Urban Security of Financial Institutions
Urban Security of Financial Institutions software is an Expert System that was developed to assist security officers of financial institutions in assessing the following issues:
- Analysis of blast and fire impact and effect on structures/facilities and humans in buildings used by financial institutions
- Determination and design of mitigation means to increase facility’s resistance to blast and fire emergencies, including design of structural retrofits and hardening of facility’s layout
- Special security-oriented tasks, including security of vaults and document storage in the event of blast or fire emergencies
- Life cycle cost analysis of deployment of mitigation means that are provided to protect the financial institution building and its immediate environment.
Urban Security of Financial Institutions software takes into account special features of the building structure as well as the protective measures taken, such as construction of a protective wall of a certain height to protect from bomb blasts. Results show the life cycle costs of the protective measures over various life cycle periods (up to and more than 25 years). The software models of the structure and blast effects can be used to take into account the effect of the protective measures on risk reduction in order to estimate the reduction in insurance premiums.