Citation

Hester PT, Adams KM, Mahadevan S. Int. J. Crit. Infrastruct. 2010; 6(3): 211-224.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Inderscience Publishers)

DOI

10.1504/IJCIS.2010.033337

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Approaches for quantifying security system performance vary for different critical facilities, ranging from in-depth quantitative analyses to heuristics-based rules of thumb. Since there is no single accepted definition for what constitutes an effective security system for a critical facility and how best to design and analyse these systems, this technical note is a survey of potential metrics and methods for critical facility system effectiveness. Recommendations are made for which metric is best suited for critical facility system effectiveness and a new method is recommended for evaluating system effectiveness.