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Certified Advanced Risk Management Specialist

Online Certification  ·  10 Week  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CARMS)

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Executive Summary

Certified Advanced Risk Management Specialist

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Advanced Risk Management Specialist (CARMS) delivers a rigorous Advanced-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in security risk management, physical protection and investigations.

This 10 Week programme is structured around ASIS, ISO and recognised security-management standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CARMS holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Advanced Risk Management Specialist
Acronym
CARMS
Category
Security & Safety
Level
Advanced
Duration
10 Week
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 449
Live Virtual
USD 649
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Three Lines and Ownership — applied to your own work
  • Controls That Actually Work — applied to your own work
  • Horizon Scanning and Emerging Risk — applied to your own work
  • Assurance Mapping — applied to your own work
  • Reporting Risk Upward — applied to your own work
  • Risk Appetite in Practice — applied to your own work
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex security risk management functions
Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards senior security-management and CSO roles
Strategic Thinking
Build the strategic thinking, analysis and execution skills of world-class leaders
Organisational Impact
Design and implement security risk management systems that drive performance and measurable results
Personal Excellence
Develop emotional intelligence, resilience and authentic executive presence
Global Employability
Qualify for security risk management roles across corporates, critical infrastructure, government and protective services worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Security Risk Assessment and Threat Analysis
✦Physical Security and Access Control
✦Investigations, Intelligence and Forensics
✦Crisis, Emergency and Incident Response
✦Security Operations, Technology and Surveillance
✦Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Advanced Risk Management Specialist
  • Certified Advanced Risk Management Specialist: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • Corporate governance principles and purpose
  • Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
  • The regulatory and legal environment
  • Stakeholders, agency and accountability
  • Codes, standards and best practice (OECD)
  • Professional roles and ethics
  • Governance and organisational value
  • Public, private and non-profit governance
  • Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
  • Career pathways and professional development
2
Three Lines and Ownership
  • The three lines model and who owns risk
  • Assurance mapping and avoiding duplicate assurance
  • Controls that work versus controls that exist
  • Consumer rights and protection law
  • Fair treatment and market conduct
  • Competition and antitrust
  • Complaints and redress mechanisms
  • Data protection and privacy
  • Vulnerable consumers and inclusion
  • Advertising and disclosure standards
  • Dispute resolution and ombudsman
  • Balancing business and consumer interests
  • GRC platforms and technology
  • Data analytics for assurance
  • Regulatory technology (RegTech)
3
Controls That Actually Work
  • Controls that work versus controls that exist
  • Risk appetite and tolerance in practice
  • Designing and testing a compliance programme
  • Benchmarking against standards
  • Maturity and capability assessment
  • Continuous improvement of controls
  • Assurance and audit outcomes
  • Stakeholder trust and reputation metrics
  • Driving measurable governance improvement
  • Data governance frameworks and roles
  • Data privacy law and compliance (GDPR)
  • Information lifecycle and records management
  • Data quality and stewardship
  • Consent, rights and data subject requests
  • Digital ethics and responsible AI
4
Horizon Scanning and Emerging Risk
  • Regulatory mapping and horizon scanning
  • Risk appetite and tolerance in practice
  • Policy that changes behaviour
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Regulatory and legal duty
  • Fair treatment of stakeholders
  • Professional standards and self-regulation
  • Governance and compliance KPIs
  • Risk and control effectiveness metrics
  • Cybersecurity governance
  • Cross-border data and transfers
  • Data breach and incident governance
  • Building trust through data governance
  • Capstone scoping: a real governance or policy issue
  • Analysis and diagnostic assessment
5
Assurance Mapping
  • Assurance mapping and avoiding duplicate assurance
  • The three lines model and who owns risk
  • Controls that work versus controls that exist
  • Findings, reporting and remediation
  • External audit and oversight
  • Audit committee effectiveness
  • Continuous assurance and monitoring
  • Ethical supply chains
  • Impact measurement and disclosure
  • Stakeholder and investor engagement
  • Board effectiveness and the quality of board information
  • Conflicts of interest and related-party transactions
  • Whistleblowing and speak-up channels
  • Investigating misconduct
  • Governance in state, donor-funded and family-owned entities
6
Reporting Risk Upward
  • Board effectiveness and the quality of board information
  • Risk appetite and tolerance in practice
  • Assurance mapping and avoiding duplicate assurance
  • Stakeholder engagement plan
  • Directors' duties and responsibilities
  • Company secretarial practice
  • Governance in different ownership models
  • Regulatory mapping and obligations
  • Enterprise risk management (ERM)
  • Internal controls and assurance
  • Managing regulator relationships
  • Compliance reporting and disclosure
  • Building a compliance culture
  • Policy cycle and evidence-based policy
  • Problem definition and analysis
7
Risk Appetite in Practice
  • Risk appetite and tolerance in practice
  • The three lines model and who owns risk
  • Board effectiveness and the quality of board information
  • Monitoring and policy evaluation
  • Public consultation and engagement
  • Business ethics and ethical frameworks
  • Codes of conduct and values
  • Anti-bribery and anti-corruption
  • Fraud prevention and detection
  • Whistleblowing and speak-up
  • Transparency and disclosure
  • Ethical decision-making
  • Integrity due diligence
  • Building an ethical culture
  • Reporting and disclosure tools
8
Technology and Data Risk
  • Cybersecurity and information governance
  • Emerging governance technologies
  • Regulatory and digital transformation
  • Compliance monitoring systems
  • Digital and market transformation
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Irrigation systems: surface, sprinkler and drip design
  • Appropriate and small-scale mechanisation technologies
  • Farm management information systems and data platforms
  • Digital advisory, e-extension and mobile services
  • Traceability, blockchain and digital records
  • The technology landscape and trends
  • Ethics, responsibility and digital citizenship
  • Systems analysis, design and modelling
  • Digital transformation strategy
9
Third Parties and Procurement
  • Digital procurement and the future of the profession
  • Sustainable procurement principles and standards
  • Fair trade and responsible supply
  • Procurement and asset management under donor rules
  • Vendor, venue and supplier contracting for events
  • Water supply systems: sources, treatment and distribution
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Assets, liabilities and equity reporting
  • Subcontractor and supplier management
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Contractor and visitor safety
  • Procurement and supply chain: scope and value
  • The procurement cycle and operating models
  • Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
10
Sustainability and ESG
  • Sustainability and climate responsibility
  • Environmental monitoring and reporting
  • Continuous environmental improvement
  • Integration with quality and environment
  • Sustainability and responsible sourcing
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
  • Sustainability reporting and disclosure
  • Embedding sustainability in sourcing
  • Mine water, tailings and environmental management
  • Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
  • Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
  • Monitoring sustainability outcomes
  • Corporate social responsibility and community impact
  • Monitoring, evaluation and sustainability plan
  • Sustainability certification and standards
11
Communication and Disclosure
  • Managing sensitive disclosures
  • Crisis and reputation communication
  • Accountability and transparency
  • Monitoring, evaluation and reporting
  • Board and executive reporting
  • Control monitoring and reporting
  • Crisis communications
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Ethics in communications
  • Communications strategy and planning
  • Internal communications
  • Metrics and reporting
  • Voice, communication and delivery
  • Management reporting and decision support
  • Board reporting and information flows
12
Strategic Context
  • Ratio and trend analysis
  • Managing growth, risk and resilience
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Customer service and CX strategy
  • Sustaining strategic customer focus
  • Customer experience strategy
  • Data-driven and platform business models
  • Category management and strategy
  • Competitive bidding processes
  • Financial inclusion strategy
  • Strategic analysis: PESTLE, SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces
  • Designing a marketing or sales strategy
  • Marketing strategy and the mix
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Pricing strategy
13
Workforce Governance
  • The customer experience (CX) discipline
  • NGO financial management and budget-versus-actual discipline
  • Employee relations, discipline and fair process
  • Operational planning and execution discipline
  • Resource allocation and capital discipline
  • The business analysis discipline and role
  • The sales pipeline and forecasting discipline
  • CRM, sales operations and data discipline
  • Financial modelling and forecasting discipline
  • Discipline, conduct and fair-process management
  • Whistleblowing and speak-up culture
14
International and Sanctions
  • Sanctions screening and PEP management
  • Cross-cultural and global inclusion
  • Global and comparative HR contexts
  • Global sourcing and international trade
  • International and cross-border tax
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Audit planning and execution
  • Influencing and advising leaders
  • Leading governance projects and change
  • Team leadership in governance
  • Governance transformation and reform
15
Market Conduct
  • Data protection and customer privacy
  • Data, analytics and customer insight
  • Customer segmentation and needs analysis
  • Customer journey and experience design
  • Customer journey mapping and service design
  • Customer retention, loyalty and lifetime value
  • Market research and customer insight methods
  • Voice of the customer and acting on feedback
  • Buyer behaviour and the customer journey
  • Voice of the customer and feedback
  • Strategic customer relationships
  • Team leadership in customer service
  • Customer onboarding and lifecycle
  • Customer and community engagement
  • Treating customers fairly and market conduct
16
Safety and Environment
  • Event risk, safety and contingency planning
  • Industrial utilities, energy and process safety interfaces
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Forecasting and planning
  • KPIs and performance reporting
  • Health records, data and confidentiality
  • Telehealth and digital care delivery
  • Public health programmes: prevention and outreach
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
  • Health financing: budgets, insurance and out-of-pocket realities
  • Brand health and measurement
  • Regulatory compliance and biosafety
  • Equipment maintenance, safety and cost management
  • Safety management systems (ISO 45001)
17
Records and Documentation
  • Record-keeping and data protection
  • Data, records and confidentiality tech
  • Lessons learned and knowledge management
  • Professional documentation and presentation
  • Customer success and retention
  • Relationship management and retention
  • Retention, loyalty and lifetime value
  • Process and control documentation
  • Tender planning and documentation
  • Knowledge management and capability building
  • Transfer pricing documentation
  • Customer retention in the vehicle ownership cycle
  • Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
18
Ethics and Anti-Corruption
  • Culture, ethics and behaviour change
  • Professional ethics and integrity
  • AI, ethics and algorithmic accountability
  • Ethics and duty of care
  • Professional ethics and duty of care
  • Ethical decision-making under pressure
  • Negotiation and conflict resolution
  • Ethics and responsible leadership
  • Professional standards and ethics (CIPS)
  • Ethics and professional conduct in security
  • Ethics in tax practice
  • Bribery, corruption and conduct risk
  • Ethics and independence
  • Commercial ethics and responsible selling
  • Ethics and professional standards in finance
19
Public and Donor Context
  • Policy and public engagement
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Psychoeducation and public communication
  • Media and public communication
  • Decision support and insight
  • Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
  • Financial statement and cash-flow analysis
  • Presentation and public speaking
  • Financial statements and the accounting equation
  • Real estate marketing channels and property portals
  • Real estate regulation, licensing and professional conduct
  • Real estate development and project appraisal
  • Proposal development and donor reporting
20
Standards and Certification
  • Data governance and quality
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Reporting automation
  • Quality and delivery metrics
  • Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
  • Quality planning and assurance
  • Quality control and continuous improvement
  • Integrated risk and quality control
  • Data quality and governance
  • Data quality, analysis and reporting
  • Traceability, recall and quality assurance systems
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
  • Service quality and turnaround metrics
  • Quality, defects and reliability
  • Quality assurance of audit
21
Governance Practice
  • Policy development and drafting
  • Risk-based internal audit
  • Control testing and evidence
  • Regulator and investor relations
  • Building governance maturity
  • Measuring governance improvement
  • Designing a governance, compliance or policy solution
  • Research methods for policy
  • Regulatory impact assessment
  • Marketing and sales ethics
  • Governance of campaigns and spend
  • Compliance monitoring and testing
  • Regulatory change management
  • Onboarding and induction programme design
  • Employment compliance and the HR risk agenda
22
Legal and Regulatory
  • Risk, legal and feasibility analysis
  • Contract law and formation
  • Contract exit and renewal
  • Payroll, statutory deductions and employment cost
  • Shareholder and stakeholder rights
  • Employment law framework and contracts of employment
  • Employment relationship and the psychological contract
  • Legal, cost and feasibility analysis
  • Legal and other requirements
  • Decision rights and governance
  • Contract types and risk allocation
  • Contract administration and variation
  • Contract performance and exit
  • Contract governance and compliance
  • Regulation of transport: authorities, conventions and licensing
23
Financial Oversight
  • Account planning and whitespace analysis
  • Managing large and complex accounts
  • Customer lifetime value and profitability
  • Carbon markets and climate finance
  • Communicating financial results
  • Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
  • Access to finance, grants and investment
  • Financial and technical feasibility analysis
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Quality management systems and audits
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Value proposition and messaging
  • ROI, CAC and lifetime value
  • The value of customer-centricity
  • Complaints, redress and accountability
24
Risk and Resilience
  • Risk registers and monitoring
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Business continuity and recovery
  • Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
  • Risk assessment and judgement
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • Likelihood, impact and risk rating
  • Risk treatment and countermeasures
  • Intelligence-led risk assessment
  • Risk registers and reporting
  • Continuous risk monitoring
  • Risk identification and analysis
  • Qualitative and quantitative risk analysis
  • Risk response and contingency
  • Implementation planning and risk management
25
Data and Reporting
  • Service KPIs: CSAT, NPS, CES, SLAs
  • Complaint data and learning
  • Net Promoter Score and satisfaction metrics
  • Service analytics and dashboards
  • Text and interaction analytics
  • Data privacy and consent
  • Banking KPIs and branch scorecards
  • Transaction monitoring and suspicious reporting
  • Regulatory reporting and audits
  • Servers, storage and data centres
  • IT KPIs, SLAs and scorecards
  • Communicating and reporting to leadership
  • People analytics and HR measurement
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Leading and lagging metrics
26
Stakeholders and Oversight
  • Stakeholder and impact analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement strategy
  • Reporting and dashboards
  • Marketing and sales KPIs and dashboards
  • Dashboards and performance reporting
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
  • Regulatory compliance and market requirements
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Regulatory and fair-treatment obligations
  • Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
  • Managing difficult stakeholders
  • The regulatory landscape and central banking
  • Stakeholder mapping in banking
  • Regulatory compliance and central-bank rules
27
Leadership and Decisions
  • Portfolio management and prioritisation
  • Value management and business value
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Decision-making and problem solving
  • Revenue management and yield
  • Renewals and churn management
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Field sales and territory management
  • Tender and bid management
  • Reporting to leadership
  • Team leadership in sales and marketing
  • Precision agriculture principles and site-specific management
  • Data-driven decision support and analytics
  • Omnichannel and channel management
  • Queue management and service flow
28
People and Conduct
  • Managing resistance and capability
  • The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
  • Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
  • Succession planning and talent pipelines
  • Talent sourcing channels and pipelines
  • High-potential identification and talent reviews
  • Workforce planning and the capability gap
  • Employee engagement and what actually drives it
  • Learning transfer and capability building
  • Talent review and succession in practice
  • Managing resistance and capability building
  • Scaling delivery capability
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Roles, standards and professional conduct
  • Workforce planning and scheduling
29
Operations and Quality
  • Automation, RPA and straight-through processing
  • IT operating models and organisation
  • IT professional roles and standards
  • IT service and product mindset
  • Agile and product operating models
  • Continuous improvement and DevOps metrics
  • Driving measurable IT improvement
  • Process modelling and mapping
  • Assurance engagements and standards
  • Continuous improvement of delivery
  • Business process mapping
  • Management review and improvement
  • Process improvement and lean thinking
  • Productivity and efficiency improvement
  • Supplier development and improvement
30
Programmes and Change
  • Project budgeting and financial control
  • Financial risk in projects
  • Realising and measuring project value
  • Capstone scoping: a real project or programme
  • Designing the project plan and schedule
  • Project initiation and chartering
  • Integrated project planning
  • Baseline setting and change control
  • Project management plan development
  • Resource planning and levelling
  • Communication planning and management
  • Automation in project delivery
  • AI and predictive project analytics
  • Emerging project technologies
  • Programme management principles
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Three Lines and Ownership — applied to your own work
  • Controls That Actually Work — applied to your own work
  • Horizon Scanning and Emerging Risk — applied to your own work
  • Assurance Mapping — applied to your own work
  • Reporting Risk Upward — applied to your own work
  • Risk Appetite in Practice — applied to your own work
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CARMS certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with ASIS, ISO and recognised security-management standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CARMS?

This certification is ideal for Security Officers and Supervisors, Security Managers and Consultants, Investigators and Intelligence Analysts and Loss Prevention and Protection Specialists, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in security risk management, physical protection and investigations with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CARMS certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 10 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CARMS internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with ASIS, ISO and recognised security-management standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CARMS certification?

The Certified Advanced Risk Management Specialist is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 449 and Live Virtual at USD 649. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CARMS certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CARMS?

The Certified Advanced Risk Management Specialist is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CARMS?

The Certified Advanced Risk Management Specialist carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CARMS while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CARMS?

Graduates progress towards senior security-management and CSO roles. The CARMS strengthens your expertise in security risk management, physical protection and investigations and positions you for advancement across corporates, critical infrastructure, government and protective services.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

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The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Head of Security
Private Sector
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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

Security Manager
NGO Sector
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I earned my CARMS while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Investigations Lead
Government
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