Security, Continuity and Corporate Risk Management

Vectra’s Security & Continuity Group is a professional security consultancy that offers an impartial service to all types of organisation in the government and private sectors. By providing a cost effective and practical approach to planning and problem solving we can ensure that recommended security, continuity and crisis management solutions are feasible and affordable.

We specialise in mitigating security and continuity risk globally, combining detailed knowledge of methods and regulatory constraints with an understanding of the commercial or operational realities that shape clients' requirements.

Our consultants have extensive experience of Security and Continuity issues through working with local, national, and international government departments and commercial enterprises, assisting in the creation and validation of plans and procedures designed to increase the resilience of your critical assets and ensure optimal recovery should the worse happen.

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Capabilities

Threat and Risk Assessment

Security and continuity can longer be regarded as passive or purely physical provisions, but must now include comprehensive and auditable risk assessments, combined with an integrated and frequently updated preventative environment. Employers’ liabilities, product liability, environmental and social legislation, corporate regulation and civil law all place heightened security and resilience burdens on decision makers.

Vectra’s threat assessment and risk analysis services is aimed at providing a ‘truly anticipative’ programme that is the process of understanding the likelihood that a threat will harm an asset with some severity of consequence and providing decision makers with information that will enable them to decide on the action to be taken.

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Business Continuity Management, Contingency, and Disaster Recovery Planning

In the modern global environment, the need for business continuity planning is constantly highlighted by the rapid increase and dependency of business technologies, and supply chain complexities, and a series of headline-grabbing disasters caused by and including power failures, fuel shortages, storms, floods, and terrorism - to name but a few.

The risks to business are many and varied and it has never been more important for your organisation to consider and plan for the prospect of an incident interrupting your operations, thus enabling your operations to continue

We have provided full lifecycle BCM services to a wide range of clients including Network Rail, Tubelines, Royal Bank of Scotland, the Hampshire Constabulary and EADS Astrium.

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Emergency Response and Crisis Management

Crises can have dramatic effects on any type of organisation, impacting people, profit and reputation. An organisation cannot always prevent incidents from occurring, but it can reduce the risk and associated impacts by ensuring that a robust and efficient plan is in place, and that everyone within the organisation not only understands their role in continuity but is also trained and rehearsed accordingly.

Vectra can provide detailed consultancy that enables your organisation to respond quickly and effectively to any emergency or disruption it faces.

Training, Exercising and Simulation

The key to any effective response system is planning and training: identifying and defining key personnel - their roles, responsibilities and duties - and the resources required to mitigate the effects of an incident.

The provision of Incident, Crisis Management, and Training Services is crucial to developing key skills, knowledge and competence, and to rehearse and validate new or existing Emergency Action Plans - whether in compliance of regulatory requirements, or in the pursuit of a robust operational response and continuity capability.

Vectra provide a comprehensive Crisis Management service including co-operative learning and exercising in order to help all responders focus attention across the many varied issues they may face during an incident.

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Crisis Communications and Media Training

Dealing with the media, especially in a crisis, can be one of the most crucial things you do for your company. It is important to recognise that what you say and do can have a huge impact on how your company is perceived by the public.

Incidents and crises may well threaten the integrity or reputation of your company, usually by adverse or negative media attention - legal disputes, theft, accident, fire, flood or manmade disaster could be attributed to your company - with profound consequences, especially where, in the eyes of the media or general public, your company did not react in the appropriate or expeditious manner.

If communications are handled correctly, any incident damage can be minimized, so it is crucial to have a media relations plan that will enable you to maintain a controlled passage of relevant, honest and useful information.

Our experienced trainers will put you and your staff through engaging scenarios and exercises so that if the worse ever does happen, they will be able to handle the media in the best way possible.

Security Management

Vectra offers a full range of security management capabilities ranging from the strategic to the design of security systems and from physical security, through personnel and personal security to information security solutions. The physical security offering includes a unique capability to provide design and implementation of security control systems and the associated control rooms, including robust SOP’s (Standard Operating Procedures) to ensure standardised and accountable operations. Security management advice has been provided to clients across the UK, Europe and in the Middle East, specifically in the Transport and Oil and Gas industries.

In addition to implementing necessary security measures, Vectra provides the ability to review and benchmark your current systems and procedures. Our “Health Check” services provide a thorough, independent and cost effective report, with the aim of ensuring that consistency between all your operations is established; your security policy requirements are adhered to; and your overall strategy is developed and progressed.

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Port and Maritime Solutions

Vectra’s Security and Continuity Group can contribute to the management of risk and controlling costs in the offshore support industry. Our Port and Maritime Services provide a practical approach to Security and Business Continuity Management (BCM) specifically within the Transportation and Energy Sectors, incorporating consultancy and mitigation services for the protection of Strategic Maritime Assets, Supply Chain Security, and ISPS ongoing requirements.

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Ergonomics and Human Factors

The Vectra Human Factors group has built up a reputation for undertaking thorough research into complex topics within which the knowledge and perspectives of different human factors disciplines, business management, marketing, systems analysis, operational research, etc., may be required. Our Principal Consultants have expertise in problem identification, assessment, human performance measurement and design solutions. These consultants have built an enviable reputation for working within multidisciplinary teams and by this means extending their own expertise into other disciplines in such a way that projects do not suffer from expertise gaps or difficulties in communication between different disciplines.

Bomb Blast Mitigation

With heightened political instabilities worldwide, today’s organisations have come to accept bomb blast mitigation as being an instrumental element of the security process.

Through computer modelling Vectra can determine the effects of a blast on existing and new installations even at the design stage. We offer guidance and advice on improving blast mitigation and can project manage its implementation.

The resilience of a building is also vitally important. We can offer advice to architects during the design stage of a building and for site layouts where bomb blast stand off distances are a critical factor.

Electronic Security Design Solutions

Electronic security systems have become part of our every day lives in detecting criminal and terrorist activity. However, good design and the use of technology are fundamental in achieving system effectiveness.

Vectra provides unique expertise in the design, procurement, configuration and building of sophisticated security infrastructures. Utilising the latest technology from the security industry our solutions can either be conventional through to operating over a TCP/IP and wireless networks.

Control Room Design

Control centres are important focal points for business control, sources of information and risk management. From centres that handle communications to those that support security and emergency services, a high level of performance is essential, often around the clock.

Effective performance requires every aspect of a control centre to meet stringent requirements in terms of effectiveness, ease of use, durability, health, safety and quality. A well designed control centre can say a lot about your approach to business and how you serve your customers.

With a reputable track record in providing control rooms Vectra have access to all the specialist skills and a wealth of in-house experience to deliver effective control room solutions.

Electronic Security Design Solutions

Contract Management

Vectra provides Project Management services that can be tailored for any size of project. All Vectra Project Managers are certified in accordance with the training schedule as having demonstrated a depth of knowledge and experience required to successfully fulfil the roles of Project Management.

Vectra’s Project Management services have been provided as extended secondments to Clients’ offices, integrated into the organisational management structure, or as independent Project Managers working at the Client sites or from Vectra’s offices. These Project Management services draw upon the strengths of Vectra’s experienced safety management consultants in providing tight administrative control, technical competency and interpersonal skills.

Security Systems Training

The best systems can fail if operators have not been correctly trained. Vectra can provide comprehensive training programs from managers to operators.

We will assess a system’s performance and it capabilities to produce a training programme to meet the client’s requirements. This includes all procedures related to legislation such as the Data Protection Act and Human Rights Act.

On completion of the training we will provide documentation that includes procedures, user guides and operators certification.