Course Overview
This workshop is designed to familiarize security administrators with environmental, mechanical and electronic security systems that they will encounter in various facets of their operations. Emphasis is placed on maintaining an integrated perspective of all aspects of physical security management. This workshop provides an overview of traditional and modern security products and approaches in order to allow the student to act from a foundation of knowledge and understanding when developing corporate security solutions.
Prerequisite(s)
- No prerequisites are required for this course.
Credits
0.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain how environmental, mechanical and electronic physical security systems must be integrated to produce a functional and effective security system.
- Assess the state of a given organization's security systems.
- Describe the benefits and drawbacks of the three types of entry control technology.
- Identify the types of common locks, such as mortise, cylindrical and rim.
- Identify various commercial and institutional lock functions.
- Assess the security effectiveness of a given organization's procedures for issuing, tracking and retreiving keys.
- Evaluate a given organization's access control system to determine the current suitability to the company's needs.
- Explain the operation and utility of a CCTV system.
- Conduct a security survey of a given business with respect to the environmental, mechanical and electronic systems used, to determine the effectiveness of each system and where improvements need to be made.
Effective as of Winter 2009
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