ABSTRACT
As a security consultant your responsibility with this process is to utilize the information in this book to help the chief security officer (CSO) or director of security gain executive management support and improve their potential for obtaining the necessary budget funding for their programs. It will instruct you and them in the proper process for building a Security Master Plan and its components, which will document the security strategies of their business or institution both for now and more importantly for the future. The end product of this will enable them to gain the support of the executive management team, and when effectively utilized, it will become their preamble to gaining the necessary budget funds to implement their security program. If the client you are working with does not have an in-house security professional, then it is the consultant’s responsibility to accomplish these goals.
