Even as Lebanon has recently seen positive developments in its public security frameworks such as the deployment of governmental security in the southern suburbs of Beirut, events around the world, from Peshawar and Baghdad to Nairobi, were a reminder of Lebanon’s own vulnerability. Longstanding questions include: What has to be done to enhance security at all sorts of public places which are soft targets for terrorists? Do private individuals have to rethink their personal security strategies? Executive looked into the enterprise aspect of this new security focus, on the assumption that the current climate of insecurity must be good for the country’s private sector businesses which deal in security. Focusing on the preventive and protective aspects of security Executive surveyed three corporate areas in which security is the core business: vendors of security equipment, guard services, and producers of armored cars used for personal protection. Quite expectedly, companies in all
