ISOL634-20 Physical Security 6 Fouzan Ali Ahmed University of the Cumberlands ISOL634-20 Physical Security Week 7 Individual Project Professor Richards 23rd June 2019 About  With increasing concerns at work and organizations, it is crucial for us to design proper barriers and systems using principles of physical security. Physical security is a big topic, cyber crimes and cyber-terrorism, workplace violence, and IT security issues will continue to be the top issues (Fennelly, 2016). Businesses host a lot of sensitive data, equipment, and other valuable assets, which need to be secured from all sorts of outsiders. These assets can be compromised by an act of theft, vandalism, or even terrorism. The most demanding problem for managers and supervisors within a protection department is the physical security devices under his control (Fennelly, 2016). In most of these cases, the issue is not with the buildings or the vault but due to the lack of attention to detail throughout the rest of the building. Organizations need to consider fixes that can help secure windows, doors, and basements to avoid intruders from breaking in. A solution depends on the needs of the organization or a facility to ensure these premises are more secure. Overview We are going to discuss two different scenarios when securities of commercial buildings were compromised even after placing strong security protocols. We are also going to see what other security measures should have been considered to avoid such instances in the first place. Both of these incidents had taken place in the recent past leaving us an opportunity to discuss what all access systems can be installed to help govern these buildings. Incident 1 A diamond center in Belgium which was considered to be the anti-theft and safest was attacked and diamonds worth millions were stolen. Diamond-related crimes may be either local or transnational, varying from spectacular robberies from the big museums and exhibitions to smuggling through complex schemes from Sierra Leone to Antwerp (Siegel, 2008). A team of specialists designed a vault for Antwerp’s Diamond Centre which was claimed to be unbreakable with several security layers. These layers were compromised with a lot of hurdles like an infrared heat sensor and a magnetic field. There were also claims that the key is not compatible with getting duplicated, making it one of the most complicated vaults to break in. The Crime In the year 2003, a group compromised of five different people managed to bypass all levels of security who speculated to have escaped with $100 million worth of diamonds. Usually. organized crime operates in illegal markets which are regulated by the extortion activities of criminal groups (Siegel, 2008). This may be stunning to learn that they all managed to break into the center through a window. The most important condition for the existence of organized crime is its ability to keep its activities hidden (Siegel, 2008). This e.

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Fouzan Ali Ahmed
University of the Cumberlands
ISOL634-20 Physical Security
Week 7 Individual Project
Professor Richards
23rd June 2019
About
With increasing concerns at work and organizations, it is
crucial for us to design proper barriers and systems using
principles of physical security. Physical security is a big topic,
cyber crimes and cyber-terrorism, workplace violence, and IT
security issues will continue to be the top issues (Fennelly,
2016). Businesses host a lot of sensitive data, equipment, and
other valuable assets, which need to be secured from all sorts of
outsiders. These assets can be compromised by an act of theft,
vandalism, or even terrorism.
The most demanding problem for managers and supervisors
within a protection department is the physical security devices

2. under his control (Fennelly, 2016). In most of these cases, the
issue is not with the buildings or the vault but due to the lack of
attention to detail throughout the rest of the building.
Organizations need to consider fixes that can help secure
windows, doors, and basements to avoid intruders from breaking
in. A solution depends on the needs of the organization or a
facility to ensure these premises are more secure.
Overview
We are going to discuss two different scenarios when securities
of commercial buildings were compromised even after placing
strong security protocols. We are also going to see what other
security measures should have been considered to avoid such
instances in the first place. Both of these incidents had taken
place in the recent past leaving us an opportunity to discuss
what all access systems can be installed to help govern these
buildings.
Incident 1
A diamond center in Belgium which was considered to be the
anti-theft and safest was attacked and diamonds worth millions
were stolen.
Diamond-related crimes may be either local or transnational,
varying from spectacular robberies from the big museums and
exhibitions to smuggling through complex schemes from Sierra
Leone to Antwerp (Siegel, 2008). A team of specialists designed
a vault for Antwerp’s Diamond Centre which was claimed to be
unbreakable with several security layers. These layers were
compromised with a lot of hurdles like an infrared heat sensor
and a magnetic field. There were also claims that the key is not
compatible with getting duplicated, making it one of the most
complicated vaults to break in.
The Crime
In the year 2003, a group compromised of five different people
managed to bypass all levels of security who speculated to have
escaped with $100 million worth of diamonds. Usually.

3. organized crime operates in illegal markets which are regulated
by the extortion activities of criminal groups (Siegel, 2008).
This may be stunning to learn that they all managed to break
into the center through a window. The most important condition
for the existence of organized crime is its ability to keep its
activities hidden (Siegel, 2008). This event could have easily
been avoided using a certain type of window protection
measures.
Solution
If I was the security in-charge at Antwerp’s, I would have
certainly installed Bradbury’s Spartan high-security bar sets;
they are certified and have a Security Rating of 3. They have a
thickness of 25mm with an outer frame of 5mm thickness. A
locking arrangement including a key-way enables the bar to be
locked in a horizontal position using a removable key to helping
to prevent unauthorized opening of the patio door even from the
interior of the building having the opening (Evans,1979). They
offer the best security to secure any opening from inside or
outside within bricks, concrete or steel frames. This solution
should have certainly made it impossible for thieves to have
gained access to the vault.

4. Incident 2
A group of two men broke into a museum in Boston,
Massachusetts stealing artwork estimated at 500 million dollars.
This is still considered as one of the biggest art theft in the
history of the United States. In 1990, The Isabella Stewart
Gardener Museum was designed and built a Venetian palazzo in
Boston to contain her the world-famous art collection, where
she lived and entertained lavishly and which stands today as the
ultimate triumph of her remarkable life (Tucci, 1997). It was
targeted by two men who disguised themselves as cops
pretending to have been reported of some disturbance in the
building. They managed to gain access through the main
entrance, where a security guard gave them access.
What exactly went wrong?
This event is a true example of a human error where the security
personnel didn’t verify the true identity of those men. There is
nothing new about tragic accidents caused by human error; but
in the past, the injuries consequences were usually confined to
the immediate vicinity of the disaster (Reason, 1990). However,
this could have easily been skipped by adopting a few access
control systems. We should have installed systems with key
cards or fingerprints at different grills and doors prohibiting
any intruders from entering rooms where valuables were stored.

5. An access control system includes a fingerprint enrolling station
for sensing a fingerprint of a person and enrolling the person as
an authorized person based upon the sensed fingerprint
(Schmitt,(1999).
The fix
Various solutions like constructing barriers with installation of
Bradbury’s Extendor Eclipse along with all doorways. A first
door is hinged connected to the door frame and includes a
second portion which is capable of latching to the door frame
(Colombo, 1996). This could have provided the best security
measures and kept the unauthorized impersonators from gaining
access to steal the artwork. Access to the interior of the
building is through a service door, usually located at the end of
the building, this service door must then be locked immediately
to prevent any unauthorized persons from entering the building.
(Dallman, 1987)
References
Fennelly, L. (2016). Effective physical security. Butterworth-
Heinemann.
Siegel, D. (2008). Diamonds and organized crime: The case of
Antwerp. In Organized Crime: Culture, Markets and

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Evans, A. A., & Rifkin, M. S. (1979). U.S. Patent No.
4,135,376. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Shand-Tucci, D. (1997). The Art of Scandal: The Life and
Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner (p. 87). HarperCollins.
Reason, J. (1990). Human error. Cambridge university press.
Schmitt, J. C., & Setlak, D. R. (1999). U.S. Patent No.
5,903,225. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Colombo, A. (1996). U.S. Patent No. 5,542,211. Washington,
DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Dallman, E. R. (1987). U.S. Patent No. 4,681,044. Washington,
DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.