CERTIFIED SECURITY SPECIALIST, CSS

ESI's premier program is the most advanced curriculum that ESI offers. The Security Specialist Program combines the core programs of High Risk, Executive Protection and Protective Intelligence & Investigation. It affords the student the flexibility to design a course of instruction that is organized specifically to the student's needs.  Any course taken in another program is applicable to the CSS Credential that is full academic and financial credit is awarded for completion of courses in a parallel program.

A security specialist is a "generalist" in the sense that he or she has crafted a series of job-related skills which will qualify him or her to undertake a broad variety of security assignments. In today's world, many of the traditional roles of private security which in the past were quite separate have now begun to meld together. Thus, a protection specialist or investigator may find that he or she is required to perform a number of heretofore unrelated tasks for a client, such as providing executive security, conducting an investigation, collecting competitor intelligence, and/or performing intricate electronic countermeasures.

The Security Specialist Certificate Program consists of 900 hours or 18 Distance Education courses or 18 Lessons for Certificate of Completion and 108 Lessons for Identification Credential.  Courses are self-selected from the more than 32 courses offered in ESI's curriculum and one Resident Training component of either the High Risk Protection, Advanced Executive Protection 15-day programs or the Protective Intelligence & Investigation 15-day program.  Both the academic Distance Ed courses and theResident Training choice is left to the student.

Considered as a single curriculum, the Security Specialist Program consists of an intensive study of more than a 1000 hours. Enrollment in the Security Specialist Program is begun with the Distance Education prior to arrival for Resident Training.

Academic components of DISTANCE EDUCATION include eighteen courses, five of which are required. These required Distance Education courses are: Principles of Protection; Principles of Investigation; Intelligence Collection & Analysis; Stalking and Dangerous Human Behavior; and Interviews and Interrogation. In addition, the student must select and complete thirteen elective Distance Education courses from the 32 courses offered in Executive Protection, Protective Intelligence and Investigation, depending upon the student's primary interest.  The thirteen elective courses should be selected to complement that focus.

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COMPLETION TIME

You may register in the program at any time and work as rapidly as is consistent with your schedule and satisfactory scholarship. On average, each of the eighteen courses can be completed in four weeks. We recommend that you work at a steady pace to complete each course approximately within the time frame allowed.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ARE REPEATED 
ON THIS PAGE FOR CLARITY.  STUDENTS WILL NOT REPEAT ANY COURSE MATERIAL OR PAY DOUBLE FOR THE SAME CURRICULUM THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED IN ANOTHER CORE PROGRAM.

SECURITY SPECIALIST PROGRAM

15 Day  

RESIDENT TRAINING

All ESI programs and course studies are approved and regulated by the Colorado Department of Higher Education, Division of Private Occupational Schools. 

The student has a unique opportunity for his/her Security Specialist Resident Training -- he/she may choose either to include the Resident Training curriculum for Advanced Executive Protection or the Protective Intelligence & Investigation. Choice should be based on the student's perceived requirements for professional status.

EXECUTIVE PROTECTION RESIDENT TRAINING

PROTECTIVE INTELLIGENCE RESIDENT TRAINING

If the student should decide to attend BOTH Resident Training programs, ESI will extend a 10% discount on the second Resident Training program, and the graduate receives three Certifications: Certified Protection Specialist, Certified Protective Intelligence Specialist, and Certified Security Specialist.

OVERVIEW OF SECURITY SPECIALIST

CD ROM CONVERSION

ESI is converting many of its copyrighted text books and printed manuals into CD Acrobat format.  The CD Rom format facilitates student mobility and shipping to ESI's growing international student body.

The Distance Education course consist of three CD manuals of over a 1,000 pages of technical material on Telephonic Wiretap & Countermeasures, Cellular Intercept & Countermeasures, and Physical & Electronic Surveillance Techniques by James Lindner.   The fourth manual consist of Richard Udovich's industry standard text on CD Rom, Telephone Eavesdropping & Countermeasures. 

The Security Specialist Distance Education is composed of eighteen separate courses, containing 18 Lessons for a Certificate of Completion and 108 Lessons for the Identification Credential (Certified Security Specialist, CSS):

• Principles of Protection
• Principles of Investigation
• Intelligence Collection & Analysis
• Stalking and Dangerous Human Behavior 
• Interviews & Interrogations
• plus thirteen elective courses

Each course provides valuable information from a varied security field and is particularly well suited for the specialist.

You will note that there are five required courses which constitute the core of the Distance Education Program.  The thirteen Elective courses may be chosen from any of ESI's list of thirty DISTANCE EDUCATION Courses.  (General Education courses can not be selected as a Core Elective). If you are primarily interested in acquiring as much executive protection related information as possible you should give consideration to the following  courses as Electives: (Refer to Advanced Executive Protection Program)

• Bomb Search & Identification
• Electronic Security
• Profiles of Terrorism & Violence

• Fundamentals of Defensive Shooting
• Social Relationships & Manners

If your interest is Intelligence & Investigation which you intend to apply to either private or corporate security, you should consider the following Electives:

• Computer Intelligence & Security
• Competitor Intelligence Collection and Countermeasures
• Covert Video Technology & Sting Operations
  
• Human Intelligence Collection
• Telephonic Eavesdropping Countermeasures
• Electronic Tracking Technology

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