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Most importantly, ABRA lets the customer know how vulnerable the asset is, what to do to reduce
the vulnerability, how effective the recommendations will be in reducing the vulnerability,
and at what cost.
physical and technical security, law
enforcement, forced-entry tactics,
electronic security systems, antiter-
rorism, force protection, engineering,
criminal and terrorist intelligence,
logistics, and quantitative analysis.
SPFs come in many shapes and sizes.
Tangible locations are usually easily and
readily identifiable; such as, a building
or an energy system node.
SPFs within processes or procedures are
a little more difficult to identify. None
The analysts work with customers to the less, the ABRA methodology can be
identify the criticality of assets with- applied to both physical and procedural
in an organization. Sometimes, the vulnerabilities and risks.
customer has already identified sin-
gle-points of failure as their most criti- Unlike qualitative or subjective assess-
ment methodologies that focus on reg-
cal assets.
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