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Security mitigation strategies are being designed, installed and operated in the protection of a diverse range of assets including people, information and physical buildings or sites. Some of these mitigation strategies are informed by risk and are instigated to address a particular threat or to reduce a known vulnerability. Nevertheless, many of these mitigation strategies are put into place with little regard for the greater system, being the organization and/or the security system. Such an approach reduces the ability of security to be effective, a significant issue as security has the capacity to bear multiple meanings (Smith and Brooks, 2013: 6) that result in differing views of what needs to be achieved when providing security.
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Brooks, D., Smith, C.L. (2014). Engineering Principles in the Protection of Assets. In: Gill, M. (eds) The Handbook of Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-67284-4_6
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