Planning and Implantation of Corporate Security Systems


Risk Assessment

It is the process which balances and evaluates risk factors, by confronting them with judgments, patterns and criteria, in order to verify if the proposed security measures are suitable. It is the base for elaboration of Corporative Security planning.

Risk assessment is preceded by Risk Analysis, comprising the determination and probability of threats, vulnerabilities and impacts. Their interaction results in the Degree of Risk, which indicates the exposure level of a certain sector, segment or process to the adverse factors pondered.

In this phase, on must organize and interpret the corporate incident records, if available, according to the methodology adopted, inasmuch as it is extremely important for the survey of threats and probabilities.

In Risk Assessment a systemic approach predominates in which the whole and its parts are considered as security systems and subsystems. The Assessment conclusions define, in addition to the degree of risk in each of the sectors assessed, the measures proposed for risk decrease or neutralization.

The above activities require specialized consultants. Their main objectives are the company’s essential areas, in which security system deficits may generate unwanted incidents and situations of major or minor seriousness. They range from material damages to jeopardizing the image of the corporate management of the organization.


Company Security Plan (CSP)

This document draws on Risk Assessment and it formalizes the set of rules and procedures that will standardize action at all company levels. The CSP integrates the security of the following segments: Personnel, Documents and Material, Communications, Data Systems, Areas, Installations and Environment.

The CSP may be elaborated for any kind of entrepreneurial organization or facility, irrespective of the kind of activity, system or process operationalized by it.

As for portuary facilities, in order to comply with The International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS Code), Network IC develops a CSP in accordance with the determinations of the above-mentioned document and the ones originated from the National Commission of Public Security in Ports, Terminals and Navigable Ways (CONPORTOS), an agency subordinated to the Ministry of Justice.



The company customarily develops the following activities: