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Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT)

Seals

Vulnerability Assessments

There are a number of conventional tools for finding security vulnerabilities. These include:

  • Security surveys
  • Risk management
  • Design basis threat
  • CARVER Method
  • Delphi Method
  • Software vulnerability assessment tools
  • Infrastructure modeling, etc.

These techniques were major breakthroughs when they were first developed, and are still useful. But they do not typically produce dramatic improvements in security. We believe that the Adversarial Vulnerability Assessment (AVA) is a more powerful tool. To learn why and how to do AVAs, see :
Philosophy on Vulnerability Assessments

 

 

 

Contact:
Roger Johnston, Section Manager
National Security and Non-proliferation Department
Vulnerability Assessments Section
Fax:  +1 630-252-7323

VAT Resources

VAT PAPERS

For copies of the VAT papers and presentations on a wide variety of physical security issues (tags, seals, product counterfeiting, vulnerability assessments, RFIDs, GPS, nuclear safeguards), contact Roger Johnston at  

FEATURED MAXIM...

Physical Security Maxims

Contact Info

Roger Johnston, Manager
National Security and Non-proliferation Dept.
Vulnerability Assessments Section
Fax:  +1 630-252-7323

Jon Warner
National Security and Non-proliferation Dept.
Vulnerability Assessments Section
Fax:  +1 630-252-7323


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