Security Management

Assessing Security Risk for Major Events and Conferences

Build a working method for event security risk assessment that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Assessing Security Risk for Major Events and Conferences
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Security arrangements around event security risk assessment are tested by adversaries, not by auditors. Insider risk in risk assessment is uncomfortable to discuss and expensive to ignore. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better this strand of corporate security practice is rarely technical. It establishes a shared vocabulary for event security risk assessment so that teams can disagree productively about it. Participants gain a realistic view of what the corporate security practice discipline costs and what it returns. Moving risk assessment from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. Participants who influence event security risk assessment without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about risk assessment in their own setting. The final session converts the week's work on this area of corporate security practice into commitments with owners and dates.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Design layered controls for event security risk assessment across deterrence, detection, delay and response.

  • Design business continuity arrangements covering risk assessment.

  • Verify that improvements to event security risk assessment have held six months after they were introduced.

  • Anticipate the objections that risk assessment will attract internally and answer them in advance.

  • Estimate what event security risk assessment costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.

  • Address insider risk and personnel vetting relevant to risk assessment.

  • Plan the response and escalation for incidents involving event security risk assessment.

Who Should Attend

  • Analysts producing the data on which decisions about event security risk assessment rest.

  • Human resources staff handling vetting and insider risk in risk assessment.

  • Managers of multi-site operations seeking consistency in event security risk assessment.

  • Investigation and loss prevention specialists working on risk assessment.

  • Contract managers overseeing outsourced security in event security risk assessment.

  • Control room and monitoring staff operating risk assessment.

Course Modules

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01

Event security risk assessment: governance, assurance and investment case

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Insider risk inside event security risk assessment

  • Check that event security risk assessment still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Name a single owner for each element of risk assessment.
  • Check that records of event security risk assessment answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Confirm vetting standards applied to staff and contractors in risk assessment.

Session 2Finding the vulnerability in risk assessment an adversary would use

  • Collect evidence on the present handling of event security risk assessment before proposing changes.
  • Establish evidence handling and chain of custody for risk assessment.
  • Protect sensitive information relating to event security risk assessment from casual disclosure.
  • Supervise and spot-check performance on risk assessment rather than relying on reports.
02

Risk assessment: incident response and escalation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The cost of risk assessment and how to present it

  • Assess contractor and third-party exposure within event security risk assessment.
  • Set the review interval for risk assessment and who attends.
  • Set escalation criteria and out-of-hours contacts for event security risk assessment.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for risk assessment.

Session 2Handling evidence from risk assessment so it survives scrutiny

  • Identify vulnerabilities in event security risk assessment and rank them by consequence, not ease of fix.
  • Verify six months later that changes to risk assessment have held.
  • Exercise the plan for event security risk assessment under realistic conditions and record failures.
  • Check guard force instructions for risk assessment are current and understood.
03

Risk assessment: insider risk, vetting and personnel security

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Layering controls on risk assessment so one failure is not fatal

  • Review event security risk assessment after every incident, exercise or change in threat.
  • Confirm access control on risk assessment cannot be routinely bypassed.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of event security risk assessment current.
  • Set escalation thresholds for risk assessment that work out of hours.

Session 2Getting other functions to support event security risk assessment

  • Record what was learned when event security risk assessment did not go as planned.
  • Review surveillance coverage for risk assessment against likely approach routes.
  • Close out actions on event security risk assessment rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to risk assessment.
04

Risk assessment: threat assessment and intelligence

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Exercising the plan for risk assessment realistically

  • Define the trigger that would require event security risk assessment to be redesigned.
  • Agree the indicators that will show whether risk assessment is improving.
  • Verify identity checks applied at entry points relevant to event security risk assessment.
  • Check that controls on risk assessment cover deterrence, detection, delay and response.

Session 2Moving risk assessment from approval to execution

  • Confirm recorded material from event security risk assessment is retained long enough to be useful.
  • Establish the boundary of risk assessment and record what sits outside it.
  • Coordinate arrangements for event security risk assessment with civil defence and police in advance.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about risk assessment.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

USD1,250
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

Gold Package

At least 3 people

USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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