The perverted former concentration camp dentist played by Sir Laurence Olivier takes his underpowered drill to the exposed and unanesthetized nerves of Dustin Hoffman's teeth. But the question eventually spurs him to discover the missing antecedent. We thought of using that question as one of the headlines for Senior Writer Daintry Duffy's three-pack of stories about security . Safety is a broad concept, meaning different things to different people, depending on the context.
Security needs to be created rationally.
The strategies for protecting your assets have to be applied in proportion to the degree of risk. Many businesses have yet to examine the differing contexts for risk across their various activities. Worse, they may create too few. Thus, there are two great dangers when it comes to security. One is that its custodians are bullied into submission by senior executives unwilling to make reasonable trade-offs.