Personnel Security Basic Course

Personnel security is a system of policies and procedures which seek to mitigate the risk of workers (insiders) exploiting their legitimate access to an organisation’s assets for unauthorized purposes.

Information about personnel security should include information about background investigation. Most U.S. federal agencies require background investigations. Provide as much information as you can about the background investigation and screening process. It is very possible that your agency has a security screening branch that carries out all background investigations. The security screening branch may not make all of its processes and procedures available to everyone in the agency. If that is the case, simply state the name of the department that carries out the background investigations. Also, describe how the background investigation department can be contacted and where they are located. If there are policies that require background investigations, it is worth noting these policies.