Not too long ago, when one talks about corporate security it simply means protecting the office, building or infrastructure the company is located. Corporate or industrial security would have also involved conducting background investigation on future and current employees as well as embarking of investigations from minor office policy violations to major legal infractions that would warrant the involvement of law enforcement agencies. Of course in those days, the concern mostly would be access control – who or which goes in or out, badging or identification of personnel and visitors, and checking of goods, supplies and inventories going in and out of the company premises. For sure, the older corporate security officers or security directors would missed “then good old days” when things where simpler in the realm of corporate or industrial security. The last couple of decades saw not just a paradigm shift in corporate security but a total organizational, cultural, procedural, competency and scope change. This is just a short list of the changes or the evolution corporate security or the industrial security officer has been and will be going through. The threats, risks and vulnerabilities then were clear cut and in “black and white.” Today, we have what are called blended threats that encompass a wider spectrum in corporate security. Aside from this, information technology is playing a big role. “Emerging technology is rocking the world of corporate and institutional security directors. Cameras used to be analog. Now they're digital. Access control systems were mostly closed. Now they're becoming more open. (Fickes, 2008)” The truth of the matter now is that the corporate security initiative has gone through new heights considering it faces a lot of challenges. First amongst its major concerns are
