One security agency handled in-house security; the second was responsible for safeguarding transfers of cash and product.
Some corporations save and archive copies of all incoming and outgoing messages for legal and in-house security reasons.
One thing that has yet to change, however, is big Russian companies' bloated in-house security outfits, which specialise in collecting compromising material on their bosses' business rivals.
He says: "When it becomes mandatory for companies to have SIA licences for their in-house security officers, there will be a rush to outsource the work".
Adobe's in-house security blog at blogs.adobe.com/psirt gives full explanations of what the company is fixing in its Acrobat and Reader software, as well as about its Flash player updates.
In a phone conversation last week, she described how in-house security officers would follow her and her black clients, whom she described as "well-known singers and actors," around the store.
Their registered office is on the 11th floor of a gleaming Newcastle office block called Cale Cross House, but when I called the in-house security guard he had never heard of them.
The Exelon Corporation said it would replace the Wackenhut Corporation with an in-house security force at its 10 nuclear power plants after the discovery about two months ago that guards at a Pennsylvania plant were sleeping on the job.
The number of patches has proliferated so wildly that most in-house security operations cannot keep up, said Bruce Schneier, the founder of Counterpane Internet Security Inc., a security services company in San Jose, Calif.
Including people in related occupations, such as private investigators and in-house security guards, the total may be as much as 400,000.With that sort of investment, it would be astonishing if crime had not come down in the past few years.
