Risk Assessment/Security and Safety Plan -Kendall Academic Center (Building III)

Final Project: Case Study
Risk Assessment/Security and Safety Plan
I. The Setting: As a new aspiring professional with PLP Security Solutions, an upstart consulting firm specializing in conducting risk assessments and developing effective management strategies for mitigating threats and protecting assets from harm or loss, you have been assigned your first project after completing your initial company orientation and on-the-job-training. Your supervisor offers you the opportunity to select any one of the following enterprises from a list of clients who have just contracted with PLP Security Solutions to conduct risk assessments of their facilities and operations that include a security plan designed to effectively protect their assets:
I plan to do an onsite security assessment and develop a security plan for the University of Maryland Shady Grove – The Camille Kendall Academic Center (Building III)

https://shadygrove.umd.edu/conference-center/amenities/building-iii

Building three is a five-story building the building that currently accommodates
The Priddy library on the first floor and the green grove café as well. The site is surrounded by a mix of development types consisting of commercial offices, retail premises, residential accommodation and serviced apartments

III. Project Background and Requirements: According to the Department of Homeland Security, “risk management is the process for identifying, analyzing, and communicating risk and accepting, avoiding, transferring, or controlling it to an acceptable level considering associated costs and benefits of any actions taken” (DHS Risk Lexicon, September, 2010, p. 31). As result of your academic study at UMUC and your military and civilian work experiences, you know that enterprise risk assessment and management are key job responsibilities for security practitioners. More significantly, you recognize that assessing and managing risk are actually critical competencies required of a security practitioner, such as yourself, and proficiency in completing these tasks must be demonstrated consistently throughout one’s security career to be fully successful as a bona fide security professional (Enterprise Security Risks and Workforce Competencies: Findings from an Industry Roundtable on Security Talent, Summer 2013, p. 8).
As a part of any risk management process, PLP Security Solutions requires you to employ your knowledge, skills, and abilities in applying the risk assessment and management principles and methodology outlined by ASIS International’s “General Security Risk Assessment Guideline,” which includes the following: identifying all the assets requiring protection at the site you have selected and “understanding” the organization you are evaluating; determining all the possible criminal and non-criminal risk events confronting the organization; establishing the probability and impact of loss risk events; identifying physical, procedural, and virtual security control options for mitigating risks; assessing the feasibility of implementing those security options; and conducting a cost-benefit analysis of the security options under consideration or specifically recommended.
Within the context of protecting a client’s assets from harm or loss, PLP also expects you to address the following general topics in the Risk Assessment/Security and Safety Plan:
• Cyber/communications security
• Workplace violence prevention and response, including active shooter threats
• Crisis (emergency) management and response (natural disasters, fire, terrorism, lone wolf attacks, etc.); business continuity planning
• Employee selection, screening, rescreening (insider threats)
• Physical plant intrusion (e.g., burglary)
• Property damage, interior and exterior (e.g., vandalism, theft, etc.)
• Personal security (e.g., assault, personal property loss/damage, robbery, etc.)
• Information/records physical security
• Litigation for inadequate security, including negligent hiring/supervision/retention, and other legal issues unique to the site
• OSHA safety standards potentially applicable at the site and violations
• Training practices
• Unethical business practices
• Liaison activities with first responders, security professional organizations
These topics were discussed throughout the course of study and include, in broad terms, the various risks to assets; security and safety control operating standards, guidelines, and procedures; and management and operational issues and challenges confronting security practitioners. You will incorporate into the Risk Assessment/Security and Safety Plan a succinct discussion for each of the topics as they relate to the organization and the site under review.
PLP also expects that you include in the project “deliverable” (paper) specific recommendations for enhancing security and protecting the organization’s assets from harm or loss. As the consultant on site, you understand the client is entitled to the results of any