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S17u—CTPAT for Customs Broker Personnel

Subscriber price: $28.00, Non-subscriber price: $39.00
Estimated total study time: 4 hours 26 minutes

One of the critical aspects of maintaining and sustaining the CTPAT security program is training. The education of employees is a vital component of the "people and physical security" focus area of the minimum security criteria (MSC). Training of personnel to recognize threats, foster awareness of vulnerabilities, and understand the important role each person plays in securing the supply chain is a requirement of the CTPAT program.

This basic-level course is designed to meet the CTPAT requirements for all employees who must understand, perform or otherwise comply with operational security measures. It will encompass all of the minimum security focus areas and the categories that "must" be met. We begin with the requirements for all CTPAT members and their business partners. The course continues by discussing the benefits, eligibility requirements, and specific criteria for customs brokers and ends with those specified for importers. The information regarding importers is included because MSC 12.5 requires that customs brokers must be able to explain CTPAT's security requirements to their importer clients, apprise them of critical program developments, and encourage them to become CTPAT members.

Important: This course also applies to supervisors and managers that do not have additional responsibilities for administering the CTPAT program for their company. Supervisors and managers that have the responsibility of setting-up, documenting, administering, and ensuring compliance with their company's CTPAT program should take S12u—CTPAT for Customs Broker Managers, Supervisors, and CTPAT Administrators. S12u contains more in-depth coverage including information on the application and proper completion of the security profile, certification, and validation requirements.

According to MSC 12.1, security training must be provided to employees, as required based on their functions and position, on a regular basis, and newly hired employees must receive this training as part of their orientation/job skills training. This course is suitable for both initial and refresher training.

CTPAT Introduction

CTPAT is an ongoing compliance effort consisting of mandatory security requirements that must be met based on certain types of businesses in the supply chain. Why do companies want to participate in CTPAT? In this lesson we begin to look at the specific requirements for participation and benefits based on business type.

(Estimated study time: 1 hour 22 minutes)

• Introduction to CTPAT Education, Training and Awareness
• Threats that go Beyond Purely Commercial Concern
• Changing Methods and Targets as Governments Tighten Security
  • Hijacking and Piracy of Conveyances
  • Destructive Attacks Against Conveyances
  • Theft of Dangerous Goods and Weapons While in Transit
  • Unauthorized Insertion of Undeclared Items Into Shipments and Conveyances
• From Government Reaction to Pro-action
• Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT) is a Voluntary U.S. Security Program
• Foreign Suppliers, Transportation Carriers, and Supply Chain Service Providers Gain Increased Marketability as CTPAT Members
• General Benefits of CTPAT Participation
• CTPAT Security Measures—"Minimum Security Standards"
  • Minimum Security Criteria (MSC) Focus Areas
  • Changes in Minimum Security Criteria Since CTPAT Began

CTPAT Focus Areas for All Personnel

This lesson will cover the categories in the three CTPAT minimum security criteria focus areas of Corporate Security, Transportation Security, People and Physical Security. There are two new categories in Corporate Security for the 2019 edition of CTPAT; Security Vision and Responsibility and Cybersecurity, as well as those that were already in play such as Risk Assessment and Business Partner Security. Transportation Security also has four categories; Conveyance and Instruments of International Traffic (IIT), Seal Security, Procedural Security and another new one, Agricultural Security. The focus area of people and physical security encompasses physical access controls, physical security, personnel security and what brought you to this training, education, training and awareness.

(Estimated study time: 2 hours 2 minutes)

• Introduction to Focus Areas
• CTPAT Corporate Security
  • Security Vision & Responsibility 1.0
  • Risk Assessment (RA) 2.0
  • Business Partner Security 3.0
  • Cybersecurity 4.0
• 4.2 CTPAT Members Defend Against Common Cybersecurity Threats
  • Common Cybersecurity Threats
  • Social Engineering
  • Social Media
  • Consequences of Unauthorized Disclosure
• 4.13 Accounting and Proper Disposing of Media, Hardware or other IT Equipment Containing Sensitive Information
• CTPAT Transportation Security
  • Conveyance and Instruments of International Traffic Security 5.0
  • Seal Security 6.0
  • Procedural Security 7.0
  • Agricultural Security 8.0
• CTPAT People and Physical Security
  • Physical Security 9.0
  • Physical Access Controls 10.0
  • Personnel Security 11.0
  • Education, Training and Awareness 12.0
• Summary of Required Security Measures for All CTPAT Members

CTPAT Minimum Security Criteria Specifically Required of U.S. Customs Brokers

In all of the previous lessons we covered the requirements in each category of the CTPAT minimum security requirements and specified the requirements that applied to all member entities of CTPAT. This lesson concentrates on the "must do" areas that are different for each entity, in this case customs brokers. Since customs brokers must also be able to educate importers on their CTPAT requirements, the last lesson following this will focus on the specific differences for importers.

(Estimated study time: 35 minutes)

• CTPAT Minimum Security Criteria Specifically Required of U.S. Customs Brokers
• Specific Benefits for Supply Chain Service Providers
• 7.26 U.S. Customs Brokers Must Advise Clients to Report Anomalies
• 12.5 Customs Broker's Must be Able to Explain CTPAT Security Requirements to Importers
• Summary of Customs Broker's Required Security Measures

CTPAT Minimum Security Criteria Specifically Required of U.S. Importers

In all of the previous lessons we covered the requirements in each category of the CTPAT minimum security requirements and specified the requirements that applied to all member entities of CTPAT. This lesson concentrates on the "must do" areas that are different for each entity, in this case importers.

(Estimated study time: 27 minutes)

• CTPAT Minimum Security Criteria Specifically Required of U.S. Importers
• Specific Benefits for Importers and Exporters
• CTPAT Trade Compliance Benefits for Importers
• Summary of Importer's Required Security Measures