If at all, there exists a silver lining to the very dark clouds of Mumbai's 26/11 events, it is that these seem to have triggered a key psychological shift in how security is perceived. The question regarding the'relevance' of security would hopefully no longer need contrived answers in this country. For the corporates, the challenge of achieving operational resilience in the face of increasing complexity of security risks (both external and internal) is becoming a defining factor. Terrorism, cyber attacks, online threats, major frauds, likelihood of global epidemics, impact of global warming, the operational risks arising from the current global financial crisis, are like 'Tsunamis' in the waiting, their impact amplified by the interdependent business and economic environment. Very few companies are doing a good job of taking the responsibility to create a management-level of understanding of such security risks.
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