# Understanding the Personnel Security Program Course (Self-Paced)

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## Overview

Learn the practices and procedures required to administer the Personnel Security Program from beginning to end, from properly filling out the initial Personnel Security forms to avoid rejections, to the final security clearance or trustworthiness decisions.

## What you'll learn

- Manage the Personnel Security Program.
- Follow the Adjudication Guidelines.
- Review and evaluate the contents of investigative request packages.
- Control investigative reports.
- Determine requirements for granting security clearances.
- Understand the Continuous Evaluation Program and know how to suspend access to sensitive information.
- Know how and when to grant temporary security clearances.
- Learn the due process procedures.

## Curriculum

#### Module 1: Management of Personnel Security Program

- Understanding the purpose of the PSP and the five key elements.
- Identifying sensitive positions and duties and security office responsibilities.
- Discussing HSPD-12 and its impact on personnel security management.

#### Module 2: Adjudication Guidelines

- Exploring the role of adjudication in security clearances and personnel security.
- Applying adjudication guidelines to investigative cases.
- Evaluating the relevance of adjudication guidelines in making eligibility determinations.

#### Module 3: Review and Evaluation of Investigative Request Packages

- Identifying the types of investigations and their relevance to different duties.
- Learning how to request and process investigations properly.
- Identifying potential issues in evaluating investigative packages.

#### Module 4: Control of Reports

- Understanding the procedures for handling personnel security reports.
- Ensuring secure control of sensitive security information and access rights.

#### Module 5: Granting Security Clearances

- Understanding the process and authority behind granting security clearances.
- Learning the criteria for issuing security clearances and the handling of interim clearances.

#### Module 6: Continuous Evaluation Program and Suspension of Access

- Exploring the continuous evaluation program and its application to personnel in sensitive positions.
- Learning the procedures for suspending access if concerns arise about loyalty, trustworthiness, or reliability.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $1049