Operating any business involves taking risks. Business owners must constantly evaluate what combination of people, money, time and resources it will take to experience success. One of the most critical resources a business needs to consider is security.
What are the best ways to protect the essential financial, physical, intellectual and human assets at the heart of your company?
Many organizations find it tremendously useful to have an outside expert’s perspective when working to shore up corporate security. When it comes to assessing something different than your own core business activities, sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. But when the stakes are so high, getting it right really matters.
Since 1989, SACS Consulting has provided unparalleled expertise in threat assessment and security solutions for organizations of all types and sizes. As leading authorities in helping businesses manage risk, we are an ideal choice to assist you in asking the right questions and devising the right solutions to provide your company with the security it needs to thrive.
What is Corporate Security?
Corporate Security is a cover-all term for all the things an organization does to help protect its critical assets from threats. Risks to your physical property (buildings, equipment, etc.), your people (employees, board, volunteers, and clients), your technologies (hardware, software, communications, processes, and more), finances, data, operational continuity, and even your ideas, can come from anywhere. As such, investing in appropriate security measures should be an important consideration for every size business.
What makes for an effective corporate security plan?
Effective corporate security makes use of a combination of people, processes, and technology to protect the organization from negative events and situations. From identifying, monitoring, and deterring or mitigating threats to managing any physical crises or incursions that do occur, a comprehensive security protocol is a business’ best protection.
Deciding how your company will identify, monitor and deter threats, and how to manage crises when they do occur, should start with a thorough security assessment. The assessment should include a review of the assets that need protection as well as potential risks to the organization.
But a deeper dive is required to formulate a successful strategy. Review the policies and procedures you currently have in place to minimize risks and respond to crises, to communicate between and among executives, management, and employees, and to manage changes appropriately as needed.
How can SACS Consulting help with Corporate Security?
Expert Security Assessment Services
Don’t know where to start a review of your current corporate security posture? Hire a SACS security expert to perform a comprehensive evaluation. We review your physical environment inside and out, your technologies, even whether your personnel, policies and procedures are properly poised to support an effective security posture. And once the assessment is completed, we provide a thorough report and concrete advice tailored to your specific needs. Learn more about the benefits of a professional security assessment here.
Expert Support – and Personnel – for your Next Steps
Because we take your safety seriously, SACS goes way beyond assessment and advisory services to help you protect your building and your people. We provide you with best-practice solutions to put in place, as well as our own personnel, if desired, to ensure your organization’s total safety.
Policies, Procedures and Training
An organization’s collective safety is really only as good as the people trained and committed to deploying it effectively. Do you have policies and procedures in place to effect a safe and secure work environment? Do your entire team have the training in those policies and procedures to competently carry them out? Does your workplace culture support the kind of interpersonal cooperation and continuous improvement necessary to ensure your personnel will actually adhere to them?
Your organization’s Human Resources ethos and activity is at least as important to your corporate security as the locks on your doors and the encryption for your sensitive digital files. SACS’ experts can also help you in this critical arena as well! Put our 30+ years of HR expertise to work helping you develop and deploy sound HR policies and procedures that will improve workplace culture and mitigate security risks at the same time.
Highly-trained Personnel
Often when people think of security at a business, they picture a guard sitting at a desk. However, the competencies as well as the responsibilities of a guard may be quite varied.
SACS security personnel are highly-trained officers who can protect your property and your people, and also respond effectively to a wide variety of emergencies. Our uniformed security officers can:
- Control access to your venue. Access control protects employees, guests, and event attendees, and acts as a physical deterrent against potential threats. Instead of relying solely on automated locks, a trained security guard can manage visitor logs, issue temporary badges, and grant precise access.
- Access control also helps protect confidentiality. Our guards can ensure that only authorized personnel enter the building, in order to prevent corporate espionage, interruptions, or uninvited guests from disrupting sensitive meetings.
- Provide safe escort to and from vehicles and after dark, when commercial buildings and parking lots are more vulnerable. Our guards can also accompany and protect high-profile attendees in and around your venue. (See Executive Protection /VIP Security Services for more information on our services for high-profile individuals.)
- Protect assets: Our security officers keep a watchful eye on office, meeting, and event spaces to prevent the theft of expensive laptops, presentation equipment, or proprietary documents. We can make use of your venue’s surveillance equipment, or bring our own.
- Effect appropriate Emergency Response: All of our security officers are trained in numerous emergency medical and crisis prevention techniques, as well as various means of active response. (You can review our full complement of security officer training here). They work with law enforcement proactively if trouble is expected. And if a medical emergency, fire, severe weather, or attack occurs, guards will immediately coordinate with emergency services and facilitate safe evacuations.
Ready to improve your organization’s corporate security posture?
Contact our Director of Operations, Tom Still, today.