Insider risk in security officer training is uncomfortable to discuss and expensive to ignore. Guard force performance on the corporate security practice capability reflects supervision, not instruction. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make this strand of corporate security practice hard in practice. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better security officer training is rarely technical. Participants gain a realistic view of what the corporate security practice capability costs and what it returns. The course sets out a working method for the corporate security practice discipline that participants can apply the week they return. The programme works equally well for those formalising security officer training for the first time and those improving an existing approach. The difficulty is not agreeing that this part of corporate security practice matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this area of corporate security practice that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Compare the organisation's handling of security officer training with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.
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Plan the response and escalation for incidents involving security officer training.
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Assign clear ownership for each element of security officer training across the functions involved.
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Align security officer training with the wider objectives of the protected site rather than optimising it in isolation.
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Design layered controls for security officer training across deterrence, detection, delay and response.
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Manage guard force competence, supervision and performance on security officer training.
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Build the investigation capability and evidence handling for security officer training.
Who Should Attend
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Contract managers overseeing outsourced security in security officer training.
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Officers preparing reports on security officer training for boards or oversight committees.
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Information security staff whose remit overlaps security officer training.
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Business continuity and crisis managers covering security officer training.
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Risk managers assessing the exposure created by security officer training.
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Facility and site managers accountable for protection of security officer training.
Course Modules
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Security officer training: surveillance, monitoring and control rooms
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Handling evidence from security officer training so it survives scrutiny
Check that controls on security officer training cover deterrence, detection, delay and response.
Assess contractor and third-party exposure within security officer training.
Supervise and spot-check performance on security officer training rather than relying on reports.
Agree the indicators that will show whether security officer training is improving.
Session 2Where security officer training typically breaks, and why
Confirm vetting standards applied to staff and contractors in security officer training.
Coordinate arrangements for security officer training with civil defence and police in advance.
Assess insider risk in roles with privileged access to security officer training.
Protect sensitive information relating to security officer training from casual disclosure.
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Security officer training: insider risk, vetting and personnel security
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1What has to be agreed before work on security officer training starts
Rank the weaknesses in security officer training by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Check that security officer training still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Review security officer training after every incident, exercise or change in threat.
Check that records of security officer training answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2Insider risk inside security officer training
Set the review interval for security officer training and who attends.
Estimate the resource security officer training requires to run as designed.
Confirm that those complying with security officer training understand why it exists.
Arrange the handover of security officer training so capability survives staff changes.
