New Delhi September 10 (IANS) The concept of security whether it concerns the nation, an establishment of strategic importance or even a business corporation, revolves around some basic principles that brooked no compromise.
We live in an insecure world where the issues of security are knocking at everyone’s doors – the State has to protect its own integrity amidst threats, external or domestic, but it is also supremely responsible for the security of its citizens as well.
In a democratic dispensation, this can not happen unless people themselves show an awareness about security which makes them a conscious contributor to national security at large. This more than anything else, validates the first principle of security in our times about the ‘mainstreaming’ of this function.
Security of an enterprise is no more a matter of outsourcing it to a set of guards and their supervisors – it has to be built into the policy framework of the organisation, be based on planning and budgeting and above all, has to be in a position to act on the authority of the top man of the enterprise.
The head of the organisation is deemed to be the ultimate repository of the…
