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    Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing vulnerabilities in systems such as information technology, energy, water, transportation, and communication systems. It involves cataloging system assets and resources, assigning them value, identifying potential threats, and mitigating the most serious risks. Vulnerability analysis focuses on consequences for the system and surrounding environment, and ways to reduce consequences and improve incident management. It serves to categorize key assets and drive the risk management process.

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    Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing vulnerabilities in systems such as information technology, energy, water, transportation, and communication systems. It involves cataloging system assets and resources, assigning them value, identifying potential threats, and mitigating the most serious risks. Vulnerability analysis focuses on consequences for the system and surrounding environment, and ways to reduce consequences and improve incident management. It serves to categorize key assets and drive the risk management process.

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    Vulnerabilities Information Technology Energy Supply Water Supply Transportation Communication Disaster Management

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    Vulnerability assessment is the process of identifying, quantifying, and prioritizing vulnerabilities in systems such as information technology, energy, water, transportation, and communication systems. It involves cataloging system assets and resources, assigning them value, identifying potential threats, and mitigating the most serious risks. Vulnerability analysis focuses on consequences for the system and surrounding environment, and ways to reduce consequences and improve incident management. It serves to categorize key assets and drive the risk management process.

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    istheprocessofidentifying,quantifying,andprioritizing(orranking)thevulnerabilitiesinasystem.
    Examplesofsystemsforwhichvulnerabilityassessmentsareperformedinclude,butarenotlimitedto,
    informationtechnologysystems,energysupplysystems,watersupplysystems,transportationsystems,
    andcommunicationsystems.Suchassessmentsmaybeconductedonbehalfofarangeofdifferent
    organizations,fromsmallbusinessesuptolargeregionalinfrastructures.Vulnerabilityfromthe
    perspectiveofdisastermanagementmeansassessingthethreatsfrompotentialhazardstothe
    populationandtoinfrastructure.Itmaybeconductedinthepolitical,social,economicor
    environmentalfields.
    Vulnerabilityassessmenthasmanythingsincommonwithriskassessment.Assessmentsaretypically
    performedaccordingtothefollowingsteps:
    1.

    Catalogingassetsandcapabilities(resources)inasystem.

    2.

    Assigningquantifiablevalue(oratleastrankorder)andimportancetothoseresources

    3.

    Identifyingthevulnerabilitiesorpotentialthreatstoeachresource

    4.

    Mitigatingoreliminatingthemostseriousvulnerabilitiesforthemostvaluableresources

    "Classicalriskanalysisisprincipallyconcernedwithinvestigatingtheriskssurroundingaplant(or
    someotherobject),itsdesignandoperations.Suchanalysistendtofocusoncausesandthedirect
    consequencesforthestudiedobject.Vulnerabilityanalysis,ontheotherhand,focusbothon
    consequencesfortheobjectitselfandonprimaryandsecondaryconsequencesforthesurrounding
    environment.Italsoconcernsitselfwiththepossibilitiesofreducingsuchconsequencesandof
    improvingthecapacitytomanagefutureincidents."(LvkvistAndersen,etal.,2004)Ingeneral,a
    vulnerabilityanalysisservesto"categorizekeyassetsanddrivetheriskmanagementprocess."(United
    StatesDepartmentofEnergy,2002)1
    IntheUnitedStates,guidesprovidingvaluableconsiderationsandtemplatesforcompletinga
    vulnerabilityassessmentareavailablefromnumerousagenciesincludingtheDepartmentofEnergy,
    theEnvironmentalProtectionAgency,andtheUnitedStatesDepartmentofTransportation,justto
    nameafew.
    SeveralacademicresearchpapersincludingTurneretal.(2003),[1]FordandSmith(2004),[2]Adger
    (2006),[3]Fraser(2007)[4]andPattetal.(2010)[5]amongstothers,haveprovidedadetailreviewofthe
    diverseepistemologiesandmethodologiesinvulnerabilityresearch.Turneretal.(2003) [1]forexample
    proposedaframeworkthatillustratesthecomplexityandinteractionsinvolvedinvulnerability
    analysis,drawsattentiontothearrayoffactorsandlinkagesthatpotentiallyaffectsthevulnerabilityof
    acoupleofhumanenvironmentsystems.Theframeworkmakesuseofnestedflowchartstoshowhow
    socialandenvironmentalforcesinteracttocreatesituationsvulnerabletosuddenchanges.Fordand
    Smith(2004),proposeananalyticalframework,basedonresearchwithCanadianarcticcommunities.
    Theysuggestthat,thefirststageistoassesscurrentvulnerabilitybydocumentingexposuresand
    currentadaptivestrategies.Thisshouldbefollowedbyasecondstagethatestimatesdirectional
    changesinthosecurrentriskfactorsandcharacterizesthecommunitysfutureadaptivecapacity.Ford
    andSmiths(2004)frameworkutilizeshistoricinformationincludinghowcommunitieshave
    experiencedandaddressedclimatichazards,withinformationonwhatconditionsarelikelytochange,
    andwhatconstraintsandopportunitiesthereareforfutureadaptation.

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