Smart Security Planning: Your Key to Administration Support

Once the parameters are identified, one would assemble a table assigning points for the severity of impact of a successful attack.

While the CARVER method would not necessarily be useful for an overall analysis of preventing an attack on a school or hospital, it would be applicable for determining protection priorities and the level of effort needed to protect key assets, such as generators, computer facilities, air handlers, and laboratories.

Mission-based Analysis Provides Holistic View
While the CARVER method identifies the priorities of key assets, a mission-based analysis provides a more holistic approach to the development of a security plan. The first step in developing such a plan entails identifying your organization’s priority missions. For instance, a (selected list of) college police department’s priority missions (outputs), starting with the most important, might be:

1. Deter criminal/unauthorized activities
2. Access control
3. Situational awareness
4. Public assistance
5. Liaison with/assistance to local law enforcement agencies

Once the outputs of the department are identified and prioritized, the second step is to identify the inputs needed to achieve these goals. Selected inputs, categorized in five groupings (personnel, procedures, facilities, equipment, and communications) might be:
1. Personnel (Manning and Training)

Coverage adequate (enough officers)?
Educating community members on how to keep themselves safe via newsletters, safety videos, orientations, offering relevant police training and giving crime prevention tips
Familiarization on how to use emergency call boxes
Dissemination of police contact information
Planning regular crime prevention refresher training for officers
Outreach to community at new student, staff, and faculty orientations
Provide briefings at Provost staff meetings
Officer training in roll call, emergency operations and active shooter situations