Security Risk Assessment and Management: A Professional Practice Guide for Protecting Buildings and Infrastructure

This text considers risk assessment and management as another perspective of the security response to terrorism. The authors maintain that the risk assessment process can be as important to the security of a facility as the design drawings are to the building's construction. The process presented in the book is based on a methodology of risk assessment that the authors developed at Sandia National Laboratories, under a contract with Department of Energy and then adapted for broader use. The first half of the book details basic risk assessment concepts such as the security risk equation (the risk associated with an attack being equal to the likelihood of an attack times the likelihood that the security system is ineffective times the consequences of loss from a successful attack), facility characterization, and threat and consequence analysis. The authors consider other, non-terrorism threats, such as theft and crimes against particular people at a facility. One chapter outlines how to prepare and present a risk assessment report to management. The second half of the book walks reader through the entire process of risk assessment, using a detailed model that comprises a facility's operational functions, entrances, security systems, critical assets, and all other features that factor into the risk assessment. Some topics covered include fault trees, scenario analyses, risk estimate baselines, and risk reduction packages.

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• Corporate Authors:

  John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated

  111 River Street
  Hoboken, NJ  United States  07030-6000
• Authors:
  • Biringer, Betty E
  • Matalucci, Rudolph V
  • O'Connor, Sarah L
• Publication Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 358 pp

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disasters and emergency operations; Infrastructure; Operations; Public buildings; Risk assessment; Risk management; Security; Structures; Terrorism; Transportation buildings
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Bridges and other structures; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; Terminals and Facilities; I10: Economics and Administration; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01079836
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780471793526
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 25 2007 10:24AM