ISO 18788 Foundation

ISO 18788 Foundation develops practical capability to interpret ISO 18788 requirements for accountable security operations, human rights, risk treatment, operational evidence, and improvement. The learning path begins with soms requirements, context, scope, leadership, and governance and advances through human rights, legal duties, risk assessment, objectives, and planning, connecting requirements and methods with accountable roles, reviewable evidence, and measurable decisions.

Applied work is anchored to a security company formalizing governance for personnel, subcontractors, sensitive sites, equipment, and incident response. Learners then address personnel, suppliers, equipment, operations, incidents, and complaints and performance evaluation, internal audit, management review, and improvement, producing SOMS context and governance record, security risk and human-rights register, security operations evidence portfolio, and SOMS assurance and improvement report.

On completion, learners can translate the subject into repeatable work, challenge weak evidence, explain decisions, and hand over prioritized improvements with clear ownership.

What You Will Learn

• Document SOMS requirements and organizational context so stakeholders can verify consistent security governance.
• Recognize exceptions affecting scope, leadership, and assigned authorities and escalate risks to clear operational accountability.
• Test human-rights risks and legal obligations through realistic scenarios involving responsible security planning.
• Interpret security objectives and treatment decisions while assessing evidence for proportionate operational safeguards.
• Explain personnel competence and supplier controls and connect the result to reliable service delivery.
• Evaluate equipment, incident, and complaint controls using criteria suited to traceable operational response.
• Use performance evaluation and internal audit evidence to strengthen objective SOMS assurance across daily operations.
• Review corrective action and management review against clear evidence requirements for continual security improvement.

SkillDynamo Training Approach

Training combines instructor walkthroughs, hands-on practice, realistic case decisions, validation checklists, troubleshooting discussions, and an actionable closing roadmap. Activities are tailored to ISO 18788 Foundation and its operational context.