Insider Threat Program Professional - Certificate
About
The Insider Threat Program Professional course equips you with the practical skills, confidence, and judgement needed to operate a modern insider threat capability.
Across 3.5 days of applied learning, you’ll learn how insider threat program's function, how risk signals are detected, how investigations unfold, and how decisions are made under pressure. Through real scenarios, labs, and a capstone simulation, you will build the operational competence required to prevent, detect, deter, and respond to insider threats.
Aligned with globally recognised standards, including the SEI Common Sense Guide, this program gives you a strong foundation in evidence-based practices and transforms you into someone capable of supporting or running an insider threat function inside any organisation.
Enrolment includes the Insider Threat Foundation Course at no extra cost, ensuring every participant begins with the same baseline knowledge
Objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Operate with Professional Confidence
- Understand how mature insider threat programs are structured and governed.
- Apply ethical, privacy, and lawful monitoring principles in real situations.
- Work effectively across HR, Legal, IT, Security, Compliance, and IR teams.
- Detect and Interpret Insider Threat Signals
- Recognise behavioural, cultural, and technical indicators of insider risk.
- Understand telemetry sources and foundational UEBA concepts.
- Use SEI best practices to guide daily decisions and mitigate risk.
- Run Core Insider Threat Workflows
- Conduct intake, triage, investigation, and escalation with discipline.
- Handle evidence correctly and communicate findings clearly.
- Support awareness initiatives and manager enablement programs.
Topics Covered
- Insider Threat Program Governance & Practitioner Responsibilities
- Privacy, Lawful Monitoring, Ethics & Professional Boundaries
- SEI Best Practices for Insider Threat Mitigation
- Intake, Triage, Investigation & Escalation Workflows
- Behavioural & Technical Indicators of Insider Risk
- Visibility Models, Telemetry Sources & UEBA Fundamentals
- Working Cross-Functionally with HR, Legal, Security & IT
- Building Reporting Culture & Workforce Awareness
- Tabletop Exercises, After-Action Reviews & Continuous Improvement
- Capstone Simulation: End-to-End Insider Threat Scenario
Benefits
- Full Insider Threat Foundation Course (free with enrolment)
- SEI Common Sense Guide (core reference)
- Professional mandate templates
- Workflow, triage, escalation & evidence guides
- Behavioural/technical indicator reference sheets
- Tabletop exercise kit
- Professional Competency Checklist
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for professionals in:
- Security, Risk, HR, Legal, IT, and Compliance
- Incident Response, Governance, Fraud, Behavioural Risk
- Anyone seeking to specialise in insider threat operations
- Practitioners moving toward the Insider Threat Program Expert pathway
Prerequisite
No pre-requisite.
Includes FREE access to the Insider Threat Foundation Course.
Course Length
- 3.5 days instructor-led training (onsite)
- Scenario-based exercises, labs, and a capstone simulation
- Pre-work survey + 60-minute consult included