A company's records are only as valuable as the protection wrapped around them — lose control of that, and years of institutional knowledge can leak or disappear overnight. This course is built around exactly that challenge: managing an information centre well and keeping the documents inside it secure.

Information centres exist to gather everything a company knows in one place, then organise and install it using the best available tools so it can actually be retrieved and used. Once that information sits inside computer systems, it needs to be protected so unauthorised parties can't view, alter or remove it — which is where structured information-security practice comes in.

The Arab British Fellowship Training Academy runs this course for anyone who wants to learn, following international curricula, how to manage information centres properly.

Who Should Attend

• Business owners and administrative-department managers, plus managers of information-systems centres and information/document-security departments.
• Developers of computer-protection and information systems within companies.
• Software and IT department managers and supervisors, and students building their skills in information-centre work.

Programme Outcomes

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Apply international curricula for managing information centres effectively.
• Design information-systems structures that match each company's own policy.
• Identify the risks and challenges facing information systems and the methods used to protect electronic documents stored on company computers.

Module 1: Running an Information Centre

• Core working principles for managing information centres day to day.
• Using Access to build databases that support this work.

Module 2: Protecting Stored Information

• The best security methods for saving information within computers.
• Advanced approaches to organising and protecting information in large companies.

Module 3: Information Systems Foundations

• What information systems are, why they matter, and how to engineer and assess them.

Module 4: Securing Access and Confidentiality

• Strategies for confidential-information security, ISM, access-protection methods, and smart-card technology.

Module 5: Building Resilient Protection Systems

• Manufacturing information-protection systems and building a secure framework that guarantees no company record is lost.