Security Awareness & Preparedness
Practical security awareness training for individuals, executives, corporate travellers and teams operating in unfamiliar, unstable or elevated-risk environments.
Choose self-paced online H.E.A.T. training, instructor-led group training or focused Kidnap & Ransom Awareness Training for your organisation.
Self-paced learning for individuals and remotely based teams.
Instructor-led practical training for corporate groups.
Focused personal-security training for organisations and leadership teams.
Training enquiries
Office: +27 11 786 8556
Security training helps participants recognise warning signs earlier, reduce unnecessary exposure and make more informed decisions when conditions change quickly.
Identify risk indicators, suspicious behaviour and changing environmental conditions.
Apply practical travel, movement, communication and personal-security habits.
Make clearer decisions during hostile, unstable or high-pressure incidents.
Training Programmes
Each programme addresses a different training requirement, from flexible individual learning to practical group preparation.
Flexible Online Learning
Self-paced Hostile Environment Awareness Training for individuals and organisations requiring accessible preparation before travel, deployment or field operations.
Instructor-Led Group Training
Practical Hostile Environment Awareness Training for corporate groups and teams whose people travel, work or operate in elevated-risk environments.
Executive Security Awareness
Focused training that helps participants understand kidnapping risks, reduce predictability and respond more effectively during a high-pressure incident.
H.E.A.T. Training
Hostile Environment Awareness Training is designed for people who travel, deploy or work where conditions may be unfamiliar, unpredictable or elevated in risk.
Both formats focus on recognising threats earlier, reducing exposure through practical planning and responding more effectively when an incident develops.
Recognise behavioural, environmental and operational warning signs.
Plan safer routes, movements, arrivals and accommodation arrangements.
Understand exposure-reduction principles and avoid predictable behaviour.
Improve awareness around vehicles, movement and transition points.
Recognise unstable conditions and understand appropriate response principles.
Strengthen decision-making when an unexpected incident unfolds.
Online or In Person?
Both H.E.A.T. formats develop awareness and preparedness, but they serve different training needs.
Kidnap & Ransom Awareness
Focused awareness training helps participants identify behaviours, information and routines that may increase or reduce personal risk.
The programme examines how potential targets may be identified and how surveillance, social media, routines and financial profiling can contribute to risk.
Participants receive practical guidance that can be applied to daily routines, travel, family security, digital privacy and emergency planning.
Who Should Attend?
The appropriate programme depends on the participant’s role, travel profile, operating environment and level of exposure.
Organisational Duty of Care
When employees travel or work in elevated-risk environments, written instructions alone may not provide adequate preparation.
Training helps employees understand how risks develop, how their own behaviour may affect exposure and how to respond when normal support systems are not immediately available.
SSC Legacy offers flexible online learning, practical instructor-led H.E.A.T. training and focused Kidnap & Ransom Awareness Training according to the organisation’s requirements.
Why SSC Legacy?
SSC Legacy combines security, intelligence, investigation and operational risk experience to provide training that participants can apply beyond the classroom.
The objective is not to create unnecessary fear. It is to help participants understand risk, identify preventable exposure and develop practical habits that support safer decisions.
Guidance participants can apply during travel, work and everyday routines.
Choose self-paced online learning, practical group training or a live awareness session.
Suitable for individuals, executives, corporate teams and exposed personnel.
Participants leave with clearer risk-reduction and response principles.
Answers to common questions about SSC Legacy’s security-awareness and preparedness training.
SSC Legacy offers self-paced Online Hostile Environment Awareness Training, instructor-led In-Person H.E.A.T. Training and Kidnap & Ransom Awareness Training.
H.E.A.T. stands for Hostile Environment Awareness Training. It prepares participants to recognise, reduce and respond to risks associated with hostile, unstable or elevated-risk environments.
Yes. Individuals can enrol in the self-paced Online H.E.A.T. Training and complete the programme remotely.
Yes. Organisations can arrange private in-person H.E.A.T. training for corporate teams or use the online programme for employees based in different locations.
Online H.E.A.T. is self-paced and accessible remotely. In-person H.E.A.T. is instructor-led and includes practical, scenario-based exercises and direct engagement with the training team.
Yes. Certificates are provided upon successful completion of online and in-person H.E.A.T. training.
The Kidnap & Ransom Awareness programme is presented as a half-day course of approximately four hours.
Yes. The training can be presented on-site or as a live online session for a group.
No. The programmes are suitable for participants with or without previous security experience.
Online H.E.A.T. is suitable for flexible individual or distributed-team learning. In-person H.E.A.T. is suited to groups requiring instructor-led practical preparation. Kidnap & Ransom Awareness is appropriate where focused personal-security and kidnapping-risk guidance is required.
Training Enquiries
Enquire about Online H.E.A.T. Training, private In-Person H.E.A.T. Training or Kidnap & Ransom Awareness Training.
Office: +27 11 786 8556