LEA 103

• Secure is derived from the latin word

  Securus or Se cura
• which means "safe" or "without care"

  securus
• means "free from"

  Se
• means "care"


  cura
• could mean being free from danger, risk, injury, fear, trouble, doubt, or anxiety.

  Secure
• defined as the degree of protection or resistance agaisnt harm, danger, loss, and criminals.

  Security
• the separation of an asset and a threat

  security
• anything tangible or intangible that is capable of being owned or controlled to produce value

  Asset
• the uncertainty of financial loss, the probability that a loss hass occured or will occur, the variations between actual and expected results, or the possible occurence of an undesirable event.

  risk
• is anything that could adversely affect assets

  Threat
• means weakness, flaw, or virtually anything that may conceivably be exploited by a threat.

  Vulnerability
• Categories of Security

  • Physical Security
  • Personnel Security
  • Document or Information Security
• pertains to all physical barriers employed or installed to secure assets

  Physical Security
• refers to the procedure followed, inquiries conducted, and criteria applied to determine the work suitability of a particular applicant or the retention of a particular employee.

  Personnel Security
• refers to policies, regulations , doctrines, and practices enforced to safeguard the contents and integrity of any classified information or document from compromise or loss

  Document or Information Security
• involving governments or entities that hold authority or power

  Political Security
• Political Security

  • Public Security
  • National Security
  • International Security
• refers to the way governments are ensuring the protection of its citizens, organizations and institutions against threats

  Public Security
• the requirement to maintain the survival of a state through the use of economic power, diplomacy, and political power.

  National Security
• consist of the measures taken by nations and international organizations to ensure mutual survival and safety.

  International Security
• Private Security

  • Industrial Security
  • Bank and Armor Security
  • Hotel Security
  • VIP Security
  • Operational Security
  • Communication Security
  • Mall/Commercial Security
• is a form of physical security involving industrial plants and business enterprises.

  Industrial Security
• Involves the protection resulting from the application of various measures which safeguards cash and assets in storage, in transit, or during transaction.

  Bank and Armor Security
• involves using various measures of protection for the guests, personnel properties and functions in hotels, restaurants, bars and clubs.

  Hotel Security
• involves the protection of top ranking officials of the government, visiting persons of illustrious standing and foreign dignitaries.

  VIP Security
• involves the protection of processes, formula, patents and industrial and manufacturing activities from espionage, infiltration, loss, compromise or infringement.

  Operational Security
• involves the safeguard resulting from the application of different measures which prevent or delay the enemy or unathorized person from gaining information through communication including transmission and cryptographic.

  Communication Security
• is the degree of preotection agaisnt danger, loss, and crime inside malls. As a form of protection, it refersto systems, structures and processes that provide or improve mall security as a condition.

  Mall/Commercial Security
• Security Managent has become an essential feature of corporate activity, there is almost no organization without a team dedicated to managing issues of security.
• the Greeks were the ones who organized the first Police Force in city states which they termed Polis
• The Romans established the Praetorian Guards known as Vigiles who were tasked to be fire fighters
• the French armed a group of carefully selected men called Shire or Sheriff to look after the peace and order of the different regions.
• greatest influence in the history of security came from England
• 1655, Oliver Cromwell set up in England and Wales a police force that operated to capture and punish criminals.
• 1748 Henry Fielding introduced the concept of crime prevention by organizing citizen patrols or watchmen
• Sir Robert Peel formed the first formal police department
• During Colonial period in the United States, immigrants from England, Ireland, and Scotland came to American shores bringing with them this British approach to policing.
• Watchman form of Security was to become the early version of private security practices that endure to this day.
• Pre-colonial period in the Philippines, the sovereign monarchs called Datu or Lakan
• Datu or Lakan has servants called

  aliping namamahay