This course exposes students to security disciplines of critical importance in business and industry, where protecting products and plans can be essential to staying competitive. Subjects covered include internal and external threats to security and their countermeasures. Risk analysis and security surveys are conducted using CAD programs. Students must also document their field placement. Topics covered include policy formation, procedures, and checklists.
Students develop written procedures which are used in simulated threat situations.
This advanced course acquaints students with sound management practices and effective crisis intervention techniques. Also, more complex situations such as acts of terrorism, hostage incidents and sniper attacks are studied. Students learn the latest and most humane methods of using these restraints and how to carry out a variety of search techniques geared to different situations. This course introduces students to contingency planning for disasters and the importance to organizations of an efficient and effective disaster recovery plan to minimize the effects. Students learn to identify potential disasters, to provide corrective action, and to plan, organize, and implement a contingency and recovery program.