Successful Security Management Is a Matter of Appropriate Business Skills Applied to Security Experience

Security experience and business skills can be categorised to be the development of knowledge. This is a spontaneous process of reasoning that involves mental functions (Piaget, 1964). Various types of business organisations require essential business skills that are related to its sector of business, these skills generally increase effectiveness of decision making, directly or indirectly to the organisation. On the other hand, business experience increases business skills and hence credibility of each individual involved, automatically this enhances the success of security management in an organisation. Brooks (2010) analysed security in thirteen different categories, one of the major categories listed, was security management. The definition of security management has been difficult to define, based on the fact that security management has a multidimensional nature. Due to the limitation of this topic, this essay will critically discuss on the definition of security management and how possible it is to have successful security management. This essay will argue that security experience and business skills have a strong relationship and work in tandem. Although a security manager can possess either security experience or business skills they are not effective without each other. Business skills focus on achieving the aims and objectives of a business (Fay, 2005), whilst security experience is gained in a real security setting.   Security experience, on its own requires the individual to have encountered the situation before however, business skills can be learned and therefore applied to novel situations. Both are important and will increase efficiency if teamed together.

In the history of development in security management, “successful security management ” is a term that all security industries would like to be associated with; simply because for a security organisation to be termed successful it means that there has been a low count of security failure....