Product Description

At last, you can take a look inside the security budgets of organizations like yours and learn which technology and management solutions can reduce costs—and which are most likely to disappoint.

Based on a national survey of security executives across United States, this report covers the most pressing issues facing security departments today, including:

• Spending amounts per security activity
• Security budget allocation and breakdowns
• Case studies of successful budget-cutting projects
• Ratings for dozens of cost control strategies

If you want to know what are the best ways to allocate resources and make investments that deliver on their promise, this management tool gives you facts to make informed choices.

It profiles examples of successful budget-cutting initiatives and examines 30 cost-containment strategies in detail, including which are saving money and which are failing to live up to their promise. With over 50 comprehensive charts & tables, this Research Report and answers key questions facing every security department, including:

• What strategies are other businesses in your industry taking to cut costs?
• How much do comparable organizations spend on workplace violence prevention? Security awareness for general staff? Pandemic planning? Executive protection?
• How much do comparable organizations spend on security per employee? Per square foot?
• What do similar security departments spend to hire a new security officer? To conduct pre-employment background screening? How much do they put towards labor costs? Spend annually on uniforms per officer?
• What do executives find is better at cutting manpower requirements: Video analytics, more surveillance video, or security management software?
• Which strategy is better at cutting department costs: Online training, Re-negotiating maintenance contracts, or replacing staff with contract officers?
• Which energy savings strategies are truly cutting security departments' costs and which fail to deliver?
• Which cost-containment strategies do security departments find most disappointing? Most valuable?

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To review this report's Table of Contents, List of Charts & Tables, and Introduction, click here.