CPPSEC4007 — Identify security threats and assess impact on client operations

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34 assessable components: 4 elements (20 performance criteria), 1 performance evidence and 11 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 2 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Analyse client operations and security arrangements.

1.1Access and interpret key requirements of legislation, regulations and workplace policies and procedures and apply to work instructions to ensure compliance.
1.2Consult with relevant persons to confirm threat assessment terms of reference, costs and timeframes.
1.3Consult with client to confirm their core business, operating environment, goals and objectives.
1.4Source valid and reliable information to clarify client assets and analyse existing security arrangements.
1.5Recognise own limitations in assessing security threats and access specialist resources or advice to meet client requirements.

2 Identify, assess and monitor security threats.

2.1Develop threat assessment criteria comprising qualitative and quantitative measures.
2.2Evaluate gathered information and source additional required intelligence or information to ensure all relevant information is included in threat assessment.
2.3Apply threat assessment criteria to identify possible causes and sources of potential and existing security threats to client operations.
2.4Assess likelihood and realisation of identified threats to client operations.
2.5Systematically monitor identified threats and modify threat assessment to respond to changing roles, locations and operational stability.

3 Undertake threat consequence analysis.

3.1Assess assets and activities to determine criticality to client operations.
3.2Assess reliability, availability and capacity of operational back-up systems for assets and activities.
3.3Assess threat impact on client operations to measure and analyse consequences.
3.4Confirm potential consequences of security threats in consultation with relevant persons.

4 Finalise threat assessment and present findings.

4.1Identify contingency arrangements to protect client operations and incorporate recommended strategies into final threat assessment.
4.2Finalise security threat assessment and check to ensure findings and recommendations are supported by verifiable information.
4.3Use information technologies to document and present security threat assessment in a format and style to meet workplace requirements.
4.4Present final security threat assessment to relevant persons for feedback within agreed timeframes.
4.5Use questioning and active listening to explain identified security threats and consequences and recommended contingency arrangements.
4.6Complete and secure threat assessment documentation in a manner that facilitates future retrieval and maintains confidentiality.

Performance evidence

To demonstrate competency, a candidate must meet the performance criteria of this unit by documenting and presenting comprehensive threat assessments of client operations for three different clients.

Knowledge evidence

workplace policies and procedures that ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements when conducting security threat assessments of client operations: - client service standards - licensing requirements in the security industry - regulatory requirements in the jurisdiction of operation
application of ISO 31000:2018 Risk management – Guidelines when conducting security threat assessments of client operations
changing operational contexts for client operations
difference between information and intelligence in the context of security threat assessments
methods for developing threat assessment criteria comprising qualitative and quantitative measures
methods for determining the criticality of assets and activities to client operations
process of dynamic risk assessment and application of risk management when identifying and assessing security threats
purpose of Australia’s Strategy for Protecting Crowded Places from Terrorism and understanding of: - definition of crowded places - key security issues for crowded places - objectives, characteristics and identification of active armed offenders - definition of hostile vehicles and methods of attack - signs of chemical weapons attack and recommend response - general features of improvised explosive devices and recommended incident response
threat assessment and consequence analysis techniques and processes
type and nature of a range of security threats and countermeasures associated with workplace operations
ways that social and cultural differences may be expressed during client consultations.

Foundation skills

oral communication skills: to use clear explanations, active listening and questioning skills to convey and clarify information when assessing client operations
writing skills: to document succinct and logically structured security threat assessments.

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What does an assessment tool for CPPSEC4007 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for CPPSEC4007 needs to address all 34 unit components: 4 elements with 20 performance criteria, 1 performance evidence requirements, 11 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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