Security

Location: Spring Valley Road near Springwood Park

Description: A green fence with a locked gate in the middle, and a tree behind it that has grown through the gate

Story: Excerpt from the rough copy of "End Down, Start Up: The Parabolic Arc of Business", Chapter 9:

Security is very hard to balance, especially when privacy concerns are present (we'll return to the issue of privacy near the end of this chapter). Far too often people leave important documents in unlocked cars, unattended backpacks, or unprotected files. Just because people are unlikely to find something doesn't mean they won't, and it's more important to secure something than hide it.

There are lots of security tools and ideas, but how you do security is highly dependent on what's important to your company: it could be files, a prototype, or your database. Knowing how your employees will be dealing with these sensitive things is more important, because while you want to slow or stop thieves, you don't want to impair your employees with 30 digit passwords or hourly pat-downs. The main challenge of security is making it easy to access your property, but only for you and your employees.