Developing Competence in Security Management

For the full-time security manager ARC offers two options: university-accredited, interactive and highly-participatory security management courses (which can lead into an optional MSc programme), or ASIS CPP certification.

Forthcoming university-accredited (postgraduate NQF Level 7) courses include (clickable links):

Security Management Stage 1, 15-26 March, 2-13 August
Security Management Stage 2, 28 June – 9 July
Security Management Stage 3, 10-21 May

CPP certification can be achieved by following the ARC/Chapter 208 combined distance-learning/residential programme, or by attending the two-week intensive CPP crammer programme, 12 -23 July.

If you have a particular interest in terrorism, the Countering Hostile Reconnaissance and Counter Terrorism Course, 24-28 May, led by two UK police-trained counter terrorism security advisors, is highly recommended.

For those who are required to conduct investigations, ARC has three options:

Investigating and Interviewing Skills, 1-4 March
Advanced Investigations Techniques, 7-11 June
ASIS Professional Certified Investigator, 23-27 August (distance learning beginning May)

If your work requires you to survey, the very practical (site-based) Security Surveying and Design Course, 19-23 April, is recommended, and you will receive a BTEC level 4 award upon successful completion.

If you have to specify and procure technical security systems, then you should consider the ASIS PSP certification, for which distance learning begins in July.

If you are specifically interested in security risk mitigation in the oil and gas sector, then you should consider the Managing Security Risks in the Oil and Gas Sector Course, 16-20 August.

Those with a crisis management and business continuity remit should consider the Crisis and Business Continuity Management Course, 22-24 June, delivered by Barry Vincent, who was the lead in this area for one of the UK’s biggest and most successful companies.

Finally, if you have reached the pinnacle of security management, or have completed Security Management Stages 1-3, have a security management degree, or CPP, challenge yourself to participate in the very practical one-week BurrillGreen Masterclass in Strategic Security Management, 4-8 October, where you will be put through your paces across a range of “board engagement” scenarios under the guidance of two former multinational corporate heads of security. A unique opportunity – a unique challenge.

As always, Janet will be happy to provide all the details of any of ther above pogrammes.

Explosives Detection

Lots of resources on the Internet to help you better understand explosives detection, for example:

www2.foi.se/rapp/foir2030.pdf
www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/208861.pdf


But the explosive peroxide compounds triacetone triperoxide (TATP) and hexamethylenetriperoxide diamine (HMTD) are difficult to detect by conventional mass spectrometry methods.

Whatever equipment you select, do first produce a written performance specification that states that the equipment is to be capable of detecting all regular high explosives and also at least TATP. Some systems can’t identify this home-made high explosive, which is proving very popular with extremists.

Examples of good equipment that can identify TATP include the Scintrex EVD 3100 and 3500, but the EVD 3000, which is still widely sold, cannot detect TATP, and will leave you exposed if you are using it.

And don’t rule out extremist use of chlorate/sugar mix low explosives (usually beyond the detection capabilities of many equipments), which, as demonstrated by the IRA in Belfast in the 1970s, have the ability to demolish an entire building under certain conditions.
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Door Lock Glossary

http://www.securefastplc.net/Terminology

(If you should ever want to engage in coversation with a door lock specialist)

Creating Dynamic Return on Security Investment

In the Specifying Technology session on the Security Management Stage 2 Course, 28 June – 9 July 2010, (for details click here or contact Janet), much emphasis is placed on how to create dynamic return on security investment by selecting technical security solutions that have payback into other areas of the business. For example IP CCTV which can serve as the backbone for corporate-wide voice over Internet telephony services, the single card initiative which, by allowing staff to securely access their own personal records via the network, can dramatically reduce internal telephone enquiry calls and associated manpower etc.

RFID is one such technology which, while making rapid inroads into security, also has many other non-security applications. Read the following article for an example:

http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/3022/1/1/

The Pigeon That's Quicker than Broadband - And More Secure?

In a race to transfer four gigabytes of data securely between two company offices 80km (50 miles) apart, pigeon Winston arrived with his encrypted memory stick in 2hr 6min 57sec - when the rival download was only four per cent complete. A pigeon: better than a dodgy internet connection? With practice, Winston's trainers think he can get the flight down to 45 minutes, against six hours by internet.

Full story: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/734273-the-pigeon-thats-quicker-than-broadband

New Line-Up at ARC

If you have attended an ARC course in the past 6 months, you may have noticed a change to the training team line-up. In mid-2009 Barry Vincent BSc (Econ), MA, MSc joined the team, and is now one of the principal presenters on the university-accredited Security Management Stages 1-3 courses.

Barry is a highly experienced security professional, who has impressive academic credentials, including an MSc in Security and Risk Management. A former police divisional commander in London, he has previously held the position of Head of Security of the distribution and supply chain for the UK’s leading retail company. More recently, he had responsibility for that company’s business continuity and crisis management arrangements, developing scenario planning and training for operational directors.

Barry is passionately committed to helping security managers develop professionally through education, and course delegates are discovering that he is an excellent mentor, who takes a very keen interest in each and every course member.

Barry will be the course leader for the forthcoming Security Management Stage 1 Course, 15-26 March 2010. The course is filling rapidly, with just 4 places left, so please contact Janet if you are considering attending.

Detecting Liquid Explosives - Is a Solution Imminent?

Scientists say they have developed a quick technique for detecting liquids that could be used as explosives, according to the BBC. If commercialised, the new method could potentially end restrictions on liquids carried onto commercial airlines. The light-based approach uses cheap components and can reliably identify a range of liquids in just one-fifth of a second, the German scientists say.

With terrorism risk high on the agenda of many companies, ARC will be conducting its first Countering Hostile Reconnaissance and Countering Terrorism Course, 24-28 May 2010. The course is led by two UK police-trained counter-terrorism security advisors, who have operational experience in this field both in the UK and overseas. This is a rare, not-to-be-missed opportunity to study with experienced practitioners who have first-hand experience of terrorism reconnaissance and attack tactics.
For more information contact Janet or go to http://www.arc-tc.com/pages/SpecialisedSecurityCourses.asp#chr