ABSTRACT
As a security manager, assessing the potential threats is essential to providing adequate security for your facility. Threat decomposition is about identifying threats most likely to affect your operation. Potential actions include theft, pilferage, espionage, sabotage, bombing, arson, compromise of data or trade secrets, kidnapping or assassination of key personnel, disruption of operations, and embarrassment. Liaison with law enforcement and other security managers in your area will help identify some risks and the likelihood of problems occurring from those risks. Most operations have limited resources, and the prioritization of threats allows you to address concerns most detrimental to the operation and to justify the cost of protection. Even with unlimited resources, threat decomposition helps you plan the order in which your threats will be addressed.
