The knowledge pressure on risk and security managers is increasing

Abstract

This paper investigates whether risk and security managers' work has been changing for member companies of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise during recent years. An additional reason for the study is to research whether further improvement of qualifications and additional training within the area of security and risk management is required and, if so, to elucidate what areas this improvement/training should cover. The commentary begins by describing the most common working areas in security and risk management today. It is followed by accounting for the most important areas included in the working tasks. Then, it explains whether the importance of certain areas has increased or decreased. Next, the respondents' experience from security and risk management is investigated. In the following section the participants give their opinions about additional training. Finally, conclusions are drawn.