Behind every solved case is a chain of accurate, well-analyzed information – collected quietly, verified carefully, and read correctly before it becomes evidence. Security and police work relies heavily on this hidden layer of work, since the accuracy of the information and the precision of its analysis are what stand between uncovering the truth and losing the case.

The Arab British Fellowship Training Academy built this training course for professionals working in the security sector who deal with information gathering, organizing, and analysis on a daily basis. Through it, participants build practical skills for managing security information and confronting the risks that come with mishandling it.

Who Should Attend?

• Information security employees and department heads within organizations.
• Business owners who need to protect sensitive company information.
• Police personnel and staff responsible for gathering security information.

What You Will Learn:

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

• Define security information, its content, and the parties responsible for collecting it.
• Identify the full range of sources security information is drawn from, police and non-police alike.
• Apply natural and artificial disguise techniques during information-gathering operations.
• Explain why organizations and individuals need to collect security information in the first place.

Module 1: Why Security Information Comes First

• What security information actually means
• The individuals and organizations responsible for collecting it
• The typical contents of a piece of security information
• Why organizations and individuals collect it in the first place

Module 2: Where Security Information Comes From

• Police and non-police sources
• Interrogation, surveillance, and covert observation
• Guides, confidentiality, and recorded information
• Public sources and natural or artificial disguise techniques

Module 3: Building and Managing an Informant Network

• The accidental, active, covert, and forced informant
• Managing the relationship with informants
• Challenges that come with relying on the informant system

Module 4: The Foundations of Information Security

• Its components: operations, people, technology, and culture
• Core principles: confidentiality, integrity, and database availability
• Risk assessment, threat evaluation, and logical and physical controls

Module 5: Evaluating Security Information

• Building a policy for information security assessment
• A repeated, documented assessment methodology and its objectives
• Known-source versus unknown-source information
• Integrity, accuracy, and objectivity in presenting information

Module 6: Turning Information into Analysis

• Deductive, exclusion, inductive, and concept-formation methods
• Security scanning: what it means and how it is carried out
• Classifying and documenting the resulting information

Module 7: Presenting Information and Building Security Awareness

• Verbal and written presentation of security information
• Confidentiality and privacy policy while presenting it
• What security awareness means and why it matters to security staff

Module 8: Administration, Monitoring, and Time Management

• Preservation operations, technical security means, and intrusion prevention
• Incident handling and team coordination in information gathering
• Partnership with community policing efforts
• Time management, and the security and non-security difficulties that slow the process down