Providing security

Basically security means freedom from danger, from fear or anxiety, from want or deprivation.

Basic, almost primordial, fear and insecurity has driven humans to become tool makers and engineers. That is: reducing the uncertainty and building predictability and safety into what was experienced as a harsh and dangerous environment.

In essence security applies most at the level of the citizen. It amounts to human wellbeing: not only protection from harm and injury but access to water, food, shelter, health, employment, and other basic requisites that are the due of every person on earth. It is the collectivity of these citizen needs - overall safety and quality of life - that should figure prominently in the nation's view of security.

1. Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security (Benjamin Franklin).

1. Providing
2. Protecting
3. Making the world a safer place
4. Guaranteeing

1. Using paramilitary forces
2. Strengthening cooperative security measures
3. Securing food supplies
4. Safeguarding telecommunications security
5. Regionalizing security
6. Providing sufficient security plans
7. Providing security of resources
8. Providing security of leadership
9. Providing security for land-locked countries
10. Providing national security
11. Providing military security
12. Providing European security
13. Providing environmental security
14. Providing economic security
15. Preserving peace
16. Maintaining global security
17. Instituting effective domestic security
18. Increasing energy security
19. Improving security system
20. Establishing internal security agency
21. Ensuring cultural security
22. Enhancing security during social strife
23. Enhancing global security through communication
24. Developing insurance industry security
25. Developing early warning disaster systems
26. Constructing accessible security facility

1. Reporting cooperation among intelligence agencies
2. Reducing threats to human security
3. Promoting alternative security
4. Measuring human security
5. Legalizing community rights to resource use
6. Enforcing procedural rules of law
7. Building confidence

1. Protecting privacy

1. Insecurity

1. Security
2. Insecurity
3. Inessential