Risk, Security, & Resiliency Management Certificate. Earn a Certificate Essential to Business Operations in a Growing Field

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1 Business, Management & Legal Risk, Security, & Resiliency Management Certificate Earn a Certificate Essential to Business Operations in a Growing Field explore. experience. expand.

2 Become a Valued Professional in Business Protection, Planning, & Resiliency A volatile marketplace, abrupt regulatory changes, supply-chain disruptions, natural disasters, and safety and security threats can imperil business and government functions. Learn core knowledge and skills essential to leaders in the growing field of risk and resiliency management, business contingency planning, and security. Help plan against threats and hazards and ensure continued business operations. An Expanding Field Professionals who assess business risks and create plans to minimize them are part of a growing, specialized field. Supervisory and consulting jobs include: Business Continuity & Contingency Planners Managers in Business Resiliency, Capability Review, & Risk Reduction Operational Risk Analysts Resilience & Risk Reduction Coordinators Security Architects & Researchers Enterprise Risk Managers The Certificate Curriculum This 7-course professional certificate provides a comprehensive curriculum covering both the theory and practical application of risk, contingency, and resiliency planning and remediation. All core courses must be completed within a 5-year period for a total of 26 units. Candidates who complete the requirements are awarded a certificate bearing the gold seal of the University of California and signed by the dean of UCLA Extension. Required Courses X X X X X X Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security: An Overview Human, Legal-Compliance, and Ethical Issues of Emergency Preparedness Crisis Management and Communications: Safeguarding Image and Viability Creating a Successful Business Strategic Risk Management: Processes, Tools, Analyses Security Management: Facilities, Cyber, Products, Analyses Plus One of the Following X X Internship in Risk, Security, & Resiliency Management Capstone in Resiliency Management

3 Course Descriptions All descriptions are subject to change. For details visit uclaextension.edu/risk. Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security: An Overview X Management 4 units Gain an understanding of the key elements of emergency preparedness, including Department of Homeland Security issues and resources; elements of effectively managing any major crisis; and how to assist in the development of emergency preparedness strategy in a private company or a government agency. Learn about protection planning for an organization s employees, customers, and physical assets; insuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations; and how to look internally at processes and procedures in order to plan and build network or external relationships, resources, assistance, and cooperation. The course includes student work with selected training sources and exercises that reinforce key learning objectives. (Must be completed before or concurrently with the courses listed below). Human, Legal-Compliance, and Ethical Issues of Emergency Preparedness X Management 4 units This course provides training and education to effectively deal with the fulcrum point that determines the success or failure of every preparedness plan: the human execution of best practices in a highly stressed environment defined by minute-to-minute decision-making and actions. Learn how to increase plan effectiveness by working in advance to prepare others for the human, legal, and ethical issues that arise in any disaster. (Note: This course satisfies the ethics requirement for this certificate.) Crisis Management and Communications: Safeguarding Image and Viability Creating a Successful Business X Entrepreneurship 4 units Developing a business model that delivers unique value is key to reducing risks and increasing the chances of success. You must objectively analyze the competitive landscape, and innovate and articulate unique value to implement a strategy and anticipate financial rewards. This course examines these essentials for success. Learn how to define a business model and strategy for companies to thrive, even with intense competition. Business bestsellers such as Blue Ocean Strategy and Good to Great, are used, as well as real-world examples. Learn the importance of value and execution. Topics include competitive analysis, creating and defining a unique selling advantage, identifying the customer, and honing a strategy. X Communication 2 units Communication professionals personnel must deal rapidly, correctly, comprehensively, and objectively with a disaster or crisis. This course provides tools to identify potential threats and opportunities in communications alternatives that directly impact agency or business effectiveness, or survival during the crisis management and recovery stages. Instruction includes examination of actual crisis case studies.

4 Strategic Risk Management: Processes, Tools, Analyses X Management 4 units Risk management began in the 1690 s in the Western world with Lloyd s of London and its financing of unexpected shipping losses. Today, over 2 million Americans are employed in the insurance industry. Learn the risk management framework derived from legal and financial concepts of risk aversion, acceptance, mitigation, and financing. Explore the duties and tools of risk managers with real-world examples. Also explored are the risk management processes, their application to specific businesses, and their relation to all parts of a business organization. Key insurance industry tools and terminology are presented and applied. Experience the challenges of a risk manager by applying course materials to your own case studies and analyses. Security Management: Facilities, Cyber, Products, Analyses X Management 4 units This course focuses on the education, technologies, and policies to protect people, information, infrastructure, and other assets. Learn how to design secure systems, evaluate and measure protection alternatives, and ensure that appropriate privacy levels are maintained for individual users, businesses, government, and other organizations within specific enterprise networks. Gain the tools to budget for security and communicate the case for security investments. Also provided are tools to evaluate return on investments and other calculations to support alternative selections. Course materials and discussions include the evolution of private and public security models, tools, products, roles and responsibilities. Internship in Risk, Security, & Resiliency Management X Management 4 units (Early-enrollment pricing does not apply to this course.) The internship provides practical experience and application of the knowledge and skills learned in the previous courses. Students arrange their internships, subject to UCLA Extension approval, and intern for a minimum of 75 hours with sponsoring companies, businesses, and organizations, which have no obligation to provide compensation. Advisory Board members may have internships available for UCLA Extension students. Prerequisite: Students must be officially enrolled in the Risk, Security, & Resiliency Management Certificate and have successfully completed the other 6 required courses. Capstone in Resiliency Management X Management 4 units Each week build at least one module of a resiliency plan utilizing lessons included in Courses 1-6, with instructor approval of the organization, company, or agency used as the case study. Alternatively, employed students may recommend their employer as the case subject or students may select a company or agency for which substantial public data exists, such as, publically traded corporations which file detailed annual reports. (Must be taken after all courses above are completed or concurrently with the 6th course.) Because uncertainty is now a constant business threat, contingency and resiliency planners are crucial to business success. Matt Bogaard, Head of Corporate Security & Facility Operations, DreamWorks Animation

5 Gain Industry Expertise at UCLA Extension The Risk, Security, & Resiliency Management Certificate goes beyond traditional, fiduciary risk management courses to provide the basics to enter a growing field or gain new skills to boost your existing career. You get: Practical knowledge: To use on the job immediately Expert instruction: From industry leaders with years of experience Modern, up-to-date curriculum: The newest practices and tools Flexible, Affordable & Accessible: Convenient courses for working adults with many online or evenings & weekends at our downtown Los Angeles and Westwood locations. Courses are pay as you go, with no large, upfront deposits. Total costs are well below comparable programs. No degrees or prior training required under our open-admission policy. Advisory Board Members of our Risk, Security, & Resiliency Management Certificate Advisory Board are distinguished leaders in the field. They advise and guide the academic content of the certificate and courses. Norman Abrams, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA Law School Matt Bogaard, Head of Corporate Security & Facility Operations, DreamWorks Animation James Featherstone, General Manager, City of Los Angeles Emergency Management Division Eric A. Hoffman, Chief Casualty Officer - North America, Zurich Services Corp Mark Kroeker, Senior Vice President, Justice and Rule of Law Darby LaJoye, Federal Security Director, Transportation Security Administration Elsa Lee, CEO, Advantage SCO Paul Lipscomb, Deputy Chief of Police, Los Angeles Port Police Michael Little, Assistant Chief, Los Angeles Fire Department Jana Monroe, Director of Corporate Security, Southern California Edison Paul Myers, Associate Director, Emergency Preparedness, Save the Children, U.S. Programs Scott Nelson, President, SRMG Gabriela Noriega, Emergency Management Coordinator, City of Los Angeles Scott Norwood, Emergency and Homeland Security Preparedness Manager, LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Lauren Ohl-Trlica, Deputy Coordinator (Training & Exercise), Arlington County Gigi Ragusa, Director, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, University of Southern California; Manager of Education, CREATE Homeland Security Center Michael Randolph, Sector Security Director, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems Steve Recca, NPS Center for Homeland Defense and Security Roger Rieger, President/CEO, InfraGard Los Angeles Cheryl Santor, CGEIT, CISM, CISA, CISSP, Information Security Manager, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California Devra Schwartz, Director of Emergency Management and Administration, Loyola Marymount University Tim Sullivan, Rear Admiral, USCG (ret) Phillip Van Saun, Director, Risk, Security and Resilience, University of California, San Diego

6 Corporate and Custom Training UCLA Extension offers custom-designed programs to meet your company s training needs. We have partnered with companies and organizations around the world for over 25 years, including NASA, the City of Los Angeles, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, LAUSD, ITT, Metropolitan Transit Authority, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and LADWP. We draw on our resources as part of the world-renowned UCLA, as well as over 90 years experience building courses and curricula, to collaboratively create customized educational programs at your location. Contact Our Corporate Programs Unit: customprograms@uclaextension.edu or (310) More information: uclaextension.edu/customprograms. The Risk, Security, & Resiliency Management Certificate curriculum is intended for: Supervisors, managers, directors of organizations Insurance industry and risk management professionals Importers/exporters Transportation providers Supply-chain managers Emergency managers Government agency employees (federal, state, local) Real estate and developers Academics Military personal returning from overseas Contact Us For more information about this certificate, including course selection advisement, record maintenance, transcript evaluations, and problem resolutions, call (310) , or bamcertificate@uclaextension.edu. Visit our website at uclaextension.edu/risk Le Conte Avenue, Suite 515, Los Angeles, CA uclaextension.edu/risk Not printed at state expense. Printed with green ink on recycled paper.