ASIS International Security Standards Training 9-10 June 2008 - Vilnius, Lithuania

Standards are an industry's common language of performance and acceptability. Standards help build the 'soft infrastructure' of modern, innovative economies. They provide certainty, references, best practices and benchmarks for designers, engineers and service providers. Standardisation diminishes trade barriers, promotes safety, allows interoperability of products, systems and services, and promotes common technical understanding.

Standards cover a broad range of fields-engineering, telecommunications, textiles, photography, petroleum products, household appliances, and industrial safety to name a few. Core principles of standardisation include openness, due process, transparency, and consensus. The development of standards needs active participation to make them work.

Management system standards are gaining attention globally as tools to manage risks and impacts of intentional and unintentional incidents such as natural disasters, terror, extreme crime, and technology mishaps. Standards will have a profound impact on the security profession.

How You Will Benefit:

• Learn the concepts of management systems standards and the underlying concepts

• Learn about management systems standards specific for security

• Gain insights into how security professionals and organisations can successfully add this tool to the services they provide to enhance preparedness and resilience

• Learn what standards are, how they are made and how you and your company can help develop them

• Learn from practical hands-on experience of benchmarking and certification

• Learn how to pass auditing and how to become an auditor

Who Should Attend:

• Security managers and directors

• Professionals with an interest in management systems standards and auditing

Dates:Monday 9 and Tuesday 10 June 2008Venue: Crowne Plaza Hotel Vilnius

Contact Information: ASIS International European Bureau287 avenue Louise, 2nd floor, 1050 Brussels, BelgiumTel: +32 2 645 26 74, Fax: +32 2 645 26 71E-mail: contact@asisonline.eu