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HAZARDOUS AREAS & SAFETY
• Better understanding the unique threats
they face - When conducting a threat assessment, facilities can start by identifying adversaries, their intent and capability, then review tactics from past attacks at similar locations to estimate the threat to the organisation. • Assessing
vulnerability - Understanding the threat is essential, but the ability to deter attack is amplified by understanding vulnerability. Vulnerability can be considered as the psychological, sociological, or physical characteristics that leave an asset unprotected or exploitable for attack. Typically, the emphasis is on physical security vulnerabilities, but the human factor can make or break security efforts. Thinking “It will never happen here” or “It will never happen to me” can add to vulnerability. • Quantifying risk – Risk is defined in the
basic form as “R = L x C”, where R is risk, L is the likelihood of the event occurring, and C is its consequence. When it comes to performing risk calculations, most organisations focus heavily on the consequence term of the equation without measuring it against its associated likelihood. This makes it difficult to accurately prioritise risks and efficiently allocate resources toward mitigation measures. It also shifts the focus away from identifying critical vulnerabilities in infrastructure and leaves operations unprotected
from “low probability” events. To develop a complete risk
profile, both the consequence and
likelihood terms of the risk equation should be thoroughly evaluated. After quantifying the risk, enterprises can
begin to take preventative action by physically hardening infrastructure, such as utilising perimeter protection, blast analysis and design, facade strengthening,
disproportionate collapse mitigation, local hardening of security command centres, and more. Another important step is security systems evaluation and design (i.e., intrusion detection, monitoring and surveillance, access control systems, security policies and procedures, redundancy evaluations, etc.), along with the implementation of dependency mitigation measures related to emergency backup power, spare parts, supply chains, emergency response, and so on. Adversaries continually seek the weakest
link in their target’s security. Therefore, a balanced and well-thought-out security profile that includes cybersecurity and physical security can be vital for effective facility protection and safety. In both the physical and cyber worlds,
security should not be viewed as a cost but as an investment to improve the overall safety of the facility. Organisations must remember that one of the primary goals of any security measure is to preserve the safe, reliable operation of physical infrastructure.
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