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15. People Controls

Raymond Pompon

(1)Seattle, Washington, USA

Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas.

—Henry Thomas Buckle

There’s a lot in this book so far about working with people. As the element with the greatest variability in your security program, people can make or break your efforts to manage risk. This chapter focuses on controls explicitly for dealing with people. In most sizable organizations, ...

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