Security Policies, Protocols and Plans

RSM Consulting provide our clients highly experienced and proven consultants who design and develop comprehensive and sustainable security and risk management policies, protocols and plans which can identify and reduce risks across an organization’s activities. Security policies are mechanisms for identifying and managing a wide spectrum of risks. Policies can be complex and meet the requirements of a large scale and multi-national organization, or more simplistic and meet smaller organizational requirements, with a more domestic focus. Regardless of the size and scope of an organization, security policies provide the method by which to bring effective control to risk, protecting personnel and assets, as well as business and corporate interests through a well structured management approach.

Often security policies are designed without understanding how policies and associated protocols and plans will be migrated across multiple business or operating regions, and how changes to the company approach or focus, or indeed the risk and operating environment, can be practically reflected within evolving policies and plans. Frequently companies will invest a considerable amount of time, effort and resources only to find that policies quickly lose their relevancy, are difficult to sustain and become inconsistent in structure and focus as individual business or operating managers interject their own unique perspectives and styles.

With companies now operating in diverse and unstable regions, the risks faced by global operations are increasingly susceptible to high impact, high profile crisis events. The development of a comprehensive, detailed, implemental and sustainable security policies, protocols and plans assists companies in bringing effective risk management, as well as consistency, to often complex and diverse business operations.

Policy Examples
  • Travel Management Policies
  • Vulnerability Assessments
  • Facility Security Plans
  • Crisis Response Controls
  • Evacuation Management Plans
  • Incident Management Plans
  • Facility Security Instructions

RSM Consulting has supported both large and small companies in identifying their unique requirements and designing and implementing security policies which address risk management and crisis response in a sensible, sustainable and pragmatic manner. Our consultants all have over 18 years advisory experience within security and risk management. Most have Masters Degrees in Security Management and many are published authors within the security sector.

RSM Consulting understands that consistency in structure and approach does not remove the requirement to reflect unique local, regional and national factors, but provides a consistent framework which can guide managers to identifying, mitigating and responding to both generic and unique challenges. Our approach includes:

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  • Identifying the postulated risks
  • Determining organizational requirements
  • Frame-working policy structures
  • Establishing stake-holder buy-in
  • Consolidating policies and associated plans
  • Providing training and education
  • Launching and testing plans
  • Validating and auditing policies

RSM Consulting offers a tier of services to meet small linear company needs, medium sized organizations and complex and dynamic risk consulting requirements, differentiating between smaller companies with a more limited worldwide operating footprint, to multi-nationals with more complex and dynamic operations. Each service will be tailored to meet the needs of unique company requirements.