Since September 11 2001, U.S. Customs and U.S importers have seen a increased need to protect global commerce from terrorism. Some initiatives translated into formal programs (E.g. Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism -C-TPAT) and others just stay as a general call on the importers side upon importing businesses and service providers to establish policies to enhance their own security practices and those of business partners, such as contract service providers, involved in the supply chain. Once these policies are in effect, imports by these businesses would be given expedited processing at ports of entry.

ALGI has specific programs and components that cover security concerns. These items may be included as a package in the social auditing or be evaluated as one individual aspect of compliance. Security assesments include:

a) Assessment of the current state and effectiveness of your security practices and procedures,
b) Evaluation of management systems and record keeping such as local manifesting procedures and export licenses,
c) Assisting in process improvements, where needed, to effectively comply with security and custums requirements