This book is the only one available on security training for all level of personnel. Currently, there are a handful of titles that cover guard forces and protection officers, but none that speak to security training for government, security, and non-security professionals. Chief Security Officers (CSO), security managers, and heads of security forces often have to design training programs themselves from scratch or rely on outside vendors and outside training companies to provide training which is often dry, stilted, and not always applicable to a specific corporate or government setting. Security Education, Awareness and Training addresses the theories of sound security training and awareness, then shows the reader how to put the theories into practice when developing or presenting any form of security education, training, motivation or awareness to organizational employees. Motivation is a key factor in how a trainer can make security essential to an organization and individual employees; it also speaks to the necessity of security and helps to shape policy and ways of making security inherent and easy for the employee to ensure a safe facility and working environment. Quite simply, there is no other book like this on the market today, and this one will be the one everyone turns to in order to learn and use for their own security programs. All three authors have at least 20 years each in one aspect of the security business or another, whether it be in program management, educational products, training, or research. But it should be added that, while working at the Department of Defense (DoD) Security Institute, we collaborated in developing and teaching an innovative course specifically for security educators. The course attendees were individually tasked in their own organization to develop and execute educational security programs for their general employee populations. Usually they were starting from scratch rather than taking over from a previous security educator. Often these programs were described as security awareness programs, sometimes security education programs, an often security training. In those days the student clientele for the Security Educators Seminar were drawn largely from industry and government agencies where the. These seminar attendees had many goals: safety, protection of proprietary information including protecting government and classified information, access control, coping with work-place violence, anti-terrorism, facility protectionoften a range of educational tasks rolled into the position description of a single person. What these professionals needed was not an understanding of security as we defined it, but skills and techniques for imparting awareness of vulnerabilities, threats, and consequences of ignorance; essential know-how to prevent bad things from happening; and strategies for enhancing motivations to do the right thing at the right time. We saw the central concept to be communicationhow to reach people, capture their attention, and ensure retention of essential information within security training programs. Over the years, there has always been the conflict between time, cost, and resources and the need for security awareness training. Now, it seems more corporations and government operations and facilities are willing to invest the time and money needed to properly train and education employees. While technology and corporate dynamics have changed and developed, the need for security awareness training has remained, in fact, has never been greater. These fundamental issues of awareness, motivation, and communication have not changed, and the proposed book is the authors attempt to fill such a need in security training.
By:
Carl Roper (Security Consultant Richmond VA USA),
Dr. Lynn Fischer (PERSEREC,
Monterey,
CA,
USA),
Joseph A. Grau (Security Consultant,
Richmond,
VA,
USA)
Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 151mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9780750678032
ISBN 10: 0750678038
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 23 August 2005
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1: Security Programs, Security Education, and This BookChapter 2: Starting with Some BasicsChapter 3: Goals, Objectives, and a ModelChapter 4: Performance Problem Solving: Figuring Out What's Going OnChapter 5: Security Education and the Employment Life CycleChapter 6: Motivation: Getting People to Do ThingsChapter 7: Motivation: Some Theories with Practical ApplicationsChapter 8: Planning an Awareness ProgramChapter 9: Promoting Informed Awareness: Program ImplementationChapter 10: Practical Exercise: Promoting an Informed AwarenessChapter 11: Training and Education: Going One Step BeyondChapter 12: Planning to Train: Reader ExerciseChapter 13: Moving Security Education into the Work EnvironmentChapter 14: How Not to Train: A Commonsense AlternativeChapter 15: Evaluating Security Education ProgramsChapter 16: Security Education in the Electronic AgeAppendicesIntroduction: Security Products and PresentationsA: Focus Group ProtocolB: Security PresentationsC: Security Articles: The Protection of InformationD: Security Articles: Espionage and the Theft of InformationE: Security Articles: Foreign Travel RisksF: Security Articles: The InternetG: Internet Security LinksH: Security Articles: General InterestI: Audiovisuals: Getting the Word Out to the Right Audience - The Right Way
Reviews for Security Education, Awareness and Training: SEAT from Theory to Practice
[A] must-read for every security educator and instructor, and even some human resources professionals. The concepts presented might just redefine how educators develop and teach their curriculums. Security Management
