I’m Responsible For WHAT? The Security Officer’s Role

Are you your institution's Security Officer? If you are, your primary duty is to develop and administer a written Security Program for your institution. "Security" isn't just about alarms, robbery procedures and filing Suspicious Activity Reports any longer. The good news -- "security" has become the term that defines the evolutionary process that provides a safe and secure environment for our employees to work -- and for our customers to do business. The bad news -- recent surveys reveal that corporate America is now spending 40% less on security than they did before the 9-11 event!

However, since the 9-11 event, "security" has evolved rapidly from a minimal function into the "Security Department" -- a business unit. The Security Officer is now often assigned the responsibility for managing the relationships among the five (5) most common, industry-standard areas of exposure, including:

• Employees and their families -- and other institution-affiliated parties;
• Customers and other persons likely to be on the premises -- including vendors;
• Facilities that the institution owns, manages, maintains, leases or controls;
• Assets that are simultaneously tangible and intangible; and
• Records that are acquired, generated, stored, transported and shared.

Security regulations are currently different for each of the three (3) categories of financial institutions: banks, credit unions and thrifts. This presentation has been updated to reflect the emerging industry-standard viewpoint that all financial institutions should use the Bank Protection Act as the model for a developing and implementing a contemporary Security Program -- in addition to existing regulations for credit unions and thrifts. The Bank Protection Act and many other regulations give the Security Officer the duty and the authority to act -- but they don't tell the whole story.

Among the topics to be presented are:

• The evolution and description of appropriate security regulations -- and the true scope of the Security Officer's role;
• Defining the persons responsible for security compliance within the institution -- and suggesting appropriate minimum qualifications for the Security Officer;
• Explaining important insurance provisions for the Security Department's staff;
• Defining and explaining the contents of the required Security Program -- that must include robbery, burglary and larceny provisions;
• Defining and describing appropriate security devices;
• Standardizing robbery planning, implementation and training procedures;
• Defining and describing internal and external reports;
• Developing and implementing a security training program;
• Suspicious Activity Reporting and filing SARs;
• Describing the required annual review process; and
• Making the case for positioning the institution's Security Department as a business unit.

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About the speaker:  
Dana Turner
Dana Turner is a security practitioner with Security Education Systems -- a research, consulting and training firm located near San Antonio, Texas.

Combining the knowledge gained in a successful law enforcement career with tactical business operations procedures, Dana has created unique security and loss prevention programs for governmental agencies, and the retail, service and financial industries. These programs consist of loss prevention techniques, security policy and procedures, and disaster recovery and business resumption strategies designed for use as training tools, planning mechanisms and reference guides.

Dana has served as a law enforcement officer in several capacities, including the investigation of business and banking crimes; as a community college instructor and administrator in both the law enforcement and business management fields; and as a program development specialist and trainer for private businesses, governmental agencies and professional associations. Dana is celebrating his 32nd year in crime prevention.

As a speaker, Dana has delivered more than 3,000 presentations and has acquired an outstanding reputation as a dynamic, knowledgeable and entertaining instructor. He is a Bankersonline Guru.

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Follow-up Q & A You have the right under this license agreement for this CD-ROM to use this presentation on a single-workstation. Use on a network is in violation of the copyright agreements. CD may be used by multiple users at a given institution but may not be placed on a network or in any other multi-user environment.