Products
Below you will find some more information on the types of services that we provide. As Consultants, we work for you, so we can create bespoke products tailored for your needs.
Security Awareness Training Course
What is the Security Awareness Training Course for Port Facility Personnel with Security Duties?
This course is aimed at Port Facility Personnel with security duties but it can also be delivered to anyone working within the maritime sector to increase knowledge and awareness in terms of Maritime Security.
The course covers the following topics:
- Maritime Security Policy.
- Security Responsibilities.
- The Port Facility Security Plan (PFSP).
- Port Facility Security Actions.
- Security Equipment.
- Threat Identification, Recognition and Response.
- Emergency preparedness, Drills and Exercises.
This one day course is delivered at your facility by our DfT approved Port Facility Security Officers.
Bespoke Nautical Training
What nautical subjects are covered?
We provide tuition at your location covering the following nautical subjects:
- International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCS). This can vary from being just a brief overview or litterally going through the whole book page by page understanding all the rules.
- Navigation Training including: Basic Chartwork, Tides and Tidal Steams, Passage Planning, Electronic Navigation, and Radar.
- Sea Survival Equipment including: Liferafts, Lifejackets and Buoyancy Aids, EPIRBs, SARTs and VHF Maritime.
- Seamanship including: Anchors, Bends and Hitches (Knots), Bouyage and International Code of Signals.
- Weather. This will give a good understanding of weather and in particular how it affects the maritime environment, including how to read a synoptic chart and be able to forecast what the weather will be doing. As well as understanding Sea States, the Beaufort Wind Scale, and the Shipping Forecast.
As a bespoke service, we tailor a training package to suit your organisations requirements.
Social Engineering Awareness Course
What is Social Engineering?
Social Engineering is any act that influences a person to take an action that may or may not be in his or her best interests. It takes the way humans are wired to make decisions and exploits the vulnerabilities in those processes. The goal of Social Engineering is to get you to make a decision without thinking. The more you think, the more you are likely to realise you are being manipulated.
This bespoke course will be tailored to suit your organisational requirements. We cover:
- Detailed examples of different types of Social Engineering.
- The processes and procedures that attackers use to achieve their aims.
- How to prevent Social Engineering.
The best way to prevent a Social Engineering attack is to understand what Social Engineering is, that way you are less likely to fall victim to it.
Cyber Security Awareness Training
What is covered?
Suitable for either senior management or front line employees, we will deliver a bespoke training package covering the following subjects:
- What is Hacking?
- Types of Cyber Threats.
- Securing your home / work network.
- Securing your Smartphone.
- Staying Cyber safe when travelling abroad.
Maritime Crisis Management Training
What is Maritime Crisis Management Training?
Crisis............. "A time of intense difficulty or danger" or "A time when a difficult or important decision must be made."
Royal Marines Commandos thrive in times of crisis. Reason being, they train in stress induced scenarios and from early on in Commando training they are trained to adapt to overcome and always to find a solution and to never give up. This ethos has continued within Littoral Risk and one that we want to pass on to Maritime Organisations.
How can your Organisation be expected to deal with a crisis when it's people have never been trained to deal with one? By understanding your Organisation, we will create a bespoke package to test/train your staff at all levels using realistic scenarios at your location. This can be run from a classroom or on the ground/afloat as necessary.
As time is money, we appreciate that making time in a busy schedule for this training is challenging for any Organisation, that's why we can deliver this training to suit you, whether it is for half a day or longer, we will work with you to achieve the agreed objectives.
Physical Security Assessment (PSA)
What is a Physical Security Assessment (PSA)?
The PSA is a comprehensive survey that is carried out by our experienced Consultants. Initially involving a detailed familiarisation of the Organisation to identify the Key Outputs, Critical Assets, and Potential Threats, it is then followed by a thorough physical inspection of the Site including any waterside infrastructure. On completion of the inspection a detailed report (the PSA) will summarise all the information discovered and will identify vulnerabilities to the Organisation and ultimately provide recommendations to mitigate these threats in the form of actions.
Some of the areas that we look at include, but are not limited to, are:
- Perimeter Security - including CCTV, Lighting, Perimeter Intruder Detection Systems (PIDS), Fences/Walls and Gates/Barriers.
- Internal Security - including Intruder Detection Systems (IDS), Doors, Locks, Windows and Access Control Systems.
- Information Security - including the use of Security Containers, Waste Disposal, IT Security hygiene and Data Protection.
- Security Staff - including threat awareness, equipment, operating procedures and adequate training.
- We can also assist with reviewing, amending or creating new Security Orders.
We have experience delivering PSAs to different organisations from small land based offices with only 20 employees through to large maritime establishments with over 3,500 members of staff. On average PSAs are recommended to be conducted every 2-3 years.
As this is a bespoke Service this product can be adapted as necessary to accommodate your requirements and we can even deliver your own mandated assessments. Remember, as independent Consultants, we do not sell security systems but provide objective, professional advice on how you can better protect your people, information, and other assets.
Ultimately, we work for you to identify ways you can improve your security.
Port Facility Security Assessments and Plans
What are Port Facility Security Assessments and Plans?
The Port Facility Security Assessment, as defined by the International Ship and Port Facility (ISPS) Code 2004, is an essential and integral part of the process of developing and updating the Port Facility Security Plan (PFSP). It addresses the following elements within the Port Facility: 1. Physical Security. 2. Structural Integrity. 3. Personnel protection systems. 4. Procedural Policies. 5. Radio and Telecommunication systems, including computer systems and networks. 6. Relevant transportation infrastructure. 7. Utilities. etc...
The Port Facility Security Plan, as defined by the International Ship and Port Facility (ISPS) Code 2004, shall be developed and maintained, on the basis of a Port Facility Security Assessment, for each port facility, adequate for the ship/port interface. The plan shall make provisions for the three Security Levels, as defined in Part A of the ISPS Code. All PFSPs should: 1. Detail the security organisation of the port facility. 2. The organisation's links with other relevant authorities. 3. Detail the measures for each of the three security levels. etc...
Maritime Cyber Security Risk Assessment
The Cyber Security Risk Assessment (CSRA) will:
- Identify the assets of the organisation and prioritise them.
- Identify the cyber threats and exposures that the organisation faces.
- Calculate a risk score for each cyber threat looking at the likelihood and consequence of each event occurring.
- Identify mitigations and control measures to reduce the risk scores.
- Summarise with recommendations of control measures to put in place in order to reduce the risk to as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP).
Maritime Threat and Vulnerability Assessments
What is a Maritime Threat and Vulnerability Assessment?
This Service is different from the Physical Site Security Assessment as it is not looking solely at the Physical Security of your Site but instead looking at the Threats and Vulnerabilities to your Organisation as a whole.
As a bespoke product, the scope of this service can vary depending on your Organisation. In general, an experienced Consultant will first of all need to familiarise themselves with your Organisation identifying all the Key Outputs and Operating Procedures. Following this a detailed study of potential vulnerabilities and threats to your "Business as Usual" will be identified and contained within a comprehensive report (the Maritime Threat and Vulnerability Assessment) recommending control measures in order to mitigate them
This Service is suitable to any Organisation that operates in the Maritime Environment, whether afloat or ashore.
Country Risk Assessment
What is a Country Risk Assessment?
As defined by the industry leading Security Risk Management Company Frontier Risks, a Country Risk Assessment (CRA) is a tool for scoring a specific area or region in terms of risk. In accordance with ISO 31000, the CRA is one of the first tasks conducted in the Scope, Context, Criteria phase. Once scored, this will give an indication of the risk factors to be expected in a given country or region.