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The Interagency Security Committee (ISC) was created following the Oklahoma City bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fed-
eral Building to address continuing government-wide security for federal facilities.
Facility Security practitioners must address
the threats, consequences and vulnerabili-
ties of all 33 undesirable events in order to
deliver a comprehensive risk assessment of
their federal facility.
To mitigate these potential dilemmas, The
Federal Risk Management Process Training
Program (RMPTP) has designed a training pro-
gram utilizing The Risk Management Process
for Federal Facilities: An Interagency Security
Committee Standard and its appendices.
However, very often facility security practitioners
do not always take into account all of the unde- Since its inception, the training cadre has conduct-
sirable events when conducting risk assessments ed over 30 training sessions and trained 671 feder-
due to lack of expertise or available resources.
al security professionals across 68 agencies, grade
ranges from General Schedule 6 through Senior
This leaves their facilities vulnerable to risk, Executive Service level on how to develop a federal
exposed to unnecessary expense, lacking in ef- facility risk assessment methodology and effective-
ficiencies and non-compliant with federal stan- ly conduct a federal facility risk assessment.
dards.