External Security Manager

In all businesses, it is important to have a designated function that ensures that safety and security requirements are met, and that critical processes and assets are protected. However, all businesses do not need a full-time security manager and many times the role requires more experience than one person can provide. In those cases, an external security manager is a good solution.

React Risk Advisory offers clients a dedicated person to serve as an external security manager supporting them with expertise. The purpose is to lay a groundwork for the security organization that is sustainable over time and to give management the opportunity to focus on strategic issues.

The external security manager can, for example

• Establish or revise existing security policy, systematic security work, security organization
• Lead risk analyses, work with the business continuity planning or establish a crisis management work
• Create or revise existing routine documents and implement them in the organization
• Review existing security systems and assess their suitability
• Review relevant agreements and renegotiate those that are not beneficial and procure new security services
• Handling security issues and crises

• Can work part-time, indefinitely or during a transitional period. It is easy to scale up when needed and to achieve cost efficiency.
• Broader competence as colleagues at React Risk Advisory support the external security manager with their expertise.
• Security requirements are met and critical processes and assets in the business are protected.

• When there is a need of strengthening current security organization.
• After organizational changes.
• Before events that involve higher security requirements.
• When circumstances require a specific competence
• Changes in threat level.
• Where there is a lack of resources but at the same time no permanent need for a full-time security manager.