Insider Threats are more common than people imagine. They come from the most amazing sources. They most often come from people who certainly know better but, nevertheless, keep on trucking.
— Ray Newkirk
Certification for Insider Threat Prevention Professionals
Welcome to the Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security certification process of Systems Management Institute. We certify the Insider Threat Cyber Security consulting profession at four levels of expertise:
Certified Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Consulting Assistant™
Certified Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Consultant™;
Certified Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Consulting Director™
Certified Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Consulting Specialist™
Additionally, we offer specialty certificates in:
Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Program Assessment
Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Program Evaluation.
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Preventing Insider attacks is a continuous job. As it becomes tiresome and human vigilance begins to decreases, the Malicious Insiders take advantage of what they perceive to be an opportunity to strike. They hope for a Home Run but usually strike out. Unfortunately, they win more often than they should.
— Ray Newkirk
The following section discusses the various knowledge areas and experience requirements:
Academic Education:
Arts & Sciences
Behavioral Science, Psychology & Sociology
Behavioral Economics, Business & Management
Communications
Professional Experience:
Professional consulting experience over the past five years for Individuals, Teams, & Organizations in profit and non-profit settings where 50% of the consulting involved individuals and 50% of the consulting involved teams.
Continuing Education and Training:
Insider Threat Prevention Consulting over the past five years to keep informed of trends in ITP Cyber Security
Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Consulting
Advanced Continuing Education and Training:
Seminars
Workshops
College Courses
Vocational Training
Advanced Consulting Experience:
Consulting to groups & individuals (one-on-one)
Conducting workshops
Presenting seminars
Publishing professional articles
Leading classroom instruction
Supervising consultants in training
Managing five or more consultants during one or more engagements
Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security Certification consists of three parts:
180 hours of academic learning
180 hours of experiential learning
90 hours of business management as a qualifying practicum
Part One prepares you to master the basic functions and duties of an Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security coaching professional. You learn how to design, deliver, and evaluate the consulting services for clients perplexed by a range of Human Science consulting needs.
Part Two prepares you to master the principles of consulting management. Here you learn how to provide service through leadership by planning, designing, and organizing the work. You begin to master the principles of consulting management by learn how to provide service through leadership by through staffing, directing, and controlling.
Part Three prepares you to master the principles of business management involved in building a successful consulting practice. Our formal Body of Knowledge contains a large number of subject matter areas and subareas that we recommend to meet this requirement. Review our Handbook and Standards to learn more about our Global Certification Programs for Insider Threat Prevention Cyber Security and ITP Consulting. Building your unique skills as an ITP coach, you learn about the place of Ethics in ITP Planning, Quality Assurance, Branding, and Public Relations.
Insider Threat Prevention Occurs Through Disciplined Inquiry
Excellence in Insider Threat Prevention does not happen through some mysterious bit of good fortune coming out of nowhere. Although chance favors the well-prepared mind, people have to apply themselves to become well-prepared. For one thing, ITP requires a systems view of the world and a Behavioral Science approach to ITP problem solving.
Systems Management Institute can assist you with defeating the great challenges of Insider Threat Prevention. Here, you will learn to master the kind of disciplined thinking that prevents insider threats before they emerge. Moreover, our certification programs enable you to resolve an insider threat in an enduring way if it has already emerged.
We designed each certification level to assist you as you rise to the pinnacle of professional service as an Insider Threat Prevention Specialist. This is the level of expertise that qualifies you to train colleagues and others in the design and application of the tools and techniques of Insider Threat Prevention for an organization anywhere in the world. Achieving this level of excellence requires a strong foundation designed especially for building in-depth knowledge about the following components of ITP:
Recommended Curriculum for Certification Level One
At Level One, Conflict Prevention Assistant, you are expected to advance in understanding of the knowledge space. Here you should become familiar with the:
Conflict Prevention Life Cycle including: Conflict Prevention * Conflict Resolution * Conflict Management * Conflict Transformation
Technologies that enable you to accelerate Insider Threat Prevention
Systems approach and the concepts of Human Science that make Insider THreat Prevention possible
Principles that enable you to build potent workplace ITP relationships
Core approaches for resolving the conflict emerging from insider threats
Recommended Curriculum for Certification Level Two
At Level Two, Insider Threat Prevention Consultant, you are expected to know how to master the Behavioral Science concept of scarcity. Here you should learn how to apply the insights of behavioral scarcity to the prevention of insider threats within teams and among individuals. Here you become comfortable applying the insights of Behavioral Scarcity to prevent the emergence of insider threat and unnecessary conflict. You should become comfortable with:
Scarcity of self-control
Scarcity of attention
Scarcity of understanding
Scarcity of cognitive capacity
Behavioral Design in Conflict Prevention
Recommended Curriculum for Certification Level Three
At Level Three, Insider Threat Prevention Director, you are expected to know how to apply the Principles of Behavioral Design to Conflict Prevention. Here you apply a wide range of Human Science concepts and methods to Insider Threat Prevention. Here you should become comfortable with:
Behavioral principles of self-control
Description of Mental Models
Communication processes and messaging
Ten Law governing the scarcity of capacity
Newkirk’s Ten Laws of scarcity management
Approaches for resolving conflict
Recommended Curriculum for Certification Level Four
At Level Four, Conflict Prevention Specialist, you become an expert at solving the kinds of people problems that generate Insider Threats. This requires the completion of at least 24 courses from our catalog, several years of experience solving the problems that lead to Insider Threats in the workplace, and professional experience working with colleagues in preventing or resolving conflict. Here you should be comfortable with:
Using the archetypes as models to recognize Insider Threat causing situations
Using archetypes to prevent Insider Threats
Eliminating the workplace biases to prevent Insider Threats
Designing an integrated cost management methodology that prevents workplace conflict
Preventing the conflicts that emerge from the workplace relationships archetypes
Designing an ITP Training Program
Reducing the cost of ITP in any organization
Designing infrastructure for ITP
Mastering Third Party Facilitation for ITP
Self-Design ꝶ Program Course Directory ITP Cyber Security ꝶ for Professionals
COURSE NUMBER & COURSE TITLE
Course 001 Navigating the Executive Environment of ITP
Course 002 Engaging the Future Wisely Through ITP
Course 003 Designing the Business Oriented ITP Program
Course 004 Executive Introduction to Insider Threat Prevention
Course 005 Security Management Framework
Course 006 Navigating the Cyber Security Culture
Course 007 Mastering People Risk Management
Course 008 Security Practices and Principles
Course 009 Security Productivity Function
Course 010 Defining Your Security Level
Course 011 Achieving Your Insider Threat Level
Course 012 Recruitment and the Security Level
Course 013 Information Collection and the Security Level
Course 014 Information Transmittal and the Security Level
Course 015 Additional Suspicious Behavior Level
Course 016 Security and Controls in Insider Threat Prevention
Course 017 Key Cybersecurity Actors
Course 018 Economics of Cybersecurity
Course 019 Insider Threat Prevention Risk Management
Course 020 Operational Security Management for ITP
Course 021 Cybersecurity Decision Making
Course 022 Cyber Deception in Insider Threat Prevention
Course 023 Managing Privacy in Insider Threat Prevention
Course 024 Managing the Threat of Insider Intrusion
Course 025 Managing the Cost of Insider Incidents
Course 026 It’s All about People, Troubled or Not
Course 027 Resolving the Elements of Insider Threat Behavior
Course 028 Insider Generated Intellectual Property Thefts
Course 029 Employing Models of Intellectual Property Theft
Course 030 Understanding Insider Dissatisfaction
Self-Design ꝶ Program Course Directory ITP Cyber Security ꝶ for Professionals Program
COURSE NUMBER & COURSE TITLE
Course 031 Mastering Insider Threat Scenarios
Course 032 Leveraging Lessons Learned
Course 033 Managing an Insider Threat Assessment
Course 034 Risk and Vulnerability Analysis
Course 035 Security Culture and Behavior Change
Course 036 ITP & Pre-Employment Screening
Course 037 Cyber Security Risk Assessment
Course 038 Insider Threat Emergence
Course 039 Eight Steps to Building a Successful Insider Threat Program
Course 040 Executive Management of Insider Threats
Course 041 International Laws and Regulations of Cyber Security
Course 042 Applied Intuitive Solutions™ and Insider Threat Prevention
Course 043 Understanding the Real Cost of Cybersecurity
Course 044 Marketplace of Cyber Security
Course 045 Accelerating Insider Threat Prevention Using the RSMP™
Course 046 Behavioral Economics in Preventing Insider Threats
Course 047 Archetypes in Assessing Insider Threats
For a full listing of ITP courses, download file: ITP Cyber Security for Professionals Directory of Courses 02-07-2019
Enroll in our Insider Threat Prevention Certification Program & become a member of our AIS™ Platform. Go to www.smirsp.com and sign-up. Or contact Ray Newkirk for more information. Call: (407) 864 7756 or send an email to rnewkirk@smilc.info.