2017 was a very busy year for security professionals. Between multiple high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks, terrorist attacks and mass shootings, security leaders are still juggling the weighty responsibilities of risk mitigation, reputation management and loss prevention.
Below are some of Security magazine’s staff’s top articles of 2017, with trends, events and guides for security leaders in the New Year.
Editor-in-Chief Diane Ritchey
- The Las Vegas Massacre: The Anatomy of a Catastrophic Security Failure. While the investigation into the shooting continues, Tom Conley highlighted the reasons why the Las Vegas shooting was a dark day for security, as he says, instead of an opportunity for enterprise security to effectively and quickly mitigate a security incident and save lives.
- The Science of Shoplifting. Shoplifting is a larger problem than what most consumers believe. Theft and fraud cost U.S. retailers billions in annual losses, as well as generating violence. Shoplifting also drives up prices for paying customers and filling the coffers of gangs and terrorist organizations. Professional thieves view shoplifting as a science, and they have perfected some interesting methods to succeed and in some cases, to make a career out of it. It was a pleasure to speak with Dr. Reed Hayes and to learn how he gets into the minds of shoplifters and organized crime professionals.
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- Recruiting for Security Leadership Success, by Jerry Brennan, because so often, professionals, in any career, can be blind to their leadership abilities, or inabilities, I should say. Success in business is often determined by a role within an enterprise, how high you climb the corporate ladder, but once you get there, how are your peers and employees really seeing you? Are you succeeding because you have a title, or are you succeeding (or not) because of your day to day actions or inactions?
