Analysing Terrorist Networks and Their Operating Methods

Course Overview

A control on terrorist network analysis that is never exercised is an assumption, not a defence. Security arrangements around this strand of corporate security practice are tested by adversaries, not by auditors. This programme builds this part of corporate security practice from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. The programme works equally well for those formalising terrorist network analysis for the first time and those improving an existing approach. Every module pairs a short input on this strand of corporate security practice with structured practice on the participant's own material. Improvement in the wider corporate security practice agenda stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what terrorist network analysis has actually achieved. Organisations that document the corporate security practice discipline properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. The final module sets out how progress on this aspect of corporate security practice will be evidenced six months later.