Course Objectives
Security Policies and Procedures - Virtual Learning
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Identify numerous types of policies used in security
- Understand Standard Operational Procedures (SOPs)
- Apply assignment instructions to security operations
- Create policies and procedures for their organization
- Manage the successful implementation of security policies
Target Audience
This course is suitable for security professionals who manage and control an organization’s policies and procedures; this includes security supervisors, managers, team leaders and company owners, directors and stakeholders.
Target Competencies
- Communication
- SOP creation
- Team management
- Critical and strategic thinking
Course Outline
- Introduction to Security Policies and Procedures
- What are security policies?
- What are security procedures?
- Why do we need policies in our organizations?
- How policies affect your work and every-day routines
- Understanding the connection between policies and the law
- The importance of policies and procedures in security
- Different types of policies in the workplace
- 3 types of security policies
- What should a security policy contain?
- Assignment instruction
- Policies and the law
- Wants, needs and benefits of policies and procedures
- The Principles of Policies and Procedures
- Setting a security policy within an organization
- 5 components or elements of a security policy
- Differences between policies and procedures
- Security awareness
- Roles and responsibilities when creating policies
- 3 types of security controls
- Relationship between policy and management
- Policy statements
- Top-down security
- Bottom-up security
- Security standards
- Codes of Security behavior and ethics
- Management Controls and Written Documentation
- Security administration
- Assignment instructions
- Reporting procedure
- Physical control policies
- Technical control policies
- Structuring your security policy
- Developing a security strategy
- Rational for security strategy
- Consequences of poor policy implementation
- Establishing effective procedures for success
- Implementation of security procedures
- Managing security procedures
- Measuring procedures for assessing performance
- Security procedure typology
- Creating Effective Policies for your Organization
- Developing a suitable security policy for an organization
- Developing and writing a policy statement for your organization
- Matching security procedures to the policies
- Creating Assignment Instructions for your organization
- Developing a written assignment instruction for an organization
- Creating a security plan with a list of suitable policies and procedures for your organization