Physical Security Management: A Practical Guide to Protect People, Assets and Operations - Softcover

Penas, Fernando Monteagudo

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798177986647

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Security is not a product you buy. It is a way of seeing what matters, what could go wrong, and what a place needs to protect people and activities.

Physical Security Management is a practical introduction to the reasoning behind effective physical security. It guides readers from assets, threats, vulnerabilities, and risk to proportionate objectives, controls, operations, response, recovery, and improvement.

Rather than treating security as a collection of devices or as the responsibility of a single department, this book examines how people, buildings, procedures, technology, business activity, safety, compliance, and resilience interact. Illustrative cases explore homes, shops, workplaces, hotels, data centers, critical infrastructure, correctional facilities, and public events.

Designed for homeowners, business owners, facility managers, security personnel, students, and curious readers, it explains how to observe an environment, ask better questions, recognize dependencies, test whether controls work, and decide what deserves attention next.

Practical exercises build a continuing mental model that readers can apply to a familiar place while progressing through the book.

The aim is not to memorize a standard or prepare for an examination. It is to develop a professional security mindset that helps readers protect people, assets, and operations with clarity, proportion, and purpose.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798177986647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 197