The Association's research arm. It works where the sector councils end — at the intersection of security disciplines. In 2026 the Corporate Security Institute was established on this basis.
Corporate security is divided into functions: physical, personnel, information, economic, supply chain. Each with its own standards, its own specialists and its own budget. The division is convenient for management — and inconvenient for reality.
An incident rarely fits inside one function. A data breach begins with a personnel error. A missed delivery turns out to follow from a compromised account. A lost consignment is the result of collusion that every service saw in part and none saw whole.
The Association's expert councils work by sector, and rightly so: depth requires specialisation. But between the councils there remain zones for which, taken separately, no one is accountable. Those zones are the subject of the Research and Practice Centre.
Four lines of work. The first produces new knowledge, the second turns it into an applicable form, the third tests it in practice, the fourth returns it into the Association's requirements.
In 2026 the Corporate Security Institute was established on the basis of the Research and Practice Centre. The move from a centre to an institute means a wider remit: from supporting the Association's requirements to independent research and educational work in the field of corporate security.
The subject remains the same: corporate security as a single system rather than a set of isolated functions. What changes is scale — the Institute works not only for the Association's internal needs but for the professional community of the region.
Research that leads nowhere remains a publication. The centre's results matter to the extent that they change the documents the assessment bodies work to.
Management systems auditor with twenty years of practice, head of DQS Belarus, Chairman of the Eurasian Association for Sustainability and Security.