Counter-terrorism Measures - Determining of Soft Target’s Vulnerability

This article is focused on counter-terrorism measures. Our research is deal to Soft targets when we try to identify them, to describe them and to propose their protection. In this article, we present the research about a determining of the Soft target's vulnerability. This is important for Risk management because it is necessary to know how much is my object or event vulnerability and what I should do for improvement. In this article, we describe our method of the determining of vulnerability, which is based on local knowledge of the environment. In the present, in the Czech Republic, there is one method for the determining of vulnerability from Ministry of interior
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; however, this method is especially for security experts or for people with knowledge about security. In our new method, we proposal the process for non-specialists. The results are very similar to method of Ministry of interior. We discussed our method with them, and they agree with our process. We tested our methods on several objects (about 30), and we have very good results.