Complete Turn-Key Assessment
NASS’ experience in planning and operating the overall security effort of an airport, seaport or facility provides it with the expertise and hands-on experience necessary for evaluating existing security systems and recommending security enhancements. NASS’ recommendations integrate the best security practices with the facilities’ unique regular operations.
NASS guides the customer through the implementation process, including task prioritization according to the operational and security considerations, writing RFPs and RFIs, selecting sub-contractors, overseeing execution, and gaining acceptance for the new system when it begins operations. Assessment projects are executed according to the following stages:
Stage 1: Project Initiation
The first step in undertaking a project is to establish mutual understanding of the project’s goals and scope of work. NASS’ project manager cooperates with the client’s management to refine the project’s requirements, and develop a detailed work plan, including schedules, milestones, and deliverables. The outcome of this task is a clear project definition, agreed upon by all stakeholders in the client’s management and facility users.
Stage 2: Information Gathering
The purpose of this task is to establish the information base for security assessment and recommendations. The NASS team gathers available documents and information and conducts site surveys, or other investigations necessary to achieve a complete information base. To accomplish this task, the NASS team meets the representatives of the various departments that may be involved in the security effort, and any tenants, when applicable. The team determines field requirements and constraints that may affect inspections, design, construction, scheduling, and the overall security enhancement program.
Stage 3: Threat Analysis
The NASS team conducts a comprehensive threat analysis to determine possible threats to the facility, and prioritize them. This combines the government’s national threat analysis, local conditions, political trends, terrorist activities, notions and modes of attack.
Stage 4: Vulnerability Analysis
A comprehensive survey of the field determines the facility’s protection against the threats identified in the previous stage. The survey includes an analysis of the facility’s layout, structures, technological measures, procedures and contingency plans as well as compliance with international and national regulations and requirements.
Stage 5: Enhancement Recommendations
Based on the studies conducted during the previous stages, the NASS team weighs possible options for mitigating vulnerabilities and ensuring compliance with regulations, while maintaining a high level of customer service. The team then, submits its recommendations to the facility’s management, together with the comprehensive threat and vulnerability analysis report. NASS also delivers a presentation for the client’s executives to familiarize the client’s senior staff with the findings and proposed solutions and alternatives.
NASS may recommend changes in security personnel, procedures, training and operations, or technological and physical defense systems. The recommendations are prioritized and divided according to interim solutions, and long term implementation.
Stage 6: Security Master Plan
Based on the assessment study and recommendation, NASS will provide the customer with a detailed security master plan consisting of a prioritized short and long term implementation program. The master plan will ensure that the implementation program that follows is executed in accordance with clear and coherent security logic; complies with operational needs and cost effectiveness, and above all, creates a secured environment and maintains a security culture.
Stage 7: Implementation
On customer’s demand, NASS will provide a detailed design and installation supervision of recommended security enhancements, including all security systems, training programs and architectural design projects. The NASS team can support clients as an independent advisor to oversee security implementation projects and to support management decision-making.
Stage 8: Long-term Auditing
Long-term auditing and periodic updates are necessary to maintain a high level of security performance. Auditing verifies that recommended measures are operating as expected, as well as re-examining the prioritization of recommendations.
Security Consulting Retainer Services
NASS provides its clients with long term security consulting services based on a monthly retainer in order to update clients with the most recent industry developments, brief on new security threats and concerns, provide assistance to management so as to create the “right strategy” for their organization.
