The S2 Institute will be exhibiting this coming year between January 18-20 at Intersec Middle East 2009 in Dubai. S2's Executive Director Tim O'Rourke and Senior Anti-Terrorism (more...)

According to authorities, between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked each year between nations against their will for purposes of sexual exploitation or slave labor. This (more...)

For over two decades, Criminologist James Davis has trained thousands of police officers in high risk patrol and response to critical incidents. In this 5-hour distance learning (more...)

Many online students who are using satellite and DSL connections to take S2 Online courses frequently encounter delays and interruptions in the stream of our online video. This is (more...)

We are proud to announce that Sam Hall has joined the S2 Institute's team of adjunct instructors. For those not familiar with Mr. Hall, Sam is one of the most fascinating and (more...)

S2 Institute's staff instructor Craig Gundry has been scheduled on the Al-Jazeerah English Network as a guest expert on national security for a panel discussion before and after (more...)

Bram Frank is known as one of the few real-deal combative knife instructors in the world.  He is also the S2 Institute's chief instructor for edged weapons training.
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Since early 2008, we have been cataloguing thousands of documents relevant to the Institute’s field of study into a research database accessible to our students and registered (more...)

On July 6-9, 2008, S2’s senior anti-terrorism instructor Craig Gundry presented a four–day Anti-Terrorism Officer course in Dubai in partnership with S2’s representative in the (more...)

As part of S2's growing training partnerships in the Arabian Gulf Region, the S2 Institute in Clearwater presented a five-day Anti-Terrorism Support Operations Course for a group (more...)

The online version of the S2 Human Intelligence for Special Operations Personnel course is designed to aid US Military special operations personnel in planning successful Title 50 (more...)

The 7-hour Human Intelligence for Law Enforcement distance learning program is designed to provide new and experienced homeland security and law enforcement intelligence (more...)

In this two-hour distance learning program, former CIA Senior Field Operations Officer David Hornberger presents focused targeting as an alternative and superior method for (more...)

In this six-hour distance learning course, Israeli terrorism expert Howard Linett provides a detailed examination of the methods used by terrorists in Israel and Palestine, (more...)

The S2 Institute will be exhibiting this coming year between January 13-15 at Intersec Middle East 2008 in Dubai. S2's Executive Director Tim O'Rourke and Senior Anti-Terrorism (more...)

In this three-hour distance learning course, former Iraq Hostage Working Group Coordinator Daniel O'Shea explores the problem of jihadist kidnappings, kidnapping prevention, and (more...)

The S2 Institute will be presenting a four-day Anti-Terrorism Officer course at the Jumeirah Beach Resort in Dubai on July 6-9, 2008. Coordination for this course is managed by (more...)

In this five-hour course, Israeli terrorism expert Howard Linett explores the tactical and strategic dimensions of suicide terrorism and approaches for minimizing the risk from (more...)

The S2 Institute now offers US and foreign government clients a number of standard courses and custom training options on topics including human intelligence, intelligence (more...)

Wes Doss of Tactical Knives has just reviewed the latest Knife design from Bram Frank.  In the TK Jan-08 issue Wes put the Lapu Lapu Corto or LLC through some tough test (more...)

S2 has now opened another office in the Greater Orlando Area. This facility will work to meet the demands of our growing Florida Class D & G training base. The first Class D (more...)

In this 2-hour distance learning course, former hostage negotiator and FBI Unit Chief Vince McNally provides frontline police and security personnel with critical guidelines and (more...)

Craig Gundry, the S2 Institute's Program Director for Anti-Terrorism and WMD, will be presenting three seminars at this year's American Board for Certification in Homeland (more...)

We are proud to announce that the S2 Institute has entered into a new strategic partnership with Japan Homeland Security Corporation to bring S2's public safety courses to Asia (more...)

The S2 Institute's new Organizational Portals system provides corporations and government agencies with an easy method for enrolling employees in S2 distance education courses. < (more...)

Yes. We are currently working on a series of new expanded anti-terrorism and public safety courses as accredited certificate programs. The new programs will be accredited through (more...)

In this new 13-hour program, former UNMOVIC inspector Harvey "Jack" McGeorge provides intelligence professionals with a detailed exploration of chemical and biological weapons, (more...)

S2's schedule has been filling up for on-site and off-site hosted programs.  About 8 new programs are forth coming after the first quarter with the addition of several (more...)

As one of the World's leading experts on chemical and biological weapons, former UNMOVIC inspector Harvey "Jack" McGeorge provides students of this new course with a detailed (more...)

S2 Anti-Terrorism Instructor Craig Gundry was interviewed on CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck program regarding terrorist tactics and the August 2006 Airline Bomb plot. To read a (more...)

After several months of juggling schedules for filming, we are happy to announce that Dr. McGeorge's advanced-level Weapons of Mass Destruction courses are now in production. For (more...)

As one of the nation's leading experts on officer homicide, Criminologist James Davis provides students of this compelling distance learning course with important advice and tips (more...)

Our latest distance learning course, Assessing Terrorism Related Risk, provides students with a functional understanding of risk management principles and aids in developing (more...)

The new S2 Bomb Security for Executive Protection distance learning course provides students with essential skills for protecting individual principals against assassination by (more...)

In this new S2 Distance Learning Seminar, Barry Wilson provides security and public safety professionals with a foundation for understanding graphology. Through multimedia, case (more...)

Over the past two decades, explosive attacks against motorcades have emerged as some of the most popular methods of assassination worldwide. In this three-hour distance learning (more...)

On the night of 12 May 2003, three housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were struck simultaneously by Al-Qaeda in a wave of bombings and armed assaults that echoed throughout (more...)

Graduates of S2 distance learning courses are now eligible to purchase high-quality framed certificates.  These certificates are individually numbered, foil stamped, and (more...)

S2's latest distance learning course, Chemical & Biological Terrorism for Security Professionals, provides a detailed examination of the chemical & biological terrorist threat, (more...)

In this two-hour distance learning course, bomb security expert Craig Gundry explores the procedures and options for managing bomb threats, evacuations, searching facilities for (more...)

Our latest online course, Maritime Security Awareness, provides port employees with an essential understanding of maritime security threats and requirements for protecting port (more...)

Visit the Instructor page and you will see newly added instructors bios and with that - new programs are being added online and in the classroom. Some of the new instructors to (more...)

The demand for a quality carbine instructor certification program has plagued many law-enforcement departments over the past several years. S2 now offers a 3-day instructor (more...)

As we announced several months ago, we have been working on developing a new online training platform for delivering S2's acclaimed classroom programs in a distance learning (more...)

After four months of development, we are happy to announce the launch of the our new web site. In addition to providing information about S2 courses and merchandise, the S2 web (more...)

A new documentary on anti-terrorism training has been released. It follows a new force of Anti-Terrorism Officers (ATO) as they prepare to deploy to such critical infrastructure (more...)

For the past couple years, our carbine class has been widely presented to many security personnel deploying on special assignments in the U.S. and overseas. To meet the growing (more...)

We are sad to announce that one of the instructors aiding in the development of our new High Risk Executive Protection Course, Christopher Neidrich, was killed in an ambush near (more...)

Tim O'Rourke will join with others next month to review the training programs under the Division of Licensing. The focus is to identify updates and anti-terrorism awareness into (more...)

The Institute's Anti-Terrorism Officer (ATO) Program & (more...)