
Introduction
In April 2000, I was asked to make a presentation before the Research Security
Administrators at their annual meeting in Northern California. The topic I chose was, ‘‘As
threats evolve, so must the security profession.’’ We believe the material presented at that
conference to be even more topical today, especially with regard to what has happened to
the security profession since September 11, 2001. So, with some modification, we decided
to use this material as the Introduction for the third edition of this book. It is our
considered opinion that some otherwise intelligent people do not fully understand what
the security profession is