Security Auditing and Governance

Introduction

This course delivers the frameworks, tools, and competencies required to audit security programs and ensure governance across complex institutions. It emphasizes compliance, performance evaluation, and strategic oversight.

Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Design and conduct comprehensive security audits
• Identify compliance gaps and control weaknesses
• Evaluate security program effectiveness
• Prepare audit reports and track remediation plans
• Establish governance structures aligned with regulations

Target Audience

This course is valuable for:

• Security and compliance managers in oil & gas and industrial sectors
• Internal and external auditors of security systems
• Risk officers and policy implementation teams
• Corporate governance units and regulators
• Engineers responsible for compliance and system assurance
• Public sector oversight and civil defense teams

Course Topics

• Principles of security governance and accountability
• International standards: ISO 18788, ISO 28000, ISO 27001
• Audit lifecycle: planning, fieldwork, reporting, follow-up
• Security policy and control validation
• Physical security audit checklist design
• Reviewing access controls, surveillance coverage, and incident logs
• Compliance checks with legal and contractual obligations
• Evaluating crisis preparedness and resilience planning
• Tools for scoring and benchmarking security performance
• Reporting methods: dashboards, audit trails, and findings matrix
• Communicating audit results to executive leadership
• Designing governance frameworks for security departments
• Segregation of duties and conflict of interest management
• Whistleblowing systems and internal ethics reporting
• Follow-up audits and corrective action tracking