Summary: "Electronic Security Systems: A Manager's Guide to Evaluating and Selecting System Solutions helps the security professional understand the wide range of sophisticated electronic security functional components now available, as well as the ways these components interconnect. The author guides managers toward a holistic approach to solving security issues, including integrating electronic functions, developing a system and a component philosophy, foreseeing possible long-term issues, and navigating the culture within a corporation or other organization." "Electronic Security Systems is not meant to be an engineering text, but aims to provide insight into the various electronic systems and possible approaches to crucial electronic security issues. Drawing on decades of experience gained through designing, installing and maintaining electronic security systems, the author shows security professionals how to help select a system they can live with over the long haul."--BOOK JACKET.