In-Vision Secure

In-Vision Secure:

The data that has been collected by the Robot on its sweep through the facility will reveal an extraordinarily large amount of information, which can be used to vastly improve the building's efficiency. Once attributes have been placed on the floor plan maps, the product can be used to develop the security and emergency planning of the site.

In-Vision Secure is a dynamic assessment tool that is used to quantify levels of risk that are presented by the threats faced at the facility, and reflect the impacts that security measures have on those risk levels.  As each building, room and asset has been geo-referenced, the tool merges the internal and external environments to allow the potential impact of a threat to be realistically demonstrated across the whole site.  In this way, the Security Manager is able to confirm that acceptable protection measures have been put in place.  This also provides the Security Manager with a first class briefing tool for Boardroom Executives as well as security staff and emergency responders on the ground.

The process takes three steps to complete, and provides the user with a perpetual, open feedback loop based on photographic imagery of the external environment and the internal model created by PenBay.  The tool firstly quantifies the threats, then develops the fused security plan and finally displays the remaining levels of risk.  Each step is explained in turn below:

Quantifying the Threats.  Based on discussions with the client and our own security expertise, a number of threats that exist at the site will be defined.  Each threat will be processed individually and the exact locations where that threat occurs will be mapped across the site.  Using our own Security Evaluation Process, levels of risk associated with that threat at each location will be quantified.  The Security Evaluation Process considers and scores such factors as impact, likelihood, asset value, threat profile and topography when quantifying the risks.  The end result is a sophisticated multi-dimensional map that shows the levels of risk associated with each particular threat with no security measures put in place - in other words, a contour map of the Natural Risk Assessment of the site.

Develop the Fused Security Plan.  The existing or future security plan will describe security measures that will be put into place to combat the risks posed by each threat.  These measures maybe physical (such as fences, gates, vehicle check points and landscape modifications), electronic (automatic licence plate recognition, CCTV coverage, C4I infrastructure) and human (security patrols, command structures and execution of the security plans) in nature.  The measures will be plotted throughout the site and its buildings to represent the Fused Security Plan.

Display the Remaining Risks.  The Natural Risk Assessment values are factored by the effects of the Fused Security Plan, and a revised contour map is displayed, showing the Remaining Risk Levels as a set of revised values on the map.  The Remaining Risks map highlights which vital assets are not protected sufficiently and therefore remain vulnerable.

Although each threat has been considered individually, the levels of remaining risk for all of the threats can be shown collectively.  This highlights areas of absolute strength and weakness in the Fused Security Plan.  Also, some of the measures put in place will mitigate a number of threats, and so the combined value of a measure can be recognised.  This can be a driver for the Security Manager when setting repair times and Service Level Agreements with the provider.

The tool is flexible and dynamic, and allows the Security Manager to make informed decisions.  If an element of the Fused Security Plan is not available for a period of time, the model can be rerun and the impact of the missing element can be seen.  An alternative measure can be put into place temporarily and the Security Manager can decide whether an acceptable level of protection has been introduced.