The market for ontological security

Krahmann, Elke

doi:10.1080/09662839.2018.1497983

Cited by 26 publications

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“…A study on promoting commercial security firms' self-regulation developed a familiar context for examining how consumers influence through choice, voice, loyalty and exit [25]. By taking the United States government as an illustrative example, the analysis observed encouraging security industry self-regulation through consumer power [25].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Best Practices of Commercialized Security on National Security in Nairobi County, Kenya

Mutonyi

Sirera²,

Mwai³

2022

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Commercialised security has grown and developed in Kenya. This is attributed to citizens' many security demands on the state. Hence they turn to commercialised security to complement. Despite this development, few studies have studied the best practices of commercialised security on national security. The study took on a cross-sectional survey design. It was done in Nairobi involving adult residents. A multistage sampling technique was employed to obtain the wards to be studied. Those managing or purchasing the commercialised security services for their establishments and the managers of commercialised security firms were purposively sampled. The general public and the security guards were systematically sampled. Questionnaires and scheduled interviews were used to collect data. The SPSS version 25 was employed in data management and analysis. In the research, descriptive statistics included percentages and frequency distribution tables to summarise variables into thematic areas and convey the characteristics of critical variables. The study identified five best practices of commercialised security on national security: improvement in working conditions of the security personnel, adequate training and development, cooperation with the state security agencies, aftersale service and enforcement of regulations. The study concluded that the favourable mechanisms could only be realised through the consultation of the stakeholders: the commercial security industry, the citizens and the state. Thus the study recommended that The Private Security Regulation Authority needs to implement some of the requirements in the PSRA No. 13 of 2016.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Best Practices of Commercialized Security on National Security in Nairobi County, Kenya

Mutonyi

Sirera²,

Mwai³

2022

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“…But migrates, one might feel, inevitably, to the realm of cyber security. Krahmann argues that while “Fear can be addressed by eliminating a threat, anxiety cannot” (2018: 358).…”

Section: Ontological Security Theory Cyber Conflict and Visionmentioning

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Ontological (In)visibility and Cyber Conflict: The Problem of Sight and Vision in Establishing Threat

Whooley

2021

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

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This paper builds on the work of scholars working on ontological security, cyber security, and computer science to understand the problem of threat assessment and vision before, during, and after cyber-attacks. The previous use of ontological security theory (OST) has been limited because it has relied upon an overly simplistic vision of threat assessment at the international, state, and individual level. While previous scholars have examined the background, latent, or assumed visions of security threats as interpreted by agents and how their conditions do or do not effectively capture the anxieties of populations and practitioners this piece seeks to put these issues in conversation. In conceiving of ‘the state’ and ‘threat’ this piece examines the notion of vision, because as states conceive of threats in terms of terrorism (overt and theatrical) and cyber (covert and private) a mismatch of responses is noted. This piece reads the current cyber security landscape (2009-2019) in the United States through a lens of repeated and rambunctious cyber-threats and attacks and a largely passive response by the US citizenry through OST alongside: (1) the literature on computer science dealing with the concept of ontology, (2) the traditional threat framework found in the terrorism literature around response to threat with a comparison to the cyber-conflict literature, an (3) examination of the interplay between the public and government around the visibility and salience of cyberthreats.

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“…In contrast to physical security, which denotes "security as survival", ontological security refers to "security as being" [31]. Ontological security refers to people's faith in their self-identity and in the permanent nature of their social and material environment; the sense of ontological security is based on the reliability of the surrounding persons and things [25].…”

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Examination of the Consumers’ Expectations Regarding Company’s Contribution to Ontological Security

2021

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Security is considered a basic human need, according to Maslow’s hierarchy; however, it is hard to define exactly what the term means. Globalization, the digital environment, bring new dimensions and increasingly diverse interpretations of security to life. These new approaches, while reducing the consistency of the concept, allow an understanding of individual attitudes towards security. In recent years, several researchers have analyzed the psychological dimension of security at a personal level and ontological security in relation to citizens, residents, employees and students; however, based on a review of research history, there is still a scientific gap with regard to the perspective of customers and consumers. Accepting the fact that market actors are increasingly taking their share of creating a secure environment, in our empirical study we focus on corporate involvement and contribution through an examination of consumers’ perceptions of security. Corporate security is originally a field supporting the smooth operation of the organization, but nowadays it has become an important element of corporate strategy and also a factor of competitiveness. Keeping that in mind, our objective is to get a picture of how consumers judge the contribution of companies to the general sense of security in Hungary, what security-related tasks they expect from the corporate actors, and how they feel about a company’s security-related performance. In our study, we develop the ontological security model of consumers, into which we integrate—next to the individual socio-psychological features and the macro-environmental elements—the dimension of the assessment of corporate performance, the possible components of which are analyzed during the quantitative primary research.

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The market for ontological security

Cited by 26 publications

References 46 publications

The Best Practices of Commercialized Security on National Security in Nairobi County, Kenya

The Best Practices of Commercialized Security on National Security in Nairobi County, Kenya

Ontological (In)visibility and Cyber Conflict: The Problem of Sight and Vision in Establishing Threat

Examination of the Consumers’ Expectations Regarding Company’s Contribution to Ontological Security

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