Year
1992
Abstract
The Direction of Military Applications of the French COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE has undertaken the \"MACH Program\" in order to improve the efficiencycost ratio of physical protection systems. This program was described during the 30th INMM Meeting in 1989 ; its purpose is to find out all the scenarios which lead to an undesirable event (such as theft or destruction of a target) vis-a-vis a defined threat (insiders/outsiders), and thus to assess and improve the physical protection of a system. In 1990, the development of the \"computer program MACH\" was launched so as to further increase the analysis possibilities. Thus the user can now automatically make out scenarios with a combination of grids, and then grade them according to how easy they are to be implemented. This grading is carried out according to criteria which may be changed, in order to adapt the study to the system under examination. The software also allows us to carry out simulations, so as to assess the efficiency of suggested safeguard systems, to take into account ulterior improvements of the physical protection, and assess in terms of security the changes in facilities and procedures. As the MACH method, the program was developed so that it can be used by \"non-security specialists\".