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Monitoring Safeguards
‘‘In God we trust, everyone else we monitor.’’
—Anonymous FBI inspector
The security professional may be called upon to review or design all the security for
a company. If a facility has a security system in place, the security professional may be
asked to review it. The system, upon review, will prove to be either adequate or inade-
quate in meeting the needs or objectives of the company, which generally can be defined
as the protection of assets.
MONITORING OR TESTING THE EXISTING SYSTEM
One technique for making an adequacy determination is to monit or or test the
existing security program and syste ms to determine whether