Securing Global Transportation Networks: A Total Security Management Approach

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Viable, value-creating solutions for securing global transportation networks

Securing Global Transportation Networks demonstrates how improved security processes can create value across all the business functions throughout an entire value chain. Readers will learn a whole new security management philosophy, as explained through domestic and international examples and case studies ranging from major retailers such as Home Depot to shipping giants such as Maersk and FedEx. This book also looks ahead to future developments and "best practices" for the future. If you're charged with making or evaluating transportation security decisions, you'll find the tools you need to succeed -- and prosper -- with the Total Security Management approach.

• Explains globalization's impact on transportation networks
• Creates a framework for realizing a return on security investments by integrating it as a core business process
• Details how transportation firms, investors, and insurance companies can measure and reward smart security practices that protect a firm's fixed assets, assets in transit, brand equity and goodwill, and human capital

INSIDE:

• Global Trade and Total Security Management
• The Total Security Management Framework
• Creating Value: The Case for TSM
• The Risk Management Approach to TSM
• Securing Fixed Assets
• Securing Assets in Transit
• Securing Brand Equity and Goodwill
• Securing Human Capital
• TSM and Business Continuity Planning
• The End of the Beginning

Excellent book, written by three veterans of the industry and featuring a foreword by Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security...the authors develop in the book the concept of Total Security Management, and use compelling case studies to illustrate their point that a secure business is a successful business...The book further demonstrates the financial benefits of investing in security, and also how to protect physical corporate assets, whether they be fixed or goods in transit...this book is a must for anyone working in or around global transportation industries.
-- Reviewer: Rob Ballister--Military Writers Society of America Board Member, 9/24/08

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  Securing Global Transportation Networks: A Total Security Management Approach

  • 2006-10-23
  • 312 pages
  • Ebook
  • McGraw Hill Professional

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