Advanced Enterprise Security Management Training Course

Duration 10 days 19 modules · 65 contact hours
Level Advanced Certificate on completion
Who attends Corporate Security Director, Head of Security and others
Fee from USD 2,200 KSh 190,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 9 Nov 2026 Course code SD-SM-021

Before you join: Participants should have practical experience in corporate security, risk, business continuity, facilities, safety, investigations, emergency management or related operational leadership.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

Suggest a date or city

Showing the next six months. Later dates, other cities and private deliveries for your team are available on request.

Course overview

Enterprise security leaders must protect people, facilities, information, operations and reputation while supporting business objectives, managing duty-of-care obligations and making defensible investment decisions. The work extends beyond guarding and access control. It requires a clear security governance model, intelligence-led risk assessment, coordinated incident management, business continuity planning, investigations, third-party controls and reporting that senior leaders can act upon.

This course develops the methods needed to lead enterprise security as a risk-managed business function. Participants apply ISO 31000 risk principles, ISO 18788 security operations management requirements, crisis management structures, threat assessment methods, security programme design and performance measurement. They learn to connect physical security, personnel security, travel risk, cyber risk interfaces, resilience planning and supplier assurance within one operating model. Attention is given to board reporting, budget cases, legal and ethical boundaries, and decision-making during serious incidents.

The course is instructor-led over 10 days, delivered in classroom locations in more than 50 cities or live online. Each training day runs from 08:30 to 16:30, providing about 6.5 contact hours. Short technical briefings are combined with sector cases, group analysis, incident simulations and structured application planning. Participants progressively build a security management package from the first week, then test, refine and present it during the second week. They receive a certificate of completion and leave with reusable templates for risk assessment, governance, crisis response, assurance and executive reporting.

The course is suited to experienced security, resilience, risk, facilities, safety and operational leaders who are responsible for enterprise-wide security decisions or who are moving into such roles.

What you will be able to do

  • Design an enterprise security management system aligned with ISO 18788 and business objectives
  • Conduct intelligence-led threat and risk assessments using ISO 31000 principles
  • Develop security governance structures, decision rights and executive reporting arrangements
  • Create proportionate physical, personnel, travel and third-party security control plans
  • Lead incident command, crisis escalation and post-incident review processes
  • Integrate security risk with business continuity, cyber risk and organisational resilience planning
  • Prepare security investment cases using risk reduction, cost and service performance evidence
  • Present a complete enterprise security management plan for executive review

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Builds credibility when presenting security risks and investments to senior leaders
  • Provides defensible methods for prioritising security expenditure and control improvements
  • Strengthens command decisions during incidents, crises and business disruptions
  • Improves ability to manage security providers through measurable service requirements
  • Creates reusable work products for enterprise security leadership roles

For your organisation

  • Creates clearer accountability for security decisions, escalation and risk ownership
  • Improves consistency of threat assessment across sites, regions and business units
  • Reduces avoidable disruption through coordinated incident and continuity arrangements
  • Strengthens assurance over security suppliers, travel programmes and high-risk operations
  • Gives executives clearer evidence for security investment and residual-risk decisions

Course modules

19 modules over 10 days

Participants can define the mandate, scope and leadership accountabilities of an enterprise security function.

  • Enterprise security mandate linked to value, duty of care, and strategy
  • Security leadership roles across corporate, regional, site, and business-unit levels
  • Three Lines Model applied to security oversight and assurance
  • Board risk appetite translated into security decision thresholds
  • Security policy architecture from principles through procedures and post orders
  • Legal, ethical, privacy, and human-rights boundaries for security operations

Participants can establish governance arrangements that assign security authority, accountability and escalation routes.

  • Governance charters defining authority, accountability, escalation, and decision rights
  • RACI matrices for corporate security, facilities, information technology, and operations
  • Security steering committees with defined agendas, evidence, and action tracking
  • Policy exceptions controlled through documented risk acceptance and expiry dates
  • Delegated authority limits for emergency expenditure and protective measures
  • Management review cycles aligned with ISO 18788 requirements

Participants can produce an intelligence-led security risk assessment with prioritised treatment actions.

  • ISO 31000 principles applied to enterprise security risk assessment
  • Threat actor profiling using intent, capability, opportunity, and target attractiveness
  • Source evaluation using reliability and information-credibility grading methods
  • Risk scenarios written with cause, event, consequence, and existing controls
  • Likelihood and impact scales calibrated against operational and strategic consequences
  • Risk registers distinguishing inherent risk, residual risk, and risk owners

Participants can establish intelligence requirements and turn relevant information into actionable security assessments.

  • Priority intelligence requirements tied to executive security decisions
  • Collection plans covering internal reporting, suppliers, media, and official sources
  • Analysis of competing hypotheses for ambiguous threat information
  • Indicators and warnings linked to pre-agreed protective actions
  • Intelligence brief formats for executives, travellers, sites, and response teams
  • Information handling rules for sensitivity, retention, dissemination, and privacy

Participants can design a risk-based security programme with proportionate controls and implementation priorities.

  • Control selection using deterrence, detection, delay, response, and recovery
  • Defence-in-depth design for people, assets, information, and operations
  • Security control baselines differentiated by risk tier and asset criticality
  • Treatment plans assigning actions, owners, resources, milestones, and assurance evidence
  • Residual-risk decisions documented through accountable management acceptance
  • Control dependencies mapped across security, technology, facilities, and operations

Participants can specify physical security controls based on threat, asset value and operational needs.

  • Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design principles for site protection
  • Layered protection zones from perimeter through critical internal areas
  • Security surveys assessing boundaries, access points, sightlines, and vulnerabilities
  • Access control design using least privilege and role-based permissions
  • CCTV operational requirements covering purpose, coverage, retention, and response
  • Security lighting, intrusion detection, and monitoring room performance criteria

Participants can establish proportionate personnel security and insider risk controls across the employment lifecycle.

  • Personnel security lifecycle from recruitment through exit and post-employment access
  • Vetting criteria matched to role sensitivity, legal limits, and risk
  • Insider threat indicators assessed without stereotyping or unlawful monitoring
  • Segregation of duties reducing fraud, sabotage, and unauthorised disclosure opportunities
  • Joiner-mover-leaver controls coordinated with human resources and information technology
  • Confidential reporting channels, case triage, and welfare-based intervention routes

Participants can plan duty-of-care measures for travellers, executives and personnel in higher-risk locations.

  • Travel risk assessments based on destination, traveller profile, itinerary, and activity
  • Journey management plans specifying communications, routes, check-ins, and contingencies
  • Executive protection threat assessments distinguishing visibility, exposure, and vulnerability
  • Country security briefs using threat indicators and operational restrictions
  • Medical, evacuation, kidnap, and detention contingencies within travel plans
  • Traveller tracking governance balancing duty of care and privacy

Participants can procure, oversee and assure security suppliers using measurable performance requirements.

  • Supplier due diligence covering capability, ethics, insurance, and ownership
  • Statement-of-work specifications defining posts, patrols, response, and reporting
  • Service-level agreements with measurable staffing, attendance, and incident standards
  • Contractor induction requirements for site rules, confidentiality, and emergency actions
  • Supplier audits using evidence sampling, interviews, observation, and record review
  • Corrective action plans tracked through owners, deadlines, verification, and closure

Participants can manage guard force and security operations centre performance against defined operational standards.

  • Operating procedures for alarm handling, dispatch, escalation, and incident logging
  • Guard deployment models matched to threat periods, asset criticality, and demand
  • Post orders written with duties, limits, reporting, and emergency instructions
  • Control room quality assurance through call review and incident record sampling
  • Shift handover standards capturing outstanding risks, faults, and priority actions
  • Performance dashboards covering response times, patrol completion, and recurring incidents

Participants can lead structured security incident responses from first report through stabilisation and handover.

  • Incident classification criteria based on consequence, urgency, and escalation thresholds
  • Incident command system roles for command, operations, planning, logistics, and liaison
  • First-hour actions protecting life, evidence, communications, and critical operations
  • Common operating picture maintained through verified facts, decisions, and resource status
  • Tactical communication protocols for responders, leaders, employees, and external agencies
  • Handover arrangements between incident command, crisis management, and recovery teams

Participants can support executive crisis decisions with clear information, options and consequence analysis.

  • Crisis management team structures aligned with strategic decision responsibilities
  • Strategic incident objectives framed around people, operations, reputation, and obligations
  • Decision logs recording options, rationale, authorities, and follow-up actions
  • Executive situation reports separating confirmed facts, assumptions, and information gaps
  • Stakeholder communication plans for regulators, clients, employees, families, and media
  • Crisis room protocols for meeting rhythm, task tracking, and confidentiality

Participants can integrate security arrangements with business continuity, recovery and resilience planning.

  • ISO 22301 continuity requirements connected to security disruption scenarios
  • Business impact analysis identifying recovery priorities, dependencies, and maximum downtime
  • Security continuity plans for lost sites, disrupted communications, and workforce displacement
  • Recovery strategies covering alternate premises, protective resources, and critical suppliers
  • Crisis-to-recovery transition criteria with accountable recovery leadership
  • Lessons-learned reviews converting incident findings into continuity and security improvements

Participants can coordinate physical and cyber security controls around shared threats and dependencies.

  • Cyber-physical risk scenarios involving access systems, cameras, networks, and data
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework functions mapped to physical security dependencies
  • Identity and access management links between badges, accounts, and privileged access
  • Joint incident triage for suspicious activity, system failures, and data compromise
  • Technology assurance for connected security devices and remote maintenance access
  • Information-sharing protocols between security operations, information technology, and privacy teams

Participants can manage security investigations that preserve evidence and support fair, defensible decisions.

  • Investigation plans setting allegations, scope, authority, hypotheses, and evidence sources
  • Evidence preservation using chain-of-custody records and secure storage controls
  • Interview planning based on chronology, corroboration, fairness, and disclosure limits
  • Case management logs recording actions, findings, decisions, and procedural milestones
  • Root cause analysis using five whys and barrier-failure review
  • Investigation reports separating facts, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations

Participants can measure security performance and provide assurance evidence for management review.

  • Key risk indicators showing changing exposure, control failure, and emerging threats
  • Key performance indicators measuring response, compliance, quality, and service delivery
  • Balanced scorecards linking security activity to business protection outcomes
  • Audit programmes sampling policy compliance, control operation, and evidence quality
  • Management review packs presenting trends, exceptions, decisions, and resource needs
  • Maturity assessments identifying current state, target state, and improvement priorities

Participants can prepare evidence-based security budgets and investment cases for senior decision-makers.

  • Security cost models separating capital expenditure, operating expenditure, and contingent costs
  • Business cases linking proposed controls to risk reduction and operational benefits
  • Cost-benefit analysis using avoided loss, service improvements, and implementation costs
  • Scenario analysis testing investment choices under changing threat assumptions
  • Budget prioritisation through risk ranking, legal obligations, and asset criticality
  • Executive recommendations stating decision required, options, consequences, and funding

Participants can build security behaviours and change controls that sustain programme performance.

  • Security culture diagnostics identifying beliefs, routines, incentives, and reporting barriers
  • Role-based security training linked to specific risks and expected behaviours
  • Behavioural observation methods for identifying unsafe or insecure work practices
  • Change impact assessments for new sites, technology, processes, and suppliers
  • Communication plans addressing audience, message, channel, timing, and feedback
  • Control adoption measures tracking awareness, compliance, exceptions, and recurring errors

Participants can build, review and present a complete enterprise security management plan with governance, risk, controls, response and assurance arrangements.

  • Security context statement defining assets, stakeholders, obligations, and operating priorities
  • Enterprise threat and risk profile with prioritised treatment decisions
  • Governance model assigning accountability, escalation routes, and management review cycles
  • Integrated control plan covering physical, personnel, travel, supplier, and cyber interfaces
  • Incident, crisis, continuity, and recovery arrangements tested against credible scenarios
  • Executive presentation presenting investment priorities, residual risks, and assurance measures

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Enterprise security governance charter template
  2. Intelligence-led security risk register
  3. Security control treatment plan
  4. Incident and crisis management playbook
  5. Security supplier assurance checklist
  6. Executive security management plan

Who should attend

  • Corporate Security Director — needs an enterprise model for governing diverse security operations
  • Head of Security — requires stronger methods for risk-led planning and executive influence
  • Enterprise Risk Manager — needs to integrate security threats within wider risk oversight
  • Business Continuity Manager — needs coordinated security and crisis response arrangements
  • Facilities and Property Director — manages protection risks across sites, assets and contractors
  • Regional Security Manager — needs consistent controls and escalation across multiple locations

Skills and tools covered

Enterprise security governanceThreat risk assessmentCrisis incident leadershipSecurity programme designResilience integrationExecutive security reporting

Tools and standards

ISO 31000:2018 Risk Management, ISO 18788:2015 Security Operations Management Systems, ISO 22301:2019 Business Continuity Management Systems, NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

How the course runs

Training methodology

The instructor uses short briefings to establish methods, standards and decision criteria, followed by sector-based case work from banking, infrastructure, healthcare, manufacturing and international operations. Participants analyse threat information, make control choices, conduct incident command simulations and review executive reporting examples. Small-group work tests assumptions and exposes trade-offs between protection, cost, service and operational continuity. Individual application planning enables participants to adapt the methods to their own security responsibilities and organisational context.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should have practical experience in corporate security, risk, business continuity, facilities, safety, investigations, emergency management or related operational leadership. They should understand basic risk concepts, incident reporting and the purpose of security controls. Experience supervising security teams, suppliers or site operations is useful. This is not an entry-level guarding, access control installation or basic health and safety course. No prior certification in ISO standards, formal law enforcement experience, cyber security qualification, or advanced financial modelling expertise is required.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

Participants should already work in security, risk, resilience, facilities, safety, investigations or operational management. They need practical familiarity with organisational risk and incident processes, but no prior ISO certification or formal law enforcement background.

Bring a laptop if possible and, where permitted, a high-level description of a real security challenge, site portfolio or programme objective. Do not bring restricted threat reports, personal data, investigation files or confidential security drawings.

It is designed for experienced managers and leaders who set security priorities, manage providers, advise executives or coordinate major incidents. It is less suitable for participants seeking initial guard training or basic access control operation.

Physical security courses focus mainly on protective design, guarding and technology controls, while business continuity courses focus on recovery from disruption. This course connects those areas with governance, intelligence, personnel security, investigations, crisis leadership, supplier assurance and executive decision-making.

Participants leave with templates and a structured enterprise security management plan that can be adapted to their organisation. The methods support immediate work on risk registers, security governance, incident playbooks, assurance reviews and investment proposals.

Each day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides about 6.5 contact hours. The first week establishes governance, risk, programme design and core security controls; the second week covers incident leadership, resilience, assurance, investment decisions and the final capstone presentation.

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