ABSTRACT
This chapter examines issues regarding asset protection and established a foundation for improving asset protection in an organization. It provides a method to review the philosophy with which an organization approaches asset protection policies and procedures. The chapter covers basic security steps for protecting data and information focusing on access control and monitoring. It also covers basic security steps for protecting cash, bank accounts, and credit tools by limiting access to financial tools, monitoring transactions on accounts, and routinely auditing financial accounts. The chapter reviews securing assets including trade secrets, proprietary information, equipment, parts, materials, supplies, and inventory, and what steps to take to secure inventory in supply chains. It also reviews Protecting assets from insiders, insider groups, and insider-outsider teams through access control, surveillance, monitoring, and intelligence gathering. The chapter explains how to assess perceptions of asset protection policies and procedures, and gauging and developing a philosophy on asset protection.
