A church is a place of worship and serenity. It is supposed to be a place of peace for all those who enter, but hate and personal vendettas can get in the way. In such situation bombs, shootings, and arson are becoming common place within the church setting. Since our social environment seems to be changing, security components of physical, personnel, information and interdepartmental dependency for a mall may not correspond completely within a church environment.
Church Security Objectives with the Most and Least Value
I think the security objective that deserves the most attention within a church environment is the physical security component. However, I do think the interdependency component could work well in connection with the physical security aspect, if we look at in terms of a church environment and not one of a corporate environment. Nevertheless, the security component that I believe is less pertinent during a vulnerability assessment for a church environment is information security and personnel security.
Many churches do not have a lot of money, and rely upon volunteers to teach and look after humane and social projects within the congregation. A church environment welcomes all those who are from many different backgrounds to worship together. Therefore, within the personnel aspect, it is not feasible because churches rely on volunteers who have chosen to teach and work on projects that are not necessarily in line with obtaining personal wealth. Also, it is not feasible to have paid security staff wandering the hallways during sermons since everyone is welcome to enter. In addition, information security would not prove to be an effective component within a church environment, either, because it focuses on pro...
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...tegrate security through concepts that are present in the specific environment. However, depending upon the environment, these efforts may not apply to each and every situation. Since we are reflecting upon the vulnerability of fire, arson, and bombings in a mall environment versus a church environment, the physical and interdepartmental dependency security efforts may have some similarities. However, the physical, interdepartmental, and personnel components line up more with the mall environment due to a social society. Therefore, creating a stable and predictable environment is based on objectives that follow through with the physical, personnel, information and interdepartmental dependency concept of the initial environment.
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In the eyes of the people the church is one place you are spared from judgment and critique. It is the one place you should feel safe, to express your thoughts and opinions, pray to the higher power in which you believe and your faith resides and be free of society qualms, demands, and realism. In a part
Physical and environmental security programs are generally considered to be a collection of mechanisms and controls put into place that help ensure the availability of information technology capabilities. These programs protect an organization from fire, flood, theft, power failure, intentional, and even unintentional damage through negligence. Implementation of these programs at the organizational level can take place in a number of ways but most organizations choose to follow the application of a body of standards, usually set forth by an organization such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Once such body of standards put forth by ISO/IEC is 27002, Information technology – Security techniques – Code of practice for information secur...
Typically, a church is to be a very safe and sacred place where no-one would
I can see the point that having a church building is a better evangelistic tool because when an unbeliever is wanting to know about God, they usually try to find a church (if they don’t know anyone who’s a Christian). Churches usually have the times of their services posted somewhere so if someone wanted to come they know what time to be there. If a person wants to know more about God, the church usually has people there ready to share the gospel with them, whether it’s the pastor, deacons, or other laymen. True believers want to have people get saved, and the modern day church makes provision for that. The world doesn’t understand that the church isn’t a building, so having one does help in reaching unsaved people because that’s where they instinctively would know to go.
The first problem that I have with the church is its tendency to manipulate its members with guilt. Religions have strict guidelines that help them to manufacture the machines that become their robotic followers. Through guilt, religion often attempts to tell people who to marry, how to spend their money, who to associate with, who to hate, and how to live. Every Sunday, before my pastor takes up "the tithe and offering," he delivers a lecture about how important it is to give. He reminds us that everything we have now first belonged to the Lord and stresses that God instructed us to give ten p...
Pahl, Jon. (2003). The Mall as Sacred Space. In Behrens Laurence & Rosen Leonard (Eds.),
In the article, “Mayhem at the Mall,” The Cafaro Company based in Ohio, coordinated a training exercise to prepare local crisis officials in the event of a mall shooting. The training exercise took years to construct, and was created to ensure local crisis officials respond efficiently and effectively. The Cafaro Company aimed to make the “active shooter” scenario realistic. The scenario was implemented at Meadowbrook Mall property, in Bridgeport, W.Va. The training exercise involved local police, firefighters, and mall employees. John Karlovic, Chief of Security at Cafaro’s Company, reached out to police department’s in the communities where the own malls, supplied them with blue prints, tenant lists, and invited them to in to practice, (Bell,
Security helps the organization meet its business objectives or mission by protecting its physical and financial resources, reputation, legal position, employees, and other tangible and intangible assets through the selection and application of appropriate safeguards. Businesses should establish roles and responsibilities of all personnel and staff members. However, a Chief Information Officer should be appointed to direct an organization’s day to day management of information assets. Supporting roles are performed by the service providers and include systems operations, whose personnel design and operate the computer systems. Each team member must be held accountable in ensuring all of the rules and policies are being followed, as well as, understanding their roles, responsibilities and functions. Organizations information processing systems are vulnerable to many threats that can inflict various types of damage that can result in significant losses (Harris, 2014). Losses can come from actions from trusted employees that defraud the system, outside hackers, or from careless data entry. The major threat to information protection is error and omissions that data entry personnel, users, system operators and programmers make. To better protect business information resources, organizations should conduct a risk analysis to see what
Implement physical security: - “Physical security protects people, data, equipment, systems, facilities and company assets” (Harris,
One must ask themselves, what is the nature of the church? What do they believe about God? A congregation may face conflict over the issue of evangelical issues to the issue of women as pastor. According to the writer, Norma Cook Everist; in his book” Church Conflict from Contention to Collaboration. These issues are distinguished as “intergroup conflict”, conflicts within one, and “intergroup conflict, “between and among groups (Everist. 17). the decision has created strife and anger between the committee and layperson(s). The atmosphere in the church has become unpleasant and uncomfortable in the presence of one another. The younger congregation has been waiting for an opportunity to express their concerns and convictions. The straightforwardness of the younger parishioner causes the committee to feel threatened, that the church will divide. The meeting has caused division and hurt feeling on both sides. The participant must be able to listen and think logically before the conflict become worst, dividing the congregation into “two
Physical security cannot be wholly successful without the human factor element and the active support of these user groups. For example, when the aim is to protect a critical facility from attack or to provide access control for an office building it is necessary to engage people on the proper use of any security systems that are in place, for instance security alarms. If the alarm goes off and employees have no idea what it signifies
In this second level, the security wants become vigorous and full of life. Unlike young ones who always present traces of insecurity and requisite of being safe, the grown-ups little forget the need of this want and it is only when they are exposed to emergency cases or situations where they have a muddled social setup like an extensive riot when they realize the essence of safety needs.
People have been using physical security measures such as barriers for protection for centuries (McCrie, 2007). Every living thing uses physical security to protect their home, family, and themselves with some form of barriers. These barriers can be either man-made or natural as long as they define, delay, or detect unauthorized access (Fennelly, 2004). These barriers are used to protect not only the facility but the assets located inside. I will describe these barriers starting from the outside and working into the facility.
Staff organization is necessary to help ministers and employees within the local church remain competent, godly, and loyal. It should not bind them or burden the organization. if the leader expects competence from the staff, the staff has a right to a competent leader. Someone has to be in charge, and that person needs a clear picture of where the church is going and how to enable staff members to help get there. Almost all church staffs are divided according to program and support people. Program staff includes pastors and others who plan and implement church ministries, such as worship services, Christian education, and pastoral care. Support staff enables the program staff to get their jobs done by providing secretarial, custodial, and other technical help.
"Risk management is the part of analysis phase that identifies vulnerabilities in an organization's information system and take carefully reasoned steps to assure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all components in the organization's information system" (Management of Information Security - second Ed, Michael E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord)