A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management

by Bruce Oliver Newsome

Overview

A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management is the first textbook to combine both security management and risk management. Its concepts and skills can be applied in all domains: business, public administration, public safety, criminology, computing, sports, tourism, agriculture, healthcare, education, intelligence, policing, and international relations.

This second edition adds the latest issues from pandemics, lockdowns, wars, crimes, and cyber risks, NEW "Expert Perspectives," NEW "Think about it" boxes, UPDATED "Official Standards," NEW "End-of-Chapter debates," NEW chapter summaries, questions, and exercises, and a glossary of definitions and abbreviations.

Consultant and professor Bruce Oliver Newsome Ph.D. helps readers to understand, analyze, assess, and manage security and risks.

Organized into 12 brief, accessible chapters, this book shows readers why security and risk management is becoming more important (Chapter 1), how to conceptualize, analyze, and assess security (Chapter 2), capacity (Chapter 3), risk (Chapter 4), hazards, threats, and contributors (Chapter 5), target exposure and vulnerability (Chapter 6), uncertainty and probability (Chapter 7), and events and returns (Chapter 8), how to develop more secure cultures, structures, and processes (Chapter 9), how to establish risk tolerability and sensitivity (Chapter 10), how to strategize and control intolerable risks (Chapter 11), and how to record, communicate, monitor, and audit security and risk management (Chapter 12).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951171100
Publisher:	Perseublishing
Publication date:	12/14/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Bruce Oliver Newsome, Ph.D., is a professor, researcher, trainer, and consultant in the policies & practices of risk, security, and defense. He is the author of more than 20 books, including the textbooks "Security and Risk Management" (2nd edition, 2023), "Homeland Security and Emergency Management" (2nd edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), "Countering New(est) Terrorism" (CRC Press, 2018), and "Research, Analysis, and Writing" (Sage, 2015). Professor Newsome is a graduate of FBI Citizens Academy, participates in Infragard and the Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force, and is certified in Infrastructure Liaison, open-source, imagery, and geospatial intelligence. At the RAND Corporation, he advised national governments on risk, security, and defense. He held standing faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, and University of California Berkeley. He is currently Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Security and Risk Management Matters
Chapter 2. Security and Capacity
Chapter 3. Risk
Chapter 4. Hazards, Threats, and Contributors
Chapter 5. Target Vulnerability and Exposure
Chapter 6. Probability and Uncertainty
Chapter 7. Events and Returns
Chapter 8. Cultures, Structures, and Processes for Managing Security and Risks
Chapter 9. Tolerability and Sensitivity
Chapter 10. Controls and Strategies
Chapter 11. Recording, Communicating, Assuring, and Auditing
Chapter 12. Operational and Logistical Security
Chapter 13. Physical (Site) Security
Chapter 14. Information, Communications, and Cyber Security
Chapter 15. Transport Security
Chapter 16. Personal Security

Editorial Reviews

"An enlightening and informative compendium of essential practices across the broad spectrum of security risk management. An excellent addition to any management library resource for their Security Management System, or a primer for introducing new managers to the intricacies of security and risk management."

John Piper

President of Bearing LLC; Manager, ExxonMobil Global Security Engineering and Risk Management (retired)

"An extremely well written book which offers the reader a functional comparison of methods of managing risk whilst providing new interpretations on the operational aspects of risk management. The author clearly describes differing standards and helps you navigate and understand the differences between them. An essential for any manager who actively engages in risk management on a daily basis."

Jennifer Catlin

Operations Manager, School of Health & Social Care, Bournemouth University

"Bruce Newsome has brought together the leading thinking and best practices in security risk management and synthesized them in a way that the student and practitioner of risk management can glean immediate benefit from the application of Dr. Newsome's systematic approach to the field. For the neophyte this book provides a structure for learning about and understanding the multidimensional sources of security risk; for the practitioner it updates best practices; for the general public it teaches us to see risks not as a paranoid looking into every corner or to facing life looking over one's shoulder, but as an element of management of our life, our work and the societal demands to minimize and manage risks responsibly."

Frank Plantan

Co-Director, International Relations Program, University of Pennsylvania

"Rich with examples and practical advice, "A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management" by Bruce Newsome offers a comprehensive overview of the salient issues relating to risk and security. The material here ties together work that draws from criminology, security studies, risk analysis, and more. The book expertly ties together conceptual, methodological and policy frameworks to produce an essential primer for students, researchers, and practitioners. Dr. Newsome adds important global context by including the standards that have been adopted by different countries to respond to security hazards and threats. This is a must read for anyone interested in risk assessment and management."

Leslie W. Kennedy

University Professor and Director, Rutgers Center on Public Security, Rutgers University

This book is well written and provides great theories on security aspects to make students think. It also gives lots of areas for further discussion providing answers but also opening the mind to other views. Great book that will become recommended to the college and students

Mr Gary Howard

Social Science, Hopwood Hall College

Strong level of academic context which supports the theoretical topics covered on a Sports Management pathway.

Mr Mike Rayner

Sport and Exercise Department, Portsmouth University

From the Publisher

"Bruce Newsome has brought together the leading thinking and best practices in security risk management and synthesized them in a way that the student and practitioner of risk management can glean immediate benefit from the application of Dr. Newsome's systematic approach to the field. For the neophyte this book provides a structure for learning about and understanding the multidimensional sources of security risk; for the practitioner it updates best practices; for the general public it teaches us to see risks not as a paranoid looking into every corner or to facing life looking over one's shoulder, but as an element of management of our life, our work and the societal demands to minimize and manage risks responsibly."

Frank Plantan

An enlightening and informative compendium of essential practices across the broad spectrum of security risk management. An excellent addition to any management library resource for their Security Management System, or a primer for introducing new managers to the intricacies of security and risk management.

John Piper

"Rich with examples and practical advice, “A Practical Introduction to Security and Risk Management” by Bruce Newsome offers a comprehensive overview of the salient issues relating to risk and security. The material here ties together work that draws from criminology, security studies, risk analysis, and more. The book expertly ties together conceptual, methodological and policy frameworks to produce an essential primer for students, researchers, and practitioners. Dr. Newsome adds important global context by including the standards that have been adopted by different countries to respond to security hazards and threats. This is a must read for anyone interested in risk assessment and management."

Leslie W. Kennedy

"An extremely well written book which offers the reader a functional comparison of methods of managing risk whilst providing new interpretations on the operational aspects of risk management. The author clearly describes differing standards and helps you navigate and understand the differences between them. An essential for any manager who actively engages in risk management on a daily basis."

Jennifer Catlin