Balance security requirements in security as a value-adding function against operational practicality.
Security as a Strategic Function: From Cost to Added Value
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to security as a value-adding function.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The value of preparation for security as a value-adding function is only visible on the day it is needed. Most security failures involving value-adding function exploit a process gap rather than a technical one. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a security procedure for the wider corporate security practice agenda as they go. The content is relevant to those who own security as a value-adding function and to those who are held accountable for its results. Ambition around the corporate security practice discipline outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. The professional literature on value-adding function converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Participants leave with a method for security as a value-adding function, not a set of opinions about it. They acquire practical criteria for judging when value-adding function is working and when it is only appearing to. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to this aspect of corporate security practice that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Estimate what value-adding function costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.
Design a training and briefing approach that sustains competence in security as a value-adding function.
Plan the response and escalation for incidents involving value-adding function.
Coordinate with civil defence, police and external authorities on security as a value-adding function.
Sequence improvements to value-adding function so that each step makes the next one easier.
Design layered controls for security as a value-adding function across deterrence, detection, delay and response.
Who Should Attend
Information security staff whose remit overlaps security as a value-adding function.
Control room and monitoring staff operating value-adding function.
Team leaders and supervisors who put security as a value-adding function into practice day to day.
Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes value-adding function.
Operations managers whose activity is protected by security as a value-adding function.
Security managers and officers responsible for value-adding function.
Course Modules
Security as a value-adding function: vulnerability assessment and prioritisation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing security as a value-adding function with recognised practice
- Build the competence framework that supports security as a value-adding function.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates value-adding function is under control.
- Define the first response actions for an incident involving security as a value-adding function.
- Assess contractor and third-party exposure within value-adding function.
Session 2The first fifteen minutes of an incident involving value-adding function
- Review security as a value-adding function after every incident, exercise or change in threat.
- Draft the minimum viable security procedure for value-adding function.
- Verify six months later that changes to security as a value-adding function have held.
- Reduce the variation in how value-adding function is carried out between teams.
Value-adding function: governance, assurance and investment case
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Moving value-adding function from approval to execution
- Benchmark the organisation's security as a value-adding function against comparable operations.
- Confirm access control on value-adding function cannot be routinely bypassed.
- Confirm that reporting on security as a value-adding function reaches the people who can act.
- Rehearse the briefing on value-adding function that would follow an incident.
Session 2Insider risk inside value-adding function
- Exercise the plan for security as a value-adding function under realistic conditions and record failures.
- Confirm recorded material from value-adding function is retained long enough to be useful.
- Prepare the summary of security as a value-adding function that senior management will read.
- Set the review interval for value-adding function and who attends.
Value-adding function: threat assessment and intelligence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Layering controls on value-adding function so one failure is not fatal
- Verify identity checks applied at entry points relevant to security as a value-adding function.
- Identify vulnerabilities in value-adding function and rank them by consequence, not ease of fix.
- Set escalation criteria and out-of-hours contacts for security as a value-adding function.
- Define the trigger that would require value-adding function to be redesigned.
Session 2Building lasting competence in security as a value-adding function
- Estimate the resource security as a value-adding function requires to run as designed.
- Check that controls on value-adding function cover deterrence, detection, delay and response.
- Record what was learned when security as a value-adding function did not go as planned.
- Confirm vetting standards applied to staff and contractors in value-adding function.
Value-adding function: continuity, exercises and external coordination
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Assessing the threat to value-adding function specifically, not generically
- Establish evidence handling and chain of custody for security as a value-adding function.
- Supervise and spot-check performance on value-adding function rather than relying on reports.
- Agree what will be standardised in security as a value-adding function and what will not.
- Identify where judgement in value-adding function is legitimate and where it is not.
Session 2Surveillance on value-adding function that supports an investigation later
- Check guard force instructions for security as a value-adding function are current and understood.
- Assess insider risk in roles with privileged access to value-adding function.
- Check that security as a value-adding function still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Protect sensitive information relating to value-adding function from casual disclosure.
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