Overview

Many organizations need experienced security managers, security guards, and security officers to protect businesses' assets and to proactively prevent internal or external attacks. 

Here at the American Public University System we offer an undergraduate certificate in Security Management Field work in the areas of executive protection and recovery, trade secret protection, background investigations, surveillance, IT security, and cybersecurity are but a few choices available in the security management field.

Program Objectives

In addition to the institutional and degree level learning objectives, graduates of this program are expected to achieve these learning outcomes:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the basic terms in security management and its theories.

• Assess management theories and apply concepts of planning, resources, and authority to security organizations.

• Identify and discuss the major aspects of physical security, associated threats, and application of countermeasures.

• Explain the basic procedures and rules of personnel security and the specialized terms associated with information security.

• Draw conclusions about the role a security leadership has in establishing the foundation of private security programs.

• Establish how security managers test and align functional performance or their security organization incorporating legal issues and ensuring ethical approaches.

• Evaluate and use a methodology of quality assurance, including the merits of a performance-based standards approach towards total asset protection.

• Draw conclusions about a value-added contribution in the world of tangible and intangible assets.

• Detect how corporate security managers can effectively communicate strategic security issues and actions to other business departments and managers.