Structured Assessment Approach: a microcomputer-based insider-vulnerability analysis tool
The Structured Assessment Approach (SAA) was developed to help assess the vulnerability of safeguards systems to insiders in a staged manner. For physical security systems, the SAA identifies possible diversion paths which are not safeguarded under various facility operating conditions and insiders who could defeat the system via direct access, collusion or indirect tampering. For material control and accounting systems, the SAA identifies those who could block the detection of a material loss or diversion via data falsification or equipment tampering. The SAA, originally desinged to run on a mainframe computer, has been converted to run on a personal computer. Many features have been added to simplify and facilitate its use for conducting vulnerability analysis. For example, the SAA input, which is a text-like data file, is easily readable and can provide documentation of facility safeguards and assumptions used for the analysis.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA); R and D Associates, Arlington, VA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 5511953
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-94265; CONF-860654-31; ON: DE86012818
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 27. annual meeting of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, New Orleans, LA, USA, 22 Jun 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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