The official website of the Center for Development of Security Excellence (DCSA CDSE). As part of the Federal Government's largest counterintelligence and security agency, we educate, train, and certify millions of civilian and military personnel and cleared contractors entrusted to protect our national security.

The Security Professional Education Development (SPēD) Certification Program is part of the Department of Defense's (DOD) initiative to professionalize the security workforce. This initiative ensures there exists a common set of competencies among security practitioners that promotes interoperability, facilitates professional development and training, and develops a workforce of …

CDSE provides diverse security courses and products to DOD personnel, DOD contractors, employees of other federal agencies, and selected foreign governments. Training is presented through a variety of learning platforms and is streamlined to meet performance requirements and accommodate the busy schedules of today’s students.

Internet-based, self-paced training courses. Counterintelligence. The Counterintelligence (CI) Awareness Program's purpose is to make DOD and Industry Security personnel aware of their responsibility to report unusual activities or behaviors and various threats from foreign intelligence entities, other illicit collectors of US defense information, and/or terrorists.

The Personnel Vetting Program establishes the standards, criteria, and guidelines upon which trust determinations or adjudicative decisions are based for each personnel vetting domain.

2025年1月6日 · Spring 2025 CDSE Education Enrollment Deadline is Approaching - Organizational Considerations in Applying Security Within the Federal and DOD Bureaucracy Course (Ed502) - Human Resource Management for DOD Security (Ed506) - Assessment and Evaluation of DOD Security Programs (Ed509) - Security in the DOD Acquisition Process …

eLearning Courses. Internet-based, self-paced training courses. Derivative Classification IF103.16 This course explains how to derivatively classify national security information from a classification management perspective.

The Adjudicator Professional Certification (APC) is required for all Personnel Security Adjudicators in the DOD DCSA Consolidated Adjudications and DOD Intelligence Community Central Adjudication Facilities, and personnel security adjudicators employed by an agency accepted to participate in the program. The APC was accredited by the National Commission …

Description: This course describes the responsibilities of the Derivative Classifier.It also explains how to derivatively classify national security information from a classification management perspective. The final lesson provides an opportunity for the student to practice what they have learned in the course.

You can use Credly for free to send an official academic transcript directly to an employer or a college you are interested in attending. CDSE also provides you with a transcript via its online learning management system STEPP.