Assessing Vulnerability

At the completion of this chapter, you will be familiar with the Vulnerability Assessment Model, be able to dene scenarios and evaluate specic consequences, learn how to use the Asset/Attack Matrix to determine which facility assets are subject to what kinds of attack scenarios, understand the Threat/Target Nexus Matrix that identies where highvalue individuals may possibly encounter potential threat actors within the facility, and also understand the Threat/Weapons Nexus Matrix that identies which types of weapons can be used at the nexus points identied by the Threat/Target Nexus Matrix, the adversary sequence diagrams which evaluate how threat actors move in a facility, review how that affects the vulnerability assessment, and learn how surveillance affects vulnerability and how to assess surveillance opportunities. Finally, the chapter teaches how to develop matrices that help you assess all these factors that together comprise vulnerability (Figure 8.1).