Homeland Defense Training Workshop®:

Physical Security Inspections & Audits
A Two-Day Workshop on Performing and Documenting
Physical Security System Inspections

April 6-7, 2005
Holiday Inn Arlington
Arlington, VA

Registration: 7:30 a.m.
Program Starts: 8:15 a.m.
Program Ends : 4:30 p.m.

About This Workshop

A key function of managing security risks and ensuring regulatory compliance is to inspect your physical security systems to make certain that your procedures are practical and current, your technologies and hardware are operating properly, and that your security manpower and employees understand their security roles and responsibilities. Your policies, procedures, plans, logbooks, training activities, technologies, hardware, and manpower must be inspected and evaluated holistically.

The Physical Security Inspections & Audits Workshop provides you the knowledge and tools to assess security system performance, compliance status, and assists you in optimizing your return on security investment.

This workshop provides you with a roadmap for not only conducting your physical security system inspections, but interpreting the results. You'll leave this workshop with important checklists, questions sets, report formats, and other useful knowledge and information to help protect your facility.

What You Will Learn

• How to conduct effective physical security inspections
• How to create or improve your security inspection plan
• How to assemble and train your audit team
• How to assess your facility for security vulnerabilities
• How to identify security gaps that may not be obvious
• How to best document, analyze, and communicate your inspection results
• The difference between "performance" and "compliance"
  
   

Who Should Attend

• Federal, state and local security officers with security responsibility
• U.S. civil agencies, government building/facilities managers, and companies with critical infrastructure to be protected
• Anyone involved in guard protection services, law enforcement or other types of security providers
• Any professional responsible for conducting and documenting physical security system inspections
• Anyone responsible for maritime security
   

A Sample List of Early Attendees Include:

• AAMVA, Director of Technology and Standards Program
• Blackwater Security Consulting, Security Specialist
• Competitive Insights, Partner
• Department of Defense Biometrics Fusion Center, Security Manager
• Department of Energy, Security Manager
• Department of Treasury, FMS, Security Specialist
• Department of Veterans Affairs, AAC, Information Security Specialist
• Department of Homeland Security, Chief of Physical Security
• Department of Homeland Security-Federal Protection Service, Program Manager
• Department of Homeland Security-Office of the Inspector General, Chief Security Officer
• Department of Homeland Security-Office of the Inspector General, Director, Border & Transportation Security Division
• Exxon-Mobil Inter-America, Inc., Security Advisor
• Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, Chief of Security
• Honolulu Police Department, Lieutenant
• ITT Industries, Manager of Corporate Security
• JFHQ , MAARNG, Physical Security Inspector
• Los Alamos National Laboratory, Security & Safeguards Officer
• Martin County, Florida Government, Building Operations Supervisor
• Martin Luther King Library, Lieutenant
• Maryland Department of Human Resources, Chief Administration Officer
• New Jersey Army National Guard, Security Manager
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Physical Security Specialist
• Seminole County, Florida Sheriff's Office, Security Specialist
• Transportation Security Agency, Security Specialist
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Provost Marshal/Security Manager
• U.S. Coast Guard, Lieutenant
• U.S. NORTHCOM/J21, Physical Security Specialist
• U.S. EPA/NHSRC, NSI Program Manager
• U.S. NRC, Physical Protection Specialist
• USPS-OIG, Physical Security Specialist
• U.S. Services and Operations Agency, Physical Security Officer
• Vanguard EMC, Inc., President
• Veterans Health Administration, Senior Operations Engineer
• Western CONUS RSC, Senior Network Engineer
• Weston Solutions, Technical Director

About Your Chairman

Tom McCoig is President of MINDSET Security Group and is a security risk management professional with 29 years of combined military, law enforcement, safety, and security expertise. His diverse background represents a unique blend of operational, technical, tactical, and managerial skills that provide practical solutions for the security issues facing industry, communities, and government today.

Mr. McCoig is skilled in using numerous security assessment methods and adapting those methods to meet client objectives. He helped develop security workshops for numerous clients, has conducted numerous security threat and vulnerability assessments, security audits, provided security countermeasure upgrade recommendations and is very knowledgeable about countermeasures technology and selection.

Agenda

Day One

7:30 - 8:15am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:15 - 8:25am Chairman's Opening Remarks (Course Overview/Experience Based Learning)

8:25 - 9:00am ASAP Principle - Successful Execution of a Physical Security Program

• Learn the four-bedrock security principles
• Sowing and reaping principle of audits and inspections
• Adversarial Thinking and Inspections and Audits

9:00 - 9:10am Break

9:10 - 10:30am Inspection and Audit Approach

• Developing Goals and Objectives for your Inspection
• Linking Vulnerability Assessments to Your Inspection
• Inspection and Audit Team Roles and Responsibilities
• Compliance Verses Performance
• Who Should be on the Team from the Outside
• Reporting to the Inspection Site Stakeholders

10:30 - 10:40am Break

10:40 - 11:45pm Inspection and Audit Planning

• Pre-inspection planning
• Training your audit and inspection team
• How Do I document the inspection or audit
• Developing audit and inspection checklists
• Developing audit and inspection questions
• What to do if your questions are not getting answered
• What are findings, observations, and other issues
• Reviewing documentation before the inspection
• Deciding who is going to do what
• Protecting inspection data
• Taking pictures and video-Yes or No
• Handling and Disposal of Documents and Digital Information

11:45 - 12:45pm Lunch on Your Own

12:45 - 1:45pm On the Ground-Conducting the Audit and Inspection

• Conducting the Audit and Inspection
• Have you reviewed policies, procedures, and plans
• Audit and inspections of attitudes
• Holding the kick-off meeting
• Scope of the on-site inspection or audit
• How to handle disagreements
• Data collection
• Safety Rules and Inspections

1:45 - 2:00pm Break

2:00 - 4:30pm Let’s Do It-On the Ground-Inspection of Procedures and Perimeters

• Procedure Reviews
• Barriers and other issues
• Developing and using questions for barrier inspections
• Fences, Walls, Gates, Woods, and Water

4:30pm Day One Wrap Up

Day Two

8:00 - 8:15am Coffee and Pastries

8:15 - 9:30am General Facility Inspections Overview

• Building inspections
  o Inside and outside
  o Underground and on the roof
• Unique facility Inspections

9:30 - 9:45am Break

9:45 - 11:15am Industrial Site/Port Inspections Overview

• Chemical Plants
• Manufacturing Facilities
• Port facilities

11:15 - 11:45am Audits and Inspections of Lighting, CCTV and Intrusion Detection and Alarm Systems

11:45 - 12:45pm Lunch on Your Own

12:45 - 2:00pm Audits and Inspections of Lighting, CCTV and Intrusion Detection and Alarm Systems (Continued)

2:00 - 2:10pm Break

2:10 - 3:00pm Inspections of Security Manpower, Portals, Equipment, Testing, and Readiness

3:00 - 3:10pm Break

3:10 - 4:00pm Inspections of Detection, Assessment and Response Capabilities

• Conducting Performance Test during an Inspection

4:00 - 4:30pm Close-out of Audits and Inspections

• Analysis of Results
• Report Format and Preparation
• Out-Briefings
   

Media Sponsors

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Organizational Sponsors

INPUT is the essential market intelligence resource for companies doing business with government. INPUT provides market development services, advisory services, and software solutions to help clients secure new business, address new markets, and manage business development. For more information about INPUT, visit www.input.com or call (703) 707-3500.

Founded in 1988, the Wireless Communications Association, International (WCA) is the principal non-profit trade association representing the wireless broadband industry. WCA membership, which includes the industry's leading carriers, vendors and consultants, has grown to over 530 member companies spanning six continents.

The WCA organizes the world's largest annual business conference and exhibition devoted exclusively to wireless broadband. This conference and exhibition annually convenes experts from around the world to discuss market strategies, emerging technologies, new applications and financing/regulatory options.

Medical Planning Resources, Inc. provides consultative services for medically managing the threats associated with complex emergencies, natural and man-made disasters and asymmetrical events. Medical Planning Resources is dedicated to the mission of providing expert medical advice to help Prepare, Respond, and Recover from Complex Emergencies, Disasters, and Asymmetrical Threats…Worldwide.

Corporate Sponsors

Corporate sponsors will be posted soon!

 

Become a Sponsor


If you would like to become a sponsor at this Homeland Defense Training Workshop, please download and complete our set of sponsor forms.  (Forms require Acrobat Reader.)  For more information on sponsor/exhibitor arrangements, please contact Cara Lombardi, (703) 807-2743.

Registration Fee

• Industry - $795 per person
• Small Business (100 employees or less) - $745 per person
• Government - $695 per person

Includes refreshments and continental breakfast on both days and your course handouts.

Registration Options

[1]  Online with your credit card using our online booking form
[2]  Fax our downloadable registration form (requires Acrobat Reader) to (703) 807-2728
[3]  Phone Pamela Greenstein at (703) 807-2758
[4]  E-mail Pamela Greenstein
[5]  Mail our downloadable registration form to:

     Homeland Defense Journal
     4301 Wilson Blvd. #1003, Arlington, VA  22203

Registrations are payable by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, company check or government purchase order.

CANCELLATION POLICY: You may designate a substitute in writing any time before the conference. If you need to cancel your registration, you must send your notice in writing and will be subject to a $50 processing fee. No refunds are given for cancellations received 3 business days prior to the workshop start date or later.

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Location / Hotel Accommodations

The conference will be held at the Holiday Inn Arlington Hotel at 4610 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203. The hotel is 3 short blocks from the Ballston Metro stop on the orange line.
 

A small block of rooms at the Holiday Inn is being held for attendees offering prevailing government per diem per night. To make a reservation, please call (703) 243-9800 and be sure to mention you are attending the "Physical Security Inspections" workshop.

For driving directions or other information about this location, visit their website at www.hiarlington.com. The Holiday Inn offers complimentary day parking and $5 overnight parking.

Contact Us

• For registration information, contact Pamela Greenstein, (703) 807-2758
• For information on exhibitor or sponsor arrangements, contact Cara Lombardi, (703) 807-2743
• For general information about this conference, contact Laura Johnson, (703) 807-2747

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On-Site Training

Have a Large Staff to Train? Can't Make These Dates? Tight Travel Budget?

Homeland Defense Journal can provide training, wherever and whenever you need, including on-site at your facility. Our staff will cost-effectively implement training customized to your needs. If you have group of attendees (usually 15 or more), we can bring this course to you and help save you time, travel costs, and more!

To request a proposal and schedule training, e-mail Laura Johnson, Director of Conferences & Strategic Planning, at ljohnson@marketaccess.org or call (703) 807-2747.
 

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