Certificate in Smart Security

Learning Objectives

On completion of this course participants will be able to:

• Understand the benefits and challenges of introducing Smart Security concepts in airports.
• Understand:
  • Best practices for measuring checkpoint performance.
  • How to best utilize legacy equipment and introduce new technologies and techniques for cabin baggage screening.
  • Methods and technologies for maximizing passenger screening effectiveness.
  • How Centralized Image Processing (CIP) works and how it can best be implemented to suit your airport’s unique environment.
  • How to most effectively design, configure and automate the security checkpoint.
• Recognise the key issues to be considered when deploying Smart Security solutions in your airport.
• Know how to develop a business case justifying security checkpoint projects or investments.

Who Should Enrol?

• Airport Security Managers.
• Airport Security Committee Members.
• Airport managers, supervisors or personnel with security responsibilities.
• Anyone interested in a career in airport security.
• Suppliers and service providers with security responsibilities at an airport (e.g. airport security providers, ground handlers etc.)

Course Content

The Certificate in Smart Security consists of the following seven modules:

Introduction to Smart Security

• The background to the Smart Security program and an overview of the content covered in the Smart Security Guidance Material.

Checkpoint Management

• How to make the best use of checkpoint data and how to deploy checkpoint management systems.
• Best practice methods for monitoring checkpoint performance, including critical checkpoint operations key performance indicators (KPIs) and key performance metrics (KPMs).
• The impacts on staff when deploying Smart Security solutions.

Cabin Baggage Screening

• How to best leverage X-ray technology.
• More advanced cabin baggage screening technology and procedures.
• Alternative methods for cabin baggage and passenger screening, including Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) and Explosive Detection Dogs (EDD).
• How airports can effectively and efficiently increase unpredictability at the checkpoint.
• Equipment intelligence and methods for optimizing secondary search.

Passenger Screening

• How passenger security scanners can improve passenger screening.
• Key factors that impact search optimization in the passenger screening environment.
• Strategies airports can employ to maximize passenger screening effectiveness.

Centralized Image Processing (CIP)

• How CIP works, key benefits and implementation considerations.
• How automated decision support can be used in the screening process.
• Human factors issues to be considered when implementing CIP.

Checkpoint Design and Automation

• The key areas of the checkpoint and associated design and configuration considerations.
• Options for automating the checkpoint.
• Considerations for enhancing the look and feel of the checkpoint.
• How to improve passenger communication and feedback.

Building the Business Case

• What a business case is.
• How a business case can help to justify security checkpoint projects or investments.
• Recommendations for an effective business case.
• The key elements and general structure of a business case.

Assessment

Each training module includes an integrated online assessment.  

Candidates must successfully complete all module assessments to receive a Certificate of Completion.