Security Risk Assessment
Overview
Security decisions should rest on a clear assessment of threat, vulnerability and impact. This course teaches structured security risk assessment methods, from understanding threats and assets to surveying sites, rating risks, recommending proportionate measures and presenting findings to decision-makers.
Who should attend
Security managers and analysts, risk officers, facility managers and staff responsible for protecting sites and assets.
Training methodology
Interactive presentations, practical exercises, case studies, group discussions, role-plays where relevant, and a personal action plan that participants apply in their own work.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Explain security risk concepts and assessment methods
- Identify and prioritise critical assets
- Analyse threats and vulnerabilities
- Conduct a security survey of a site
- Recommend proportionate measures and report findings
Course outline
- Threat, vulnerability and impact
- Security risk standards
- Qualitative and quantitative approaches
- Risk appetite for security
- The assessment process
- Discussion: recent security events
- Identifying critical assets
- Criticality assessment
- Threat actors and motives
- Threat intelligence sources
- Scenario development
- Exercise: threat profile
- Vulnerability assessment methods
- Planning a security survey
- Perimeter, building and internal checks
- Procedures and people
- Survey documentation
- Site survey exercise
- Likelihood and impact rating
- Risk registers
- Options for mitigation
- Cost-benefit of measures
- Residual risk
- Workshop: treatment plan
- Writing the assessment report
- Presenting to decision-makers
- Implementing recommendations
- Review frequency and triggers
- Integrating with enterprise risk
- Full assessment exercise and action plan
Upcoming dates and fees
| Dates | Venue | Fee |
|---|---|---|
| 8–12 February 2027 | Rome | £4,750 per delegate |
| 12–16 April 2027 | Baku | £4,250 per delegate |
| 21–25 June 2027 | Dubai | £4,500 per delegate |
More dates and online registration: www.british-skills.co.uk/training-course/security-risk-assessment