Security Risk Assessments

Innovative Defensive Options staff can provide security risk assessments for your organization. Our innovative approach to threat and risk assessment using a holistic integrated methodology ensures you get the best assessments. Our Services include:

• All encompassing assessment – architecture, windows, structure, landscaping, perimeter, entrances;
• Technological guidance - surveillance, control room, access control, screening equipment, alarm, detection systems, information security, and security related technology;
• Personnel training and assessments - Cooperation between your emergency team and Law Enforcement;
• Active training for better performance, capabilities analysis for security personnel; and
• Designing solutions specific to your requirements. 

Innovative Defensive Options Approach to Security Risk Assessment

You may be looking to optimize your security budget or you may just be looking for peace of mind. There are many reasons to commission a threat and risk analysis study but this should be the first step to understanding the level of your current protection and your vulnerability. A security risk assessment report will outline for you:

• Which threats are relevant to your facility and how seriously they should be taken;
• For each of the threats, what the risk is to your people and buildings and the continuity of your business;
• Where the vulnerabilities are in your buildings, technology and procedures; and in what priority the vulnerabilities should be addressed;
• Perfect vs. Practical protection - How you can improve your protection within your budgetary framework; and
• Are your emergency procedures adequate and relevant for current threats. 

Steps in the process of achieving your security goals, a Threat & Risk Analysis Project typically includes the following steps:

1. Meet with local security services to determine the relevant threats for your facility;
2. Innovative Defensive Options constraints are identified and discussed;
3. The risks represent the consequences for the structure, people and business of the threat being carried out. The risks will be determined as a result of the combined experience of the Innovative Defensive Options Security personnel and computer modeling and simulation of the threat;
4. Through a system of statistical analysis and weighting, and building on the extensive knowledge of Innovative Defensive Options personnel, the list of vulnerabilities in your current facilities, systems and procedures will be identified and prioritized; and
5. A detailed report will be written and presented to summarize these findings. This report will be a basis for the development of a work plan and budget to implement the recommendations.

One of the key advantages to the threat & risk analysis report is its ability to relate to a compound or group of buildings where the cost of fully protecting every individual building is prohibitive. By relating to the compound as a whole, a threat and risk analysis project allows the highest risk problem areas to be identified and addressed.

The Innovative Defensive Options concept adopts a holistic approach to security, and considers three overlapping domains:

• Physical Domain (buildings, structures, physical protection elements);
• Technology Domain (systems, controls and sensors); and
• Human Domain (people and procedures)

This approach mimics that used by your adversaries who will be looking for vulnerabilities in more than one domain in order to carry out their operation.