Information, Risk, Security and Crisis Management Course - Diploma Postgraduate

By the conclusion of the specified learning and development activities of Information, Risk, Security and Crisis Management Course, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the ‘risk context’;
• Demonstrate an understanding of the variety of disciplines to which risk management is applied;
• Formulate effective risk statements;
• Provide risk examples, distinguishing them from non-risk examples;
• Distinguish between continuous risk management and non-continuous risk management;
• Demonstrate an Understanding of risk in organisations;
• Exhibit an understanding of potential sources, impacts and consequences of risk;
• Exhibit their ability to identify and analyse risk in their organisations;
• Evaluate likely risks and consequences within and outside a organisational context;
• Develop strategies and approaches to manage risk in organisations;
• Develop a risk management plan;
• Implement risk management plans;
• Assess the options for accommodating risks;
• Prioritise risk management efforts;
• Demonstrate a heightened understanding of crisis management;
• Illustrate the salient steps that they would take towards continuity management and disaster recovery, in the context of a national disaster;
• Demonstrate their skills at contingency planning in organisational and national contexts;
• Determine the most expedient approach that they would follow to ensure that continuity management is effected, within an organisational and national contexts;
• Exhibit their esteemed confidence in their ability to function effectively in business continuity management;
• Contextualise the importance of logistics in recovery planning;
• Apply newly learnt risk management techniques to their workplace;
• Internalise the relationship between
• Information and National Security;
• Conceptualise Information as ‘Secret’;
• Argue the case for and against Information Moratorium;
• Determine the relationship between information confidentiality and risk management;
• Suggest the different ways in which information might be used by organisations and governments as a  ‘control mechanism’;
• Determine implications of the Information Act for Internal Security;
• Evaluate the ‘reality’ of Data Protection Act 1998 in a Security Conscious Society; and
• Debate the extent to which the Freedom of information Act facilitates or impinges on National Security.

This information, risk, security and crisis management course is designed for:

• Managers, executives and those responsible for dealing with risk management in their organization;
• All risk managers working in commercial, industrial, consultancy, charitable or public sector organizations;
• Newly qualified graduates wishing to develop their understanding and knowledge, of the risk management profession and gain further qualification in recognition of this;
• Risk management professionals who have the desire to become future risk managers;
• Insurance Practitioners;
• Corporate governance, experts, and practitioners;
• Auditors;
• Occupational health practitioners;
• Safety Officers;
• Security Officials;
• Treasury workers;
• Actuarial and banking professionals;
• Project management experts;
• Health care professionals;
• Compliance officers;
• Surveying engineers;
• Risk engineering;
• Those with a general interest in risk and risk management issues.