Evaluating External Security Service Providers and Reviewing Their Contracts

Turn security provider evaluation from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

A control on security provider evaluation that is never exercised is an assumption, not a defence. Guard force performance on this aspect of corporate security practice reflects supervision, not instruction. This programme builds this area of corporate security practice from first principles, without padding and without omitting what matters. Mature organisations treat security provider evaluation as a standing capability rather than a project that finishes. Participants who influence this part of corporate security practice without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of this aspect of corporate security practice rather than to abstract argument. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of security provider evaluation to standardise and which to leave flexible. Plans for the corporate security practice discipline often fail at the handover point between functions. The final session converts the week's work on the wider corporate security practice agenda into commitments with owners and dates.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Compare the organisation's handling of security provider evaluation with recognised practice, and close the material gaps.

02

Establish access control and identity verification appropriate to security provider evaluation.

03

Build the security operating procedures governing security provider evaluation.

04

Verify that improvements to security provider evaluation have held six months after they were introduced.

05

Protect information and intellectual property within security provider evaluation.

06

Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around security provider evaluation.

07

Balance security requirements in security provider evaluation against operational practicality.

Who Should Attend

01

Investigation and loss prevention specialists working on security provider evaluation.

02

Facility and site managers accountable for protection of security provider evaluation.

03

Internal auditors reviewing how security provider evaluation is designed and operated.

04

Guard force supervisors delivering security provider evaluation.

05

Human resources staff handling vetting and insider risk in security provider evaluation.

06

Operations staff who encounter the consequences of security provider evaluation directly.

Course Modules

01

Security provider evaluation: procedures, access control and identity

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What has to be agreed before work on security provider evaluation starts

  • Exercise the plan for security provider evaluation under realistic conditions and record failures.
  • Build the threat picture for security provider evaluation from sources relevant to this site and sector.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains security provider evaluation to those affected.
  • Supervise and spot-check performance on security provider evaluation rather than relying on reports.

Session 2Making security provider evaluation work when resources are constrained

  • Confirm that reporting on security provider evaluation reaches the people who can act.
  • Establish evidence handling and chain of custody for security provider evaluation.
  • Set the review interval for security provider evaluation and who attends.
  • Name a single owner for each element of security provider evaluation.
02

Security provider evaluation: governance, assurance and investment case

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Handling evidence from security provider evaluation so it survives scrutiny

  • Verify identity checks applied at entry points relevant to security provider evaluation.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for security provider evaluation.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when security provider evaluation underperforms.
  • Confirm vetting standards applied to staff and contractors in security provider evaluation.

Session 2Making the investment case for security provider evaluation

  • Prepare the response for the most likely failure in security provider evaluation.
  • Build the competence framework that supports security provider evaluation.
  • Define the first response actions for an incident involving security provider evaluation.
  • Draft the minimum viable security procedure for security provider evaluation.
03

Security provider evaluation: continuity, exercises and external coordination

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Supervising the guard force on security provider evaluation

  • Review security provider evaluation after every incident, exercise or change in threat.
  • Check guard force instructions for security provider evaluation are current and understood.
  • Set escalation criteria and out-of-hours contacts for security provider evaluation.
  • Benchmark the organisation's security provider evaluation against comparable operations.

Session 2The paperwork for security provider evaluation that is actually needed

  • Identify vulnerabilities in security provider evaluation and rank them by consequence, not ease of fix.
  • Confirm recorded material from security provider evaluation is retained long enough to be useful.
  • Test the procedure for security provider evaluation against a realistic scenario.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about security provider evaluation.
04

Security provider evaluation: insider risk, vetting and personnel security

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Layering controls on security provider evaluation so one failure is not fatal

  • Collect evidence on the present handling of security provider evaluation before proposing changes.
  • Rank the weaknesses in security provider evaluation by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Review surveillance coverage for security provider evaluation against likely approach routes.
  • Protect sensitive information relating to security provider evaluation from casual disclosure.

Session 2Exercising the plan for security provider evaluation realistically

  • Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to security provider evaluation.
  • Identify where judgement in security provider evaluation is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Confirm access control on security provider evaluation cannot be routinely bypassed.
  • Coordinate arrangements for security provider evaluation with civil defence and police in advance.

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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