Corporate & Homeland Security
The security practice philosophy: We believe that the more talented your security team the more secure your organization. The more secure your organization the more likely your long-term success and viability.
Services: Our corporate and homeland security executive search (and consulting) practice provides the following services. These services are:
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Identifying your organizational security needs and challenges.
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Defining the senior level executive manpower requirements.
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Developing the proper position specifications.
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Helping structure the executive organizational hierarchy to include a senior level executive security professional.
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Recruiting the best and brightest executives, and
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Selecting and screening the right security executive(s) to fill these positions.
The Chief Security Officer (CSO): The CSO is the executive responsible for the organization’s entire security posture, both physical and digital. In addition, the CSOs are frequently responsible for or participate closely in related areas such as business continuity planning, loss and fraud prevention, and privacy.
Several forces are driving this trend to combine all forms of security under a single organizational umbrella. At a tactical level, technology is being infused into physical security tools which are increasingly database-driven and network-delivered. At a strategic level, CEOs and corporate boards, motivated in part by regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, desire an enterprise-wide view of operational risk. And at a practical level, CSOs believe a holistically security function can deliver better security at lower cost.
IT security: The CISO, Vice President or Director of IT Security CSO is the executive responsible for the organization’s IT and cyber security posture. Historically, corporate security (CSO) and information security have been handled by separate (and sometimes feuding) departments, however, as noted above, this trend is changing as more companies see the value of placing the entire security function under a single umbrella.Today it is more typical for there to be a CSO and under him/her a director, IT Security.
In organizations where there is a need to separate the functions into two entirely different departments it is typical for the security office (CISO, VP, Dir,) to report to the CIO and the CSO to report to the COO, CEO or BOD.
Whatever your security talent needs we can help.