corporate data, the risk of misuse of organizational asset etc. Therefore the security systems are implemented in the business organizations to help minimize losses. There are core elements of corporate security which involve personal security, assets security, information security, corporate governance, crime prevention and detection, investigation, prevention of frauds, compliance and ethics programs and risk managements.

Many times, in the organizations where there are poor security systems, various confidential data are accessed by the employees who are not concerned to such ...