Second, we illustrate how some of the security techniques are easily assimilated into everyday life, mainly involving an expansion of the awareness of one's surroundings. Third, we highlight the fact the their organization has instituted a security program to protect their assets, particularly employee safety, and that the organization expects the security insights to improve the employee's quality of life outside the work environment. Management and employees often view threats and security from a different perspective. In reality, employees are much more threatened by episodic violence, both on and off the job, by job loss through downsizing, takeovers, elimination, and even by the specter of fierce competition. Fear on the part of employees is anxiety producing and becomes apparent in reduced production, increased health costs, paranoia, and hysteria.
Fear can be the instigator or consequence of a violent act.
These principles serve as the benchmark for achieving a successful result in a security assessment. When combined with good judgment, they provide the best possibility for limiting the effect of chance. Unfortunately, they tend to remain abstract security concepts to those we want to reach during the all important interview and evaluation phase of the audit. The challenge is to involve everyone in the process, including those who fear you or management more than the threat and those who by body language defy you to win them over. De-mystify the security world so that they will be prepared to learn and apply new knowledge and experience at work and at home.