Managing Security Risks in the Oil and Gas Sector

ARC’s second annual Managing Security Risks in the Oil and Gas Sector Course has been a very successful event for the 11 delegates attending. Represented were some of the biggest oil and gas enterprises from Angola, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, and Pakistan, as well as the UK nuclear power industry, which shares some of the key point concerns of its critical infrastructure partners in oil and gas.

The course covered security risk analysis, community engagement and human rights, activism, managing militancy and terrorism, oilfield and pipeline security, offshore security, refinery security and retail security, and culminated in a project in which delegates presented a five-year strategic security plan for a notional oil and gas project.

Next year’s Managing Security Risks in the Oil and Gas Sector Course will take place 18-22 July 2011, immediately following the Security Management Stage 2 Course, allowing delegates to take advantage of a specially discounted package to attend both courses. For more details, contact Janet.

Maritime Security and Choke Points - The Mystery of the M-Star

Choke points are narrow waterways through which vital maritime trade passes, and as such are attractive to terrorists wishing to cause disruption and economic damage. The points include (but are not limited to):

The Malacca Straits
The Straits of Hormuz
The Bosphorus Strait
The Suez Canal
The Panama Canal

There is much debate surrounding what happened to the Japanese tanker M-STAR in the Straits of Hormuz on 28 July 2010. The vessel, laden with 200,000 barrels of oil, was travelling to Japan via the Straits of Hormuz, when there were reports of an external explosion, causing a large dent in the side of the vessel.

For conflicting accounts of the attack, go to the following links:

http://www.seatradeasia-online.com/News/5937.html

http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100804_dispatch_ongoing_questions_m_star_case

Security Managers Now Surpassing all Previous Records

Typical of comments following the recent Security Management Stage 1 Course were:

“One of the most enjoyable courses I have attended”.

“It was an extremely rewarding course”.


So how do we maintain the quality of our courses?

Delegates Assess Trainers: Of the 26 delegates who have attended the two recent postgraduate-accredited, core-skills Security Management Stage 1 courses, 25 students rated the course as “excellent” and 1 student rated it as “good”. This typifies the feedback on what is now the world’s most popular course in security management, which has been undertaken by hundreds of security managers worldwide.

Trainers Assess Delegates: The number of delegates achieving a Distinction grade in the end-of-course examination has risen for each of the past five years. This year over 80% of delegates have achieved this; a significant feat considering the examination is closed book, and Distinctions are awarded only to those delegates who score 90% and over!

ARC Training - Securing Your Success!

For details of the Security Management Stage 1 Course click here, or contact Janet.

Web Attack Knows Where You Live

Source: BBC

One visit to a booby-trapped website could direct attackers to a person's home, a security expert has shown. The attack, thought up by hacker Samy Kamkar, exploits shortcomings in many routers to find out a key identification number. It uses this number and widely available net tools to find out where a router is located. Demonstrating the attack, Mr Kamkar located one router to within nine metres of its real world position.

IT and Information security is covered in depth on the postgraduate accredited Security Management Stage 1 Course, a core-skills security management programme undertaken by over 100 security professionals worldwide every year.

For details of the course, click here, or contact Janet.

Is There a Role for Private Security Industry in the United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering International Terrorism

Email received from Corneius Wussah:

I am currently working on my MSc Dissertation and will require assistance to help complete my questionnaire via the ARC community. The topic of my Dissertation is, "Is there a role for private security Industry in the United Kingdom’s Strategy for Countering International Terrorism (CONTEST)?"

If possible, I would be very grateful if you forward the questionnaire link below to my colleagues via your ARC alumina and mailing list.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P2H22K7

10th ASIS International European Security Conference & Exhibition, 2011

The 10th ASIS International European Security Conference & Exhibition will take place in Vienna, April 3-6, 2011. The call for presentations is now open. Outside the US, this is probably the best security management conference in the world, and ARC would be delighted to see you there.

Coordinating Security in Nigeria

“Nearing the end of their Security Coordination and Management course in Lagos, Nigeria, these delegates ponder over the details of the final exercise, preparing for their management presentations the next day. Representing a wide range of security functions, their roles include personnel protection, field operations, administrative and general security management. This group graduate on Friday 30th July.”