How to Sale Security from a Physical Security Standpoint to a Cultural Standpoint as an Investment and not a Liability or an Asset Drain for a Company

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

Rationale of Study4

Aims and Objectives7

Research Questions7

CHAPTER 2:LITERATURE REVIEW9

Security and Organizational Culture9

Organizational Effectiveness11

Related Models14

Supplementary Studies14

CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY18

Research Design and its Justification18

Literature Search and Data Collection Procedure20

Critical Analysis21

Limitations22

Ethical Dilemmas23

Reliability and validity24

Role of the researcher24

CRITICAL PATH25

CHAPTER 4: FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS28

RQ1: How to sale security from a physical security standpoint to a cultural standpoint as an investment and not a liability or an asset drain for a company?29

RQ2: What is the value of an integrated security system (physical and logical) to the whole organization?30

RQ3: How can physical security be leverage for the entire organization?31

RQ4: What should security functions be in today's economic environment?33

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION36

REFERENCES41

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

Global Organizations have been spending a significant amount of time of money trying to assess the risks that their organizations are prone to. Many companies have understood the necessity of taking preventive measures in order to protect the overall organization from any possible risks. However one major shortcoming regarding security systems has been their failure to fulfill their purpose rendering the organization at a potential risk. The most widely acclaimed reason behind such issues arising is due to the lack of understanding regarding security systems. Lack of understanding can lead to greater problems and a fair amount of money also goes to waste. Hence there is a greater need for thoroughly planning security changes needed within an organization in order to ensure the system meets the needs to the organization. Information technology organizations face a greater challenge against threats since online security threats are numerous and need to be dealt with in advance in order to avoid any possible breaches within the organization. This dissertation focuses on understanding how upper management can be convinced regarding security upgrades within the organization, which are planned strategically and meet their ultimate goal.

Background of Study

Organizational security practices have long been exalted in the academic and practitioner literatures (Wright, 2001; Tomarken & Waller, 2005; Thomas & Loader, 2000; Shi, 2007). The claimed benefits have gone beyond the simple reduction of risk to extend to performance improvements throughout the enterprise (Taleb, 2007). Despite the purported benefits of managing risks, organizational security is not practiced in a number of important business contexts including ...