Security Management

Managing Security Background Screening Programmes for Sensitive Staff

Turn security background screening from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Managing Security Background Screening Programmes for Sensitive Staff
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

A control on security background screening that is never exercised is an assumption, not a defence. Most security failures involving the corporate security practice capability exploit a process gap rather than a technical one. Organisations that document this area of corporate security practice properly resolve disputes about it far more quickly. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a security procedure for security background screening as they go. 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. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the practice within corporate security practice are used deliberately. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in security background screening before they become incidents. The course sets out a working method for this strand of corporate security practice that participants can apply the week they return. The final module sets out how progress on this aspect of corporate security practice will be evidenced six months later.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Review security background screening after each incident, exercise and change of threat.

  • Exercise and test arrangements for security background screening under realistic conditions.

  • Translate policy on security background screening into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.

  • Estimate what security background screening costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.

  • Build the reporting on security background screening that senior management can act on.

  • Select indicators that show whether security background screening is improving, and reject those that only look useful.

  • Plan the response and escalation for incidents involving security background screening.

Who Should Attend

  • Security managers and officers responsible for security background screening.

  • Specialists advising senior management on security background screening.

  • Human resources staff handling vetting and insider risk in security background screening.

  • Facility and site managers accountable for protection of security background screening.

  • Guard force supervisors delivering security background screening.

  • Department heads accountable for the results of security background screening.

Course Modules

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01

Security background screening: layered controls — deter, detect, delay, respond

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Insider risk inside security background screening

  • Confirm recorded material from security background screening is retained long enough to be useful.
  • Confirm that reporting on security background screening reaches the people who can act.
  • Protect sensitive information relating to security background screening from casual disclosure.
  • Coordinate arrangements for security background screening with civil defence and police in advance.

Session 2The cost of security background screening and how to present it

  • Check that controls on security background screening cover deterrence, detection, delay and response.
  • Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of security background screening current.
  • Establish evidence handling and chain of custody for security background screening.
  • Review security background screening after every incident, exercise or change in threat.
02

Security background screening: procedures, access control and identity

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Testing security background screening before relying on it

  • Identify vulnerabilities in security background screening and rank them by consequence, not ease of fix.
  • Reduce the variation in how security background screening is carried out between teams.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains security background screening to those affected.
  • Assess insider risk in roles with privileged access to security background screening.

Session 2Assessing the threat to security background screening specifically, not generically

  • Check that security background screening still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Define the trigger that would require security background screening to be redesigned.
  • Set out how exceptions to security background screening are requested and approved.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when security background screening underperforms.
03

Security background screening: threat assessment and intelligence

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Coordinating with external authorities on security background screening

  • Report on security background screening in terms that support an investment decision.
  • Agree the smallest change to security background screening that would be visibly useful.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around security background screening are understood.
  • Assess contractor and third-party exposure within security background screening.

Session 2Exercising the plan for security background screening realistically

  • Build the threat picture for security background screening from sources relevant to this site and sector.
  • Record the rationale for each significant choice made about security background screening.
  • Define the first response actions for an incident involving security background screening.
  • Supervise and spot-check performance on security background screening rather than relying on reports.
04

Security background screening: incident response and escalation

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Handling evidence from security background screening so it survives scrutiny

  • Check guard force instructions for security background screening are current and understood.
  • Verify identity checks applied at entry points relevant to security background screening.
  • Review surveillance coverage for security background screening against likely approach routes.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for security background screening.

Session 2Who answers for security background screening, and to whom

  • Prepare the summary of security background screening that senior management will read.
  • Rehearse the briefing on security background screening that would follow an incident.
  • Anticipate the objections security background screening will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Agree what will be standardised in security background screening and what will not.

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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