Situational Awareness & Threat Recognition (SATR)
Modern awareness for a connected, unpredictable world.
Course Overview
Situational awareness isn’t about paranoia — it’s about understanding your environment, anticipating intent, and acting decisively before threat becomes harm.
The Situational Awareness & Threat Recognition (SATR) course redefines what awareness training means in the modern world. Forget the recycled Cold War-era tactics so often taught by retired agencies; this programme is built from field-deployed, globally tested methods used in today’s operational theatres — from corporate risk environments and travel security to high-threat regions and complex urban spaces.
CDEC’s SATR course blends behavioural science, environmental profiling, and modern threat pattern recognition into one coherent methodology. Participants learn how to read intent, interpret anomalies, and make rapid, confident decisions in both digital and physical contexts.
This isn’t a classroom exercise — it’s capability training for real people facing real risks.
What You’ll Learn
Baseline and pattern-of-life observation in urban and corporate environments
Behavioural and environmental anomaly detection techniques
Pre-attack indicators and early threat signature identification
Cognitive conditioning for decision-making under stress
Digital situational awareness — recognising how online exposure feeds real-world risk
Incident response principles and escape/evasion decision frameworks
Why It Different
Most situational awareness courses rely on outdated stories, irrelevant military analogies or fear-based teaching. CDEC’s approach is operational, data-informed and globally proven. Our instructors have tested these methods across deployments in active regions, high-risk commercial operations, and executive-protection environments.
The result: a programme that’s current, practical, and adaptable to any context — from a hotel lobby to a hostile border crossing.
Course Format
Duration: 2 days (option for an advanced 3 or 5 day version)
Delivery: Classroom, blended, or immersive scenario-based
Includes: Live scenario exercises, behavioural video analysis, field drills
Who It’s For
Corporate executives and travel security teams
Close-protection and intelligence professionals
Law enforcement, military and crisis-response units
Journalists, NGO workers and contractors operating abroad
Any individual who travels, leads, or makes high-risk decisions
Real-World Ethos
This training is shaped by current field experience, not by theory. Our instructors operate globally, integrating digital intelligence, behavioural science, and practical fieldcraft. We don’t teach awareness — we teach how to stay alive, stay composed, and make smart, lawful decisions when things go wrong.