Welcome to Kenneth Sudol & Associates, Inc.

Physical security describes both measures that prevent or deter attackers from accessing a facility, resource, or information stored on physical media and guidance on how to design structures to resist various hostile acts.  In this course we introduce the student to the discipline of physical security as it relates to the protection of personnel, assets, classified materials/information as well as controlled unclassified information.  The student will learn about:

• the roles of the security professional, supervisors, and senior management in securing of personnel, assets and information
• the concept of “Crime Prevention through Environmental Design” and the concepts of natural surveillance, access control, and territorial reinforcement as well as the importance of maintenance of facility grounds
• the value of good lighting and the different kinds of lighting available and the impact of “bad” lighting on the physical security program
• facility access control measures and the advantages and disadvantages of security guards, locks and keys, sight recognition, key pads, card systems, biometrics and turnstiles
• the different types of card access systems such as bar code, Hollerith, wiegand wire, magnetic stripe, proximity, “smart” and RFID cards
• the emerging technologies of biometric voice pattern recognition, retina and iris scanners, fingerprint scanners, vascular scanners and hand geometry
• intrusion detection systems and their components and the difference between “volumetric “and “spot” detectors, “active” and “passive” sensors and IR and ultrasonic sensors
• sensors for perimeter fences, glass break detectors and photo detector systems as well as door contacts and premise control units
• the advantages and disadvantages of various video monitoring systems and capabilities of various types of cameras
• how, by using common physical security sense, we can make our work environment more secure
• how to use risk management to deal with the myriad of threats to our personnel, assets, and information
• the problems associated with “tailgating” and countermeasures to this problem
• the threat from hackers, crackers, and thieves and how we can protect our mobile IT devices from these threats
• the important need for physical security when using print servers
• remaining aware of your physical surroundings when conducting sensitive discussions
• protecting your critical physical security system information
• why adversaries love to dumpster dive
• the threats to our employees when they are traveling
• the role of supervisors in identifying the subordinate who is displaying signs of duress and who may be about to commit a violent act in the workplace
• the importance of training employees to report “suspicious activities” around the facility and how to make your parking lots a little safer for late-departing employees
• the threat to the organization’s voice mail system
• why it is important to protect information relative to the IT infrastructure
• the age-old problem of getting employees to properly wear their security badges
• the importance of periodically cleaning out our  security cabinets and getting rid of sensitive and classified materials that no longer have utility
• the importance of reporting loss of access cards
• the threat from cellular telephones
• how to be prepared for a bomb incident/threat and the importance of disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• how to instill a sense of operations security (OPSEC) in each employee’s mind in order to protect our sensitive mission information
• the construction requirements to build a Secure Room or Closed Area to accommodate “open storage” of classified materials to include requirements for walls, floors, windows, roofs, doors, and HVAC vents and ducts

This course is primarily intended for students who work in classified environments and are responsible for the physical security or who want to learn about physical security measures supporting classified work environments.  This is a fundamentals course and physical security challenges will be addressed along with suggested countermeasures for each challenge.

Instructor: John Waller

Course Length: 2 days

Cost: $595.00

Prerequisites: Only that each participant must be a U.S. Citizen or Naturalized U.S. Citizen

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