The Center for Advanced Security Studies provides challenging programs which prepare its students for careers as bodyguards and trains them regarding protective techniques and the security industry. One of the programs offered is the Month Long Immersion Program, which is held in both Florida and South America. Designed for adults who want to have bodyguard careers, this program is one of the most intensive programs commercially available. The Fourteen Day High Risk Tactical Operators Course is an entry level course for younger people (around 25 years old) who want to enter the private security industry in an armed role, usually in conflict zones such as Iraq or Afghanistan. The Tactical Shooting Course is intended to train its students to react to and overcome stressful shooting situations with a methodology that focuses on situational awareness, instinctive shooting and fluidity.
Executive Security International (ESI) offers an Executive Protection program that focuses on intelligence-based protection and corporate and international protection. The ESI training course is located in Rifle, Colorado and the program has an academic and practical training curriculum consisting of a 28-day residency or 450 hours in long-distance education, as well as a 15-day resident training. The program enhances the martial arts and shooting skills of its students, strengthens their preemptive intervention skills with behavioral, proactive and predictive intelligence and trains them regarding protective intelligence and investigation. The course also prepares students to obtain successful careers as protection specialists and equips them for corporate, executive, dignitary, celebrity and private estate protection.
For a shorter and more condensed training course, consider the Executive Protection Agent Training program offered by J.A. LaSorsa and Associates. This program is a three-day training course held in various cities at different times of the year; Las Vegas, New York City and Altamonte Springs, Florida among others were scheduled to host the program in 2011. The instructor, Joseph LaSorsa, is a former agent of the U.S. Secret Service for the White House in the Presidential Protection Division. The program will focus on principles and concepts of executive protection, threat and vulnerability assessment, assassination attempts, firearm/weapon response and takeaway procedures, formations, protective detail, motorcade operations and vehicular bomb detection and sweeps.
Located in Fairfax, Virginia, Sexton Executive Security trains students to be capable of working as security agents and bodyguards to protect individuals and corporations in the business community. Sexton is certified by the Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services and their expert instructors travel throughout the U.S. to hold training courses for people who want to work in counter-terrorism, international investigations and personal protection. The courses offered by Sexton include Private Investigations, Personal Protection Specialist, Advanced Investigator's Course, Armed and Unarmed Security Officer, Conflict Resolution, Self-defense and Threat Awareness, Terrorism Awareness and Concealed Weapon Permit.