Introducing the full spectrum of security risks along with their root causes from the political to the personal, this book provides practical knowledge of and skills in the management of security risks.

This is the first book to introduce the full spectrum of security and risks and their management. Author and field expert Bruce Newsome helps readers learn how to understand, analyze, assess, control, and generally manage security and risks from the personal to the operational. They will develop the practical knowledge and skills they need, including analytical skills, basic mathematical methods for calculating risk in different ways, and more artistic skills in making judgments and decisions about which risks to control and how to control them.

Organized into 16 brief chapters, the book shows readers how to: analyze security and risk; identify the sources of risk (including hazards, threats, and contributors); analyze exposure and vulnerability; assess uncertainty and probability; develop an organization’s culture, structure, and processes congruent with better security and risk management; choose different strategies for managing risks; communicate and review; and manage security in the key domains of operations, logistics, physical sites, information, communications, cyberspace, transport, and personal levels.

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