CounterTerrorism Preparedness

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Counter-Terrorism Preparedness
Ensuring Business Continuity in an Uncertain
World
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Ensuring Business Continuity in an Uncertain
World

• What you need to know
• What you need to do

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Definition of Terrorism
Premeditated violent attack directed at civilian
and/or non-combatant targets for social,
political, or religious reasons. Terrorism
relies heavily on the element of surprise and its
effect is accentuated because it is unexpected.
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Terrorism An Evolving Phenomenon

• Terrorist strategies and tactics change and have
  observable trends and patterns.
• Because terrorism is premeditated, the trends and
  patterns can be analyzed and specific threats can
  be defined.
• Understanding the threat can aid preparedness,
  save lives, and enable operational continuity in
  the event of a major terrorist event.

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The enemy has declared itself at war with our
civilization
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• "When a terrorist group wants to attack the U.S.,
  they generally target business. Since 1968 when
  the government first started tracking terrorism,
  80 percent of the attacks on U.S. interests have
  been on businesses. . . . This reflects a new
  reality that is upon us that we all have to live
  with."
• L. Paul Bremer, Presidential Envoy to Iraq
  formerly Chairman CEO, Crisis Consulting at
  Marsh, Inc.

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Yet . . .

• Fewer than 35 of Fortune 500 companies have put
  adequate systems in place to address the
  terrorist threat.
• Less than 50 have even assigned budgets for
  counter-terrorism prepared programs.

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• The FBI says the chances of another major
  terrorist attack in the US in the near future is
• 100

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The consequence of complacency

• Immediate economic, productivity, and human
  losses, market fluctuations, demand slow-downs,
  legal liabilities
• Continual drain in productivity, sales, and
  investment stemming from the fear of the
  unknown
• Long term losses from the macro-economic effects
  of a catastrophe

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Four Stages of Preparedness

• Threat Analysis
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Mitigation Planning And Implementation
• Systems Maintenance - Monitoring Testing

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Threat Analysis
Identifying Potential Threats

• Geography
• Type of Industry
• Company Profile
• Management Profile
• Nature of Customer Base
• Level of Market Need
• Political Issues

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The Threat
Individual Group Political Organizations Religious
Organizations
Knives / Guns Explosives Chemical Biological Nucle
ar Cyber

• Plant Go
• Bomb
• - Timed
• Remote
• Suicide
• Piracy/Hijacking
• Dispersion
• Natural Disasters
• Kidnapping
• Assassinations

Civilians Symbolic Structures CriticalSystems Haz
ardous Facilities Bridges, Tunnels, Dams, Harbors

Land vehicle Ship or boat Plane Train Mail Contain
er Package Gun Missle Network
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Current Terror Threat Trends

• Use of Internet for disinformation, doomsday
  proclamations, and communications
• Growing threat of marine-based operations
• Threat against trains, subways, and buses in
  metropolitan areas
• Alternative uses of aircraft to implement attacks
  
• Cooperation between diverse terrorist
  organizations with continued isolation of
  satellite units
• Attacks on Arab and Islamic targets, in addition
  to American and Israeli targets
• Derivative attack plans based on western ideas

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2. Assessing Vulnerability What are Your Needs

• Physical Vulnerability
• Facility
• Perimeter
• Equipment
• Inventory
• Personnel
• Process Vulnerability
• Communications, IT, and IP
• Supply and Distribution Chains
• Human Resources

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• The best anti-crime security is not sufficient
  to protect your company against a terrorist
  attack

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Assessing Your Vulnerability
Facility

• Approach getting close to your facility
• Access getting in to your facility
• Mobility getting around in your facility
• Intrusion getting into your critical systems

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Assessing Vulnerability
Process

• Communications and IT
• Supply Chain / Distribution Chain
• Hiring Practices
• Vendors
• Personnel-based processes
• Executive processes
• Redundancies

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3. Mitigation Planning and Implementation

• Identification of systems needed to close
  vulnerability gaps
• Review of suppliers and vendor selection
• Installation
• Integration of individual components and testing
  compatibilities

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A Word about Your Personnel

• No democratic government can defeat terrorism
  without the active support of the people. Their
  participation is essential to limiting the
  damaging impact of terrorism.
• (Israeli intelligence officer)

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Personnel Training

• Training your personnel how to react in multiple
  emergency situations will help to
• - protect lives, property, and critical systems
  
• - mitigate injury and financial loss
• create an empowered and competent in-house
  first line of defense
• Training can provide the extra margin of safety
  needed to avoid or limit disaster and ensure
  operational continuity.

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Another word about training

• Americans have a proud tradition of participating
  in our countrys defense in times of war.
• Armed with the basic training they need, your
  personnel will rally to help in whatever ways
  they can. They will stop being part of the
  problem and become part of the solution.

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4. Auditing and Monitoring

• Regular systems tests to assure good operational
  status
• Spot tests on individual systems in various
  combinations
• Audits as required to align systems with current
  threat status
• War Games, Scenario Building, Vulnerability
  Report Card

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Your companys strong preparedness program can

• Eliminate or greatly reduce the threat of a
  direct terrorist attack against your company.
• Ensure maximum protection for your company
  against the impact of a direct or indirect
  terrorist attack that may otherwise disrupt or
  destroy your operational continuity.

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• The next terrorist attack in the US is likely to
  impact all of us significantly.
• The time to prepare is now.

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Gerard Group International LLC
Ensuring Counter-Terrorism Preparedness
164 Westford StreetTyngsborough, MA
01879978-649-4575www.gerardgroup.com