About The Institute for Homeland Security

The Institute for Homeland Security at Sam Houston State University is focused on building strategic partnerships between public and private organizations through education and applied research ventures in the critical infrastructure sectors of Transportation, Energy, Chemical, Healthcare, and Public Health.

The Institute is a center for strategic thought with the goal of contributing to the security, resilience and business continuity of these sectors from a Texas Homeland Security perspective. This is accomplished by facilitating collaboration activities, offering education programs and conducting research to enhance the skills of practitioners specific to natural and human caused Homeland Security events.

Course Overview

Learners will understand how to use the Crisis Management and Resilience Process as a strategic tool for protecting critical infrastructure operations.

Course Objectives

Identify the component parts of a crisis management and resilience program.
Explain how a crisis management and resilience processes are integrated into business protocols to enable critical infrastructure organizations to effectively operate in all risk environments and recover effectively.
Describe how scenario-based risk monitoring can be used to forecast emerging risks and guide the implementation of countermeasures to manage these risks.
Recognize how assessing and quantifying risk, threats, and vulnerabilities with an organization can be used to prepare for crisis events.
Identify the key value and resilience use case of crisis communications.
Explain how to use supply chain risks, interdependencies, and key failure points as a business decision making tool.
Identify key suppliers within the supply chain and which interdependencies are vital to crisis resilience operations.
Differentiate between disaster recovery, emergency management, risk management, business impact and business continuity and how to integrate those concepts into crisis management processes.
Assess the crisis readiness statue of key critical suppliers as a proactive strategic management tool.
Describe the strategic and tactical importance of a crisis management process, and the lost business consequences of not having a mature, effective leadership and organizational system.

No refunds are offered for this course.