'protecting security' is correct and usable in written English.
You may use it any time you need to refer to the act of making something safe and secure from harm. For example: In order to protect the security of the documents, they had to be kept in a secure location.
Where do you draw the line between protecting security and abusing human rights?
There's been a broad pattern of injustice to individuals (mostly Muslims) in the name of protecting security for the rest of us.
There is an active debate in the United States, where political freedom is sacrosanct and individuals are guaranteed due process of law, about the clash between citizens' civil liberties and corporations' innovations for protecting security or profits.
The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister are colluding to persuade us that there is a binary choice between protecting security and defending liberty – that the Tories have chosen the first, the Liberal Democrats the second, and the public must choose too.
He called for a British equivalent of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which advises the US President on privacy issues, Yvette Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, has accused Mr Cameron and Mr Clegg of "colluding to persuade us that there is a binary choice between protecting security and defending liberty".
Yet while there is healthy debate in the UK over the balance between protecting security versus protecting civil liberties, no such debate exists in Syria, a national security state where the six "intelligence agencies" hold many of the real levers of power in the country.
"But I can't be in a position where it looks like I'm protecting securities fraud".
"Sometimes there are blasts in the most carefully protected security areas," he said.
Black's majority opinion found that government authorities had the discretion to act as they saw necessary to protect security.
The counter terrorism bill will command support if it protects security and the rule of law," he said.
We can protect security and safety without violating the rights of innocent people and trampling on our basic liberties.
