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www.AmericanSecurityToday.com CAIRA Methodology are implemented. The primary purpose of CAIRA is to quantitatively measure hazards or threats, asset criticality, vulnera- bilities, and risks to energy systems associated with large compounds or stand-alone facilities, government or private. It establishes a security baseline, ex- plores upgrades, recalculates vulner- abilities and risks, and recommends optimized features or improve- ments for facilities. In essence, CAIRA identifies current levels of vulner- ability and risk and then iden- tifies improved levels with the implementa- tion of specified countermea- sures – basical- ly a snapshot of where the orga- nization is to- day and where it could be after countermeasures July 2019 - Edition 35 In addition, CAIRA identifies the as- sociated cost and impact of the im- provements. CAIRA includes the performance of six sub-analyses: hazards (38 natural & 22 man-made), target (from the aggressor and owner views), vulnerability (today and tomorrow), optimization (reduc- tion based on proven effective solu- tions), risk and cost–benefit (to the greatest number of people). The ABRA Process made easy 67

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