Integrated Safeguards: A 1988 Perspective

The forces resisting integration and those promoting it are explored to explain why progress has been so slow. Those constraining integration include inertia, terminology, regulations and funding. Forces promoting it consist of the growing cost of protection, declining budgets, and the emergence of the insider threat. Changes to the approach for preparing Regulations, redefinition of organizational responsibilities, and development of automated methods for data exchange, all offer new opportunities for integration. An integrated solution to the insider problem is described, and an example of integration in an advanced fuels plant is presented.