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GORDON WILSON ASSOCIATES SECURITY SOLUTIONS FOR A CHANGING WORLD |
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THE BUSINESS WORLD TODAY The first 20 years of this millennium will produce greater changes in business structure than any time since the industrial revolution. Corporate information and company assets will become more valuable and more vulnerable. The environment will be under severe threat. The credit crunch has shown that the world’s financial system is totally interlinked and vulnerable to sequential collapse. We now have to focus on the key survival factors to ensure security of international business, the financial system and the environment. In the current global recession all businesses must reduce overheads, aggravated by the increased risk or loss through theft, vandalism, terrorism or industrial espionage. By law, directors must develop and practice contingency plans to mitigate against loss of life, resources or revenue resulting from fire, accident or deliberate sabotage which cannot be ignored. Experience, however, shows that companies often do not consider and confront these challenges head on, failing to eliminate the problem with well developed, implemented and updated long-term security crisis concepts plans and systems. Achieving good security requires a commitment from the top as well as resources. Too often security is left as a side issue in the hands of relatively junior managers. By viewing it as a charge against the “bottom line”, the balance of risk against resource is rarely made. Sadly, security is seldom seen as an ability to earn revenue for the company but rather as a cost. THE
SKILL BASE Gordon Wilson Associates operates with unique knowledge and skills amassed by Chris Gordon Wilson through 10 years in the Royal Engineers, countering terrorism, combined with the specialist skills of explosives prevention, communications and key point security and training, together with 10 years in the commercial security market as Operations Director of the UK’s market leader in the provision of security systems and 18 years as a security consultant. He was initially with the UK’s leading security consultancy providing crisis, engineering and IT security solutions and for the last 15 years has run his own security consultancy company. In an ever-changing and developing security environment total knowledge is only achieved by a group of experts with knowledge of highly specialist areas such as IT networks for security systems, anti-terrorist and oil and gas security, business continuity and aviation security enhanced and reinforced with additional expertise from proven consultants in these fields. Contacts with these specialists are well established, completing the comprehensive service on offer. Click here to see our list of business partners. |