Mapping Security: The Corporate Security Sourcebook For Today's Global Economy

Chapter 4. Building the Base

With coordinates established, you are ready to begin implementing a security map, and to do so you must take great care to maximize your global security investment. Expenditures must be matched with efficiency, which in this case means the ratio of money to true risk reduction. When harmonized with your freshly derived policy documents, you will see that the most fiscally responsible and securest infrastructure is driven from the top with clear strategic justification, prioritization, and timing. Building the base is a key to success that jumpstarts this process. It means using a step-by-step, phased approach that unifies common elements of a corporation’s security by thinking through where those elements exist. It ...