Addressing Insider Threat
Overview
Safety and security are top priorities for our industry. Sadly, recent events show us that terrorists continue to try to exploit aviation to do harm, not only from outside the system but also from within.
The people who facilitate these attacks are known as insider threats, and their position of trust allows them to understand the system and exploit any vulnerabilities, knowingly or otherwise.
The Addressing Insider Threat course provides airport management teams with a basic understanding of the issues and challenges facing airports when staff members cause harm to the organization and others and offers best practices and examples drawn from around the world.
Most airport staff members conduct themselves in an ethical and professional manner.
This course looks at the rare occasions when staff members exploit their positions of trust to harm the organization and others. We also consider when well-intentioned and unwitting employees are exploited by others to cause harm.
Competencies Obtained
On completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Define insider threat
- List motives for insider threat
- Identify indicators of insider threat
- Understand the global threat and risk context of insider risks
- Understand the current ICAO framework for ‘persons other than passengers’
- Define the legal framework
- Implement a risk assessment including quality assurance and internal controls
- Establish personnel security measures including HR policy, recruitment, security, training, reporting and disciplinary procedures
- Establish physical security procedures
- Manage insider risks in a connected world
Who Should Enrol?
- All airport personnel with supervisory or management responsibilities including airside, terminal and landside staff
- All supervisors and managers from airport stakeholders that provide services to airport customers including airlines, ground handlers and concessionaires
Course Content
The ACI Addressing Insider Threat course covers the following topics:
1. Definition and Motives for Insider Threat
- What constitutes insider threat?
- Common motives behind, and indicators of, insider threat.
2. Global Threat and Risk Context
- The global threat and risk context of insider threat to airports.
- Recent events involving aviation insiders.
- Parties who have access to airport facilities and information and could therefore become a threat.
- ICAO SARPs for managing the security of “persons other than passengers”.
3. Organizational Security for Airport Operators
- How to implement organizational security measures at an airport, including:
- The legal framework for personnel security measures.
- The importance of leadership and governance.
- Roles and responsibilities of external stakeholders.
- How to assess risk and implement quality assurance.
4. Personnel Security Measures
- Personnel security measures that can be implemented to reduce the risk of insider threat.
5. Physical Security Measures
- Physical security measures airports can use to reduce the risk of insider threat.
6. Managing Insider Risks in A Connected World
- How insiders use technology to compromise airport security.
- Developing and maintaining a cybersecurity culture.
- Strategies to reduce the risk of insider threat in a digital world.
Assessment
This course includes an integrated online assessment. Candidates must successfully complete the assessment to receive a Certificate of Completion.
Course info
- Duration: 4 Hours
- Language: English
- Level: Short Course
$285.00 CAD
