Security Risk Analysis

Binera performs detailed security risk assessments for the United States’ most critical assets. The results of these assessments provide stakeholders with a consistent, detailed analysis of the risk of attack at a site, and further, enable cost-benefit analysis of potential improvements in security and hardening capabilities, based on identified gaps. This process allows decision-makers to fully understand the effectiveness of existing security capabilities, facilitates the allocation of resources, and provides justification for investments.

Binera has developed the definitive process for performing detailed risk assessments for human-initiated attacks against critical assets, systems, and resources. This process involves a comprehensive evaluation of all components of risk: threat, vulnerability, and consequence. Detailed threat scenarios, or Design Basis Threats (DBTs), incorporating multiple attack types, attack paths, and targets within a site, are developed to drive the assessment. Security capabilities are evaluated as multi-layered systems in order to assess the effectiveness of specific countermeasures and procedures at the site. The consequences of potential attacks are modeled in detail, including GIS-based analysis of physical impacts (including blast modeling, structural failure analysis, and spread modeling), assessment of economic consequences, and detailed analysis of remediation costs. Ultimately, each DBT is evaluated to compare the relative threat, the effectiveness of security capabilities at preventing the attack, and the specific consequences of the attack.