ABSTRACT
Depending upon the information held by the personnel staff it may be necessary to include a member from human relations on the risk assessment team. The risk assessment team should consider the following types of assets at the beginning of the process. A risk assessment is a systematic analysis of the facilities assets and an assessment of the vulnerability of those assets from different types of threats. Good security begins with knowledge of the assets and a large part of this knowledge is information. The team members who perform the risk assessment should include people who are familiar with the assets of the facility. Therefore the risk assessments team should include the manager or executive in charge of each element. Good security consists of knowing what the assets are and then determining what their values are and deciding if the asset is worth protecting. Assets can take many forms but the main test is to determine if it has value.
