Security Management Certificate
(18 semester hours)

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Objectives

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the basic terms in security management and its theories.
  •  Assess management theories and apply concepts of planning, resources, and authority to security organizations.
  • Identify and discuss the major aspects of physical security, associated threats and application of countermeasures.
  • Explain the basic procedures and rules of personnel security and the specialized terms associated with information security.
  • Draw conclusions about the role a security leadership has in establishing the foundation of private security programs.
  • Establish how security managers test and align functional performance or their security organization incorporating legal issues and ensuring ethical approaches.
  • Evaluate and use a methodology of quality assurance including the merits of a performance based standards approach towards total asset protection.
  • Draw conclusions about a value added contribution in the world of tangible and intangible assets.
  • Detect how corporate security manger can effective effectively communicate strategic security issues and actions to other business departments and managers.

CJ370 / SCM 370 - Principles and Theory of Security Issues
CJ371/ SCM 371 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Security Management
CJ372 / SCM 372 - Risk Analysis and Loss Prevention
CJ373 / SCM 373 - Evaluation of Security Programs
CJ374 / SCM 400- Contemporary Issues in Security Management
IS306 / ISS 340- Information Security









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