Abstract:

The current time imposes considerable requirements on the competencies of security managers, who must meet the security requirements asked from his employer [1], [2], [3]. These requirements are primarily based on generally binding legislation and international or national standards. In general, these security requirements imply that the key role of security managers is to protect people, property and information. Security requirements may vary depending on the area of activity of the security manager. Security requirements are specified mainly for those areas of social life where the disruption of the provided service could have serious adverse consequences for the performance of the economic and social function of the state. Such areas include for example, industry, information and communication technologies, energy or healthcare. Due to the nature of their activities, state-regulated specific security requirements are imposed on medical facilities. These are mainly information security (e.g. General Data Protection Regulation or Cyber security) and physical and object security (e.g. Act No. 45/2011 Coll. On Critical Infrastructure or standard CEN / TS 16850 Societal and Citizen Security - Guidance for managing security in healthcare facilities). In practice, the security that links the two areas is called Converged security. The requirements of regulatory authorities (e.g. the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of the Interior, the National Security Agency, the Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatization of the Slovak Republic) are putting pressure on universities to educate experts in this newly created field of security. The specificity of training professionals in the field of converged security lies in the fact that students must acquire competencies (knowledge, skills and transferable competences) from various social and technical disciplines. From the point of view of social unions, these are topics such as management, risk management, criminal law, personal data protection, economics, logistics, insurance, crime prevention. From the point of view of technical focus, it is a matter of alarm systems, computer networks, design of protection systems, technical drawing or the issue of forensic methods. The Faculty of Security Engineering of the University of Žilina is aware of the opportunity created by the requirement of practice as well as the complexity and complexity of the topic of converged security. The article will describe the newly created comprehensive concept of education of experts in the field of converged security at the Faculty of Security Engineering. The concept is focused not only on higher education but also on lifelong learning. The concept is based on the requirements for knowledge, skills and transferable competencies that the student has to acquire during the study. From the point of view of knowledge requirements, the main topics and their interconnection will be presented. From the point of view of skills, requirements for spatial, material and technical support will be presented (e.g. laboratories, web portals, e-learning). From the point of view of transferable competencies, will be presented possible connections to stakeholders, where students during study or after graduation can develop these competencies.

Keywords:

Healthcare, Converged security, Security managers, Competencies, Concept of education.