The Critical Pathway to Insider Risk (CPIR) Certification Program

While the Critical Pathway to Insider Risk (CPIR) has become one of the most widely used frameworks for analyzing risk, little training has been available on how to use this approach.  The CPIR Certification Program offers analysts, investigators, mental health practitioners, managers, and other interested parties this training, along with a certification credential that can make you and your organization more competent and competitive.

At the end of three days of small group training participants will be able to:
•Understand CPIR risk factors and mitigators 
•Use CPIR categories to drive data collection 
•Extract CPIR data from a broad array of available information on a subject 
•Identify missing information and its potential impact 
•Assign available data to appropriate CPIR categories 
•Provide a risk score estimate for an individual and revise that score as new data become available
•Analyze Organizational Vulnerabilities across cases 
•Present the CPIR data in a written report  

The first two days of the course concentrate on understanding CPIR variables and supervised practice identifying and extracting this information from a range of sources including communications, personnel and security records, public files, and social media.  After two days of practice, students will take a certification exam requiring them to create a CPIR matrix on a subject by extracting and organizing CPIR data from a case record.  This matrix allows students to calculate an estimated risk score and forms the basis of the CPIR report. Day three of the course will concentrate on writing a CPIR report and using the CPIR in investigations of anonymous leaks or threats, as well as examining organizational vulnerabilities to insider risk across cases.