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ABRA (Asset Baseed Risk Analysis) developed by Haines Security, identifies and measures risks,
and determines the most cost-effective countermeasures for mitigating those risks .
Most importantly, ABRA lets the cus-
tomer know how vulnerable the
asset is, what to do to reduce the
vulnerability, how effective the rec-
ommendations will be in reducing
the vulnerability, and at what cost.
ABRA Approach
As it relates to designing physical mea-
sures to counter the identified threats, the
HSS team performing ABRA must have a
clear understanding of the design basis
threat (DBT) to make appropriate and cost-
effective recommendations.
The performance of ABRA is not driven by
regulation or design standards; therefore,
the DBT must be identified before rec-
ommendations can be generated.
Regardless of the type of analysis or
study, the resulting recommendations A typical assessment team is made up of
need to be based on a given threat. subject matter experts specializing in
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