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An overview of the methodology of risk analysis to include: the best practices employed in risk management in the world of homeland security, the identification and analysis of and differentiation between hazards and threats, the concept of all hazards risk, the importance of the country’s critical infrastructure and key resources and its vulnerability to attack, the need for effective public-private partnerships for risk management in homeland security and the various government agencies involved in risk analysis and mitigation. Also covered are various approaches to security vulnerability assessments for any critical infrastructure as well as the conditions, factors and states of existence in which it may become necessary to provide levels of countermeasures for remediation efforts of identified vulnerabilities. The course will provide a fundamental understanding of what is involved in securing an organization’s or an industrial sector’s infrastructure.

At the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Describe what risk management is and is not
• Compare and contrast categories of risk
• Define what is meant by risk minimization
• Describe the public and private responsibilities for risk management
• Describe the development and use of a risk reduction strategy
• Define and differentiate threats and hazards
• List the forms of WMD and their associated effects
• Describe the nature of threats to the nation’s information management infrastructure
• Provide examples of public-private initiatives in Homeland Security
• Describe a general risk assessment methodology
• Differentiate between threats and hazards
• Describe an all hazards risk mitigation approach
• Describe the relationships among the terms threat, vulnerability, likelihood and consequence
• Describe the process of asset cataloging

Hours to complete – 40
Course duration – 60 days

Week	Lessons & Activities
1	An Introduction to Risk Management
2	Threats and Hazards
3	Risk Assessment Methodology
4	Security Vulnerability Assessment
5	Risk Management and Critical Infrastructure Protection
6	All Hazards Vulnerability Assessment
7	Certification Exam

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