Security Risk Assessment

Addressing physical and cyber security issues in hazardous installations which could result in major loss of containment of hazardous materials which in turn can result in major fires, explosions, and dispersion of toxic materials. Integrity Security aims to analyze the physical and cyber vulnerabilities taken advantage by adversaries, and also to provide measures for preventing or delaying intentional incidents and mitigating the consequences.

---

This book deals with the state-of-the-art of physical security knowledge and research in the chemical and process industries. Legislation differences between Europe and the USA are investigated, followed by an overview of the how, what and why of contemporary security risk assessment in this particular industrial sector. Innovative solutions such as attractiveness calculations and the use of game theory, advancing the present science of adversarial risk analysis, are discussed. The book further stands up for developing and employing dynamic security risk assessments, for instance based on Bayesian networks, and using OR methods to truly move security forward in the chemical and process industries.