Examining metrics and methods for determining critical facility system effectiveness

Patrick T. Hester, Kevin MacG. Adams and Sankaran Mahadevan

International Journal of Critical Infrastructures, 2010, vol. 6, issue 3, 211-224

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.

Keywords: facility protection; system effectiveness; critical infrastructures; security systems; critical facilities; performance measurement; metrics; security system performance. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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