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The Federal Risk Management Process Training Program , a collaborative effort of instructors from the Department of Justice ( DOJ ), Office of Personnel Management ( OPM ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ), is the first Interagency Security Committee ( ISC ) certified training course offered to federal audiences to train security professionals on the risk management criteria and processes defined in The Risk Management Process for Federal Facilities : An Interagency Security Committee Standard , 2nd Edition , November 2016 .
The RMP Training Program provides a solution for Federal agencies to address risk assessment challenges , reduce cost and inefficiencies of their security resources , and mitigate the impact of undesirable events at their facilities .
The Federal Risk Management Process Training Program educates the participants on the criteria and processes of :
• Determining a Facility Security Level
• Identifying a baseline Level of Protection
• Identifying and assessing risks
• Determining the Necessary or Highest Achievable Level of Protection , and
• Implementing Countermeasures
The RMP Training Program provides a solution for Federal agencies to address risk assessment challenges , reduce cost and inefficiencies of their security resources , and mitigate the impact of undesirable events at their facilities .
The program extrapolates essential knowledge from over 500 pages of documentation in the Interagency Security Committee Standard and Appendices into collaborative exercises , handson interactive training , with instruction by security and risk management subject matter experts .
Course graduates receive the first Interagency Security Committee certified and approved Risk Management Process Tool designed by the team to automate the process of calculating facility security levels and identifying the relevant countermeasures associated with the various types of threats – saving those conducting risk assessments time and resources as well as providing a means of documenting outcomes .