Security training – management reading list

Below is a suggested reading list for candidates studying security management level 3 or level 4:

Effective Security Management (Hardcover)
by Charles A. Sennewald CPP (Author) “The structural framework of an organization is a vehicle for accomplishing the purposes for which a company or a department is established …”

Atkins, Clare and Sampson, Jennifer (2002) Critical appraisal guidelines for single case study research. Available at webpage http://is2.lse.ac.uk/asp/aspecis/20020011.pdf  accessed on 3 December 2008

Axt, D. A. (2002) ‘Is Security Management a Profession: Perceptions are everything’. Security Management. Vol. 46 (8):141-144: Leicester: Perpetuity Press. 

Effective security management
 Charles A. Sennewald – 2003 – 395 pages
This latest edition of Effective Security Management retains the qualities that made the previous editions a standard of the profession: a readable, comprehensive guide to the planning, staffing, and operation of the security function …
Strategic security management: a risk assessment guide for … – Page viii
 Karim H. Vellani – 2007 – 389 pages
Chapter 10: Chapter 11: Chapter 12: Chapter 13: Chapter 14: Chapter 15: Chapter 16: Security Measures: Physical Security, 183 Security Measures: Deploying Physical Security, 217 Security Measures: Personnel, 231 Project Management, …
Information Security Management Handbook – Page 136
 Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause – 2009 – 392 pages
On the flip side, if it appears that management is not involved, the systems are wide open, and it is easy to … special attention to the insider threat should be built into our security programs. further reading Herold, R. April 2008. …
Encyclopedia of security management – Page 276
 John Fay – 2007 – 649 pages
For medium- to low-level access control security requirements, electronic card reading systems are adequate after a person has first been identified at some exterior perimeter location. …

Barber, B. (1983) The Logic and Limits of Trust. New York: Rutgers University Press, USA

Berelson, Bernard (1952) CONTENT RESEARCH as quoted in Busha and Harter: Research Methods in Librarianship – Techniques and Interpretation.  New York: Academic

Bluestone, Mike (2008) Director of security consulting at the CIA Excel Group: Interviewed at 14h30 on 19 November 2008   at City of London

Borodzicz, E. (2006) Risk, Crisis and Security Management, London: John Wiley and sons, 2005

Button, M. (2008) Doing Security: Critical Reflections and an Agenda for Change, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Clifford, B. (2009) Door Supervisor Trainer:  Symbiont Training: Interviewed at 15h00 on 4 December 2008 London

Creswell, D. (2008) Director ARC Security Management Training. Interviewed at 16h30 on 19 November 2008 at Streatley.

Dalton, D.R. (1995) Security Management. Butterworth-Heinnemann: United States of America.

Dickenson, David (2008) CEO British Security Industry Association. Interview at 14h00 on 07 November 2008 at Worcester.

Doust, Laurie (2008) Chairman of the Association of Security Consultants (ASC), Interviewed at 13h00 on 28 November 2008 at London.

Durkheim, E. (1957) Professional Ethics and Civic Morals: London

Freidson, E. (1967) Professionalism, the third logic. Oxford: Polity Press

Freidson, E. (1994) Professionalism Reborn, Theory, Prophecy and Policy. Oxford: Polity Press

Garcia, M.L. (2000) ‘Raising the Bar for Security Professionals’, Security Journal Vol.5

Garcia, M.L. (2001) Design and Evaluation of Physical Protection Systems. USA: Butterworth and Heineman.

George, B. and Button, M. (2000) Private Security. Leicester: Perpetuity Press.

George, B. and Button, M. (1997) Private Security Regulation – Lessons from Abroad for the United Kingdom. International Journal of Risk Security and Crime Prevention. Vol 2, No 3, pp 109-121.

Gibson, S. & Borodzicz, E. (2006) ‘Corporate Security Education: towards meeting the challenge’, Security Journal 19: 180-195. Perpetuity Press Leicester.

Gibson S.T. (2007) Regulated Security Companies versus a Professional Security Sector: A cautionary tale. Journal of Security Management, Vol 5 No 1. Cranfield University UK.

 Giever, D. (2007) Security education: Past, present and the future. Security Journal 20(1): 23-26, Perpetuity Press Leicester.

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