<b>Retailers Organizing, On The Rise</b>
Posted by Andre Edelbrock on Fri, Dec 12, 2008
WE ARE IN VIOLENT AGREEMENT!!!
The future success of security is dependent upon everyone collaborating through the sharing information about attacks and defenses. The Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center report is bang on when they highlight the crime trend increasing as one of the fastest growing industries, and importantly how well it will continue to organize over the next five to 10 years.
Yes, ‘security managers need to do more collaborative work, sharing information about attacks and defenses’, as the report advises. There are, however, many around the world are already taking that advice by facing this harsh reality head-on, in full-force together – specifically by sharing information about attacks and defenses as the report highlights. The ones working together see it (i.e., crime) the same way the authors of the report do, in that everyone – except the criminals - stand to make the greatest gains in improving the quality and timing of intelligence and increasing the effectiveness of their jobs through the sharing of information and resources with each other.
It’s great to see continuing thought leadership and coverage on collaboration from the team at Dark Reading. We have enjoyed our conversations with them (specifically Kelly Jackson Higgins) about the efforts of the Global Fraud Fighting Community - we know our good work is of great interest to them and their readers. And now with Tim’s article and this report we have further proof that everyone already collaborating is heading in the right direction.
P.S. I must say that we hadn’t thought of the terms ‘honeypots’ and ‘honeynets’ to describe the central collection of data. We’ll throw that around the hive (aka community) to see if either ‘stick’.