Safety & Security

IGTIC’s Safety & Security Consultant Services

IGTIC’s Security consultant services and assignments nearly always focus on the assessment of credible threats, site specific vulnerabilities and asset criticality to form a robust security risk assessment. Once the security risk assessment is complete, a foundation is created which helps IGTIC guide our clients through the process of security risk mitigation, by means of a cost versus benefit analysis.

Our Security Consultants are focused to assist a client make an informed decision in relation to risk acceptance, risk avoidance, risk reduction or if possible, risk transfer, in order to create a robust Asset Protection Programme and company or site wide Security Strategy.

Security Threat and Risk Assessment

A threat and risk assessment is the first starting point for any security or counter terrorism project. IGTIC consultants believe you cannot adequately protect yourself from any threat that could damage your building, your people or your brand without knowing what your vulnerabilities are and how a threat could exploit them.
The first place to start is to look at what we mean by the following terms; threat, vulnerabilities, assets, risk, and the relationship between them.

Assets:

These are the things we want to protect, such as people, property, brand reputation, and information; an organization cannot function if its assets are comprised.

Threat:

These are what we protect against; they aim to exploit our vulnerability to reach our Assets.

Vulnerability:

These are the weakness in our protection of assets they are what threats aim to exploit. Vulnerabilities and weakness can be strengthened to mitigate against potential threats.

Risk:

Threat, vulnerability, risk, and Assets. Threat and Risk Assessments, Threat and Risk Assessment
IGTIC’s Threat and Risk Assessment triangle

This is about potential for threat and vulnerability to interact, it is the potential for damage, loss, and destruction to your Assets. Risk can have treatment methods applied

For a successful threat and risk assessment we need to identify what the assets are and how your organization interacts with them. It is important here to understand both people and the culture that surrounds assets. For example, there is no point spending more on security than the assets are worth, there is also little financial value in investing in security measures that are protecting against a very low or non-existence risk. IGTIC will through unbiased assessments steer you towards what your organization needs to protect itself from the risks it is exposed to.

IGTIC Security consultants can provide a comprehensive threat and risk assessment that looks at your assets what vulnerabilities can be exploited by both inadvertent and intentional threats tailored to you and your people, your processes, and your product; to work out what probability of risks materializing and their impact.

By providing threat and risk assessments whether on an existing site or by working with building design professionals on a new project at concept stage, SGW can recommended features and solutions that would minimize or transfer risk and mitigate against threats identified.

To do this IGTIC will work with you to outline all the vulnerabilities and weaknesses with your existing arrangements by conducting a comprehensive threat and risk assessment, and then developing conceptual security design ideas either through site visits or analysis of architectural drawings or a combination of both.

Once this is complete IGTIC’s consultants will be able to produce a high quality visual report, highlighting all of the important information in an easy to understand format with diagrams and images detailing the issues bespoke to your site.

Without a Threat and risk assessment it is impossible to protect what is most important to you, with one you will be in a much better position to look after your critical assets.

Planning Today – Protecting Tomorrow, IGTIC Provides Security Consultant Services for the Built Environment.

Security Consultant Services from IGTIC, incorporates one or more of the following project stage services: –

• Security Surveying & Assessment
• Risk and Safety Assessments
• Security Project Management
• Blast Engineering
• Fire Risk Assessment
• Security ‘For Tender’ or ‘For Construction’ Design Package
• Security Procurement Support
• Security Project Management during construction and implementation phases

Building Management Systems (BMS):

BMS controls and monitors the building’s mechanical and electrical components such as:

• Illumination (lighting) control.
• Electric power control.
• Heating, Ventilation and Air-conditioning (HVAC).
• Security and observation.
• Access control.
• Fire alarm system.
• Lifts, elevators etc.
• Plumbing.
• Closed-circuit television (CCTV).
• Benefits of Building Management Systems.
• Effective monitoring and targeting of energy consumption.
• Time and money savings during the maintenance.
• Flexibility on change of building use.
• Ease of information availability problem.