Healing Threads or Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials

Healing Threads: Traditional Medicines of the Highlands and Islands

Author: Mary Beith

A fascinating guide to the traditions of the ancient Gaelic pharmacy, with a directory of remedies and practices.

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Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials

Author: Mary Clifford

Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials gives readers a rare, hands-an approach to the study of security issues. Written in a clear and easy-to-understand style, this new text from Prentice Hall will help readers understand the history and fundamentals of security.

Special features of Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials

• Newspaper articles, case studies, and other examples bring the material to life
• Sample security tools — including a physical security survey
• Each chapter concludes with review questions and detailed discussion questions
• Wide array of appendices cover security careers, associations and certifications, Internet resources, and a historical security timeline

Identifying and Exploring Security Essentials goes beyond technical security information to show how to actively identify, meet, and evaluate security objectives in multiple environments. This book provides test cases and activities for readers to review, evaluate, and critique. These activities will help readers become confident in their abilities as they identify, research, and explore multiple levels of security-related information.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. I	Reviewing the Basics	1
Ch. 1	A History of Private Security: A Pervasive Enterprise	37
Ch. 2	Identifying the Essentials	64
Ch. 3	Studying Security Threats and the Related Risk Levels	91
Ch. 4	A Prevention System Overview: Defining the Overall Security Objective	102
Pt. II	Internal Resources and Integration: Identifying Resources from Within	119
Ch. 5	Physical Security and Asset Protection	123
Ch. 6	Information and Computer Security	142
Ch. 7	Personnel and Security Management	163
Ch. 8	Integration as the Centerpiece: Meeting Overall Security Objectives	192
Ch. 9	A Sampling of Settings	213
Pt. III	Exploring Essential External Connections	235
Ch. 10	Public and Private Police Interactions	237
Ch. 11	Legal Liability Issues	270
Ch. 12	Preparing an Emergency Plan and a Disaster Response	287
Ch. 13	Securing Tomorrow: Drafting the Future of Public Safety	303
Ch. 14	Review of the Target Environments	319
App. A	Basic Security Plan	323
App. B	Company X Request for Proposal: Contract Security Service Specifications	342
App. C	Protection Officer Code of Ethics	359
App. D	Security Time Line	365
	Index	373