Critical Infrastructure Protection Training :

Critical Infrastructure Protection Course

The S2 Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Course is designed to prepare security professionals for assignments involving the protection of critical process facilities against sabotage and terrorist violence. This program provides a detailed exploration of risk management methods for critical infrastructure sites, adversary methods, and essential skills and knowledge necessary for developing effective security and emergency readiness programs.

The information presented in the S2 Critical Infrastructure Protection course reflects best practices in security management, anti-terrorism, physical security, and emergency preparation as may be applied to a wide range of critical infrastructure facilities. The measures presented in this course are based on the instructor’s decades of experience working as a security consultant for critical infrastructure organizations, critical evaluation of hundreds of terrorist attacks, and analysis of methods for protecting process facilities pioneered by organizations throughout the world.

Summary of topics include:

Adversaries and Threats to Critical Infrastructure • Risk Assessment Methodology • Process Analysis and Critical Asset Identification • Threat Assessment & Design Basis Threat Design • Risk Management Strategy & Critical Infrastructure • Operations Security & Protective Counterintelligence • Physical Security Design and Access Control Planning • Blast Mitigation and Process Facility Design • Protection Against Projected Charge Weapon and IEMI Threats • Emergency Response Planning & Infrastructure Design • Response to Armed Assaults • Bomb Threat Management • Suspect IED & VBIED Response • Post-Blast Response

- Recognizing risks associated with critical infrastructure including an in-depth understanding of contemporary terrorist modus operandi and methods of covert sabotage used by state-directed adversaries.
- Understanding technical characteristics of explosive events, IEMI threats, and ballistic weapons necessary for designing effective protective measures.
- Assessing facility risks and utilizing risk management principles in security planning, including:
  - Understanding risk management principles and the function of risk assessment in security planning.
  - Recognizing important characteristics of security related risk
  - Conducting security assessments by utilizing qualitative risk assessment methodology.
  - Designing prioritized security countermeasures strategies by utilizing cost-benefit analysis techniques.
- Implementing Operations Security (OPSEC) and protective counterintelligence principles to impair terrorists’ ability to gather target intelligence.
- Designing and specifying physical security measures for effective performance against terrorist armed attack and IED delivery scenarios.
- Developing effective entry control measures for validating, screening, and searching entrants at facility entry points.
- Identifying hazardous devices, possible device components, and risks associated with hazardous devices.
- Designing and specifying protective measures and facility improvements for mitigation of projected charge weapon, IED, and IEMI attacks.
- Recognizing indications of terrorist attack or impending sabotage events.
- Developing a facility-level Incident Command System and designing effective infrastructure to support emergency response operations.
- Developing safe and effective procedures for responding to a full spectrum of terrorist attack and sabotage scenarios.

DAY ONE

Program Orientation and Training Objectives
Adversaries and Threats to Critical Infrastructure
- Target Attractiveness and Critical Infrastructure
- Potential Adversaries
  - Hostile Nations
  - Terrorists / Non-State Actors
    - Target Selection Criteria
  - Non-Violent Activists
  - Criminals
- Security Related Threat Scenarios
  - Explosive Attack
    - IED Attack Tactics and Threat MO
  - Physical Sabotage
  - Armed Assault
    - Armed Occupation
  - Civil Disturbance
  - Arson
  - Chemical/Biological/Radiological Contamination
  - Cyber Attack
    - DDoS
    - Hacking / SCADA Vulnerability Exploitation
  - Intentional Electromagnetic Interference (IEMI) Attack
  - Theft
- Natural Disaster
Principles of Security Risk Management
- Fundamental Risk Management Concepts
- Risk Assessment Approaches
  - Quantitative Risk Assessment
  - Qualitative Risk Assessment

DAY TWO

Risk Assessment Methodology for Critical Infrastructure
- Guidelines for Assessing Security Related Risk
- Asset Identification & Valuation
  - Sources of Asset Information
  - Identification of Undesirable Events
  - Process Analysis and Critical Asset Identification
  - Critical Asset Valuation
  - Establishing Asset Valuation Criteria
- Threat Assessment
  - Identifying Potential Adversaries
  - Adversary Assessment
  - Sources of Adversary Information
  - Determination of INTENT and CAPABILITY
  - Analysis of Critical Threat Modus Operandi
  - Development of Design Basis Threats (DBTs)
  - Development of Threat Rating Criteria
- Vulnerability Assessment
  - Vulnerability Assessment Principles
  - Vulnerability Assessment Approaches
  - Vulnerability Rating Criteria
- Risk Evaluation
  - Estimating Risk Probability
  - Establishing Level of Risk and Risk Acceptability
- Risk Reduction Planning
  - Integrated Countermeasures Theory
    - Proactive Countermeasures
    - Reactive/Mitigative Countermeasures
  - Identifying Potential Countermeasures
  - Countermeasures Cost-Benefit Analysis

DAY THREE

Operations Security (OPSEC) and Protective Counterintelligence
- Adversary Intelligence Requirements
- Adversary Intelligence Collection Methods
- Protective Counterintelligence/OPSEC
- Information Security Policies & Procedures
- Employee/Contractor Screening & Monitoring
  - Background Warnings
  - HUMINT Indicators
  - TRAP-18 Assessment Protocol
- Surveillance Detection & Countersurveillance
  - Surveillance Detection Guidelines
- Theft of ID Cards, Vehicle Stickers, etc.
- Suspicious Activity Reporting & Analysis
Physical Security & Access Control Design
- Physical Protection System (PPS) Design Principles
- Physical Security System Functions
- Performance Definitions
- Common Design Flaws
- System Design Guidelines
- Physical Security Technology
- Intrusion Detection Systems
  - System Design Considerations
  - Intrusion Detection Technology
  - Control Rooms & Monitoring Systems
- Area Surveillance
  - CCTV
  - Video Analytic Technology
  - Stationary Security Posts
  - Mobile Security Patrols
    - IED Delivery indicators
- Security Lighting
  - Principles of Security Illumination
  - Illumination Design Considerations
  - Lighting Systems

DAY FOUR

Physical Security & Access Control (cont.)
- Anti-Personnel Barriers
  - Anti-Personnel Barrier Options & Delay Time Performance
  - AP Barrier System Design
- Ballistic Barriers
  - Specification Standards & Construction Guidelines
- Vehicle Barriers
  - Kinetic Energy Calculation
  - AVB Barrier Specification Standards
  - Passive Vehicle Barriers
  - Vehicle Barrier System Design
- Pedestrian & Vehicle Entry Points
  - Entry Point Design
    - SPBIED Containment Portal Design
  - Active AVB Barriers
- Entry Control Measures
  - Planning Considerations
  - Entrant Identification & Verification Options
    - Model Procedures for Critical Infrastructure Sites
  - Weapon & Contraband Screening Technologies
  - Vehicle Search Procedures for Entry Points
- Tactical Readiness and Facility Defense
- Physical Security Performance Analysis
  - Estimate of Adversary Sequence Interruption (EASI) Model
  - Adversary Sequence Diagrams
  - EASI Exercises
Blast & Weapon Effects Mitigation
- Blast Dynamics
- Blast Mitigation Principles
- Standoff Distance
- Environmental Influences
- Building & Equipment Construction
  - Vulnerability of Process Equipment
- Protective Asset Positioning
- Blast Vulnerability Assessment Exercises

DAY FIVE

Additional Mitigative Measures
- Projected Charge Attacks
  - Defense Against Direct Fire Projected Charges
  - Defense Against Indirect Fire Weapons
  - Defense Against UAVBIEDs / Drone-Deployed Ordnance
- Protection Against IEMI Attacks
  - Protection Against Injected Current Attacks
  - RFW/Radiated IEMI Defense
Emergency Response Planning
- Incident Response Scenarios
- Response Priorities
- Responsibilities & Incident Command Systems
- Communications Systems and Infrastructure Design
- Active Shooter/Terrorist Armed Attack Response Planning
- Bomb Threat Response Planning
  - Search and Response Approaches & Procedures
  - Response to Suspicious Objects
- Suspicious Vehicle Response
  - Alert & Refuge Procedures
  - TSWG Evacuation and Refuge Guidelines
- Post-Blast Response
  - Localized Bombings
  - Conventional Weapon of Mass Destruction Incidents

NOTE: The outline presented on this page describes the standard 5-day version of the S2 Institute Critical Infrastructure Protection Training Course. This program can be customized upon client request to encompass additional practical training activities including risk assessment classroom exercises, on-site group security inspections, and tabletop emergency management drills.

The S2 Critical Infrastructure Protection training course was originally developed in 2008 as a custom training program for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. The objective of the OSCE program was to improve the level of knowledge and skill of government security professionals assigned to critical infrastructure protection in the Caucuses region.

The Critical Infrastructure Protection course was adapted from the S2 Institute’s Anti-Terrorism Officer (ATO) program and specifically modified with focus on threats unique to critical infrastructure and the operational characteristics of critical process facilities (e.g., electrical power stations and ECCs, chemical plants, seaports, etc.).

Following are some highlights of the ATO program’s rich history since 2004.

Present

With a community of over 2,500 alumni representing hundreds of corporations and government ministries, the S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer (ATO) Program is recognized worldwide as the gold standard for anti-terrorism and facility security training.

Present

2018

S2 ATO Course becomes the first advanced-level anti-terrorism training program in West Africa

The S2 Institute presents the ATO course in Ghana as the first advanced-level public anti-terrorism course presented in the West Africa region.

2018

2017

S2 ATO Program becomes the basis for a new professional certification

The International Association of Counterterrorism and Security Professionals (IACSP) launches the "Certified Anti-Terrorism Officer" (cATO) examination and professional certification based on the S2 Institute Anti-Terrorism Officer program.

2017

European Commission adopts the S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer Program

The European Commission adopts the S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer course to serve as a standardized training program for EC security personnel.

2017

The Government of the Netherlands officially endorses the S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer Program

The S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer (ATO) Course is awarded a national stock number for procurement by the Government of the Netherlands. The S2 ATO course is the only program of its type officially endorsed by the Dutch government.

2017

2014-2015

S2 ATO Program adopted for training EEAS RSOs

The S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer course is adopted by the European External Action Service (EEAS) as the basis for developing a standardized curriculum for training EEAS Regional Security Officers.

2014-2015

2010

S2 Institute develops a special version of the ATO Program for use by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior

The S2 Institute is contracted by US CENTCOM to design and develop the new Anti-Terrorism & Facility Security training program for the Ministry of Interior of Iraq based on the S2 ATO course. The program encompasses development of a three-week security training program and on-site Train-the-Trainer mission in Baghdad to prepare the new MOI instructors.

2010

Anti-Terrorism Officer Course OSCE Mission to Georgia

2009-2010

S2 ATO Program is adopted by OSCE for training government security professionals in the Caucasus region

S2 is contracted by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to develop and present a series of custom Anti-Terrorism Officer courses for government security professionals from Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan.

2009-2010

2009

S2 ATO Program is adopted by US DoD for training Saudi and American base security personnel

The S2 Institute is contracted by the US DoD to present a special version of the S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer (ATO) course for Saudi and American security professionals responsible for protecting US military facilities in Saudi Arabia.

2009

S2 is contracted by US Army to train AT/FP personnel on CONUS military installations

The S2 Institute is contracted by the US Army to present the S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer (ATO) course for security professionals responsible for protecting US Army bases in the United States.

2009

2008

S2 trains US Capital Police and PFPA personnel as ATO's at the US Senate

S2 conducts a custom Anti-Terrorism Officer course for US Capital Police and Pentagon Force Protection Agency personnel at the Russell Senate Building in Washington, DC.

2008

2006

U.S. GAO inspectors endorse the S2 ATO program

Inspectors from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) declare the S2 ATO program "a model for critical infrastructure protection in the United States."

2006

2004

S2 ATO Program is adopted for protecion of US critical infrastructure

The S2 Institute develops a ten-day Anti-Terrorism Officer training program for a special force of security officers assigned to protect power stations and seaports in the United States.

2004

2003

S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer Program is created

In the wake of 9/11, the S2 Anti-Terrorism Officer Program is developed to fulfill the needs of training security and public safety professionals in issues specific to protecting facilities against terrorist attack.

2003

Course Details

Instructor
Craig Gundry

Restriction Level
Level 2 – Verified Security Professionals & Law Enforcement Only

Presentation Time
40-Hrs/5-Days (8:30am to 4:30pm)

Audience
Security Professionals Responsible for Protecting Critical Infrastructure Facilities, Homeland Security Professionals

Student Testimonials

"In all of my travels and training, military and civilian, I rarely have the pleasure of encountering such professional instructors and presentations. The knowledge possessed and demonstrated by the instructor staff sets the bar for all civilian training agencies to follow…"

J. White

Advanced Training Section, U.S. SOCOM

“The instructor knew all the subjects like the back of his hand…A+++!"

SMSgt G. Enwright

Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, USAF

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"The class met all of my expectations and even more."

M. Florescu

National Bank of Romania

"I have had a few terrorism / anti-terrorism classes, but none have come close to the intensity and historical background as the S2 course. Your course is what every law enforcement officer should be taking."

R. Bast

U.S. Department of Treasury

"Really excellent. A lot of practical advice that one can use in one's everyday work. Excellent."

J. Perois

Dolphin Energy

"I thought this course was very well done. The topics very relevant and up to date with what is currently going on. This is definitely a "must take" course for anyone dealing with physical security/anti-terrorism matters."

C. Vernieuw

U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

"Very interesting course! The in-depth instruction is very high and the knowledge of the instructor is amazing. I think this course is a must for even people already active in the spectrum."

M. Scharding

The Swatch Group

"This course triggered my deepest interests. Craig is a superb instructor due to his experience and appearance as an expert."

E. Posthumus

Government of the Netherlands

"Very relevant and a must for security professionals in the emerging dynamic services. The program is targeted to address all of the major contemporary security issues globally."

Dr. A. Acidah

Nigeria LNG Limited

“Great stuff! Presentation was of high standard…I personally give thanks to S2 for the opportunity. Thank You!”

F. Gaspar

U.S. Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit

“Outstanding course.”

J. Rector

Chief, USAF Security Forces Programs & Requirements Branch

“I think this course is really excellent. I have been involved in AT matters for a number of years, however, I found many new and valuable insights.”

J. Dos Santos

IBM Pacific Asia

“I am an intelligence and security professional with 40 years of experience in the field. I am currently the principal Analytical Risk Management instructor for the DoD Joint Counterintelligence Academy and taught the subject for CIA et al for some four years prior…I mention this to emphasize Mr. Gundry's evident expertise in the subject and the fact that old guys like me still have much to learn from others.”

A. Pattakos

US DoD | Beta Analytics International

“The course is given in a very professional manner. Will highly recommend this course!”

K. Bergwerff

Ministry of Justice, Netherlands

“The class is totally useful and helpful. The instructor is amazing...Perfect. One of the best courses I have ever taken in my professional career.”

Gen. M. Ebeid

American University in Cairo

“Excellent instruction. Very interesting course and professionally presented.”

C. Hodson

Walt Disney Corporation

"The instructor was very knowledgeable and experienced. The course was well prepared and presented.”

A. Logtenberg

European Commission

“This course takes anti-terrorism theory and puts it in a practical perspective. I would rate it very high against the other anti-terrorism training I have had.”

E. Vogt

U.S. DOJ, Federal Bureau of Prisons

“The best training I’ve ever had. Extraordinary trainer. Extremely important.”

M. Cerasoli

European Commission

“I wanted to congratulate and strongly encourage you to continue to raise the bar...my job responsibilities require continuous and active education and training and I must say that your ATO course is one, if not the best I have ever taken.”

A. Baez, M.D.

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

“Mr. Gundry is an outstanding instructor who displays a deep understanding of his subject, who keeps the interest of the students and created a solid course”

N.W.

Central Intelligence Agency

"I thought that the course materials and additional handouts provided with the course were extremely well put together and will be useful long after completing the course. In addition, the instructor was very knowledgeable of AT/FP principles and presented the information in a clear and concise manner. This course was well worth the time and money invested.”

R. Russell

Booz Allen Hamilton

"..helpful for the project I participate in. The instructor was proficient and enthusiastic, with loads of practical experience. Very motivating!"

R. Stoel

Netherlands Forensic Institute

“Excellent, comprehensive course. Mr. Gundry is very knowledgeable and is an excellent instructor. I highly recommend this course to other security and AT professionals.”

J.W.

U.S. Coast Guard