AVERT®: A Tool for Evaluating Your Security System's Vulnerability
Benefits of the AVERT Software
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Fast and easy facility model development
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Consistent, end-to-end analysis of complex sites and scenarios
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Visual and Concise Results
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Optimization of Security expenditures and budget justification
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Easily update and compare security models
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The Automated Vulnerability Evaluation for Risks of Terrorism (AVERT) software tool is the premier tool for analyzing your facility's security posture in order to quantitatively understand vulnerabilities and evaluate the effectiveness of existing and proposed countermeasures. It helps users develop optimal security solutions within budget and security constraints.
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An AVERT Demo model, Node View (click image to enlarge)
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AVERT's intuitive user interface helps users quickly create and view realistic 3-D site models based on satellite imagery and/or imported GIS data. AVERT applies probabilistic algorithms and Monte Carlo analysis to these models to identify and quantify security vulnerabilities.
With AVERT, users can study which attack pathway adversaries will follow to achieve their objectives. Briefings and verification of simulation results can be presented and logged by providing the user with quantitative, verified data on the effectiveness of different threat-mitigation scenarios. After this data is collected, models can be updated and compared, provide fast, cost-effective solutions to potential threats.
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An AVERT Demo model,Textured View (click image to enlarge)
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Key Capabilites and Benefits of AVERT®
Fast and easy facility model development
AVERT's intuitive user interface helps users quickly create and view realistic 3-D site models based on satellite imagery and/or imported GIS data. Models include locations and characteristics of terrains, natural and manmade barriers, sensors and guards. In contrast to other technologies, users do not need to create complex logic models that significantly abstract the physical world. While a logic model framework can be very rigid and only approachable by subject matter experts and analysts, AVERT allows for the rapid development of detailed site models that are easily recognizable and transparent to analysts, force protection personnel, facility management and stakeholders.
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An AVERT model developed from satellite imagery
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Sample Adversary Paths
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Consistent, end-to-end analysis of complex sites and scenarios
Whereas traditional vulnerability analyses rely on subjective judgment and checklists, the AVERT Software applies probabilistic algorithms and Monte Carlo analysis to identify and quantify security vulnerabilities. The result: consistent, objective, quantitative analysis of your security.
AVERT simulates user-defined attacks against the site to determine worst-case paths one or more intruders might take to specific targets. For each path, AVERT estimates the intruders' probability of detection, interruption, neutralization, and success. Users can compare the effectiveness of multiple possible defensive postures effectiveness to understand the best ways to improve security.
AVERT can consider multiple intruders and targets, diversionary tactics, insider threats, standoff weapons use, force-on-force combat, and more, plotting the most vulnerable paths onto the site map for easy understanding of vulnerabilities. AVERT uses a holistic approach to help users understand and prioritize all of a site's vulnerabilities and see how to most effectively improve security. It can also help users understand the ramifications of proposed security changes especially those that traditional methods would miss.
Visual and Concise Results
AVERT predicts which attack pathway adversaries should follow to achieve their objectives. These pathways are overlayed on the 3D graphical site model. With intuitive controls, the user can manually move along these pathways to see the site vulnerabilities from the adversary, guard or birds-eye perspective, or play back a results movie from one or more viewing perspectives.
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For each of the vulnerability pathways, AVERT provides straightforward summary statistics on the effectiveness of your security system:
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Detection Probability (Pd)
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Interruption Probability (Pi)
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Neutralization Probability (Pn)
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System Effectiveness Probability (Pe)
Additionally, very detailed quantitative results are provided for a step-by-step assessment of security.
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Sample AVERT Results Histograms (click image to enlarge)
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Optimization of Security expenditures and budget justification
AVERT's available reports facilitate quantitative cost-benefit analysis to help decision makers understand the value of each security resource and find the highest value security solutions within budget and security requirements. AVERT's optimization features can minimize security expenditures by pinpointing vulnerabilities and finding the best security measures within a given budget. By providing the user with quantitative, verified data on the effectiveness of different threat-mitigation scenarios, AVERT can be used to justify new funding for additional security measures. The AVERT software is also effective at determining the best allocation of security resources that are already in place, by validating the effectiveness of different actual and possible security designs. In short, the user can use AVERT as a tool to allocate security budgets in the most effective way possible.
Easily update and compare security models
Updating and comparing models is easy with the AVERT Software. Rather than starting from scratch each time security postures change, users can quickly update models and run them against the same threat scenarios. The AVERT Software's objective and quantitative results can then be benchmarked and continuously tracked over time.
Key Capabilities of AVERT
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•Built for use by security professionals to integrate protective force and technology.
•GUI-based model creation and standard output metrics.
•Uses satellite photos or GIS data to flexibly visualize aerial, bottom, side, and “fly-through” perspectives in 3D.
•Models attacks using DoD and DOE validated quantitative data.
•Automatically determines and plots most effective paths for adversary penetration.
•Measures effectiveness of proposed enhancements for what-if analyses or trade studies.
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An AVERT model developed
from CAD/GIS data (click image to enlarge)
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For More Information on AVERT
To read what others are saying about AVERT, or to get AVERT demo times and media, please click here
To Contact a sales representative for business or technical questions or place an order:
Call us: (505) 272-7102 in the USA
Or use our on-line Feedback Form with "AVERT Software and Services " selected in the subject field.
Current AVERT users can access our support site at http://avert.arescorporation.com.
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