The focus of this course is an overview of the principles of security management and the consequences of the failure to protect business assets. The course includes principles of loss prevention and an introduction to risk management. The course focuses on risk assessment and the necessity to identify, analyze, and understand threat. This is an overview of legal trends and issues with which the security manager must deal. The course presents basic instruction on negligence and liability, intentional torts, compensatory and punitive damages, and contract law.
Instruction focuses on the exercise of security functions by private individuals and organizations.
Students are expected to prepare cases for class presentation. Open to degree candidates only. This course will provide the student with the insight to effectively assess and manage the threat of physical, verbal and emotional violence in the workplace. Not offered this semester FORS 249 Industrial Espionage, Computer Crime, and Cyberterrorism Provides a framework for understanding computer crime and industrial or economic espionage. Inquires into technological and management approaches to prevention and detection.