Private security professionals in any of its branches have an immense challenge for the future.
By Luis González Nogales*
This is given that the rules in the generation of risks are changing exponentially and as I have pointed out on previous occasions recalling the philosopher Ulrich Beck, "... it presents us with new risks with no known impact and where not knowing what we do not know presents us with the irony of acting in the face of threats that we cannot make tangible since their existence has not been proven..."
And this theory is becoming more accurate every day to the extent that the concept of risk is incorporated into all the activities of society as a whole and of companies in particular; being the risks associated with the new technologies of information, communication, transmission, data processing and protection of the same, one of the main points of approach that is taken in the management of risk and therefore in the analysis of them.
The elaboration of risk analyses, the preparation of the different security plans and the treatment of risks are no longer sufficient in this new era where a planning of a good integrated intrusion detection system, access controls combined with video surveillance and video analytics are not enough if all these systems, which in the end will be managed from servers. Which become a new element of multiple risks both in the order of physical aggressions, as well as logical aggressions through attempts of unauthorized access to affect the stored information.
That is why the paradigm of security analysis has already changed and not only people and properties must be free of risks whether real or perceived, but a new element must be incorporated. Security is that people, property and their information are risk-free.
This new inflection of security in general and private security in particular forces us to rethink what is the profile of the future responsible for security in companies and public and private institutions. If we can affirm that it is not the one we currently know, we have been preparing and developing; but one for which technology is one more element of its daily management DNA, we do not yet know if this profile will be that of systems engineers, programmers of prediction algorithms or analysts in artificial intelligence.
But there is no doubt that some of these groups of professionals will be the ones who will assume the roles of responsibility in maintaining the security concepts that we know, together with those that are established in the future.
To this we must add the increasing demands of society in the transparency of the data collected about each person, their treatment and the right to dispose of them either in life or after their death.
The challenges are great, the times and cycles of updating and obsolescence are getting shorter and the preparation of the next generation of private security professionals is not a task for tomorrow, it was yesterday or perhaps they are already preparing outside the current visions we have of how this industry should be and will be and today or tomorrow they will take their place in the industry by storm and we declare all of us obsolete.
Analyzing and updating knowledge and skills is the personal responsibility of each professional, let's not continue to believe that what works for us today will be efficient and effective tomorrow.
Greetings.
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