Security Leader Insights for Success

<p>Introduction</p> <p>Part 1: The Skills Needed for Successful Security Leadership</p> <p>1. The Art of Leadership<br>Experienced corporate security executives share some of the secrets to their success and the resources they relied on to get there.</p> <p>2. Be the Great Motivator<br>Learn to motivate and engage your staff so they will be more likely to want to work with you to better security.</p> <p>3. Becoming a Business Leader<br>If everyone in security acts like a leader, the security program will achieve greater success and better alignment with business goals.</p> <p>4. Finding Time: Time Management Strategies for the Busy Security Leader<br>Keep your sanity while getting it all done with these time management tools and tricks.</p> <p>5. Leading Up: Or, How to Build a Positive Relationship with Your Manager<br>Strong leadership isn’t just about how you relate to the people below you on the reporting ladder: it’s also about how you relate to those above.</p> <p>6. Understanding Your Corporate Culture<br>Don’t underestimate the effects a new security measure will have on your corporate culture.</p> <p>7. Rebuilding Influence after Corporate Restructuring<br>Learn how to rebuild security’s influence after a business reorganization with these essential strategies.</p> <p>8. Managing Expectations<br>Experienced security professionals share best practices for managing the expectations of senior management.</p> <p>9. Running Security like a Business<br>Help improve the business bottom line by aligning the security program with business needs and goals.</p> <p>10. Becoming a Next Generation Security Leader<br>Get a little closer to realizing your future career with these strategies and best practices for Next Generation Security Leadership.</p> <p>Part 2: Building Your Toolkit</p> <p>11. Developing Meaningful Security Metrics<br>Experienced practitioners explain how to deliver meaningful metrics that are used to inform management and improve security effectiveness.</p> <p>12. Setting Realistic Goals that Align with Business Interests<br>Learn how to recognize if your organization is ready to buy-in to security’s strategic plan—before you try to implement it.</p> <p>13. The New Security Assessment<br>Ensure management will act upon your recommendations with these tips for conducting and presenting a security assessment.</p> <p>14. Expect the Best: Evaluating Your Security Staff<br>Guarantee your security staff are the best-in-class with these proven employee evaluation guidelines.</p> <p>15. Business Evolution Requires Active Security Alignment<br>Experienced security professionals share strategies for ensuring that security is aligned with the business’s structure, goals, and strategies.</p> <p>16. Emerging Issue Awareness<br>One veteran security professional discusses the value of emerging issue awareness, its challenges, and tips for staying aware.</p> <p>17. Planning for Change<br>Effective strategic planning tips from experienced security practitioners for security and risk management leaders.</p> <p>18. Reinventing Security<br>Learn how to overhaul your security department following a drastic organizational change or due to functional flaw with these lessons in reinventing security. </p> <p>Part 3: Looking Forward</p> <p>19. Security’s Role in Corporate Social Responsibility<br>Planning strategies for security leaders being asked to run corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs.</p> <p>20. Advances and Stalemates in Security<br>Reflections on how security leaders have made recent advancements, and where they seem to have hit a wall.</p> <p>21. Addressing the Knowledge Transfer Gap<br>Begin to think about how to pass on your accumulated strategic security knowledge to your peers, staff, or successors with these ideas for a new kind of training program.</p> <p>22. Eleven Ways to Encourage Strategic Thinking<br>Boost the strategic thinking and planning skills of your direct reports by encouraging them to take on these 11 key strategic areas.</p> <p>23. Risk at High Velocity<br>Strategies for preparing nimble, resourceful, and creative security solutions that match the speed of new kinds of threats and risks security faces.</p> <p>24. What Will Security Look like in 2020?<br>Risk strategy guidelines for the ever-evolving and complex nature of business, and predictions for what security could be in the year 2020.</p>