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Masters

Strategic Security & Protection Management

“Through my studies at Henley-Putnam, I was prepared for my new Personal Security Detail Team Leader position with a private security contractor in Afghanistan.”

-Ginger Isom, Security Management degree student

Master’s of Science in Strategic Security and Protection Management

The master's in protection management program unites proven successful management practices with proven methods for meeting a wide variety of security and protective services to individuals and businesses.  The protection management degree emphasizes the most important advanced protection training skills by requiring students take security management courses in advanced protection, intelligence and terrorism, terrorist dynamics, and crisis preparedness and consequence management.   The master's in protection management degree provides for high-level development of proficiency in threat assessment, workplace violence, physical security, white collar crime and cyber warfare, among other security management courses.

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Program Outcomes

Graduates of this security management degree program will be able to:

  • Conduct protection operations in a team leadership or management role
  • Plan and carry out advanced surveillance and countersurveillance operations on potential threats to a client
  • Display a detailed knowledge of protective security law and conduct operations that will not expose the agent or the client to legal or civil liability
  • Work with and protect high level clients at the diplomatic level
  • Perform sophisticated analysis and evaluations of possible threats to a client
  • Respond as appropriate to emerging threats to a client