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Running Head: Essay

“BASIC SECURITY MANAGEMENT''

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Research Question:

1. What is the best security system for a building (i.e., shopping mall, school,

gymnasium, hospital) or workplace to all understand, navigate, and stop the

spread of this pandemic?

Introduction:

The crisis unleashed by COVID-19 today undeniably holds a priority spot on the agenda

of organizations buildings. Changes that have historically happened in months or years are

occurring very rapidly today. The level of doubt about the pandemic's length and consequences

in the short and long term is also very high. Most recently published global studies show that

most companies have robust risk management systems (Chang et al., 2020; Richter & Wilson

2020). Thus, Richter & Wilson (2020) study “The State of Risk Supervision” indicates that 30% of

respondents have mature risk management systems. Global Audit Committee Survey, this

percentage amounts to 56%. However, only 25% of -30% include processes to identify emerging

or disruptive strategic risks, even though they continue to focus on top Management. This

shows that the Management of emerging risks remains an opening issue. In the face of events

such as the coronavirus, it is more important than ever to adopt a proactive risk management

approach. In this period of covid-19 workplaces needs to be secured without any impersonal

security. This case study discusses the workplace of a business enterprise.

Levers to strengthen security management after COVID-19

Einstein said, "in the middle of the difficulty is the opportunity." Below from Chang et al.

(2020), we present some keys to reinforce risk management after COVID-19 or add some

debate elements on risk management after this crisis. The security management process should
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help the Management and the governing bodies to have a holistic vision of the most critical

risks of the entity that affect its strategic objectives, allowing them to evaluate their

connectivity and potential joint impact throughout the organization. Thus, for example, COVID-

19 is an event that has revealed the connectivity of risks of different types, such as the delay or

interruption of the supply of raw materials or deliveries to customers, changes in the demand

for customers, rising costs, Issues about the security of employee health and welfare,

inadequate personnel or problems related to import and export activities.

Constant dialogue on emerging risks by Management and governing bodies can help to

identify additional risks or avoid mismanagement of risks. For this reason, it is very important to

establish a systematic process by which the Management maintains a solid debate with the

governing bodies on the main risks and check if there is an agreement between them on the

most critical risks for the workplace. We also consider it relevant to establish, from the security

managers, a process to induce the Management and governing bodies to think outside the

status quo and to be able to identify unknown but “knowable” risks. This will make it easier for

them to identify black swans.

Security management and strategic planning

According to Chang et al. (2020), less than half of organizations formally consider

existing risk exposures when evaluating potential new strategic opportunities and less than a

quarter when reviewing the strategic plan. In our view, organizations' security management

process should provide important strategic information on long-term risks and not focus only

on operational or compliance issues. The main risks identified in the security management

process should be assigned to the most important strategic initiatives. This leads to a great
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interaction between security managers and those responsible for the strategic planning process

for the workplace's safety.

Key indicators for a prospective view of security

Security indicators are a key element to monitor the main risks. Most organizations have

many key performance indicators (KPIs) to help them monitor business performance. However,

it is important to remember that KPIs are historical and only focus on the business's internal

aspects. We consider that it is important that the Management has metrics or warning signals

that look to the future. Furthermore, based on the monitoring of both internal and external

trends clear “trigger points” have been defined that indicate when action needs to be taken

and under what circumstances executives can “skip” those pre-set trigger points.

Preparation for the Management of significant events

While robust security management, the process cannot be expected to prevent and

manage all types of risks that may arise. Organizations that invest time and resources in

engaging senior management and governing bodies in dialogues about risk management on an

ongoing basis are better able to deal with significant security. It is also important to have

a detailed “crisis management manual” on how they will respond if one of the organization's

main risk exposures arises significantly, taking into account all aspects (people, processes,

technology, etc.). In summary, COVID-19 is an example of a disruptive event that can affect the

workplace and reflect on corporate security management.

Issues identified with security the executives during a pandemic.

An everywhere pandemic occasion will congestion existing assets, foundation, and

innovation, prompting huge corruption of items and administrations. As assets become

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compelled, organizations should continually re-focus on conveying items and administrations

that are basic to addressing client needs and giving business and workplace security.

It is also essential to have an exhaustive comprehension of the exercises that should be

focused on to authorize powerful repositioning of accessible assets (workplace). The workplace

should have a reported need system, including related danger resilience, upheld by a sincere

administration cycle to settle on danger acknowledgement choices (for instance, the

interference of specific administrations) during an occasion.

To minimize transparency and anticipate or moderate the transmission of the outbreak,

a pandemic expects officials to stay at home, demanding the action of far-off job skills. A

pandemic will cause the complete shutdown of the entire office in a territory, as opposed to a

rare temperature occurrence that can make a few officials work from home, compelling

enormous quantities of workers to telecommute for an all-encompassing period. This, thus, can

prompt heavier-than-ordinary movement on distant availability workplace.

The workplace ought to put resources into apparatuses that permit staff to work from

home, survey their existing data transfer to support remote-jobs, guide periodic tension checks

for the workplace, and differentiate workarounds for basic activities that can not be done from

home. Although working from home is an acceptable choice for the assistance region, it also

does not work for assembly, which has simple product consequences. Organization’s workplace

should challenge and extend the restrictions of customary elasticity aims to adapt to plague

times. A subset of the traditional procedures during a pandemic, like, moving labour to elective

areas, migrating the worker’s strength, and expanding staffing choices, might not be possible,

as staff and elective locales influenced. Besides, the debasement of fundamental foundations,
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such as public vehicles, media transportations, and the Internet, can present new issues for

enacting plans and systems. The workplace should cautiously plan various procedures; for

instance, contracts between members to rethink work or substitute providers in the store

network to conquer these challenges and prepare for areas of high manual intercession and

concentration risks, including single disappointment uses (Wang et al., 2020).

The workplace should approve that agreement have been set up between auxiliaries

starting with one country then onto the next. To diminish the vulnerability of terms, rates,

instalments, and administrative prerequisites; information trade arrangements are tended to in

agreements (for instance, the necessities of the General Data Protection Regulation); and, as

needed in controlled businesses, proper licenses are accessible to play out the extra work.

Additionally, thought ought to be given to setting up conditions in later stages. For instance, if a

project worker onboarding is moved in the influenced district, thought should be given to

having capacities somewhere else that could be actuated rapidly (McAleer, (2020).

Today, the workplace prolonged their interconnection, For example, with third

meetings, outsider merchants, cloud expert co-ops, data processors, aggregators, instalment

processors, and suppliers for products and administration transmission. Such strangers are also

powerless against pandemic occurrences. The workplace should build up a profound

comprehension of their basic third, fourth and fifth suppliers and their flexibility programs, and

create elective plans, for instance, disguise or substitution techniques, if the basic outsider's

capacity to convey administrations is weakened.

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In any case, when arranging these outsiders other options, organizations should

perceive that their companions and rivals might go to similar outsiders for help during a market

infection, which conveys a danger of fixation. The workplace ought to assess outsider limit and

data transfer capacity considering these market conditions and, where conceivable, investigate

freedoms to fuse authoritative statements that permit organizations to focus on items and

administrations comparative with their rivals.

The workplace should practice security in the board organization and reaction to an

emergency, including chief pioneers and appointments of power at any rate two levels beneath

essential leaders. The representatives are decidedly ready to execute ideal choices on the off

chance that paramount chiefs are inaccessible. Likewise, organizations ought to remember

basic outsiders tabletop reenactments to more readily get interdependencies and coordination

focuses and evaluate their versatility plans' adequacy.

FIVE factors to be considered to improve security management during a pandemic.

Now that the coronavirus has completely changed, the way many companies act and,

therefore, many employees have been telecommuting for months, it is more important than

ever to reinforce cybersecurity levels. For this reason, the company Check Point Software

Technologies, specialized in cybersecurity, warned about five mistakes that companies make

when designing their main security strategies:

1. Despite being an essential element in any company, hardly any security measures are

used to protect corporate email. However, according to the Threat Intelligence

Report by Check Point, email is the main attack vector by cybercriminals against

companies: 7 out of 10 malicious files arrive through email. Likewise, the company's
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report indicates that a third of malicious files have the .exe extension; that is, they are

executable files that, once the user clicks, start downloading computer viruses on the

computer. Therefore, securing this asset is key since it is one of the most used ways to

share corporate information, especially due to teleworking.

2. Teleworking has driven the migration to the cloud. Due to the circumstances, this

process has carried out quickly but without the necessary security measures. In fact,

according to Wang et al. (2020), 3 out of 4 companies are concerned or very concerned

about cloud security, with 68% pointing to misconfiguration as the top cybersecurity

concern. Added to this is the fact that more than half of the companies (52%) believe

that the risk of security breaches in cloud infrastructures is greater.

3. Now that more personal and corporate devices were connected to the corporate

network, the risk of not having robust protection is much greater. Therefore,

implementing security measures on mobile devices such as laptops, tablets, or

smartphones is essential to protect a company against cyberattacks. To remedy this, it is

essential to equip these products with security software that prevents access to its

stores and threat prevention software.

4. With the new remote work model, millions of professionals work from home through

their home Internet connection, relying on their basic security provider, without using a

VPN (Virtual Private Networks) to access corporate information remotely. Therefore,

from Check Point, they warn of the need to use this type of security measures since they

encrypt the flow of information between the computer and the server, preventing a

cybercriminal from accessing it.

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5. Most companies place great value on external threats but rarely consider the errors in

their system. To prevent these types of threats from affecting companies, it is essential

to promote employees' training to identify and block cyberattacks and, with this, be able

to avoid consequences such as the blocking of devices or files or the theft of confidential

data. It is important to remember that with this type of cybersecurity training, the

company will make its staff the first barrier to protect the company against cyberattacks

(Wang et al., 2020).

FIVE mistakes to avoid in security management during a pandemic.

 Security management the focus of operations is primarily monitored in the affected

area. These times may have an appropriate bearing on the reasonableness of tasks,

considering the high severity, potential human consequences, and the more influential

disease impact; organizations can understand the repercussions for their workplace and

establish explicit emergency board annexes around the pandemic hazards.

 The annexes should fill in the board framework and conventions as simple structures by

which organizations can encourage reaction to government, state, and community

experts, regardless of their event reaction and emergency, to respond viably to these

occasions.

 Additionally, workplaces may recommend reaching impacted consumers to verify their

safety and provide assistance where necessary.

 During any emergency, effective correspondences are urgent to keeping up client trust,

reestablishing worker resolve and trust, and keeping upmarket steadiness.

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 Companies should advance the suggestions, assets, and wellbeing safety efforts

endorsed by worldwide, public and neighbourhood associations, and wellbeing

authorities, and abstain from circulating materials that might be in inconsistency,

producing disarray and dread among the representatives.

Summary:

There are huge contrasts between business building brought about by regular, man-made,

mechanical, or operational disappointments and those brought about by pandemic occasions.

These distinctions endure because of the likely expansion in the scale, seriousness, and length

of pandemic occasions, expecting associations to go past customary versatility arranging

procedures. Organizations should join pandemic arranging contemplations into existing

flexibility the board exercises to give a complete reaction and progression for their most basic

items and administrations.

The scale can likewise shift, and to date has been provincially thought for certain

worldwide effects; we have not yet seen a devastating worldwide pandemic, albeit this

remaining part a chance.

1. Communicate with representatives to bring issues to light, uphold arrangements (for

example, travel limitations), and acclimate them with accessible devices and assets

2. If arranging contemplations for the pandemic have not been consolidated into existing

business progression, and fiasco recuperation methodologies or have not been refreshed,

rapidly start arranging or refreshing the techniques and activities pandemic.

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3. Conduct a quick evaluation of cycles and capacities with hefty manual mediation and

basic outsider dependence, particularly in high-effect and weakness areas, to comprehend key

dangers, including single purposes of disappointment

4. Review the emergency correspondence plan and assign single purposes of contact to

encourage consistent correspondence with the neighbourhood, public and worldwide

specialists, and other key inward and outside partners

5. Identify potential approach special cases and organization an emergency the board

exemption endorsement interaction to oversee such special cases on a sped-up premise in

every locale

6. Confirm that representatives have the vital abilities, including admittance to shared

drives, reports, and other basic apparatuses, to perform basic errands distantly

7. Review applicable standard working methods and manuals and update as vital

8. Monitor the circumstance and give customary briefings to pioneers on any dangers or

issues that emerge

9. Ask representatives to affirm and refresh contact data (essential and auxiliary) in

organization records, depending on the situation

10. Conduct a short pandemic preparation with workers to improve the readiness of

representatives and the association to react successfully.

An association's primary goal during a pandemic ought to be the wellbeing and prosperity

of its staff. Representatives can't zero in on occupation duties when their prosperity and their

family are in harm's way. Accordingly, the basic inquiry that organizations should address

toward the beginning of a pandemic occasion is whether their representatives are protected,
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trailed by whether they are accessible to perform basic capacities. Significantly, organizations

can screen the circumstance, give a protected working environment and offer their

representatives the help they need (McAleer, 2020).

Instances of representative help may incorporate encouraging admittance to inside and

outside assets (for instance, World Health Organization, SOS International, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention), administrations (for instance, long haul care to kids and the old,

transportation for night hours). The acknowledgement of workers who take on positions

relating to different regions, the correspondence of ideal updates to expand mindfulness and

the foundation of standard consideration administrations for workers, where conceivable, offer

help for the debilitated staff or the individuals who care for wiped out relatives. To empower

convenient two-way correspondence and worker follow-up, just as to spread basic data,

organizations should approve that crisis notice frameworks are set up and are intermittently

tried.

2. Prevention is better than the Cure: Security and Risk Management during

COVID-19.

Discussion

The new approach is fundamentally based on prevention. "Prevention is better than

cure," the saying goes. The training program for the speciality of Preventive Medicine and

Public Health says the following:

Preventive Medicine and Public Health can be defined as a speciality "that enables the

investigation, application and promotion of policies and activities to promote and protect

health (to reduce the probability of the appearance of the disease or prevent or control its
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progression). Surveillance of the population's health is important; likewise, identification of

their health needs and planning, Management and evaluation of health services. "

At present of covid-19, we do have a speciality in Preventive and Health Psychology. The

specific objectives of the future clinical psychologist's training state that it has that "participate

in preventive and health promotion activities, early detection and intervention of mental and

behavioural disorders and diseases." In other words, the mental health of citizens must

promote by acting preventively. On the other hand, If the Psychology of Emergencies and

Disasters is the branch of psychology that encompasses the study of behavior and the mode of

reaction, both individual and group, in the different phases of an emergency or disaster

situation and that behavior and mode of reaction, into a large extent.

It can be predicted and extrapolated from the learning of covid-19 situations, shown

that one must act in a preventive and proactive way to avoid. If possible, the more than

possible "normal reactions to abnormal situations" go to more e interfere with the individual's

normal functioning in their environment, causing personal and social discomfort. Fear and

insecurity are predictable reactions in normal subjects in an emergency context when there is a

real and above all, impalpable threat. Experiencing the psychological and physiological effects

of these emotions is within the expectation in these types of situations.

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