Welcome to Kenneth Sudol & Associates, Inc.

Courses scheduled this week (February 8-12): The following courses scheduled for this week have been cancelled due to weather and road conditions:

• Understanding the Personnel Security Program February 9-10, and

• Fundamentals of Conducting a Personnel Security Interview course February 11-12

We apologize for this inconvience but for the safety of our students and our instructors it has been determined that travel due to weather conditions will be too dangerous during the course of this week.  These courses have been rescheduled for the March 23-26 and will be held in the same location (Washington, DC area).  Click the links above for more information.

Click here to visit our Adverse Weather Conditions page.

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Are You Aware Of The New Training Requirement?

On December 29, 2009, President Obama issued Executive Order 13526 which replaced our old Executive Order 12958 originally signed in 1995. The changes represented in this new E.O. will have a discernible impact on our security programs.

Specifically, Section 2.1 of the new Executive Order 13526 states, "Persons who apply derivative classification markings shall receive training in the proper application of the derivative classification principles of the order, with an emphasis on avoiding over-classification, at least once every 2 years. Derivative classifiers who do not receive such training at least once every 2 years shall have their authority to apply derivative classification markings suspended until they have received such training."

We have three courses that will meet this new requirement: "Information Security", "Security Specialist" and "Understanding NISPOM Requirements". The two-day Information Security course is exclusively an Executive Order 13526 course in that it is all about classification management, classification, marking of classified documents, declassification, and safeguarding. Enroll today and take care of this requirement with quality training and a Certificate of Completion for your security record from Kenneth Sudol & Associates.

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ISP Certification Exam

John Waller, Industrial Security Professional (ISP) will be proctoring the ISP exam for eligible candidates who attend his April "Understanding NISPOM Requirements" class in Huntsville, AL and the following class in July in Springfield, VA. The two-hour ISP exam will be taken on-line only and will be administered on Friday afternoon immediately following completion of the class. Get more details here...

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Kenneth Sudol & Associates, Inc provides training to government and private industry in the following areas:
Anti-Terrorism	Classification Management
Conducting Interviews	Crisis Management
Government Personnel & the NISP	Information Security
JPAS/JCAVS Training	Personnel Security
Personnel Suitability	Physical Security
Security Specialist

Our company provides proven and effective training programs designed to equip individuals and organizations in the United States and around the world in managing security and suitability programs, protecting privacy information, adjudicating completed personnel security or suitability investigations, proper application of due process, protecting classified information, responsibilities under the physical security program, knowing industrial security techniques, conducting effective interviews, and much more. Our course instructors have many years of experience working in security positions and teaching Federal and State government personnel, government contractors and private companies in a variety of disciplines. If you need additional information about our security training services or products, or if you have any comments about our web site, please contact us via one of the following: