Vulnerability Assesment
Pick three locations, events or individuals in your location (county, city or state) and complete a 6 - 8 page assessment of their vulnerabilities and threats, putting their security in order of priority, explaining and defending your choices.
Terrorism vulnerability assessments were created to criticize any “Achilles’ heel” in a security system that can be exploited by anyone willing to do harm to the location, an individual, or coordinated event. It assesses the weaknesses of facilities across a wide range of possible threats or hazards and creates a basis for determining physical and operational improvement measures to assure their protection. It administers both to new construction programming and design and to existing site management and restorations over the service life of a structure.
The helpful outcome of a vulnerability assessment is the task of a vulnerability rating of all appropriate aspects of building operations and systems to the clear threats for the specific facility. As with safeguard priority and threat ratings, any vulnerability can be either set as high, medium or low. High Vulnerability: One or more significant weaknesses have been identified that make the facility highly susceptible to an attack. Medium Vulnerability: A weakness has been identified that makes the facility somewhat susceptible to a terrorist or hazard; and finally Low Vulnerability: A minor weakness has been identified that slightly increases the susceptibility of the facility to a terrorist or hazard. (Baker, 2005)
Many institutions have undergone a workplace risk, threat and vulnerability assessments in the past to maintain their systems and businesses open and secure for the public. Although there are multiple different commercial and government methodologies in use today, there is currently no single reference that defines what vulnerability assessment methodology, otherwise known as “VAM”, is most suitable for specific types of assets in the
Terrorism vulnerability assessments were created to criticize any “Achilles’ heel” in a security system that can be exploited by anyone willing to do harm to the location, an individual, or coordinated event. It assesses the weaknesses of facilities across a wide range of possible threats or hazards and creates a basis for determining physical and operational improvement measures to assure their protection. It administers both to new construction programming and design and to existing site management and restorations over the service life of a structure.
The helpful outcome of a vulnerability assessment is the task of a vulnerability rating of all appropriate aspects of building operations and systems to the clear threats for the specific facility. As with safeguard priority and threat ratings, any vulnerability can be either set as high, medium or low. High Vulnerability: One or more significant weaknesses have been identified that make the facility highly susceptible to an attack. Medium Vulnerability: A weakness has been identified that makes the facility somewhat susceptible to a terrorist or hazard; and finally Low Vulnerability: A minor weakness has been identified that slightly increases the susceptibility of the facility to a terrorist or hazard. (Baker, 2005)
Many institutions have undergone a workplace risk, threat and vulnerability assessments in the past to maintain their systems and businesses open and secure for the public. Although there are multiple different commercial and government methodologies in use today, there is currently no single reference that defines what vulnerability assessment methodology, otherwise known as “VAM”, is most suitable for specific types of assets in the