This will place your response under (or threaded) to the original question and groups responses under the appropriate section. Forum Questions (FQs) will be graded based on the Forum Grading Rubric (Graduate Level).

This week you will respond to the following forum question:

FQ1: What do you believe is the greatest internal threat an organization faces? Why so?

FQ2: How can the quality of purchasing decisions impact a security executive and the protection program?

This work aligns with the following course objectives:

CO3: Analyze internal versus external threats and their appropriate countermeasures.

CO4: Critique methods for prudent purchasing decisions and the value of investigations in the workplace.

CO5: Assess the security function in relation to accounting, auditing, risk management, business continuity, and emergency management.

Required Course Textbooks

Purpura, P. P. (2013). Security and loss prevention: An introduction (6th ed.). Waltham, MA: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann.

Optional Text:

Publication Manual of the American PsychologicalAssociation (6th ed.). (2010). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Strunk, W. & White, E. (1999). Elements of Style (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson: Prentice Hall.

http://www.worldcat.org/title/security-and-loss-prevention-an-introduction/oclc/902736654/viewport

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I believe the greatest internal threat an organization faces is information insecurity. In current days, almost all processes in an organization are digitized. This means that it has a high dependency on information technology (IT) and any form of data breach makes the entire organization vulnerable to internal and external attacks (Purpura, 2013). The end result of the latter would most likely be unprecedented losses, miscommunication and ultimate failure. In this regard, security threats translate to viruses, incidences of hacking and identity theft among …

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