Five-minute presentation on physical security for computer security after-hours session, March 21, 2013.

1. SECURITY
AS A
(SOCIAL) ENVIRONMENT
MICHAEL E. MAROTTA, BS, MA

2. THE PRIVATE SECTOR
• 3 X the people
• 3 x the capital investment
First noted by reporting in the early 1980s, private security eclipsed public policing in the late
1970s. At its peak in the late 1990s, the ratio was 4-to-1 in California. Post-9/11, Homeland
Security, and other public investment slowed the trend.

3. A never-ending battle…
Perpetrators set the terms of engagement. We do not
want the police to be pro-active: that is the definition of a
police state. Though operating in a narrower sphere,
private security is not bound by the same laws as police.
We can be pro-active in preventing losses and harms.

4. THE WORST SECURITY
They are fine people, morally upright; willing to die to protect you; but for your business needs,
they have the wrong information system. Security is not law enforcement. Government attempts to
change the past by punishing wrong-doers after the fact to re-establish the balance of justice.

5. Designed-in not Added-on
Just as businesses forecast
sales, inventories, costs, and
prices, private security
anticipates needs. Even the
porous building at left can be
hardened without degrading
livability. That comes from
planning, not reacting.

6. AUDITABLE CONTROLS
White collar criminals are planfully competent, educated, intelligent, and patient.

7. Based on research
by D. Michael
Risinger, Seton Hall
University School of
Law, and David
Moran, University of
Michigan School of
Law, 20,000 to
50,000 factually
innocent people are
now imprisoned for
felonies less than
homicide.
Private security and
private adjudication
avoid the risk and
consequences of
wrongful conviction.

8. • The Hallcrest Report I: Private Security and
Police in America by William C. Cunningham
and Todd H. Taylor, Butterworth-Heinemann,
Boston, 1985.
• ("This publication reports a 30-month descriptive
research project performed by Hallcrest
Systems, Inc., MacLean, Virginia, under a grant
from the National Institute of Justice, U.S.
Department of Justice.")

9. SECURITY
AS A
(SOCIAL) ENVIRONMENT
MICHAEL E. MAROTTA, BS, MA

10. SECURITY
AS A
(SOCIAL) ENVIRONMENT
MICHAEL E. MAROTTA, BS, MA