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Corporate security for the 21st century

The project highlights a number of practices – some current, others aspirational – which constitute a manifesto for twenty-first-century corporate security.

A fruitless fixation on terrorist attacks

Posted by Charlie Edwards at 12:00am on Thursday, 29th June 2006

Today we launched The Business of Resilience, a new report on how companies must align security with their business objectives. We had a comment piece in Wednesday's Financial Times which argued that the approach of UK companies following the London bombings of July 2005 compared favourably with the heavy-handed response of corporate America to the attacks of September 2001.

While companies take the threat of terrorism seriously, we found that most UK businesses do not regard it as the main threat to their security. In a survey we conducted in the early part of 2006, over 50 corporate security chiefs from FTSE 250 companies and their equivalents, 65 percent ranked terrorism as only the fifth most important security challenge facing their company, after crime, IT security, fraud, and natural disasters.

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